Artcow Michael John Kricfalusi / John Kricfalusi / John K. / John K. Stuff / Raymond Spum - scammer animator who pissed away his own career, salty blogger, CONFIRMED predator and child rapist

[chaunceyslick]

Partly because he's completely fucking irrelevant at this point, and despised on top of that, so he really has nothing else to do and no claim to any kind of cultural importance other than R&S. For better or worse, that's his masterwork and the capstone of his life.

Partly because his reputation has just been nuked from orbit because of the #worsethanmetoo pedo shit that makes him look beyond creepy.

Partly because the documentary would stand a solid chance of shitting all over his legacy and himself personally and maybe he hopes they'll go slightly easier on him if he gives them an interview. Maybe he even tried to cut a deal on that issue.

You've got it. Also, the doc makers seem pretty fucking stupid/naive to begin with.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

Another thing about Mike Judge I just remembered - remember the Robot Chicken sketch where Beavis and Butthead join the Teen Titans? Mike wasnt happy about that sketch and managed to get WB to remove it from the initial DVD release. It was eventually released as a special feature on a later set. AFAIK this is the only time that a creator ever made a big deal over the fact Robot Chicken used his characters, and it was a very tasteful sketch that in no way was intended to insult him and was clearly protected by parody laws.

I don't think it's so much about the content of the parody for Judge as much as it is the fact that a television show used his characters (and his own voice acting style) without his involvement. There was that Hank Hill cameo in Family Guy voiced by him, for instance. It might be technically legal; I dunno anything about parody law, it just seems kinda weird that Robot Chicken doesn't touch base with creators considering it's a big show.

 

[Big Nasty]

Enough said.

 

[AnOminous]

It might be technically legal; I dunno anything about parody law, it just seems kinda weird that Robot Chicken doesn't touch base with creators considering it's a big show.

That would give the impression that they needed permission, and that permission could be revoked, especially if they'd intend to go ahead and do it whether or not they got permission.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

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Enough said.

I don't get why enough said.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Parody law covers a lot but there's still also a certain amount of professional courtesy that you can choose to observe. Weird Al, notably, contacts everyone whose work he's going to parody and gets their okay first. (In the case of Madonna, she was actually the one that suggested "Like a Surgeon".) You absolutely do not have to do this, but if you're doing a "respectful" parody, as someone else claimed that this one was, then why not show that respect by asking? Also Robot Chicken probably set itself up as being actionable because they didn't use, say, "Peavedis and Buttbrain". By using the actual names and exact appearances of Beavis and Butthead, that's not so much a parody as unauthorized use of IP and/or implication of the creator's approval of the content, and some creators defend that a little zealously for fear of losing their IP rights.

Whether or not you think that zealous protection makes them an asshole or not is your own prerogative.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

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Enough said.

Is this even John K's work? What's the context here?

 

[AnOminous]

Parody law covers a lot but there's still also a certain amount of professional courtesy that you can choose to observe. Weird Al, notably, contacts everyone whose work he's going to parody and gets their okay first. (In the case of Madonna, she was actually the one that suggested "Like a Surgeon".)

Or you can choose not to. RC generally doesn't, and sometimes people don't like that. They may or may not have crossed the line on one or more occasions. I thought they were pretty douchey in the Homestar Runner thing, not because of the content so much as it seemed they were dicking over what at the time was a web property past its prime.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Is this even John K's work? What's the context here?

What I think it is is a bit from one his pitches, "Kaspar the Unfriendly Bear."

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

What I think it is is a bit from one his pitches, "Kaspar the Unfriendly Bear."

Jeez, that name just screams unimaginative.

 

[Big Nasty]

I don't get why enough said.

I meant to say that the quality of the workmanship speaks for itself. These are basically kiddie scribbles.

