Moolt “Computer Love” | A Web Series on The Watch List

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“Who says laziness is a bad thing? It keeps families together.”

If you follow my reviews as The Watcher, you may have figured out that I tend to cheer for the little guys. Case in point: the cartoon web series Moolt.

I really like this series. I think the writing, voice work and animation is really great - especially for what I assume is some guy working alone in his room. This episode has 25,000 views at the time of this writing; hardly a complete unknown. Space Hospital, on the other hand, still has most of its episodes under a thousand. But still, Moolt’s the underdog compared to Happy Tree Friends. Everyone talks about Happy Tree Friends, despite Moolt being, in my opinion, the much funnier, fresher show.

Well, except maybe this episode. There’s some funny bits in there, but the main joke is the wife cleans up things and the husband doesn’t know where they are, and blames her when his computer goes missing. Not exactly breaking new comedic ground. Their other episodes are much funnier, and much more original. At least, to me.

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An Armenian man named Harut, has lost his computer and is out to find it. His number one suspect? His wife Sophik.

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Happy Tree Friends Ka-Pow! Ep.1 “Ka-Pow! Alpha”| A Web Series Review on the Watch List

A Cartoon Comedy Web Series

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Interesting.

It looks like the animation studio that does Happy Tree Friends is trying to branch out into something new. This 10 minute video features three shorter videos; “Weaponized Animal Regiment”, “Buddhist Monkey” and “Mole in the City.” They are all very different, but still have that blood and guts and violence Happy Tree Friends style of comedy. It feels more like a programming block than a series.

I wonder if they felt they were running out of ideas for Happy Tree Friends, and they wanted to move on to other concepts? This one’s called “Alpha” and the next one is called “Beta” which makes me wonder if these are only test episodes to see how the internet audience would react. Maybe the three different series will change based on feedback, or maybe “Beta” will feature different characters. We’ll have to watch the next one to find out.

I kinda feel the same way about these cartoons as I do about Happy Tree Friends, they’re really well done and super polished but the gags are all just blood and violence. I have nothing against blood and violence, but for me the jokes feel repetitive.

The first one, Weaponized Animal Regiment, reminded me most of Happy Tree Friends. I feel like they were trying to give it a formula, with Flippy ruining the mission and getting everyone killed and then his split personality taking over and giving everyone around him a beat down. I didn’t really understand Buddhist Monkey, and I’m not sure I was supposed to. It is essentially a parody of martial arts films. There’s a shadowy bad guy, and an assassin sent to kill Buddhist Monkey and they fight. All that I get. But then the Pig Assassin’s wicker bowl/hat turns into a crab monster? I’m confused. And finally, Mole in the City made me think of spy vs. spy, maybe just because the bad guy’s a rat. I felt like it was the least like Happy Tree Friends, in that there was less violence and more caper type fun.

All in all, I guess my sense of humour just isn’t the same as the guys behind Happy Tree Friends. I’m more of a Moolt guy, I suppose. But I am interested in this experiment in new shows, so we’ll check into Ka-Pow Beta when we get a chance here on The Watch List.

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Destructo Box Ep.2 “Robotbeard the Pirate” | A Web Series on The Watch List

Joey builds a robot and Phil turns it into a pirate. Wait, what?

Destructo Box was created by Joey Reinisch and Phil McLaughlin.

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“Be my two years in technical school. Yar.”

Man, I could do a blog just about Mondo Mini-shows. It’s like they have a new series every day now? Case in point – Destructo Box.

I saw it as I was trying to figure out which episode of Baman and Piderman I was on, so I thought I would check it out.

[Update: It seems this is the second Mondo Media released episode! I really don't like how Mondo organizes their channel.]

Let’s see… a show about roommates with jokes about pirates, robots, toys (in this case, lego) and – yes, here it is, anal rape. Yep, nothing exactly new here, humor wise. I kept wanting to yell at the show, “I get it, the internet likes pirates.” And at two minutes and sixteen seconds, it feels long.

What works about it is the timing of the performers. My favorite monument is Phil gleefully chanting along with the rampaging robot, “Rape and Pillage!” That’s funny stuff.

I always try to give a new show a chance. So check it out – you’ll probably get a laugh or two. And what more can you ask of a Tuesday?

Baman Piderman Ep. 10 “Happy Winter Friends Part 1″ | Web Series on The Watch List

Can Baman & Piderman save Pumkin on Da Journey?

