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Decent cover of the Trogdor song, but...

We've all seen it before, but this is an okay animation. Not great. Not terrible. Better than the original sketch-tastic animation in the sbemail that introduced him. But not much better than your typical NG fare. It didn't do anything creative or original, though. It's just a carbon copy with little (fattened up) stickmen drawn in it.

I'm actually kinda confused as to why anyone would make a H*R cartoon here on NG in 2008. Didn't the Brothers Chaps like spaz out back in the early 2000's and start suing the pants off of everyone who did a parody of their work? Maybe it's not as much of an issue anymore, but back in the day, they were hardcore into hot legal action against H*R fans.

The only H*R parody I'm aware of that's even survived from that time was an episode of Robotbox and Cactus that had a Coach Z parody with like the colors reversed and a J instead of a Z.

Oh well. Decent work. I look forward to seeing what happens when Mark makes something original.

Muahahahaha!

Excellent. XD

Despite the length, you managed to both tell a story, and do so with flair.

Also, kudos for not putting some pointless 20-minute title screen with music before and after the 20-second movie. That alone spells class.

I look forward to seeing more from you. I can't wait until you get really ambitious and do one that's about 40 seconds long. :P

Score: ZOMG!

I'm not sure why, but I found this extremely hilarious for some reason. I'm not even sure if it was an homage or a parody, or if it's a parody, whether it was making fun of DD2 directly or just mocking badly-done sprite movies on Newgrounds.

But whatever it was, it was freaking hilarious. XD

Do River City Ransom next!

LSD265 responds:

uh thanks man glad ya liked it

sorry I don't know what River City Ransom is? lol..I might have to play it..

The Vote is a Lie.

This was pathetic.
I'm making a note here: Epic Fail!
It's hard to understate my disappointment.

Newgrounds Flash Portal:
Everything by Everyone
So as to amuse us all
except for the Kitty Krew.

But it's no use blaming people for their bad flash
If you keep on flaming Tom will come kick your ass
So bad flashes get through, we can't blam the Kitty Krew
Cuz you people are all voting five

I actually liked it...
I'm using irony right now,
even though your flash survived submission.

It gave me a seizure!
And made me throw up. And hurt my eyes.
But if I say anything,
soon my account will be dead.

There's no point in voting with you morons online
I'll be called a hater, I get that all the time
So before you internetters yell "u no can has do betterz"
Note the people who are voting five

And believe me, they are voting five!
I just got frontpage cuz they're voting five!
I'm dissing Newgrounds and they're voting five!

Voting five!

Voting five.

Hmmm... actually, I like where this is going.

You're not just spamming the portal, you're actually telling a story in the process. I like that. Not many flashes on Newgrounds bother to have a story in them.

I think after you've done like, forty of these things, you should bundle them all together into one SWF, mess with the pacing a little bit, maybe add a few scenes, and you'd have the whole epic adventure set to In The Navy.

If you do all that, and then actually synch it up properly, I bet you'd get a blue score, easy.

Caecilius responds:

I was actually thinking about doing that.

Illogical is right...

If it's intended as a PSA, it doesn't really work, because like Schlock said, he's a permanent resident, and (as far as I know) permanent residency is unrelated to the current controversy surrounding illegal immigration.

If it's intended as a pure entertainment cartoon (which I doubt, based on the link at the end,) it doesn't work either because it's just not that funny.

I suppose it's thought-provoking, but only if the viewer falls for the straw-man argument that Schlock's situation is analogous to illegal immigration. If you take this movie as-is, it has no real bearing on the issues discussed at the website promoted at the end.

I've seen better arguments for human rights buried in episodes of ACTUAL Star Trek, particularly in TNG, DS9, and Voyager. A more directly analogous story would involve, I dunno, a Cardassian or something, stowing away onboard the ship. Maybe he's tricked the computer into rotating him into work shifts as some sort of minor engineer, even though Starfleet has no record of him and doesn't know he exists.

You could tell the story from the guy's point of view. Why he came to the ship and what's waiting for him back home. Demonstrate why it would be so inhumane to send him back. Maybe he does a good job and everyone likes him, but then he gets discovered and the captain has to deport him. And like everyone's all torn up about it and they want to appeal the ruling, but Starfleet says its hands are tied.

Actually, you know what? Voyager would be the perfect backdrop for a story like that.

That's how I'd do it, anyway.