 

[TedBovisUK]

Like a lot of other people on Kiwi Farms and beyond, I got a lot of entertainment out of John 'if there's hair on the wicket, they're old enough for cricket' Kricfalusi's blog, and he did make some interesting points. I did laugh at his account of working on that ridiculously crappy Happy Days spin-off cartoon with that basketball-headed dog 'Mr Cool' or whatever its bloody name was. Yet I got my first inkling that all was not well inside his fevered noddle when he did a series of posts complaining about the heavily stylized UPA cartoons of the fifties - describing them as 'what happens when milquetoasts rebel' and when talented animators decided to jettison everything they were good at just for the sake of being seen as 'different' and 'edgy' and whatever. Good points, well made, but then he had to undercut his argument by openly admitting that he adopted the UPA house style for his own work 'during the three weeks when I wanted to be cool'.

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/05/wally-vs-upa-4-when-milquetoasts-rebel.html

If UPA, as one of the comments on that blog sagely observes, 'made it okay for animation to be ugly', then by extension that means they kicked open a door that Kricfalusi wandered through four decades later.

 

[Trombonista]

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Enough said.

What the fuck am I looking at

 

[Big Nasty]

What the fuck am I looking at

It is described as "An Orthodox Ruthenian priest". Ruthenia is the border region between Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine. John K is of Ukrainian (Jewish?) descent.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Like a lot of other people on Kiwi Farms and beyond, I got a lot of entertainment out of John 'if there's hair on the wicket, they're old enough for cricket' Kricfalusi's blog, and he did make some interesting points. I did laugh at his account of working on that ridiculously crappy Happy Days spin-off cartoon with that basketball-headed dog 'Mr Cool' or whatever its bloody name was. Yet I got my first inkling that all was not well inside his fevered noddle when he did a series of posts complaining about the heavily stylized UPA cartoons of the fifties - describing them as 'what happens when milquetoasts rebel' and when talented animators decided to jettison everything they were good at just for the sake of being seen as 'different' and 'edgy' and whatever. Good points, well made, but then he had to undercut his argument by openly admitting that he adopted the UPA house style for his own work 'during the three weeks when I wanted to be cool'.

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/05/wally-vs-upa-4-when-milquetoasts-rebel.html

If UPA, as one of the comments on that blog sagely observes, 'made it okay for animation to be ugly', then by extension that means they kicked open a door that Kricfalusi wandered through four decades later.

If John K. claims that UPA made it okay to be "Ugly", then by his logic, all the 80s cartoons he worked on or criticized should be considered "masterpieces" because of how ugly they are.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

It is described as "An Orthodox Ruthenian priest". Ruthenia is the border region between Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine. John K is of Ukrainian (Jewish?) descent.

I recall hearing that John K.'s grandfather, his father's father, was an extremely strict and old-fashioned Ukrainian Orthodox priest who built the church he preached in with his bare hands.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I recall hearing that John K.'s grandfather, his father's father, was an extremely strict and old-fashioned Ukrainian Orthodox priest who built the church he preached in with his bare hands.

Looks like his grandfather's discipline and work ethic didn't pass on to John himself.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Earlier I mentioned that John was extremely picky about the way he liked meat. I never went into detail on that, so here you are. (Most of this comes from Twitter comments by Robyn Byrd.)

For John the only good hot dogs were the kind that come in links and snap when you eat them. The only acceptable lunch meat was fatty mortadella. McDonald's was utter garbage (yet when he was in Taiwan working on The Jetsons in the 80s that's all he ate)...

Oh, yes. He was also terrible at preparing food. He didn't wash his hands, ate raw meat like it was nothing... and above all, he put tons of raw onion on everything, even pizza.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

He was also terrible at preparing food. He didn't wash his hands, ate raw meat like it was nothing

Somehow, this doesn't surprise me. Not even the raw meat part for some reason. I guess his work just seems like it was made from a guy who consumes raw meat.

and above all, he put tons of raw onion on everything, even pizza.

This on the other hand grosses me out.

 

[GorebyHog]

For John the only good hot dogs were the kind that come in links and snap when you eat them. The only acceptable lunch meat was fatty mortadella. McDonald's was utter garbage (yet when he was in Taiwan working on The Jetsons in the 80s that's all he ate)...

Jesus, from the sounds of it John must've had really bizarre diets growing up.