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[VALV - S2 - Ep.02]

I have herpes

It is great to see you once again using your sophisticated animation to entertain us. As it is episode 2, it is hard to call this a prequel. While a fairly confusing cartoon, it still had enough randomness to be funny. I believe penguins and most birds do in fact eat their own vomit. I guess when the other penguin vomited (the second one) the other took it as a sign. I was disappointed to not see the regular characters in this. It seemed weird how they were in the intro but not the cartoon itself.

At least you still keep that cool music at the beginning. It's fun just to listen to how silly the penguins sound. I guess by now I have gotten over caring about not being able to understand anything even though I studied some Spanish. It looks like you are off to a good year. As I did not see "Brokeback Mountain", I couldn't really understand the references to it.

[MvC3: Dante]

She's still hot!

This was the best of the entire series because it had a heck of a lot more action than all the other entries did! I see that you, redminus have worked on a ton of great things. Caxx was just fantastic as the voice as well. What really made this great was that not only did it have the best animation, but also the largest set of characters ever! You would think that for an April Fool's Day submission, it would be cheesy, but it definitley wasn't. Morrigan was pretty annoying in this, but dang, she was still so hot!

It was just great to see that stereotypical girl interact in a world like that. Sadly, I doubt I will ever get "Marvel Vs. Capcom 3" as I really do not have the time. I mean, I write so many reviews here! It's great how you managed to make just one fantastic submission after another! Any fan of video games should find this hilarious!

[Parody Rangers Turbo]

Makes sense

I remember how you (Kirbopher) seem to be working on a new April Fool's Day cartoon every year it seems. I am disappointed that the rest of the website did not seem to share this idea. It is great to see CardGamesFTW working on a second cartoon. Sure, he hasn't done much stuff on this website but it's great to have him here. In case anyone is wondering, the Easter eggs are at the end with the things in the right hand corner. When I first saw this title, I knew it was you, Kirbopher who was working on it.

I knew that football had a fair share of homoeroticism to it. Don't worry, I will never hold it against you guys how I never got to be a voice in this series. I hope you all had a happy April Fool's Day! While a parody of a parody, the animation was as decent as ever. I think I can guess who Psyguy is voicing in this.

[Jerry 2]

What is up?

What is up with people who make parodies of their classic cartoons on April Fool's Day? And why are you listed as being part of a collab when you appear to be the only person who worked on this? And what is up with people who actually manage to make decent parodies of themselves? Some people would probably just show some cheesily made cartoon and leave it at that. You have to admit, those people are to be admired for putting work into making fun of themselves. What is up with little children who want a grilled cheese sandwich?

What is up with not wearing a condom and the idea of having sex with apparent strangers anyway? Why not just make love to someone you are more familiar with? And what is up with people who watch so many things on the Internet and review every one of them? What is up with people who use self-reference to write reviews? What's up with that?

[Purged]

Woah...

Yep, this is now officially my favorite submission of the year. While there was not much for narrative, the animation in this was just unfathomably beautiful. It makes me want to watch it over and over to understand its true meaning. It just goes to show that you, jameslee03 are truly a master of flash. I seriously had no idea anybody could make something this good in flash! Every single second there is strong meaning with perfect animation synched up.

It kind of reminded me of the stuff by Jhonen Vasquez, only more colorful. It just goes to show that you don't need to be famous to make truly impressive animation. The atmosphere was fantastic and so were the music and sound effects. It's a wonderfully dark piece that makes us stare into our minds and souls. The bonus features go to links outside the website, in case anyone wants to know.

[Bob Pilgrim]

It's back!

Scott Pilgrim was one of my all-time favorite movies so it's great you're doing a parody of it! It was pretty funny when you mentioned all the other movies that actor has been in. Hey, he plays an awkward teenager because well, he is one! It is nice to see those Cadbury Creme Eggs when it is actually getting around Easter time. This was a much more enjoyable way of celebrating it than the movie I just saw "Hop". It's hard to go wrong with the animation team of Weebl and ZekeySpaceyLizard.

Superbad is also one of my all-time favorite movies! Man, this kid was in a lot of great movies. I did not like how it was anti-climatic but it is a parody so it was not intended to have a lot of action anyway. The animation was all around fantastic with how much detail was in everything. I still don't understand what the intro movies mean.

[The Prince of Saiyans]

So little

I guess it might have made more sense if I saw some other entries, but this was not good to me. What I thought was weird was how Vegeta didn't appear in his Super Saiyan (1 or 2) form when fighting Goku, or at least when firing his Big Bang attack. Well, he did become one later. It just seems like everyone is acting so much out of character. Goku would never kill Vegeta after getting a son unless he was being mind controlled or something. I also did not like how everything just seems to be still images. It just seemed so disorganized.

I suggest you try to put in action and not just a bunch of pictures. You could use sprite work or regular animation and watch and read some of the tutorials. This might have had a higher rating if you had just submitted it a few days later. I guess you were being courageous by submitting it on your own. Is that supposed to be Future Trunks?

[Chrono Trigger Unglued 11]

One of the best

This is one of the most enjoyable entries in this long running series, if only because of the use of those Scooby Doo doors. Man, that has been done so many times but it will never get out! I loved seeing Pac-Man, the cast of 8-bit Theater, the Monty Python foot, and Mario and the Koopa Troopa! A pity there was no funny prologue. At least we got to see the awesome ending sequence. There was a lot of good animation here, especially with Scooby-Doo and Shaggy (whoops, forgot their cameo!).

I was wondering myself why the cat did not just go under the cage. It is great how this one relied heavily on humor while still having a good story. You really have come a long way as appears to be one of the earlier entries. Some of it gets a bit too talky, but it's still something worth watching. The voice work, what little there was, was great as always.

Clovis15 responds:

I'm glad you liked this episode, especially the staircase chase sequence. Although I've since done much harder things in flash, it was at the time the most nerve wracking thing I've ever tried. As for things like the cat just going under the bars, its things like this that we strive for on the CTU production team. Sometimes common sense itself, applied to uncommon situations, can be the most rewarding outcome.

[The Beard]

NIce little thing

This was a decent effort to make for 2009's Clock Day. The best part was when all of those buses fell on LeekClock. I believe that the bearded clock was supposed to be GodClock, so it's too bad God was killed by a bus running over him. I also admired the animation used in this because it was pretty well done. While not that good in terms of transition effects, the designs of the clocks and everything was done fairly well. It's just great to see the Clock Crew doing what it does best, be non-sequitor.

While short, it still had most of what you would want in a funny flash. I really like how you used a different thing to signify the end even if you still used the same sound. I guess this just goes to show how unlucky beards are. It's also nice how the gray clock just stands there the whole time looking so deadpan. I guess he's glad not to take part in that silliness.

OctopusClock responds:

thank you sir.