Funny!
I never heard of the copycats before, so I wouldn't know why everyone's giving this submisson such low scores or why it's in third place, but I can say that if this is my first time seeing this, then it made me laugh too damn hard for me to give it any reason to hate it.
sigh
January 11th, 2009. - "The day spam won a daily 3rd award"
Voicework was good, and the dialogue was pretty entertaining. So you get a 4.
UNFORTUNATELY, I am unmoved by the fact that you're a newgrounds celebrity. If anyone else had submitted something identical to this they wouldn't have gotten over a 2. Hell, about 20 other people HAVE submitted stuff that is just as good as this and they all have scores below 2.
It's obviously not your fault that you won, you were just having fun submitting this, so I don't blame you for anything.
Your award is just a good statement of how corrupt the community has become. Apparently we've entered an age where good animation involves just 2 shapes bouncing up and down on a line. I guess I'm just old fashioned.
Let's see how long it takes for my review to be marked "useless" because I disagree with the popular opinion of the fanboys...
What? Guerdon of 3rd place But Ok
The " " " Shapes n SHAPE""" trend, in this faux pas of animation. I may not know who fabricated this trend, it was ok for the first three but after watching all 17 of them, they got so bad, note to parody artist, when you parody something your suppose to improve on it without have crappy voice over, or by saying some part of the human body in hopes of getting an another crap animation on newgrounds.
Fastidious as it may sound I like your work but I would like to see improvements not downgrades.
Bill (Ego), I would first like to say good job on in department elocution for the most part except near the end. By the way did you improve the voice? Say your were like ok it's going to be about 2 lovers, one is breaking up with the other and one's going to cry like a bit and hit record. Noteworthy also was the bill part, which hit a sweet spot for me. Even through the story was good but between the whining ramble near the end and "Flaoting head dialog" adulterated the essence of plot.
By your vote quality you can clearly see that people thought it was paltry.
Does it really qualify for 3rd place? Your fans are a bit overzealous they give you 5 or 4 for a minimum effort; yes it's a different style, "old school" if it can be called that. The majority of them don't really seem to want to push, people to do better.
2 things I would hope somebody would use, you whoever is reading this is one when you try to improv ramble or ramble and a little bit random like, Oh why blah blah a dietary system derived from Zen Buddhism, blah blah Clatto Verata Nicto blah blah The main reason I am abstinent is I don't want to become pregnant. That would be the worst thing. I wouldn't be able to finish my sandwich. The blah is meant to be story line.
Second I would mind seeing some more off breaking the "fourth wall" talking staright to audience outside of the story kind of like old detective stories, The movie Airplane!, will ferrel's Stranger than fiction (didn't like) but another example, Blazing saddles.
Blazing saddles
"Have you ever seen such cruelty?" Hedley Lamarr asks rhetorical questions while looking into the camera, then says, "Why am I asking you?" Later Lamarr tells his group of henchmen, "You will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor!" Near the end of the film, the characters leave the fictional realm of Rock Ridge and enter the actual Warner Bros. studio. When Lamarr tries to escape into a movie theater, the movie he watches turns out to be Blazing Saddles itself, and he sees that the hero is still on his trail.
Fight Club - Tyler is seen splicing frames from a pornographic movie into a family film. At the very end of the movie, the film appears to flicker and slide around, followed by a split-second shot of a man's genitals, presumably spliced into the film like Tyler would do. Also, at the start of the final scene of the film, Tyler says "Ah, flashback humor", reminding the audience that the same scene was glimpsed at the start of the film.
Monty pyhon This spiel continues for a few moments then cuts to other characters who have previously appeared saying why their scene was better and then, finally, to numerous characters (some of whom have not yet at that point appeared in the film) screaming, "Get on with it!"
Tom Jones - Various characters break off in the middle of their scenes to look into the camera and address the audience. Most famously, Tom Jones (Albert Finney) takes off his hat and hangs it on the camera lens to prevent the audience from seeing his tryst with Mrs. Waters (Joyce Redman).
I righting this review I hope to make somebody, maybe not but you cause you might read this but the person is reading some possible ideas and a little less narcissistic.
Hopes this helps damn this is long, I got quotes from artandpopularculture.com
(Holy crap 115 space left including this damn, long)
holy shit
Sniff...
beautiful...lol. Nice work though. It was funny!
I cryed
Well, you got daily third... If this was a statement about the ng voting system. Well I guess you need to say no more. :/