🌟 Internet Famous Arin Hanson / Egoraptor / Grump - "Hey I'm Grump!" of Game Grumps fame, hypocritical SJW doxer, shat himself recording a let's play

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The humor is super bad. It seems to be doing the kind of random humor that's supposed to make you uncomfortable and laugh from the randomness but it's not really funny or uncomfortable. It feels like something a teenager with an IV filled with reddit memes would make.

Arin seems to be voicing a bunch of the characters and you can tell because it's literally just Arin's voice with him talking deeper or higher and that's it.

SmallBu is a two person team and it takes them a bit to animate things. Batman and Piderman have some really well animated scenes and this feels very rushed or Arin wanted the animation to look kinda choppy. It kinda looks like they were given the storyboard or key frames and then maybe added a few more frames and that's it.
 
ScatmansWorld said:
The video is out now. It's based on "experiences working at a certain theme park" which I'm guessing is Disneyland.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kt8mKVTa5LYlocal archive:
Happyland Incorporated [kt8mKVTa5LY].mp4
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Unsurprisingly, the show relies on lazy slapstick, fart, dick, and poop jokes stripped straight from the worst parts of the late 2000's. The animation is barely at par for a YT animation, let alone TV, and the sound mixing is genuinely fucking terrible which is only made worse by there being constant noise because Arin can't let anything fucking sit in silence ever. Arin can't voice act to save his life and yes, he is clearly desperate to get this greenlit as a show.

As I and many others have suspected due to the timing its almost certainly a response to his insane jealously that Smiling friends did so well and someone he thought he surpassed years ago has leaped over him by several magnitudes success wise.

The worst thing I can say that its a comedy that isn't funny. Which is probably the worse thing you could ever make, at least every other genre can be funny if made poorly.

If this ever does get greenlit as a show it will be some pity project on a failing streaming service that gets one season and nothing else.
 
Chilson said:
Unsurprisingly, the show relies on lazy slapstick, fart, dick, and poop jokes.
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You don't get it. Someone said that the main character eats poo! HAHAHA GET IT??? That's gross and he doesn’t actually eat poo! Isn't that funny? Every time they repeat it, it gets funnier.
 
Chilson said:
As I and many others have suspected due to the timing its almost certainly a response to his insane jealously that Smiling friends did so well and someone he thought he surpassed years ago has leaped over him by several magnitudes success wise.
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I also detect a bit of Vivienne Medrano ripping-off as well (Tortoise Hell Park).
 
It's like he forgot to write any jokes, characters, or even a plot where things happen and thought if he made every character talk really fast with no pauses constantly it'd distract you from noticing.

The animation sucks too.
 
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Holy shit it was bad, nothing has connection, things just happens because they must do almost as he was coming with stuff while the animators were doing their job in real time. Something that caught my interest during the unfunny rip-off power rangers movesets was Arin laugh being let in, was this his way to show that he was having fun? type "Omg guys this is so crazy that I am breaking character please laugh!" or just part of the shitty audio mixing?

JamusActimus said:
why so many fart jokes?
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Its the only thing you can do after being lobotamized and trying so hard to not offend anyone.
 
This sounds like Arin was doing improv the whole time. Arin is not good at improv. He always sounds like he's stalling because he can't think of anything to say, then he ends up saying something generic but tries to make it sound "wacky." Otherwise he just points out what the joke is for the scene because that's comedy.
I could see this being a process where Arin just messes around in the recording booth with a vague idea of what the plot is. Then when he feels like something was funny they send that audio to the animators who just kind of wing it with really exaggerated movements and expressions.
 
He couldn’t get Dan or one of the dozens of other people he employs to do a voice or two? It was incredibly distracting and felt like he was just having a 10 min psychotic conversation with himself.
 
I can't tell if all of the comments are sucking his dick because only sycophants cared, or if wrong think is being purged. Either way, I hate all of it.
 
The jokes don’t land and it feels like every frame is congested with so much going on. The special effects are really shitty and you can see the hard edge of the fire effect. A scene that went on far too long was the street fighter power rangers. Everything happened so quick I don’t even know what’s going on.
 
It's butt-out retarded to hear Arin get on his high horse and talk about how he's grown, when "poopy dick fart" is all he can muster In 2022.

I only skimmed through it, but the parts I did see were fucking painful. I wouldn't be surprised if this is all we see from this "little side project."
 
Alright so I haven't even gotten to the actual animation yet, but anyone else notice that the intro with him talking into the camera is insanely out of sync? The video is laggy and the audio is ahead by like a full second or two.

How to tell everyone you don't give a shit about your video 101.

EDIT: I finished watching it and honestly I didn't think it was that bad. Late 2000s/early 2010s internet animations have a soft spot in my heart, even if they are terrible. I thought some of the jokes were funny (Not laugh worthy, but I cracked a smile 1-2 times). I think the biggest issue is that the quintessential edge for these animations is missing because Arin has no balls anymore so it just feels like a very neutered version of his old stuff. Another thing is that Arin's awkward dialogue/improv --I don't really know how to describe it-- where the character stumbles over words and/or repeats them in a "quirky" manner just isn't funny.
Now as an ACTUAL pilot that he wants to make into an ACTUAL TV show? Absolutely embarassing. The fact that he even said that shows that he's either completely delusional or just seething so hard over Smiling Friends that he just wants to throw whatever he has to divert any sort of attention toward him.
 
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ScatmansWorld said:
The video is out now. It's based on "experiences working at a certain theme park" which I'm guessing is Disneyland.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kt8mKVTa5LYlocal archive:
Happyland Incorporated [kt8mKVTa5LY].mp4
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This was a pretty awful pilot. It didn't even feel like one, it felt like some Newgrounds skit he forgot to finish all these years and just shat it out once he found the file.