Quirky. Sterotypical. Over-the-top. Good stuff!

There's no question that this turned out exactly how Andy intended it. :) For better or worse, you've got a quirky, overexagerrated drawing style, extremely labored writng, annoying valley-girl voice acting, and, to quote one Babs Bunny, "plot-holes big enough to drive a mac truck through!" And to be honest, I don't know that I'd have it any other way.

The visuals range from minimal-tweening, a little light FBF, and lots of stationary shots of blinking cell-phones, but after the first scene you won't be thinking about the art anymore. Somehow, even though the story itself might be crap, the way it which it is told dominates the viewing experience. You will care about this vapid sterotype, oh yes. You will also care about her damn phone. I'm not sure why. It just happens.

This is what all those traditional animation books are talking about, between sets of ghey little storyboards of Jetsons-era characters prancing awkwardly about. This is the power of traditional animation. This is the magic.

I do take exception to the phrase "today's teenagers" in the author's description, though. You saw almost EXACTLY this same story back on Tiny Toons in the 1990's. A lot of these memes date back to the Cosby Show in the 80's. And perhaps to a lesser extent, these same themes have been with us since Happy Days. (Or maybe teenagers have always been like this, and we just didn't start recording it accurately until we invented TV.)

The theme may or may not be timeless, but it sure feels that way. Regardless, Mindy manages to breathe new life into these tired memes, and while there may be room for improvement, it's very watchable and easy to digest.

I'm tempted to recommend that the artist waste less time on totally obvious plot twists and exposition, replacing it with more banter and one-liners for a quicker, snappier show... but if he did that, I guess it wouldn't really be Mindy anymore. Someone has picked up the torch, for better or worse, of a bygone era of cartoons. I think it's Tiny Toons, but someone older than me might say Bugs Bunny and someone younger than me might say Animaniacs. Could it be that this cheesy cell-phone drama really is timeless?

Man. I feel really old now. :P All reminiscing about the 90's. Heh.

TmsT responds:

Of course "the teenager" doesn't really change over the generations, but I'd rather be making fun of today's teenagers than yesterday's, since the latter don't overreact anymore (as they are no longer teenagers). But you can be sure that I will keep taking motifs from the classics, especially old sitcoms and Shakespeare (which are almost the same thing if you think about it, really) and no-one shall be spared from my convoluted plots, false/unresolved endings, and unrealistically overblown dialogue! >:3

I wanna bring back what "Doug" should have been if it was allowed to keep developing and maturing along with its audience instead of getting bought by Disney and made to stagnate into something that even I, a fan of the original series, just couldn't watch.

Woah.

Wow. Just wow. That has to be one of the deepest, most emotionally-involved stories I have ever seen on Newgrounds. And I realize that's not saying much, but still. Incredible film, very moving. The art's detailed in some ways and simplistic in others, but I wouldn't change a thing. It's simply awesome.

And it was even something having to do with assasins, normally the most emotionally boring topic on NG! Great job!

Quite possibly better than Fear Hole.

The writing is decent, the voices are solid, and the art is pretty good. Somehow, though, all these only-slightly-above-average components unite to form a whole that feels VERY fun to watch. I'm not sure why. It's just good. Better than it should be, anyway.

One theory: it's a cheesy stupid sitcom plot, but the artist narrowly manages to avert expectations roughly every 3rd joke. If all the jokes were predictable, it'd be Small Wonder. If all of the jokes were surprising, it'd be The Simpsons or Family Guy back when it was good.

(If they were all non-sequitirs, it'd be Space Tree.)

So what you've got here is like 1/3 The Simpsons and 2/3 Small Wonder, but the third that's good is so awesome it makes up for the moments that flop.

That's one theory, anyway. I do realize he had a lot of plot to get through in this episode. Here's hoping the humor improves in future episodes.

I've got a good feeling about this one... :)

God dammit.

I can't review this flash because I didn't watch it all the way. The reason I didn't watch it all the way is because I haven't read the seventh book yet. I wish the title of the Flash said something about the Deathly Hollows because I just saw Ch1 in the title and just sort of assumed you were starting from the begining of the first book. I wouldn't have started watching it if I had realized which book it was.

ARGH! NO SPOILERS! ARGH!

I liked what I did see, though. :) Funny jokes, good brush-scribble flash art, and a nice understated storybook format with some nice voice-acting on the part of the reader.

(Regardless of which voices he can or can't pull off. :P )

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