What the heck is this. No seriously. What the heck is this. Well this is Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio. A long title made even worse by all the nonsense words in there. This is Adult Swim's newest original animated series. Adult Swim's original cartoons are hit or miss, and honestly the only one to get any kind of big time success is Rick and Morty. But what's this show like. It aired in July of 2016 and was created by, guess who, Brad Neely. He's an artist who's worked on shows like
China, IL and South Park.
I saw the ads for this show on YouTube. They were dumb and annoying, not a good advertisement for your show, but little did I know that those ads were more accurate than I thought. I went in hoping it'd be good. I really did. It's not. Not at all. So let's dig into Brad Neely's Stupid Show with a Stupidly Long Title Episode 1.
Plot-This show has no plot. It's a sketch variety show with different skits and jokes.
Good-Nothing is good. There was nothing to put in the good category. Nothing.
Meh-The animation. Truthfully it ranges from Awful to OK. It can be a bit visually interesting at some points. It's made simply just to look weird. That can work, however it just kinda looks bad at some points, but at others it's OK. Sometimes they don't even have a background which tells me this was very cheaply made.
Bad-It's a sketch comedy variety show so because it has no plot or characters the comedy is the only leg it can stand on. And it's a leg that's very broken. The jokes are terrible. That's all I'm gonna say about that. I didn't laugh once. In this entire 11 minute episode I didn't even smile. Let me put this into perspective. Even some of the worst Family Guy and SpongeBob episodes can still get an occasional laugh out of me. Even fricking Stripperella got a few laughs out of me. This didn't.
One the bright side there's nothing straight up offensive or too gross. There's no jokes where someone tears a whale to shreds.
(By the way it's been a year since I've reviewed that episode and I'm still not over it.)
The grossest thing this episode in particular does is the Swamp Hag gag and the Doo Doo Kid Skit.
Yes Doo Doo Kid. He's so special he gets 2 skits in this episode. The joke is he smears poop (luckily it's censored) on everything. Then there's a skit with a dog humping literally everything. I know dogs like humping stuff, but THAT'S THE ONLY JOKE. ITS NOT FUNNY. Then there's the guy who gives very practical advice like "Don't ask a lady for a BJ if her leg hurts" or "Don't spit, swallow, or stretch in public." He's supposed to be a parody of the most interesting man in the world commercials, he's the most likeable man in the world. Like I said he just gives very practical advice. Very practical. It was clear the jokes were mostly just an excuse to show off some weird animation, but the animation unfortunately isn't funny, or good enough to save the jokes. The jokes are just dumb. Straight up dumb, and not in a funny goofy way like Adventure Time. No it's just really stupid. Why is it that adult cartoons have to keep failing so badly. Animation can be used for both children and adults yet most adult cartoons are garbage. There are good ones, but there are so many awful ones. It's to the point that I kinda feel it's keeping the medium from progressing and why people still feel animation is for kids only. It's also starting to feel like those kid shows are more mature with their stories and comedy than these supposedly mature adult cartoons. Really when it comes to mature animation go watch some anime, but I'm starting to get the feeling that western animation well never progress past the 'just for kids' label.
But hopefully I get proven wrong. Hopefully we get more Rick and Mortys in the future rather than more Allen Gregorys and this.
I'll only give this show 1 piece of credit and that's that they do fit a good amount of skits in the 11 minute run time.
But yeah this show is awful. Now this was only the first episode I watched so it could get better, but I feel it's going to die rather young. Probably at around 13 episodes and it won't have time to improve.
Overall-4/10
Oh wait.....yeah I'm scrapping the scoring system. You see I've been thinking and I realized that the way I score things is confusing. Like I could praise an episode endlessly, making it seem perfect, and in the end give it a 9/10. Yeah my numbering system is a bit confusing so here's a simpler one.
This is the score sheet for this episode. From now on this is my scoring system. I'll judge a show or episode in 5 categories.
Plot
Characters
Animation
Sound
And enjoyment. Then give my overall score. I'll also still label the best and worst parts of the thing it is I'm reviewing.
Check means it gets a good on that category, a dash (-) means it's Meh in that category and an X means it's bad in that category. Also I have a Check- and an X- for things I'm inbetween on (check- for between good and meh, and X- for between Meh and bad.)
So how does this show hold up.
Well I can't judge it on plot or characters as this show doesn't have any, so I just scribbled that part out.
Animation gets a Meh (-)
And so does sound.
My enjoyment level (by the way the most important category) was an X and so overall I gave the episode an X.
So Brad Neely's show was the first to use the new scoring system. Yes I'll be using this for all my shows. Toon-O-Ween, Animated Critic, Evan Vs. Disney and Anime Critic.
Anyway I'm Evan A.K.A. The Animated Critic and I'll see you guys later.
Peace.
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