The Painful Tale of Brickleberry
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- Join me for a deep dive into the three animated comedies created by Roger Black and Waco O'Guin. It's not just a story of three extremely bad shows... although all three shows are extremely bad.
This is part one of three.
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Content Warning:
Part one shows clips of crude humour that include jokes that degrade people for characteristics such as appearance, race, gender, and sexuality. Brief clips are also shown of cartoon violence.
Spoiler Warning:
Part one contains minor spoilers for Archer season 3. Part two contains major spoilers for Paradise PD's plot developments in seasons 1 - 2. Part three contains minor spoilers for Fresh Meat season 3. Farzar goes unspoiled throughout all three parts. Brickleberry resets the status quo after every episode so there are no major plot developments to spoil, however several individual episodes have their stories spoiled. That being said though if you care about Brickleberry, Paradise PD, or Farzar spoilers something's gone wrong. - Zábava
My conspiracy theory is that these kind of shows actually ARE for children, they are advertised as being for adults because kids like to watch stuff they're not supposed to
The only reason Epic Movie and Disaster Movie made any money
That’s true for every type of media tbh
@@henrynelson9301 ...I love Criticism-Videos like this here. Hope Jay makes longer ones again.
But until then, i have Madvocate, Hbomberguy and (if we stretch the Defintion beyond just Film-Criticism)
the whole Channel of Some-More-News.
Actually makes sense
Super mario logan really fits that conspiracy theory. They literally sell school supplies and lunch boxes
I knew an animator who worked on Brickleberry. She said talking with her supervisor on how to improve the "comedic" r*pe scene she was working on as one of the most awkward situations she'd ever been put in. She happily fled after just a few episodes to work on a braindead but non-r*pey kid's show at another studio. (As did her supervisor)
What was the braindead kids' show?
it's funny because...I got nothing.
You can say rape on youtube.
@@TazKoltin I don't disagree on that, but I don't think censoring a single letter from the word is going to mitigate that when it's still incredibly obvious what word it is...
@@TazKoltin lol as if replacing one latter with a star is making it not triggering... F*ck that is so r*etarded, I wanna c*mmit sui*ide.
24:15 this joke was bad on its own but that sassy "did I say that" at the end like he actually said something clever made me feel a primal rage build inside me
I wasn't amused by the joke either and. That made me see red. I got genuinely angry.
I rolled my eyes when he said the first part and I genuinely scowled when he said that second part
He did in fact say this with no remorse. Our little Cubsy wubsy was a savage. 🐻
Dude if your having “primal rage” over a television show designed to offend, you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
It’s a TV show…
It’s dangerous when people stop making those distinctions.
@@danielcurtis1434it's not because he felt offended. it's because the joke was bad and the bear acted like it was good that he felt a primal rage. It is basically a clown saying they're a comedian just cause they rode a tricycle.
One thing I hate is how lazily written most adult animated shows are. They saw how successful Family Guy was and just decided: "haha swearing and violence and sex jokes = funny."
While Seth is low key a genius
but where ARE those good old fashioned values on which we used to rely?
family guy is not even funny family guy is the worst show i have ever seen right after one piece
@@tekken.universal2343 your statement about family guy would mean more if you hadn't immediately compromised it with your awful taste
Even Seth MacFarlane said that he's sick of Family Guy, but they pay him an ungodly amount of money, so he keeps making it. He also hasn't written the show in years. Last time I watched it was a few years ago to give it one last chance. Six first-run episodes and all of them had a rape joke in them and none of them gave me a single laugh, so I was done. I gave it a chance, but there was nothing creative about any of the episodes. Just the characters doing the same thing they'd been doing for the previous ten years.
*Dear Netflix:*
*Please pay me a part-time salary to write comedies for you.*
*I don't suppose you can do any worse than choosing a citizen of Earth at random.*
*Sincerely, some guy on the internet*
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Yeah uh actually ur a bad writer (omg what a burn I'm so funny see Netflix you should actually hire me)
@@TheGreatsagegoku Writer? More like Wrong-er! (if you aren't hiring me after this Netflix, you are missing out on one of the writers that are here)
brickleberry was funny
@@petervansan1054 Weak trolling, dude.
i had no idea that, with this art style, connie was SUPPOSED to be "the ugly one"
I don't think I've loathe an artstyle more than this one. Everything's looks so lazily drawn and janky yet the show has like random very well animated segments. It bothers me to no end
You know, you're actually really right.
"Connie so ugly" Yeah, so is everyone else in this show.
it looks like those calliou puppet app things that were popular in like 2017
Maybe instead of just making another human, and if they wanted a talking bear character, they could have put a giant bear in a park ranger outfit and had it try and pretend to be human? Or make it think it was human and have the whole world treat it as a regular human?
Which honestly, picturing these scenes with a giant bear in place of connie is actually pretty funny.
The problem with punching bags is that it's not funny if they don't deserve it. I feel nothing but sympathy for Connie.
I mean, she is written as a predator. But that's also a homophobic stereotype, so that's less a reflection on her, and more so on the writers.
@@dreye3215 Yup. Hard to hate a chara cter that only serves as an outlet...
Yup. IMO the only major punching bag charecter that actually works is Klaus from American Dad. Specifically because they characterize him as a genuine POS who deserves it.
Plus Klaus is a well rounded character whos genuinely funny and has character beats outside of punching bag. It isn't the only thing they do with him. Which helps it work better when they do.
I haven’t watched the show so I have to ask… is she actually written as predatory? Or is she written as showing interest in women who aren’t interested in her? Cuz that’s a way straight men are written all the time and no one bats an eyelash
42:39 what kills me is that, especially compared to the rest of the montage, the line 'I would never apologise to a woman, and if that bothers you Ethel, well I apologise' actually is a tiny bit more cleverly written, but then they couldn't possibly have an almost functional joke so they have to then immediately have another character go bUt YoU jUsT dId
Or even if he hadn’t said “apologize” twice, just “I would never apologize to a woman, and if that bothers you Ethel, well I’m sorry!”
Still not a good joke, but more competent by a micrometer if nothing else lol
The CZcamsr is cutting jokes short to push his hate narrative
@@cyanide1322 go back to making fun of rape victims, tosh
@@bluebod2264 Fuck rape victims, getting accused of raped happens far more often and the effects are far more devastating.
Yeah cause my stupid dumb baby brain would have missed the extremely complex joke
I love when a joke is: *opposite thing happens*
Bonus points for a character stating that the opposite thing just happened
Tell you what, I've been going through all of Frasier and hoo boy does it sometimes get lazy with what I used to call Hypocrite Jokes. I remember Will & Grace suffered a lot from it too.
