Watching Game Grumps and this scene came up…
I’m fucking praying, PRAYING THAT THIS ISNT A HOMESTUCK REFERENCE I WOULD FUCKING DIE
So I noticed something in national anthem about the panels
Back in the 90s, the panels are all over the place. They have different shapes and get into each other in all fun ways, there's no rules
As soon as the TV is introduced, it's in perfectly-fitting continuous squares
Which is also the pattern for the 00s intro. Everything fits perfectly with no blank spaces and straight lines
And that's only interrupted by noise/anomalies (see the little zap that breaks the straight lines)
And then, when Mike snaps out of it - we go back to the stylized panels
The colors too- in the 90s we get these stylized monochromatic panels, and then it's all colored realistically up until the bathroom scene when he snaps out of it and we get monochromatic again. And isn't that so fucking cool??