That was alot of fun.... Brought back good memories.
Reviews for "GARFIELD FALSH COLLAB!"
Fantastic. I loved the different animation styles you used, and you all clearly put a lot of effort into making this, when you could have easily just resorted to reaction faces or whatever else passes off as "satire" on this site. The ability to view the original strip before each scene played was a nice touch (I can't believe there was an actual strip where he just sleeps).
I especially like the tone you guys chose. I can easily see someone mistaking this for a HI-LARIOUS tribute instead of a subtle deconstruction of Jim Davis's "humor". Honestly, Jim Davis is one on a long list of cartoonists I can't believe have achieved and maintained the success they have. So many funnies cartoonists seem to think that they can put ANYTHING at the end of a comic strip and expect the audience to laugh simply because most assume the punchline is at the end. It's just like canned laughter in shitcoms. The viewer thinks: "I guess this is the part where I'm supposed to laugh HA....HA....HA..." You have to hand it to guys that try to go against the slow--and-often-unnecessary-build-up-
to-so-called-punchline grain like Richard Thompson and Bill Griffith (who often try to spread the laughs to multiple panels) or even guys who cut the crap and use one panel gags like Gary Larson or Tony Carillo.
Am I wrong in thinking the Beavis and Butthead parody was more of a Mike Judge parody? Because it sounded to me like the guy voicing Jon was trying to do his best Hank Hill impression. Could be just my imagination though.
I don't usually write reviews this long, but this really got me going. Thanks again, fellas. Favorited.
TmsT responds:
Interesting you should mention that the expectation of humour makes a punchline out of nothing. When I was a youngster, starting to draw my own comic strips, I always admired Garfield's precise, consistent style, and I was also mystified by how a joke could be delivered in just 3 panels - even though I didn't laugh at them, I knew they were jokes, because they were on the funnies page of the newspaper so they HAD to be funny. I was captivated by Garfield strips and wantde to figure them out and make my own comics like that. My own comics at the time usually took a whole page of panels for any sort of comedic payoff, in which the characters' appearances changed drastically between panels. When I was older, I realised that Garfield's jokes weren't actually funny, they just had a formulaic "rhythm" to them, like a running gag that's only a gag because it's familiar, not because of any hint of humour in it. The art style that I'd admired for its consistency proved to be merely bland and almost incidental to the dialogue at times. Useful to learn from as a generic guide to cartooning, but nothing remarkable.
The Beavis and Butthead scene was a parody of Mike Judge's well-known cartoons as well as Jim Davis'. But parody and tribute aren't completely distinct concepts, to me. :-)
Significantly better than any of the official movies or cartoon shows (except for the first one)
FUN FACT:
Right-click on this and press play to see a title card for the sequel to this!
BTW Epic Vid!
i hate most of them... but the last one whas fun i guess... :/