So many jokes like
Character 1: "I hate McDonalds. Awful food, terrible atmosphere, miserable staff."
Character 2: "Yeah, they're the absolute worst!"
*Pause for dramatic effect*
Character 1: "So, do you fancy a Big Mac?"
Character 2: "OMG yes, I'm starving"
*Canned laughter for 30 straight seconds*
And that just shows how old that form of joke already is. And it hasn't changed in execution, just the words leading up to it. It was tired 30 years ago.
"Wow, I did not see that coming." WE GET IT, THAT'S THE J-
I still find it hilarious for shit like playing league with the bois again.
*lost game, everyone angery af*
"Yall ready to run it back?"
"Of course."
Gets me everytime
I love when the joke is that someone says a naughty word, bonus points if it's someone who isn't supposed to say naughty words.
Its like one of those slow moving conveyer belts with kinda dry sushi on it. Like, the only possible subversion is to perhaps view only one single scene in a vacuum.
For some reason, these shows demo well to those that greenlight projects but goodness theyre vile, joyless wastelands.
Arrested Development was considered to be “too smart” for audiences and had production troubles. But apparently “safe” bets like an endless roast of cardboard cutouts shows what execs thinks we find funny, and what is needed to keep the “jokes” apparent (remember laugh tracks?).
I love how Jimmy Jr. Pesto, an incredibly minor side character in bob's burgers, has more character than the most deep characters in all 3 of these shows.
Both those rednecks do, I think thats why they ended up being MC's in the spin-off
i mean incredibly minor is a bit of an overstatement, he's very important to tina's whole character
Its kinda poetic that the clips Jay chose are funnier *because* they lack the context we would've had otherwise
yeah, i'll admit i kind of laughed at the "you're carrying their luggage, dumbass" joke and i really wish it came from _literally anything else_
It's honestly a shame that shows like these constantly get greenlit while actual competent storytellers and animators get thrown out the window without second thought. An entire network to animation has been pretty much killed this year.
The competent animators be like: 38:05
@@keyboardguru4212 That was funnier than the actual entirety of the show.
My theory is that executives are going "Oh, yeah we've seen a few shows like that all get greenlit, sure go right ahead." And never bother looking at how they did.
I hope Love & Anarchy gets a 3rd season..
#RenewFinalSpace
I think this is what it looks like when bullies who peaked in high school think they were actually funny when they were bullying people.
@jochen jockel I take it that if I told you I would gesture this entire show and say 'this is how so', that wouldn't be a satisfying response to you? Seriously though-I watched this months ago, so I can't remember too clearly-but I'm pretty sure the explanations in this video cover why I arrived at this conclusion.
I think this is partly true, but I think there's a deeper question that it raises. If this is what it looks like when a bully peaks in high school and still thinks he was funny, how does a guy like that get rewarded with his own TV/Streaming show?
@@mjacton Because when it comes to adult animated comedies, corporate dunderheads will greenlight ANYTHING for a chance to be the ones airing the next big adult animated comedy.
@@jochenjockel This show seems to have been made by creators who carry that highschool mean girl mindset of "OMG, that guy's *[undesirable trait]* ! Everybody point and laugh at how *[undesirable trait] *that guy is!" since they don't seem to have any other kind of joke in their pocket.
I remember when someone being "nerdy" or "slutty" or "ugly" or "fat" was peak humour for my highschool classmates, but now we're adults, we've grown out of it. Most adults don't care how "fat" or "ugly" or "nerdy" someone is, and the ones who do generally are the immature ones stuck with that same mindset as highschoolers, which are often the ones people consider as peaking in highschool because they always seem mentally stuck there in development.
@cristiansirbu1686 I was bullied for being gay. Your point?
The thing about that 'unless he buys you two drinks' joke is that, if that's where the joke *ended*, it would actually be half-decent, but they have to drag it out into something utterly obnoxious.
Similarly the joke at 20:30 would've been better if the line was something like "The one who gets around a lot knows about faking something. Go figure" instead of being like "LoL gOnOrRhEa"
honestly that joke of the bear shooting Steve would have been really funny to me if he shot them and the episode instantly ended with no more dialogue
“I’ve got it!” ‘Gonorrhea, we know’ that was so not-set-up and terrible it made me laugh, like it was an accidental anti-joke.
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My sympathies
Maybe you just thought it was funny
@@All4Randomness1 It's really not that difficult to distinguish between laughing-with and laughing-at
Maybe that’s the point?
@@All4Randomness1 I had to process it before I laughed, so I don’t think so.
14 mins into this video and I just realized Brickleberry and Paradise PD aren't the same show.
but their in the same universe which is cursed enough knowledge as it is
They're basically the same show
They might as well be
They're both stroke-inducingly awful, and have near identical art styles (they even have some of the same voice actors, playing the same roles). I don't blame you.
I mean they had a huge cross over arc
I don't know how they did it, but somebody somewhere created an entire animation style that immediately tells me a show isn't worth even considering, let alone watching.
It's called flash animation with the terrible and low denominator artstyle you could ever pull up.
@@ammagon4519 classic flash animation is a different story though
They did it years ago with Big Mouth.
Archer and rick and morty are goof
@@chuggaa100 Neither of those shows have this artstyle.
Archers backgrounds alone are a pure work of art.
'What is this, bullshit day?' is such a stupid, lazy line that it makes me laugh ironically everytime
The thing that gets me is that if you go into the comments of Brickleberry clips, you'll see loads of comments saying how Brickleberry couldn't be made today, despite having two other copies made exactly the same way, because everything is too PC and woke. The core audience does not care about a good joke or anything clever, they just want crude offensive humor to laugh at because they get off on the idea that shows like these piss people off for being crude and offensive.
Lmfao the irony of them saying that
It's not because other people find it offensive. It's because that's what I find funny. It mimics the type of crude humor that my friends and I make at each others expense over beer.
Comedy is a low art, and highbrow satire is normally just as shallow but gets praised for going only after approved targets.
@@TheRealMarneusCalgar Brickleberry is the Daemonculaba of comedy, and this is why Uriel Ventris is Guilliman's favorite son, Calgar.
@@Midnight-Starfish Guilliman loves all of his sons equally except for Cato Sicarius. Not even the Emperor could love Cato Sicarius.
@@TheRealMarneusCalgar
“the fact it’s crude isn’t what makes it funny. It’s funny because I find crudeness funny”
is what you just said
I love that the two punching bag characters that you show are both voiced by Chris Parnell.