There's no sense of pacing or story, for a pilot, it did nothing to establish what the show would even be about besides from "takes place in a theme park" and "the character wants to be a Power Rangers performer." All the characters act the same, they're all just eccentric weirdos that jump around and scream. If I saw this while flicking through channels, I'd switch it off after five seconds. It was just constant stimulation like an ADHD simulator. Compare this to Smiling Friends which had much better pacing, actually established the premise/setting of the show (A company that's dedicated to making people smile), and a sense of the characters and their dynamics (Charlie is the pragmatic straight man who doesn't want to overextend himself while Pim is the energetic optimist who's always motivated) and it's easy to see why it got picked up.

Arin's pilot is an obnoxious gag-a-minute and I ended up getting a headache after I was done watching it. I think it's because he has no understanding of film language or blocking. Everything is at a weird angle, everything is fast and energetic, which could be alright if every character didn't move that way. There's not a single shot that's allowed to linger so we get no sense of space or shot composition. It kind of reminds me of Tetsuo the Iron Man and that was suppose to make you feel disoriented. It's like Arin knew he had nothing for his premise/characters so he tried to make up for it by having something happen every second.

The pilot has no story either, which makes it hard for a producer to see any potential in it. Shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, or any Adult Swim show from the 2000s, were surrealist off-the-wall comedies too but they at least knew to try and tell stories (even if they were absurd and nonsensical) and they had better pacing. Again, it's easy to see why they became shows. They had good, strong premises and characters they could fall back on. Sure they were cheap but they were vastly more entertaining than this.

This is a pretty embarrassing display from Arin. Especially when you compare this to Smiling Friend's pilot, which was so much better at conveying what the show was about and took a lot of effort from Zach and Michael to put together. Even Hazbin Hotel did a better job setting up its world, premise and characters than this. This felt like he shat it out in a month just to show that he could make a pilot too. I have no idea why even bothered with this besides from just being jealous that Zach fulfilled his dream of making a TV show and he didn't. That's just speculation on my end but the lack of effort here and the timing of its release a month before season two of Smiling Friends makes me mighty suspicious.
 
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ScatmansWorld said:
The video is out now. It's based on "experiences working at a certain theme park" which I'm guessing is Disneyland.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kt8mKVTa5LYlocal archive:
Happyland Incorporated [kt8mKVTa5LY].mp4
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Holy...shit that was painful.
Y'know if this was just unfunny, fine. If this was just a small animation for his first time back, fine. I get it, shake off that rust and play to the nostalgia for some easy views. I could respect the hustle. But I think what hurts this the most is that there's nothing here. It's got the same problem Arin's cartoons had over 10 years ago; the animations were usually extremely one-note, hard-carried by his expressive posing and voice acting at a time when nobody on Newgrounds and early YouTube had figured that out yet. Nor had the talent, time, nor budget to do so. ...All of which Arin has now but let's ignore that.

Which again would be fine...had this been made with it having the expectation of the Awesome series. In that case, I'd say it'd be meh. Passable and gross, but meh, that's Ego's style.

None of that translates to an animated pilot. It needs to be simple, but not one-note.

Smiling Friends is a simple premise: two co-workers need to get people to smile as part of their jobs. That's it. But the fun of that show comes from the writing, and seeing Charlie and Pim react to the insane world around them, and Charlie and Pim are so relatably charismatic opposites, you can't help but want to follow them, and without them the show falls apart completely. It's clear Zach and Michael wrote the main cast first, and built everything else around what they think would work.

This is Arin venting about his frustrations working for Disneyland for 10 minutes and doing his Game Grumps shtick. By the time we actually get introduced to any potentially interesting conflicts regarding Carrot and the rival parks, the episode only has two minutes left! You have to turn your idea into a story, man, you can't just go "LOL LMAO DIDNEY EBIL POWER RANGER COOL AMIRITE" and wait for your industry check. You gotta have something.

And for the love of God, Arin, use a different voice. Do a bad falsetto for all I care. Literally using your regular voice might work for something like the Awesome shorts, doing it for nearly every character in your 10 minute pilot is nails-on-a-chalkboard ear bleeding. This isn't an animatic, that shit doesn't fly for a fully-animated pilot unless you're absolutely talented at voice acting, and...to put it charitably, he's no Mel Blanc. He's not a Dan Castellaneta. ...He's barely even Patrick Warburton, at least he changes inflections for the characters he voices to make them feel distinct.
I can't even find ironic enjoyment out of this. It feels so empty.
 
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OmnipotentStupidity said:
I get it, shake off that rust and play to the nostalgia for some easy views. I could respect the hustle. But I think what hurts this the most is that there's nothing here. It's got the same problem Arin's cartoons had over 10 years ago; the animations were usually extremely one-note, hard-carried by his expressive posing and voice acting at a time when nobody on Newgrounds and early YouTube had figured that out yet. Nor had the talent, time, nor budget to do so. ...All of which Arin has now but let's ignore that.
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That's the part I don't understand. I know he burned a lot of bridges, and I have no idea if he's on good-terms with Zach, but he has to have some connections in the industry to make a real pilot. He's friends with Justin Roiland, and Justin definitely helped Zach network with Adult Swim to make his show, so I can't see how Arin couldn't manage to get the same treatment. He could even drag the Wolfhard brothers into it since they're fans of his too. The pilot is such a void of creativity, it's so sloppy and aimless that I don't even think he wrote a script for it. Arin probably just picked some random topic and improvised everything as he went along--which would explain the amount of explosions and shit jokes. He absolutely has the clout and resources to pull together a competent production team so why didn't he? Again, this is just me speculating but it's hard not to see this as anything but pure contempt for Zach. Even down to the name of his pilot, "Happyland Incorporated."
It's pathetic.
 
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