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That was pretty cool.

I never thought that a combination of traditional cliche spam and traditional cliche action flashes would actually be pretty damned good. I did get a little restless during the action shots, though I always get restless during things like that; even if what Mr. Samsa (The Devil guy. It's an inside joke, sorry) did with the gun in his mouth was pretty cool and the facial expressions were both awesome and hilarious.

Pretty silly, but pretty awesome too.

I love Ducky!

I first saw Christmas Quackers. That was great. I'm finding that I love these videos, the voice is so hilarious and the eastereggs are always a treat. :)

Hah

That was funny. The last line was just brilliant. I think what made it was the voices, especially how they say "Fumb" instead of "Thumb." Also, the mean man with a stolen Lollipop looks like the Nostalgia Critic. Any relation?

Merol responds:

I don't know, it sounds like "thumb" to me.
I did notice it looks like the Nostalgia critic, but it wasn't intentional.

That was awesome!

I completely forgot about this. I loved it back when it came out, but I can definitely appreciate it more now that I've read the book; at least when it comes to just how perfect you captured their personalities and used them to make great caricatures. I could rag on you for being inconsistent with the timeline, but I'd just be a jackass. Afterall it is just a cartoon.

My only real problem is that the voice acting sometimes had a grainy quality, both in the actual recording and the actor though for the most part the acting was fairly decent.

I really wish there was a sequel though. If you ever dust the concept of making this a series again, you'll have at least one guy anticipating it.

Genius.

That was insane genius. What was the SCRIPT for this like? WORDS.

I.
LOVE.
WORDS.

Words are awesome. Without words we couldn't express ourselves and entertain others, we couldn't annoy the shit out of them either. Without words we'd all be a bunch of moronic monkeys that could only communicate with the other end of a stick. We need words, and this is a testament to the wonder of WORDS. Go and check out a dictionary today, and learn about words. "Africa Dudes" is also a good source for words. Your teachers will love it.

Not bad for what it is.

I was pleasantly surprised with this. I'm normally not really a fan of "Random pointless violence for a few minutes" movies but this one was O.K. It was somewhat free of the monotony of a lot of the other ones like it. The animation was also really impressive. I normally mention graphics after mentioning the animation, but there really isn't any point in criticizing the graphics of a flash with stick-men in it.

I usually try to give a bit more of an in depth review these days, but it's really hard to comment on a flash like this since it pretty much just is what it is. I liked it due to the fluent and kinetic animation and because a couple of them were actually pretty funny. In fact I was originally going to vote 3 until I saw the "Interpretive Dance" execution, and for that, you get a 4. That almost made my day.

The hanging and acid ones were also awesome. Quite clever, actually. In fact that's another thing I liked is that some of them were thinking outside of the box instead of just doing them in the most obvious way possible.

Not half bad!
Arivaderci
-The Croutonian

Reminds me of me.

I'm a Rant obsessed bastard and I think my heart and brain both stop if I don't rant at least once within a 42 hour period, though my doctor recommends I make at least 2 rants in that timespan. I also like to hear other people rant because opinions are a wonderful thing and words are oh so delicious. I like words.

Anyways, I'm going to rant back at you a little. The concept that you are toying with is often referred to as "Harm Reduction," though usually it is referring towards drugs rather than prostitution. The basic concept that if we legalize drugs to some degree. Give people a sanitary place to dispose of needles and get clean ones without having to share, offer more publicized forms of help for curing addiction, and you could cut out all middle men; reducing the risk of people being shot over drugs, people getting drugs that are laced with other drugs, etc. etc.

It's interesting to hear that concept applied to something like prostitution and you make a good point. I will admit that I *understand* why prostitution is illegal in an unconscious manner and I do not morally approve of prostitution, but there are plenty of legal things I don't morally approve of that I simply don't have to have a part in.

I think you make a good point overall; the biggest rebuttal that I have is a small worry of whether or not more people would end up prostituting themselves since it would be an easy way to get cash. Then again it IS the worlds oldest profession, and maybe a bordello might keep the prospect in line provided the owner wasn't cruel to their working girls.

Thanks for letting me digest a few words, Eh.
Arivaderci
-The Almighty Croutonian

subhumannonperson responds:

There's a tendency for an industry to slow down by a lot once its legalized, that's one of the pro's when it comes to prostitution, and since a lot of people are still not "morally" attached to prostitution, I doubt there'll be an alarming number. I'm guessing in the first few months or years there will be, but it all balances out. Once prostitution is legalized, I can sense that as time passes it will be like any other job, it'll be more difficult to get into, which will make those who want to be prostitutes for money try to find other job options. But I'm speculating. Thanks for the response.