It's a funny little coincidence
Isn't that the majority of Parnell roles?
@@cdubsb3831 Not Dr Spaceman.
Maybe the true FarBrickle PD was the friends we made along the way.
Except for Wordgirl
My biggest takeaway from Jay's comedy analyses is that Archer is one of the few adult cartoons that was made by adults and not teenage boys.
That's a good point; it's like these "adult animated comedies" are using a middle-schooler's or teenager's conceptualization of "adult" humour/language/themes.
That means that if you haven't already, you should watch Archer. The vast majority of the humor is based on its snappy dialog, not just "it's funny because they said something and then the opposite happened"
Archer, Bob's Burgers, Bojack Horseman, Tuca and Bertie, maybe two others. I also stan SUPERJAIL! and Xavier Renegade Angel, because while they do lean into gross-out humor at times it's done by burying the audience in a cavalcade of insane animation, lightning fast wordplay, and characters you just won't see anywhere else: The Warden alone is the answer to the question "What if Willy Wonka could shapeshift and had even less than zero regard for human life?" It's not just the same human-shaped tropes from Family Guy or South Park standing around shouting obscenities.
Alot of "adult" cartoons are actually made for teenage boys.
@@tjenadonn6158 XRA is dope, I like that the hideous visuals make it memorable af, haven't seen anything else that is so deranged yet brilliantly made either in animation or other media.
Probably being overly sensitive here but the “jokes” involving Connie make my skin crawl. Her characterization of being a predatory, ugly “she-beast” is *exactly* what my middle school bullies would constantly use to make my life a living hell. This show literally feels like what would happen if a bully got a writing job, and that alone should be a sign that it won’t hold up as a comedy at all.
It's comedy.......they sh** on everyone...welcome to planet earth
@@Cazz8203thats not the deffinition of comedy
@@sinanyldz8913 didn't realize there was an exact equation/definition to comedy....I thought it was subjective.....an art form....but I guess one shouldn't dare color outside the lines, right?
@@Cazz8203 shitting on stuff isnt comedy. Your definition of comedy isnt artistic or whatever woke bullshit you think it is.
White trash people thinking theyre Rick sanchez because they speak their minds is infuriating. Its not 1984 you can say whatever you want. But dont expect everyone to aplaud with praise or get surprised by others shitting back at you.
@@Cazz8203comedy being subjective doesn't mean that it has no definition or that aspects of it aren't objective. like, flavour is also subjective but some things objectively taste like sh*t.
"cOmEdY iS sUbJeCtIvE" is such a tired excuse made by lazy people who have no actual response to valid criticism. it's the "tHaT's JuSt My OpInIoN" of comedic discussion. you're just admitting that you're being willfully ignorant.
also you sure love using ellipsis huh? lmao
They wanted Malloy to be Stewie so badly
i think why pam isn't insufferably punchbag-ified is because she's so extremely confident in herself and is never really put down by the jokes and has her other traits such as being involved in criminal undergrounds and a complete badass
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it also helps that pretty much every character in Archer has their moments of both ends of that particular spectrum, makes them feel very human and enhances the traits too- Pam's confidence and triumphant moments stick out more because shes on first impression an easy target for ridicule, Archer's missups have a bigger impact because he's on first impression the one to dish em out
Gintama is another example of hitting that rare balance
It feels like the characters are always on a pretty level playing field in Archer. Brickleberry feels like certain characters always have the upper hand, and if they need things to work differently, they just reverse roles. The "funny" person is always in the dominant role.
I love seeing her go on a full-on Pampage. Archer has a variety of complex and interesting characters. The jokes made are not just one note. Even the ones that are, can be hysterical. My favorite involves a great one liner: He died doing what he loved, getting shot." RIP Brett.
@@xerxBreak With Archer you know if there was an episode where they had to get normal jobs and weren't allowed to do illegal stuff, eg losing their firearms permits, you'd know that Cyril would just do tax accountancy, probably with Pam as his assistant, Ray would go back to interior decoration, and Archer would be the punchline, being forced into sex-work on the street. Sure its predictable after watching however many seasons of Archer, but thats the difference between Sterling and Malloy, Sterling is allowed to suck at something.
I will say, the first time I played DND I was trapped in a room because I didn't think to open the door. I tried to break the door down with an axe before I tried to use the doorknob
I ran a dungeon with a locked stone door that, whenever you tried to open it said "hehehe that tickles!" And would only open it if you tickled it
The first time I ran it the party immediately ticked the door, the 2nd time I ran it it took 45 mins 🤦🏻♂️
@@asaturner4097 dnd, where the party is either really inept and it hurts or way too competent for what you had planned
To be fair, that's like most DND excursions from my experience. I guess we're all wired to think the DM has set up some kind of trap so instead of going for the doorknob, you've got one guy trying to check around the room for a secret passage, and another trying to bust the door down.
@@soulsearcher9620 Don't forget the first-timer who rolls nat 20s out the ASS, then does the wackiest things they can think of and starts giggling about how fun the game is while everyone else is just sighing or face-palming.
me & a few buddies were stuck in cages - tabaxi party member tried to pick his lock w/ a claw, heard a click, but couldn't get out. i tried my door after several minutes and it opened b/c it was never locked, but we then had to get the tabaxi out who had managed to lock the door when he failed to pick it.
good times.
Fun fact: In Germany during those specific times of the 1900's, homosexuals were often forced to wear a large upside-down pink triangle on their clothing, particularly on their left side and around where the breast pocket would be. Now if you look very closely at Connie's character design, you'll notice something around that area that doesn't really need to be on her official park ranger uniform...
JFC ://///
no fucking way....
oh my fucking god
It's because homosexuals later used the symbol for themselves to remove the hatred of its original intention from it. Similar like black people later used the N-word for the same reason.
Well, only in prison camps and not on their normal clothing, but true
@@cogahan3105No, they had to wear it everywhere, it meant they could easily discriminated against in shops and the like. Same with Jews and disabled and Roma and the like iirc.
The funny thing is that the joke at 23:30 isn't impossible to work with. I figured out a setup that I think might work better. When Steve says they have to figure out how to fake a natural disaster, Ethel then says she has an idea. Malloy then says "What, an idea on how to fake it? I believe you." Although the joke is still a jab at Ethel's promiscuity, it's a lot more subtle so it isn't immediately obviously relying on one of the "funny words" the show loves. Maybe a show like this could actually work with better writing, who knows?
