I'm a reddit faggot and I think this is awful because I think shopping out someone's hair is hilarious. Oh and man tits.
Now to what's important, firefly was the greatest show on TV and pokemon gold the greatest DS game of all time. Also I'm latently homosexual as indicated by my suspenders, wooden bow tie, 1880s haircut and waxed moustache.
I never thought about it before but the reason Jim's character's worked is because they were lightning fast reactions to live conversations.
Chip having a bomb in the middle of a great O&A riff sesh was hilarious. Chip telling a bad joke in a scripted cartoon is just a bad joke.
What would work better is a "Jim Norton & Friends" show. Jim should be the main character, like Jerry in Seinfeld. Chip, Edgar, Uncle Paul would be the Kramer, George, Newman, etc.
Yes, this was the worst way to use Chip. Normally it works because you're in on the joke, so you can laugh and cringe at the unfunny shit he says.
This pilot just gives you Chip straight up, on the nose and with a laughtrack so it becomes just unironically bad. It's like David Brent without the other characters to show the audience what an ass Brent is.
Slice of life with Jimmy's characters as animated extensions of his mind.
We can see them but others cannot. Keeps conversation natural and allows with interjection from the characters while Jim tries real hard to ignore them and occasionally slips up.
The premise of the show could be Jimmy going about his daily life at home, work, at gigs with a film crew and he tells people he's got a crew following him to do a documentary about his life and career. I am sure his core group of comedian friends would play along and be on it for scale or nothing at all and he could do Chip the way he does it on the radio show and at comedy clubs. Group of people standing around talking and he throws out a Chip comment or Uncle Paul, and get the genuine reaction to his character. Be funny I think to get Bill Burr, Colin Quinn, Bob Kelly and others reactions to Jimmy's multiple personalities.
Call it Jimmy's Voices or as an homage to a comedy thief call it The Mind of Norton.
I totally agree, and that's what I thought he was going for initially. I thought it was like a Jim Norton world, with all of his characters together. That I think could work, not just a....stand alone....Chip...
Yeah, but it's understandable that Jim didn't have the same idea. He's just the guy who's been trying to do get something going for years and literally is those characters. I'm a big shot random internet dildo who thought about it for 5 seconds.
It's really weird he went in this direction. I can't imagine he doesn't know there are a million better ways to do it. Most of them wouldn't involve that ripoff ren & stimpy art style with community college senior project level of animation.
Main character, like you said, Jim. All his tranny-chasing, Kiss-loving, Ozzy-humping, awkward gym moments life.
Side characters: I'd like to see Kenny vs Uncle Paul. Uncle Paul always has a ruse to lure kids. From ice cream trucks, to building an unauthorized and underground child care facility ring. Substitute teaching, very amateur photographer for kids sports.. etc. Instead of running into Paul on the streets for random yuck yucks, he's part of Kenny's ongoing investigation.
Any time any character needs something, they hit up Ted's store.. which is the same place (art/location), but changes products as needed - easy enough, 5 seconds worth of material. Chip is Jim's annoying neighbor who mostly ruins Jim's social & work life. "Oh you got a girl over.." or pitching bits for his "shock jock radio life" .. In and out with the moment-ruining "jokes".
and Edgar is a bit part (maybe he's Jims building super)
Write the characters as actual characters..I hope he does something like that.
Yours would require developing the characters to the point that they have a life complexity. After all, each of his characters are really just one joke. How many times can Regular Joe show up in a scene and tell everyone "eh gimme a cuppa coffee and I'm working" before it gets grating. But if he developed them, there's a chance of him ruining his delivery. Your way is harder and riskier; I don't blame Jim for going a simpler route. Comedy often lives in simplicity.
I think its the exact opposite. Newman on seinfeld has no complexity. If it was the Jim Norton & Friends show, Chip could be his annoying cousin who wants to be a comedian and we see him for 30 seconds per episode chippin it up. Giving Jim bad advice on jokes. Trying to do standup himself. Ruining Jim's chances with a lady. The other characters could be neighbors in jim's apartment building who are never the focus but add to the show. Jim could be walking out of his building and pass uncle paul putting up a sign in the lobby that says "Free Babysitting! No tah-uhll tales." This shit writes itself.