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“Piderman, don’t you see? We can get a wish to save Pumkin!”

And with bit of logic, off our heroes go into… er… a scary pizza face mouth.

What I love about this show is its ability to capture the tone and logic of kids at play, recreating half understood entertainment tropes and cliches.

I gotta say, Mondo Video does not make it easy to follow their shows. More and more, I’m realizing the shortcomings of YouTube when it comes to web series. But I still fed pretty strongly that if you’re considering using a different player for your show, think long and hard about it. Do you know how many web series I don’t post because the player they went with just won’t play? Plenty.

Anyway, back to the show. For me, the funniest part is Piderman’s webs. Did you know he’s got web shooters in his feet? Hilarious. But a lot of the rest of the episode feels like setup for part 2. And quite a bit of what’s left just plain doesn’t make sense. Really? I have to watch from the start to make sense of what going on in Baman’s basement?

Dr. Tran MAIL Ep.6 “Keith Cares”

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Huh. I was sure we had posted this Dr. Tran episode before. But I don’t see it on the site. Weird.

Anyway, this is a pretty funny episode of “The Voice” torturing poor Dr. Tran. The poorly worded questions always make me laugh, and I like that they are finding new ways to embarrass Dr. Tran.

In this episode, Dr. Tran pops 3 boners. If that’s not enough to get you to watch, then I don’t know what in the name of Justin Beiber would.

MOOLT “I Thought I’d Seen It All”

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This is no ordinary family. In this video Abo, Karo, and their parents Harut and Sophik go on a vacation to Hawaii. Check out what happens.

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“If they had a good mother, they would not become prostitute.”

What?

What a strange video. I have no idea what it is about, but it sure did make me laugh!

This is a series that was actually sent to me. The only one so far. The first one was okay, but this one is really funny – if totally random. Sure, there’s no story, but I had no idea what was going to happen next – in a good way. It’s good and surprising character humour, unlike Happy Tree Friends where it is nothing but a string of ways to hurt cute critters. (Not that Happy Tree Friends isn’t funny.)

Moolt is nicely animated, too. I kinda forgot about them after that first video, and I’m glad I decided to go back and check out more.

So far – this is turning out to be a pretty good week! The Friday Night Playlist should be jam-packed!

Gym Shortz Ep. 1 “Wiping”

Welcome to Gym Shortz — an animated webseries of gym safety tips. Lesson 1: Wiping.

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Super short cartoon about life at the gym. In sketch comedy, we would probably call this a black out. Essentially one gag and then moving on.

I like the dolphin bit. It was a nice touch.

What do you think of such short episodes? Do you like that you can hit play and be entertained inside of 1 minute? Or do you feel cheated because it probably took you longer to buffer the video than watch it?

I like the dolphin bit. It was a nice touch.

Happy Tree Friends “From Hero to Eternity”

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Parts 1 & 2:

The tales of a hapless super hero.

Happy Tree Friends is an institution, always good for a chuckle. One thing I like is their commitment to their story – everything that happens has consequences. Consequences that invariably involve a cute cartoon character revealing their internal organs.

The animation is great, but there’s rarely anything in the way of surprises. Cause you know that whatever is happening, it is going to blast, slice and otherwise pulverize the nearest character.

Happy Tree Friends “Lumpy’s Lame Card Trick”

Lumpy needs a volunteer to help him with his card trick. Do you have the psychic ability to make him look like a real magician? Step right up, you won’t believe your eyes!

5 Swirlies!

Uh… wow. It’s an interactive episode.

Through the magic of YouTube annotations, you get to help Lumpy with a card trick. The mechanics behind the illusion are pretty easy if you think about it (and many commentators will helpfully explain it to you) but it is still fun and well done.

I also like that each of the six endings has its own unique fun visual gag after the trick is done. And yes, I did play the trick four times.

Super short, but very enjoyable! It’s nice to see Happy Tree Friends do something very different from the formula they have grown into. I’m giving it 5 Swirlies on the idea alone. But I don’t think it’ll end up in the Friday Playlist…

Happy Tree Friends – Mime to Five (Part 1)

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Mime needs a job!

Part 1 of 5, Mime to Five chronicles the attempts by a mime to find gainful employment.

The jokes are mostly based on the fact that mimes can’t talk, and they pretend to act out things instead of actually doing them.

There’s a few chuckles, but nothing I would say that makes this installment stand out. Maybe the next 4 parts will have what this one is missing?

Keep watching this space!