My idea was "not that kind of faking". Pretty much the same, it isnt impossible to work with they just didnt
Fun fact about Maloy - he's voiced by Daniel Tosh, of Tosh.0 fame. He's gone on record to say that Comedy Central would only buy the show if he did the voice for Maloy. Thinking about that, it kinda explains why the character's lines are so awful and why he feels like an afterthought.
Ironically, this was the very thing that made me interested in the show to begin with. I enjoyed the Tosh.0 format, and when I heard the description of Malloy, I thought it had promise.
I was so, so wrong.
That makes sense. Daniel tosh is peak American comedy. Pointlessly Cruel, unfunny, targets the vulnerable and steals the hardworking of others while acting smug and hard working
@@Jane-oz7pp that was exactly the goal of casting him
I was wondering why I was hearing Daniel Tosh say jokes that completely aren't funny.
No way! Just like Dick Cavett who you might not know it was made famous by the Dick Cavett show
I object to Cyril being referred to as "Spy Jerry" and not Jerry being referred to as "Suburban Cyril." He did come first, after all.
He is still hearten comments that’s shocking
Thank you Patrick Bateman
Don’t forget they are both voiced by Chris Parnell
@@HunterPowell-su7kp oh neat
Honestly insane to me how Chris Parnell voiced both of them, man really just became a character actor for animated punching bags.
Also only the real ones remember him as Geoffrey Hoytzman
I have to admit when the French dog said "weuf" I let out a genuine laugh since it just caugjt me off guard.
ASDFMovie is gold, no shame in that
I hate the fact that Ethel is genuinely a likable character because of how much they slut shame her
As someone who saw the show, nah, the only person you really feel bad for is Connie
What gets me isn't that the three shows are all bad, it's that the team somehow did the same crap three times in a row and barely learn anything new. They feel so proud of something that clearly didn't go beyond a first draft.
@Lex Bright Raven I'd be proud of myself if I got paid to make the same low-effort show 3 times
Or how they found a way to print easy money and are just using it
That would be like if Craig McCracken made Wander over Yonder but it wasn't much different from Powerpuff Girls or if Genndy Tartakovsky made Sym-Bionic Titan but it wasn't much different from Dexter's Laboratory.
These shows are oddly comforting to me. They remind me how low the bar is
I find they illustrate how far the nepotism goes because neither of us are likely to be offered the job of writing them despite the bar for talent being as low as it is.
We need James Cameron right now!
@@FatWalterWhite69 Everyone knows his own youtube?
@@FelixErikson that was auto correct I meant everyone knows you’re on CZcams
yeah, the fact that they still have any viewership really gives you confidence that anyone can if you just actually make something
16:47 Pam if fucking phenomenal and needs more recognition. Oh, I know she's the fan favorite character, she just deserves even *more* then that
I need to hear about her without me even knowing what a “Archer” is
I think Pam from Archer had a very unique development - while she started as a bit of a punching bag, over time she came out of her shell, gradually became more confident, more "herself" (which turned out to be pretty chaotic and horny), we learned that her meek office lady persona was something she was playing because she was insecure of her country upbringing. As she got more confident, it was interesting to see how she slowly and surprisingly organically became the biggest sex symbol to the show's fans (let's ignore the cocaine season for this argument). Especially around halloween, well-matched Pam cosplays get a lot of attention. And the show never turned her into a saint or a villain, just revealing new character traits, both good and bad. In any of these shows that's completeyl unthinkable.
Yeeah...we all try to forget the cocaine season.
so basically what all fat chicks go thru
ia this the languange barrier?
In wich other scene than the cocaine one was she a sex symbol?
@@andrefasching1332 just a nerd thinkin fat hoes can be sex symbols by just being hoes
I have a feeling that Bear is a mouthpiece for the writers and director’s very Real opinions.
Well he's voiced by Daniel Tosh, who is an executive producer.
@@hannahmonroe3094I hate Daniel tosh.
Kind of like Brian griffin and Seth McFarlane
@@Auttpoffic3ratleast brian has some redeming qualities
@@plasma2125 yeah, back in the early seasons, but now he's just a mouthpiece
You know what would have been actually funny?
If in the scene where Meloy shoots Steve, they reversed the roles. Steve shoots Meloy into the disintegration lake, and it's played off as a "Steve is stupid gag" right until the subversion that Steve knows, and just wanted some payback from earlier
Yeah, but that implies they'd have to hurt the creator's -fursona- animal self insert.
@@ammagon4519 lmao yeah. I actually had the idea of approaching people with Malloy tattoos and acting like idk what Brickleberry is and being like “oh cool tattoo I’m a furry too!” to see their reaction
@@funnyvideoguy3216 did you ever see someone with a brickleberry tattoo???
Like seriously
See, _that's_ how you do subversion!
Most of the comments in defense of Brickleberry are like, “Wow, what a snowflake”. Not once is he offended by a joke. I mean, he's offended by how unfunny they are, but that's not what they meant. Not liking repetitive and predictable jokes by 2d characters doesn't make you a snowflake, it makes you a reasonable human being.
Consider the following, Brickleberry actually is funny and you’re just ignorant and picky
Watching this video I literally came up with a better joke than the writers did. At 23:33, when Ethel says "I've got it" in response to another character asking whether they could fake a tornado, Malloy could've just said something along the lines of "I bet you've got a lot of experience with faking it". Simple, still pokes fun at Ethel's promiscuity, but it's a lot less lazy and actually ties into the scene. Of course, it still has the problem of not being a particularly good joke, but that's not something I can fix.
Genuinely I thought that was where the joke was going, and yes, it would be a bit predictable, but I actually laughed in anticipation because at least it was a joke. What they wrote instead was just a non sequitur, which I suppose can be funny, but Malloy's delivery really doesn't carry it
Ha, the character said one thing and then they did another thing of an opposing nature.
Now THAT’S what I call an inner conflict!
That’s gonna be the “somehow...Palpatine returned” of the Chibnall era
Thanks, King Edward I
Keep this in mind when you're out there hammering the scots next time
Hail to the King, baby.
@@trygveplaustrum4634 isn't this the voice line for the dwarven artillery in Kingdom Rush?
The "joke" with Malloy walking in on the wheelchair bound kid would be considerably funnier if, right after going "this is going to be so easy" it cuts to him being the one being thrown out the window.
Or maybe I'm saying that because despite how little I've seen of the little bastard, I just really need him to eat proper crow.
That would've a decent comedy, especially the stereotypes about Asians being better at anything, that even a wheel bound kid could kick someone lmao.
in ep 1 he gets raped by bobby and in another ep he gets raped by a dog
@@winningghostguy3862 they said crow not cock. But yeah those were not good day's for him.
