Post by Jeff on Nov 20, 2008 22:26:56 GMT -5
Ep 31: A Star is Born
I definitely have a love/hate relationship with this episode.
I should begin by saying that I hate the first four panels. They seemed to make up a funny joke while still in my head, but when it comes to talking head episodes (episodes where there is no movement), the conversation takes center stage and, thus, pacing is everything. For some reason, I was sure while creating this that a pause in the second panel would make the comedic timing better. In hindsight, I have no idea what I was thinking. The punchline in panel four is ultimately way too rushed.
I do have to say, though, that I love panel #6. To this day, it's one of my all time favorite photoshopped panels, only second to Fred on TRL with Carson Daily in episode 34 and the Robots Without Faces driving that car in Episode 83. To this day, I don't understand why I never received a single comment about this panel.
That final panel marks the beginning of my love affair with Fred. Prior to this point, he'd simply been the somewhat funny, somewhat menacing bad guy. Now, when faced with the contradiction of wanting to dominate a democratic culture, I began to see the comic potential in Fred needing to lower himself to our cultural wave-length. The once proud conqueror would have to win over the democratic masses. I still feel that I could have done more with Fred before this comic ended, but this was still the beginning of something special. I believe it was around this point, after the ACT discussion forum was added (two weeks after this episode) that I started the now defunct "Ask Fred" section of said forum. Unfortunately, Fred didn't get all that many questions. No one else ever seemed to appreciate Fred half as much as I did.
Fred's album cover is a parody of Justin Timberlake's "Justified" album, which was topping the charts at the time of this episode's release. Here's the original cover:
I definitely have a love/hate relationship with this episode.
I should begin by saying that I hate the first four panels. They seemed to make up a funny joke while still in my head, but when it comes to talking head episodes (episodes where there is no movement), the conversation takes center stage and, thus, pacing is everything. For some reason, I was sure while creating this that a pause in the second panel would make the comedic timing better. In hindsight, I have no idea what I was thinking. The punchline in panel four is ultimately way too rushed.
I do have to say, though, that I love panel #6. To this day, it's one of my all time favorite photoshopped panels, only second to Fred on TRL with Carson Daily in episode 34 and the Robots Without Faces driving that car in Episode 83. To this day, I don't understand why I never received a single comment about this panel.
That final panel marks the beginning of my love affair with Fred. Prior to this point, he'd simply been the somewhat funny, somewhat menacing bad guy. Now, when faced with the contradiction of wanting to dominate a democratic culture, I began to see the comic potential in Fred needing to lower himself to our cultural wave-length. The once proud conqueror would have to win over the democratic masses. I still feel that I could have done more with Fred before this comic ended, but this was still the beginning of something special. I believe it was around this point, after the ACT discussion forum was added (two weeks after this episode) that I started the now defunct "Ask Fred" section of said forum. Unfortunately, Fred didn't get all that many questions. No one else ever seemed to appreciate Fred half as much as I did.
Fred's album cover is a parody of Justin Timberlake's "Justified" album, which was topping the charts at the time of this episode's release. Here's the original cover: