File: Dr Katz - [Snow Day].swf-(8.55 MB, 176x144, Other)
[_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)19:53:24 No.3005319
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)21:17:56 No.3005398
Artifactvision
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)21:31:47 No.3005410
good show.
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)21:34:54 No.3005412
>>3005319
I wish I had watched this as it came out
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)21:52:33 No.3005433
At one point I got confused who was saying which line.
It was when the dad was going to bed, and the son was sitting on the couch, trying to guilt him
over going to bed instead of going to the roof and checking on the pigeons.
It was very strange to me that the son thought it was in any way the dad's fault for whatever may
have potentially happened to the pigeons, when it was not only his job, but that the dad had
previously asked the son to check on the pigeons before it started snowing.
For whatever reason the dad went along with it, and it left me wondering if the dad was supposed
to be on the couch and the son going to bed instead of checking on the pigeons.
Also the lack of reaction in either one of them to the other's jokes made this fall really flat.
I'm not saying it needed outrageous laugh track + the straightman flipping out loudly, but the
way they casually ignore the punchlines grew rather annoying as the episode progressed.
I couldn't imagine watching an entire series of this, let alone the whole episode.
This by the way, must not be the full episode, because after the dad discussed how he would not
stay on the roof all day to sit around idly with his son (doing what?), the animation cut off,
and the flash didn't loop back around. It simply cut off, with a few seconds more of dialogue,
and then a cut-off there too, but there wasn't any fade out or anything.
On the surface this just seems like a poorly made animation, but is there something actually
missing here just from it's conversion to a flash video?
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)22:01:09 No.3005446
>>3005433
Dr. Katz was a crudely animated cartoon that had much of the dialog improvised. It was more or
less a vehicle for cartoon sketch comedy as each episode brought in new patients, I remember
comedians like Louie ck and Emo Phillips on the show. It was indeed very poorly made animation.
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)22:16:01 No.3005461
>>3005433
>At one point I got confused who was saying which line.
Strange.
The two characters have distinct/unique voices and when a character is speaking his face will
generally be focused on and his lips will move.
I have never had an issue of not knowing who was speaking during the show.
>It was very strange to me that the son thought it was in any way the dad's fault for whatever
may have potentially happened to the pigeons
Perhaps that is because you don't have a good understanding of who the characters are and what
their relationship is like.
Ben is a lazy coddled NEET with a very loving and responsible father.
Ben giving up because something seems hard and trying to push the responsibility onto his dad
isn't at all unusual.
>Also the lack of reaction in either one of them to the other's jokes made this fall really flat.
There is laughter by the characters when a joke is made.
Sometimes there isn't when the humor is less direct or of a lighter style but they still emote
through their voices showing the humor in the content.
>It was more or less a vehicle for cartoon sketch comedy
Not really.
The show is made by the back and forth between Ben and his father.
The comedian therapy sessions is generally more of an afterthought and is almost never was people
enjoyed most about the show.
>It was indeed very poorly made animation.
I disagree.
The animation is warm & cozy and gos well with the general laid back vibe of the show.
Sure its simplistic but that doesn't make it bad.
>> [_] Anonymous 01/22/16(Fri)22:52:06 No.3005483
>>3005461
They have similar mannerisms in their speech, and the whole part just didn't make sense to me at
first. Sure, when you describe it like that it doesn't seem unusual for the son, Ben to act that
way, but what threw me off was the dad's reaction.
There is tolerance and then there is just going along with it, and I expected the dad to be more
or less dismissive of what the son said, which was the case after all, but he didn't overtly
express it to his son when replying to him, and that was the confusing part.
Maybe it is just an issue of empathy, and I can't see myself not correcting the son in that
situation.