@@winningghostguy3862 why am I not surprised that these writers decided rape was the perfect punishment for a character who is an asshole 100% of the time.
@@Xaveze because assault funny to them
I thought I was bad at writing comedy but I'm glad to learn that I've got hope if stuff like this exists lol
No you're still bad at writing comedy
Brickleberry is hilarious, piss off
My condolences. get well soon.@@fgggg4337
@@fgggg4337 stop dickriding ✋️
Peter's delay in hitting Meg with that baseball bat will always have me. 💀
Really? I don't find it very funny at all.
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It's not a good joke, but it's at least recognizable as a joke
@@WobblesandBean Good for you.
*Brickleberry has its own wiki.*
*Either someone got paid to make it, OR SOMEONE WASTED HOURS OF THEIR LIFE TO MAKE IT.*
Honestly, I don't know which would be more depressing.
Cataloguing existence is something I respect.
Even if I don'trespect the thing that gets catalogued
@@soulsearcher9620 "Yeah, you know me! I'm a sucker for existence!"
@@charmandyorton006 Both of these are beautiful comments, but I think I might use yours on a weekly basis now!
There are wiki pages for some much weird things that it’s insane
I think its generally fine for someone to wanna make a wiki about whatever it is that they like, i've contributed to wikis based on media i like so why not?
The problem is though that the Brickleberry wiki isn't just a wiki about Brickleberry, it's also racist for some fucking reason
I think the reason the clown stuff is funnier is because the "jokes" are improvised. He had to come up with those insults on the fly about people he just met instead of transparently manufacturing characters for that purpose.
That seems to be implying that Brickleberry scripts went through more than one draft before being animated.
It's already depressing enough to imagine them putting put no effort into these shows and still getting aired. I don't want to have to imagine that any of their jokes actually went through a review process and the writers actually stand behind their material.
*see overweight unattractive chick*
"what is this, fat ugly chick day?"
Yeah... "improvised jokes on the fly"
Probably too him a lot of brain power to come-up with such intricate and mind-pleasing zingers...
There is a key difference between shows for adults and shows that are merely inappropriate for children. These shows highlight it.
The changes between the art style of Archer and Brickleberry is giving me whiplash
If I were able to try and fix Malloy as a character with one change, I would stop having him be a terrible person to literally everyone all the time and give him a specific vendetta against Steve because he’s the one who killed his parents. That would make the backstory actually make some sense and instead of being a vain attempt at making him likable.
Would also help explain why he's tolerated by the others.
It doesn't make much sense when the character is hateful towards everyone but somehow still gets invited to hang out with the group.
I think an example of Malloy's type of character actually being done well is Pigeon in Mike Tyson Mysteries. Pigeon is basically the same character but he constantly gets shit on in various ways and is acknowledged to be awful by other characters besides Mike. In fact the main joke with Mike and Pigeon is that Mike is just completely oblivious to how shitty of a person (or bird I guess?) Pigeon is. Mike being oblivious to Pigeon's behavior is funny because it's contrasted with other characters constantly recognizing his behavior for what it is.
Sun Yee and Marcus insult back Pigeon constantly and judge him for his shitty behavior. It helps he's also voiced by Norm Macdonald who is alot more talented and charismatic then Daniel Tosh. But mainly I think the fact the show recognizes and punishes Pigeon repeatedly for being an asshole character is what makes him work. As well as just having better written dialogue and jokes in general.
That or make him act more like a kid that's just lashing out because one of the people he's living with killed his parents.
Also recast him with someone who isn’t Daniel Tosh
thought you were talking about Malfoy and was very confused for a minute
The worst part about this show being mean spirited is not that mean spirited humor is bad. It's that it is mean spirited without leading to anything funny.
None of the lines really lead to anything funny. I find their funniness entirely in the moment. :)
Family Guy has toilet humor mixed with intelgent humor and satire Brickleberry is just toilet humor.
the issue with meanspirited comedy in adult animation imo is mainly
1. it's freaking EVERYWHERE nowadays to the point smiling friends having its characters actually be friends is surprising
and 2. it's SUPER easy to screw up. there's a reason an episode being meanspirited is a common complaint in the cartoon community, even if you think it's overused.
The reason it doesn't lead to anything funny is because none of the characters it's used against particularly deserve it. It's the same with Family Guy honestly, the concept of punching bag characters aren't funny. It only works if you actively dislike the character for some reason, and being ugly isn't enough for someone with even two braincells to rub together.
@@Doc_Fun I strongly disagree with that. Sometimes life is unfair. Characters don't need to deserve suffering for it to be funny.
I’m not gonna lie the ‚by Obama‘ at 28:38 actually made me chuckle
i think the bigger and more depressing fact is that these shows can exist when an amazing series with a focus on actual character progression like venture bros is canclled
My 19yr old nephew and his gf gave me such a hard time for not liking this show. Telling me I was an old asshole. Thank you for confirming what I've known the entire time.
@@BombSquad.MP4 tbf Rick and Morty used to be good
@@collinclary5762 Is there a specific point where Rick&Morty went wrong?Or was it gradual,like Spongebob?I imagine both should have their own category on "Tvtropes/FranchiseOriginalSin"...
@@chee.rah.monurB i havnt watched last Season 4 tbh but i started watching season 5 and it just didn’t stick ya know?
You might wanna fix that typo where you added a 1 before that 9.
pleasebeatypopleasebeatypopleasebeatypo
I'm 21 and this show is ass, you can tell him that even his age group deserves better
I had that Archer moment where the guy asked if checking his six meant drawing a six-shooter. It was a lifetime ago when I was all of like 15 and my buddy was explaining a few driving tips that some guy he knew had taught him. One of the tips was, as he said, "So, a good thing to remember is to grab the wheel at 10 and 2." Well, I didn't know what the fuck he was talking about at the time, he might as well have been speaking in tongues. But, I didn't let that stop me because I wanted to sound like I was 'in the know', so I responded as if I immediately understood by nodding and said, "Right, 10 fingers, 2 hands, makes sense." He had a hearty laugh and I learned what 10 and 2 actually meant.
That was actually a really good assumption! Since before you can actually hold the wheel AT 10 and 2 you need to hold the wheel WITH 10 and 2. 😅
Okay but that's actually a smart deduction.
