Let's play: Where'd It Come From?!

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Oh wow, I actually thought Scott Pilgrim right away, but thought it was too obvious. It's weird, because I never actually saw that movie. Well, well played everyone!

[Yeahduff]

Everyone stop talking about hipsters.

[McDuffies]

Anyways, Laem, it seems you've won the round. Apparently, it's from Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe? Anyhoo, you're up!

No! Me!

[RobboAKAscooby]

It looks like 90s Disney or Nickelodeon TV style but I can't place it...

[Laemkral]

Found it, but I used Google and YouTube turned up the cartoon, so I'm going to abstain from this round.

[Bustertheclown]

No! Me!

Sorry.

Found it, but I used Google and YouTube turned up the cartoon, so I'm going to abstain from this round.

Nothing in the rules against sleuthing. Instant info at our fingertips is part of the challenge!

[McDuffies]

Found it, but I used Google and YouTube turned up the cartoon, so I'm going to abstain from this round.

what the hell did you type into google?

[Laemkral]

Nickelodeon cartoon guinea pigs. I got the animation style wrong, but that still yielded the result. The cartoon is "Pigs Is Pigs" from Walt Disney animation, 1954.

Also, I abstain from providing a still because im on my iPad and can't download an image and rename it so just looking at the image name doesn't give away the answer.

[McDuffies]

Oh the irony, I had more trouble finding a decent still from the cartoon by just searching it by it's name.

[LibertyCabbage]

[IVstudios]

That's gotta be Tommy Wiseau in The Room.

[LibertyCabbage]

That's gotta be Tommy Wiseau in The Room.

Hi, doggie! I wasn't sure if it'd be too easy or too hard to guess.

As an aside, I vaguely recall seeing Linkara show up in a video review of The Room done by The Nostalgia Critic.

[IVstudios]

Yeah, he's internet famous for Atop the Fourth Wall at ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com. They do crossovers all the time there. He was also in one of the NCs Star Trek reviews.

And now it's my turn!


That lady shouldn't be holding that gun by the barrel, she'll burn her hand!

[RobboAKAscooby]

The Amazing Screw-On Head - never heard of it, but the style looked familiar...so yeah googled it.

[IVstudios]

Well, that was quick.

But yes! A winner is you!

[RobboAKAscooby]

This could be either hard or remarkably easy...

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[McDuffies]

Argh linkara... he pops up in Nostalgia Critic videos all the time and he just isn't any funny. He flails his arms about, overemphasizes every word he says, thinks that yelling loud makes everything funny... in short he's desperate to imitate NC's shtick without understanding or managing to replicate NC's absurdity and helplessness and whatever it is that makes him moderately entertaining. To his defense, all of other reviewers are doing the same and none of them are funny either, but Linkara seems to hoard crossovers more than others.

I understand that Doug Walker is getting pretty tired of this gig and wants to drum up traffic so he can have revenue from the site after he inevitably quits, but dude - if I wanted to watch other series on that site, I would watch them. But I don't, because they suck. So stop trying to make me watch it. Better yet, find a guy or two who are interesting on their own and not just by association with you, and maybe you won't need pointless crossovers at all.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

A wee derail- I'm not sure if it's just my perception or if it's actually happening, but I haven't been enjoying the NC lately as much as I used to. I usually get a few chuck,es out of his videos now, but I remember them being way funnier. Again, maybe it's just me, maybe I just found it more appealing when I first found that site and watched all the NC videos quite rapidly.

[IVstudios]

My general feeling on the NC, (and AT4W) is that the reviews themselves are very entertaining, but I can do without the skits*. They are rarely funny, usually way too long and almost never add anything to the reviews. The harder the NC tires to be funny the less funny he is. There's nothing that causes me to lose interest faster than when in the middle of a review the NC brings everything to a screeching halt so he can talk to himself for 2 minutes.

*To be fair I find this true of most any internet review show. The good ones have the common sense to realize most viewers aren't interested in the skits and either a) Put them at the end where the people who are interested in them can watch them and those who aren't can just skip them or b). Break them up into short chunks (≈20 seconds or less) and disperse them throughout the video so that they are short enough that they don't break the viewers interest.

[McDuffies]

A wee derail- I'm not sure if it's just my perception or if it's actually happening, but I haven't been enjoying the NC lately as much as I used to. I usually get a few chuck,es out of his videos now, but I remember them being way funnier. Again, maybe it's just me, maybe I just found it more appealing when I first found that site and watched all the NC videos quite rapidly.

I too think he's getting worse. All the episodes that I really liked are rather old... I think for starters, he nowadays chooses really boring films, or films similar to films he's already done (hence similar jokes)... the serials are the worst, like when he does all star trek films is sequence (groan) or does a string or horror films or sequels... those seem like a guy getting through his day job more than anything... I liked the commercials which means that he still has it in him when he manages to find something fresh to comment. But he also doesn't try as much anymore, there's not nearly as much technically savvy moments like film re-cuts or animations or manipulations with the point of view, things that were the best jokes in his old clips. He seems aware of all of it though, but he quit his day job, so not much options.
Nowadays I find clips where he speaks in his own voice much more interesting. Like his walkthrough through Disney animated films. Nevermind that I disagreed with him on nearly every film, he has a sort of literate and non-intrusive way of expressing it. If he has a long-term future in business, it's with this kind of clips.

My general feeling on the NC, (and AT4W) is that the reviews themselves are very entertaining, but I can do without the skits*. They are rarely funny, usually way too long and almost never add anything to the reviews. The harder the NC tires to be funny the less funny he is. There's nothing that causes me to lose interest faster than when in the middle of a review the NC brings everything to a screeching halt so he can talk to himself for 2 minutes.

Yeah, I don't like when NC is away from the movie for more than 10 or 20 sec... like when he uses a shotgun to shoot the movie or one of his crew turns to a dinosaur or whatever, and then enthusiastically talks about it in comments as if they're not the most obvious things he could do... I don't like when he sticks too close to the movie either, like *show clip* *comment on it* *show clip* *comment on it* structure. It's best when there are skits that are very short and directly address what's happening in the movie, such as when he re-cuts or re-dubs the scene from the movie.