Fan flipping tastic

This was awesome! Well worth the wait. The animation is terrific and it seems you've improved a fair amount from the first episode, which looked great, but this one felt smoother. The only kink in the animation that I really noticed was that in a couple scenes the backgrounds felt flat, especially in comparison with some of the others you've used; but this wasn't a common problem.

Obviously it's the humour where this shines. Episode 1 and 1.5 were both very funny (1.5 struck a chord with me seeing as I lived in Utah for a looong time) but this was more than funny; this was downright hilarious. I have a thing for dark humour and it is nice to see dark humour executed so well and with a fantasy theme as well.

Dark humour seems to be hard for people to succeed in because some people make it too soft and others make it a bit *too* sadistic. It can also be said it usually seems to have a suitably darker genre (I.E. Horror or suspense thriller) that it latches on to or satirizes than a swords and sorcery fantasy adventure, so you get points for having a unique combo as well. You did it right and it's been a long time since I've laughed this hard, and my evening is certainly a lot nicer now.

So all in all this was great. It looked great, sounded great, and was funny as hell. I can tell that you put a lot of effort into this and practically none of the effort was wasted. My wife enjoyed it too. I'm adding this to my favourites and I look forward to Episode 3.

-Kadath & Chie (TeamCroutons)

Jazza responds:

Thanks so much! Ep 1.5 was really easy for me to do, I know all the cliches since I AM a Mormon and like laughing at myself lol.

As for the dark humor, is it disturbing that it comes so naturally? Lol. Gore just does not gross me out and the most strange violent things I find funny. In animated form, not in video or anything, thats a different level of sick.

Anyhow thanks so much for the awesome review!!!

Cute.

This wasn't great but it had a certain charm to it. I think it's probably just the fact that I'm a Nostalgic twit and I have lots of memories of things happening at my school that were strange or funny and this kind of took me back to the school days and thought of some of my own "Funny school things".

The biggest problem for me was the sound design. The voice acting was very stiff and forced and it made some of the deliveries poor, and when people weren't talking it seemed practically silent with little music or sound effects. It also seemed that there were large gaps of air in-between sentences which did affect the timing and pacing, making thins feel a bit protracted.

The animation isn't spectacular but it's serviceable. I won't really knock it too much, it does its job and it is better than a bunch of stick figures. It could have used some extra detail I suppose.

Yet it did make me laugh at times. It wasn't always all that funny, but when it was it was quite funny and it once again had a charm and appeal to my brain that made me imagine how much funnier they would've been in real life and kinda comparing to them to moments I had like that. I like the idea behind this series and if you were to ever ask other people to contribute, I'd probably do it.

I do want to see more from this series. I also watched the first one, but other than the bit with the teacher accidentally giving the middle finger I didn't find it as appealing and it wasn't as fun as this one. If you improve on the voice acting/delivery and timing, I'll be happy. The visuals need improvement but they have a simple enough art style that is serviceable for the comedy genre, but the other elements would help make this a bit funnier.

Overall it's an enjoyable 'toon but definitely very hit and miss. Hope to see you improve in the future. :)

Aqlex responds:

Well, I'm very glad it brought you back to thinking about some of your own funny school things xD. Voiceacting was done by almost all of my friends, many of them who had never voiceacted before, so I think voiceacting is something that will hopefully improve a bit over time. Same for my art and animation skills! As long as I keep animating, I think I'll improve that too. Timing is something I need to work on for sure; I always have slow timing xP. And although I don't currently have more planned for this "series", I definitely have plenty of material to use. I have a few other animations planned first, but I'm going to keep this series in mind! xD Thanks for the review! Much more informative and helpful than some of those other reviews.

Yay! Bizzarro Tom!

I haven't seen a Bizzarro Tom flash in awhile! Welcome back! The movie was.. ehh... well, whatever, you are back! :D

When do we get more movies from Krapton though? What has Bizarro Tom been up to? Is there a Bizzarro Kadath (That's me name)? What was he like? Did he deserve to die on Krapton?

poprock responds:

Perhaps movie make more sense if BiZZaRo explain.

Friend poptart Dave in hospital. BiZZaro go poptart house to feed cats. Poptart say "BiZZar0 plz upload poptart flash." BiZZaRo say "What one?" Poptart call BizzaR0 retarded. So BiZzar0 purposely fuck poptarts flash up. hahehahehahe.

More Krapturdian flash coming soon. BiZZaro away most of Earth sumMer.

Bizzaro Kadath, eh? BTF will have get back on that one...

You ever get the feeling like something is in your brain gnawing away at your sanity? Yeah, that's me.

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