Also, I read that last part with Kronks voice for some reason
I think we've all had those moments, where we try to act smarter than we are only for it to quickly backfire on us lol
I seriously spit coffee over my keyboard. Thanks for sharing mate, that's awesome
Connie is unironically my favorite character (from what I have seen) and I feel really bad for her but that's what the creators want.
shes slightly lovable! if she wasnt predatory
Deadass Connie was my favorite
Youll be relieved to learn shes not real
Mark "too good for Lego Batman 2 & 3" Hamill was in Brickleberry?
I can't wait for parts 2 and 3 to come out perfectly fine with absolutely zero problems
What do you know? Tell us your secrets
Deep cut. Wonder how many even saw the OG upload.
@@audiosurfarchive I saw it, clicked on it and it must have been the moment he made it private.
@@audiosurfarchive I watched it in full, then I shared it and the link was invalid.
@@8Dataman8 was it at all different other than the one obviously different segment
Pam is my favorite character on Archer. I especially like how she's legitimately become Sterling's best and honestly only real friend.
Mine, too, especially the early seasons. Malory, too.
I fucking love her she becomes such a sweet teddy bear of a character in the later seasons lol
(+ I like that she's the only person without combat training who can still kick the shit out of people)
@@thechosenjuan8776 the kidnapping arc is my favorite behind Krieger shenanigans, the twist that Pam is a total badass while still keeping her negative traits was a real twist but loyal to the character.
Example:
Kills a man bare knuckle boxing
"Sorry about your homie, homies"
To call Brickleberry garbage would be offensive to garbage
To refer to brickleberry as anything would be offensive towards the concept of references
I feel one of the only reasons “adult” cartoons are advertised as such is so the creators are allowed to make shock value jokes. I’ve rarely seen adult cartoons advertised as adult cartoons ever that actually have funny humor rather than just shock value.
Oh my god, getting 20 mins into the video and then hearing the phrase season 3 was such a sucker punch
your critiques on 'adult' western animated comedies are just like... cathartic? we've all been lamenting it for ages, but somebody is finally putting it all into words. looking forward to part 2 :+)
Cathartic indeed! Knowing this will be a 3 parter makes me excited.
Not one thing he said hasn’t been said by another CZcamsr please calm tf down
@@VampiricBard the realistic response? It wasn’t 🗿 imo
I thought this kind of thing was funny at like 13 but by 16 I was already pretty over it
American writers have the mentality of 5 year olds
Man, if he's just said 'Mario Mario', it would've been a reference AND a jab at his stupidity. Missed opportunity.
42:06 I don't even care about the context, but cutting to Connie with a bag on her head unexplained is funnier than the rest of the scene.
You know, Jay, you don't always have to torture yourself with awful shows. You can just make a video on how good Archer is, and we'll watch it. I promise.
Seconded, I'd love a video of Jay going over what makes Archer good.
Ngl I’d watch that. Never really minded Archer before. Heard about it in passing, but I never really had the idea to watch it. But now I do thanks to Jay’s recommendations. I’d totally watch a video by him going over the characters and how good the show is.
@@Cheetahgirl_Studios Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, everything from the studio that does Archer has been great. 70/30 was their original name but it might have changed
Yeah this channel has actually made me want to watch Archer
Don't watch the last seasons.
Each one of these videos makes it painfully obvious how much Jay wants to make a 5 hour long video about Archer
Clearly they do, and we'll watch it
He should, I used to love that show and woud dig in to a vid like that like there was no tomorrow
@@IronFreakV frisky dingo is better than Archer
Honestly? Ethyl and Connie, if this show had writers, could have a great dynamic.
Yeah, especially since (from these clips at least, I'm not watching brickleberry) Ethyl seems to be the only one who kinda cares about Connie?
Like I'm sure if I checked the wiki, I could find some insults that Ethyl hurls at Connie (or just watch the part of the video where Ethyl insults Connie in an attempt to defend her(?), but like... She is definitely nicer to Connie than like anyone else.
Additionally, Denzel and Steve _could_ have a good, or at least decent dynamic, with their whole Tweedleweed and Tweedledum thing they have (that I've noticed from the clips at least; I'm still not watching brickleberry).
I have to agree with both of you. I think the two of them could be good friends, or at least have an entertaining relationship.
A character like Malloy makes so Littles sense because he's so obviously an attempt at a stewie from family guy... While ALSO making him a Brian.
Like that makes no sense because Bryan is supposed to be more rational to point out stupid stuff, while stewie is malicious in his actions despite being a baby.
Combining them just makes an asshole that the show pretends is the rational one just because he dunks on the stupid annoying characters. Stewie rarely receives consequences because he's a baby, and Malloy has the same thing going for him because he's Woody's pet.
It makes me believe that Malloy is some sort of self insert for insults they want to tell people in their real lives but they can't because they're too cowardly to go back to the clown shenanigans.
It physically pains me to know that both Tom Kenny AND Mark Hamill voiced in this show
:(
I think I even heard John DiMaggio too as one of the FDA guys.
Mark Hamill???
tom kenny doesnt say 'no' to anything. tom kenny start saying 'no' to roles challenge you're better than this. 😂
Well sometimes a paycheck is a paycheck.
20:17
Jay casually mentioning the fact that Brickleberry has at least 3 seasons felt like swimming, looking down and seeing a shark speeding towards me.
Paradise P.D. is going to have a season 4
@@rootfish2671 Why must you turn this day to one of mourning?
@@sapheiron At least it's going to be the last season
Seeing the worst cartoons in existence have a bunch of seasons while masterpieces of cartoons like final space, infinity train, and the owl house all getting cut makes my fucking blood boil
@@rootfish2671 Why would you express gratitude that a specific thing isn't going to happen?
Do you not understand how these shows work?
33:40 you know... it would be so funny if he broke down crying at that knowledge. It would make his character so much more interesting if he kept saying "Lol I want everyone I know to die" and then was immediately dressed down by the reality of this happening, it would actually be pretty funny. And then maybe it turns out brickleberry is fine and Malloy goes back to pretending he doesn't care.
Or hear me out... what if Malloy was voiced by a child, and was just an immature kid saying stupid shit to seem cool but secretly craved affection, and this is a defense mechanism as he hasn't processed his parents dying and can't bring himself to admit he cares for the people who are taking care of him because they're kind of responsible for it and he's still torn up about that.
This entire show's comedy is basically the blueprint of a joke without the actual substance, we have punchline without momentum or set up, it's not even a joke it's just the carcass of humor
Wrong, this show is genuinely funny, get off your goddamn high horse
@@fgggg4337 you can't make me
I swear these shows look more and more like they were made in GoAnimate every time💀
lol.
Even that‘s an insult to goanimators.
Hell, IT-Saac Studios can make better goanimate videos than this pile of trash show.
For real 💀 they use the ugliest rigging possible
I genuinely found that family joke about Meg being hit with a baseball bat funny. The timing is good.
The delayed timing is the joke, it's what makes it funny for me too. You expect Peter to hit Meg, then poorly pretend it was an accident because he's a jerk. Instead, he intentionally waits long enough to show it wasn't an accident, but then sounds genuinely concerned. It pays off on your knowledge of the character while still subverting your expectations.
I agree I bust out laughing at that joke.
Yeah i fuckin hate family guy but some of the jokes like one in every 5000 make me laugh ngl
Yeah not gonna cap, I hate the Meg bashing in family guy. But that baseball bat scene was genuinely pretty good. I think it's the fact that Peter waited for Meg to finish speaking before hitting her, then apologizing. I feel like that joke alone by itself is a good subvert of expectations.
@@bobtheball5384 exactly
being an ugly fatass myself, and someone who had been called "this thing" for the majority of my life, i genuinely appreciate how much time and energy you've put into tearing this one "joke" type down. it's heartwarming, and also you are hilarious. almost makes me want to watch archer, too.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 found another thing...this whole comment section is like the theater/anime kids table at lunch
Aight I take back my previous comment, you are definitely not an adult@@MEGVTRON
It’s honestly really funny seeing people after all this time still commenting calling Jay an “sjw libtard cuck” or things along those lines. Like, I’m pretty sure the people commenting those are more offended by the review(s) than Jay ever was towards these shows
I just want to take the time to appreciate that you set up Kevin from the beginning of the video by calling Steve "Kevin" and acting like you didn't know why you said that, only to suddenly bring Kevin up at the very end of the video. It genuinely made that transition so much smoother than it had any right to be.
I loved that too tbh
Set-up and payoff. A better attempt at comedy than either of the shows.
That transition into paradise PD was so smooth it genuinely had me double taking and rewinding the video several times to catch the exact moment it happened.
the thing I liked about smiling friends was just how nice everyone was to each other. Sure they had disagreements and could be a little rude sometimes but the main cast were genuinely friends with each other
I'm so sick of shows where the characters are constantly being peices of shit to each other
Even when they argue, like in the Christmas episode, or the Brazil special, it’s still grounded and hilariously realistic
@@henrynelson9301
The Christmas episode you can even sympathize with both Pim and Charlie when they've already built up to their personalities. Their fight seemed like a genuine problem between friends, being overtly pessimistic and being overtly optimistic.
Yeah same, honestly. It was a breath of fresh air and made for comedy I haven't seen a million times before in other shows, so I could actually be surprised by stuff and find it funny
The joke at the end of frowning friends is one of the best in the series for me
They're so good at writing small meaningless but funny arguments between characters
Also the "get out of me head" guy will never not be funny to me
Somes jokes does the "everyone is a jerk" thing well, like Bojack-Horseman
But that only work because beside Bojack no-one is a jerk and mostly find each-others unpleasant for no-reasons, every characters is complexe and has layers of personnalities
Princess-Caroline isn't a jerk to peoples because that's "funny, she's mostly a jerk to others because she's a workaholic who doesn't have time to be nice to peoples, she has to be assertive and immediately get what she want from peoples that are irrelevant to her work.
Diana isn't just a boring goody-two-shoes who constantly bring down anyone she's judging not to her standards as a human-being, she's a deeply insecure woman who doesn't even know what she want from life in the first place, and is projecting the idealized standards she has on everyone and everything else in her life.
And above theses very human traits that mostly explain why characters are unpleasants,
They're not ALWAYS in total botch-mode.
Even Bojack, the king of assholes himself, can show empathy and decency once in a while.
Writing unjustified assholes being assholes to each-others isn't funny,
Writing characters who's flaws clashes for understandable reasons is.
Oh please dude ASDF movie is fine, but you are so fucking full of shit here. You’re actually acting like it’s this genius thing where it’s minimal “by design” and it couldn’t possibly work any other way. He has a mustache Bc that’s all you need to know huh? Then the kid doesn’t have anything to distinguish him for some reason, probably bc the designs are simple for two reasons. It’s appealing, and it’s EASY. Easier to draw and easier to animate. It’s what most animated videos online were at the time, stick figures doing random shit. It is so god damn corny and pseudo intellectual to look at one of the COUNTLESS stick figure movie type things that has a blank background with the occasional clouds or something (again because it’s EASY) and act like it’s some minimal masterpiece. They didn’t draw clouds Bc that “perspective shot” Is all that mattered it’s because it’s easier to draw some clouds then an entire outside background.
22:40 I feel like this joke could've worked if Mallow was more confused than cocky. Like "Wait, I thought you were a lesbian" "I was rammed in a car wreck, Mallow" "Ah shit, my B."
It’s the definition of junk food television, and that’s the kindest thing you can say about it.
That two second Simpsons joke about the taxes make me laugh more than anything I saw in BB
Another joke with that same premise is from a mini web series called Zach and make made by piemations. It’s also funny especially since the landlord was genuinely like “you paid 8 months ago, you’re all set sorry about that”
That bit with the clown made me realize why I love something like Eric Andre's street gags. Whenever he does something in public, he's usually the butt of the joke. He is usually doing something embarrassing in public, he is doing something stupid to get the public's reactions. And the joke not only is how the public reacts to it, but whatever stupid thing he has up his sleeve to propel the bit. It isn't just "Hi random person, you have mockable attribute deemed so by me, receive ridicule. Also I'm a clown I guess."
Not to mention his gags are genuinely creative. I can't see these guys dressing up in a Froot Loops outfit and saying "my body is now your communion"
If it was actual random, unprompted people that clown was insulting, I'm surprised he never accidentally fucked with the wrong person and got thumbs jammed in his eye sockets or something.
I am the octopus. I am the octopus.
@@YEs69th420 The octopus gag is possibly one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever witnessed. I will never get over those midgets lmao
@@GetTheFO god ikr? all of the costume gags are great, but if i saw the octopus in person I'd probably fucking collapse
The worst part of Mloy, or however you spell it, is that he doesn't even have a good design despite being an animal: specifically a bear, which is an animal that's really hard to screw up. How do you make a bear so ugly?
The way you cut off the jokes actually made them more funny
I think there’s something to be said for the fact that the ASDF French dog joke still made me laugh in the context of THIS VIDEO.
And the "ball man" joke
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I love "punching bag" characters when a show has more than one and when they do more than just get hurt. It's even better when a point is being made about the punching, like Dib Membrane being bullied because humanity is resistant to new ideas. We're on _his_ side. But it's still funny because he's fictional.
Jerry/ Gary/ Terry from Parks and Rec is on of my favourite examples of a punching bag character because 1, the characters are barely ever justified in their treatment of him and 2, outside of his job he has the most perfect possible life anyone could ask for
I think Zoidberg was a pretty good punching bag character because he had actual depth and it was established in canon that he doesn't entirely deserve it (source: he's literally the only being on earth that makes it onto robot Santa's nice list)
I love how you talked about your profile pic's character.
I remember a show where the punching bag character straight up killed himself, I forget the show though
@@AlliedX Can you describe the character?
Okay, hear me out here. 43:36 actually made me laugh out of context as I wasn’t expecting the pirate costume and the music coming in just for a split second makes it fairly absurd. Plus it is so quick you don’t have time to think “okay so his finger is gonna get chopped off now”
The parts of this video where it transitions to Archer’s artstyle after 7 minutes of showing Brickleberry feels like stepping out of a dilapidated crackhouse into a pristine gold-trimmed estate
I knew it was ugly, by I never really realized *how* disastrously ugly that show was until it was displayed next to a piece of media with an actually interesting and pleasant visual style.
Seeing Daniel Tosh's name attached to this as the show's obvious attempt at a mascot/breakout character makes everything fall into place.
What do you mean by that?
@@chee.rah.monurB I mean he's an unfunny, uncreative hack who seems to think he's much funnier and much more creative than he actually is. The fact that he was also an executive producer on the show is just a real 'oh, well, of course he is' moment.
@@Bi0mega100% correct. Tosh is not funny
@@Bi0megaI don't know man, ever heard him talk about slavery?
I think the lake joke would have been funnier if Malloy did the joke FIRST. As in before anyone other than the boss knew the lake could heal.
"Malloy! How did you know the lake heals people?!"
"The lake what?!"
Holy fuck ur right, that would have been funny
I really hate the fact that random CZcams comments can make a funnier more complete joke than the professional writers who were paid to have this crap air on TV
Yeah, joke was right there and they were too incompetent to make it. Kind of sums up all their shows
Here's another joke that was right in their faces
"What is your name?"
"Uh...Mario?"
"Mario what?"
"...Mario?"
The Mario Brothers don't have a canonical last name, but it's been a joke for a long time that their last name is Mario (why are they called the Mario Brothers if their last name isn't Mario?) Ffs the first Mario movie, which is AWFUL on so many levels, nailed this joke. EVEN IF no one got the Nintendo reference, there's still the joke of "he can't think on his feet".
holy fuck the bear is literally all the worst parts of brian AND stewie put together with none of the good parts
In my opinion archer had the best example of a punching bag character done at least not entirely badly, he wasn’t literally hated by everyone, and not every joke ended with him being hated for being him or just the joke being he’s himself and that’s pathetic, hell they even let him get plenty of wins over the course of the story
wow great paragraph
The most frustrating thing about the lake bit is that they’re not actually a continent away from a decent joke.
‘I wonder if it cures b___h’ and shoving someone in could be kind of funny if two things happened:
1) Ethel was actually being nasty in that scene. But as it is the first thing she does is express concern for Connie and, from these clips, seems to be the only character who ever does so. She’s not acting in a way, and I don’t think it’s established in her character that she’s especially, deserving of that insult.
2) Coming out of the lake prompted her to act more nicely, implying that it might ACTUALLY have caused a personality shift, only to have it be subverted. You could even incorporate the shotgun cut-off by having her shoot Malloy into the lake, making a kind of hard cut from ‘oh is she different’ to ‘nope, still Ethel’ by her taking lethal vengeance, while also acting as Malloy receiving his comeuppance.
Is that a good joke? No, it’s something that your friends would pull at a D&D table in total improv, not professional writer or writers with weeks to prepare their material. But it’s at least conceptually _a joke._
We only got 2 seasons of The Critic but this got 3 seasons.
Brickleberry excels in the brave and daunting task of making Daniel Tosh even even more unlikable and unfunny then he already was.
He really did just gain prominence by stealing videos from people that were much funnier than him didn't he? I remember liking tosh.o a lot but looking back a lot of what I liked about it wasn't really him most of the time.
Y'know, I feel like if Connie wasn't written as a lesbian, she would've been written as a trans woman. The writers also probably would've written her thst same way, but adding in harmful stereotypes like for example, the "man dressed as a woman gets in the women's bathroom" joke. But that's my own opinion
The unmeasurable damage family guy has done two generations of adult animated comedies
The pink impact font “something bad happened” running joke is funny every fucking time
Maybe I'm sleep deprived but the First Name 'Mario' Last Name 'Brothers' joke actually popped me. The delivery was good, but unfortunately much like delivering a pizza to a trailer currently being thrown about the air by a tornado, it doesn't make the surrounding circumstances much better even if by some miracle you manage to pull it off every once in a while
To me, here’s how I’d fix the joke:
Setup: Make the mobsters italian, and include a scene earlier where Steve is playing on a Gameboy or something earlier in the episode.
Buildup: When the mafia confronts Steve, we see him struggling to give them a fake name, before suddenly blurting out “MY NAME IS MARIO!”.
Then i’d Follow it up with him realizing how stupid his mistake was, and desperately trying to fix it by adding “BROTHER…son…” as a last name.
The mafia then lean in, and say “No kidding… my COUSIN is named Mario Brotherson! Ah, you are going to fit in perfectly around here my friend!”
Cut to Steve being relieved, as Denzel exclaims “say WHAT now!?” and Steve responds more confidently with “Oh don’t mind my brother Luigi… he’s just jealous of being second banana, you know how brothers are…”
And the mafia ends with “I certainly do my friend, that’s just how it rolls in the family business am I right?”
@@sirGuy1995 that sounds very funny dude.
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i feel like that joke could really land in a better show. i can picture a character like troy from community delivering it
you actually made that joke work lmao good job @@sirGuy1995
22:30 the problem with this joke is that the punchline has nothing to do with the setup
when someone says "we could try faking it" and the slut character says "i've got it"
the snarker should say something along the lines of "you would know a lot about faking it wouldn't you?" or something along those lines
it's so obvious!
it's just sitting there!
also this Brian the Bear character reminds me a lot of Black Mage from 8bit theater. he would routinely try to insult people, but every joke he made was a big reach from whatever the character said. rather than giving him a pause for the laugh track, the comic would dwell upon just how inept and awkward he was in social interactions, despite seeing himself as a total genius