How does The Chip Chipperson show require less development than that?
I agree with most of that but the laugh track is an intentional joke. The premise that it's live is silly and it gives chip someone to yell at when they don't laugh. It's not used the way big bang theory uses it, for example.
The laugh track isn't a particularly GOOD joke, but it has a purpose.
Yea I think the laugh track can work perfectly if it laughs at other character's jokes and never laughs at Chip when he tries to punch up their jokes.. It can be used the same way with Paul, Edgar, Kirk, etc... The thing is, there has to be "normal" funny characters.. Not everyone can be a one dimensional exaggeration.
I think a lot of people, me included, have a limited tolerance for cringe stuff.
The comical con videos were good but I don't know if it would work in more than 5 minute chunks. It would be an OK segment on a sketch show. Just off the top of my head, I'd call it "Inside Jim Norton®".
Yeah.....if Jimmy wants a cartoon featuring his characters so bad, he should just pay some flash cartoonist (with better skills than cokelogic) to make a short every couple of months. I enjoyed this pilot as a one-off, but with a few drops of sincere storytelling, this isn't gonna succeed. Perhaps they should have made the pilot different. I think Chip could actually work as a protagonist, if he had some kind of quest he was on besides just being wonderfully unfunny. Anyone remember Chip goes to "Comical Con"? That was better than this.
Yeah, I love Chip, but this definitively stains that character. He needs an environment that contrasts him. In a room full of funny people, he's hilarious, especially when he can play off something that is actually funny, and in that stark contrast he provides. Though, I also thought those comic-con videos were pretty great.
I've listened to an unhealthy amount of Jim Nortons characters on YouTube. I've watched them all, and I've watched most of them several times. I desperately want more content like that, but this pilot sours that too.
Good to see a Jerry Sandusky reference. So that means he has now talked about this vaguely topical story from 2009 on stage, on the radio, on his TV show and now on this. He really is the new Carlin.
This was horrible, and I do agree with you that Jim is best as a 3rd mic, but to say he lacks "work ethic and effort" is not fair. Norton is always out working on a new idea or bit. They may not all be successful, but that is not for lack of effort.
I agree. His superpower is his lightning-quick reactions to other funny people. That's why he was enjoyable and hilarious on OnA and Tough Crowd, but could never deliver the same laughs in standup or acting.
Agreed. It seems more like a case of laziness if anything, he's definitely capable of being funny off the cuff and has potential for funny and interesting dialogue.
This should have been Chip interacting with real people, then animated. A bit like The Ricky Gervais show. The beauty of Chip and Karl Pilkington is how they interact with real people. Fuck this shit
Maybe this is the plan for it. I'm sure the pilot is simply to showcase all of the characters included in the show in order to sample it and get funding. He hasn't given a plotline or much detail on what the episodes would be like.
Karl isn't a character though...well, not entirely (he exaggerated his 'manc buffoon' traits after he left radio), but there is a serious delineation between those two.
Are you kidding? Chip is a total rip off of a saturday night live sktech where daniel craig told bad jokes. They're like the exact same thing. I'm surprised lorne michaels didn't sue.
He wouldn't be ripping anyone off, characters interacting with real people has been a genre of comedy for a long time and it would work better for Jim's characters. Having them say written lines feels forced.
The people he screened that for who told Jimmy that the pilot is "great," "hilarious," or "terrific" clearly do not care about Jimmy and do not want him to succeed.
Jimmy can be absolutely brilliant and hilarious but this pilot is not a good representation of either.
Her name might be Jen Tell Jim Whatever He Wants To Hear And Fuck Him With A Strap-On So I can Get A Paycheck And Not Have To Get A Real Job Like I Should
Poor Jim. As much as I like the guy, he really is an asshole when it comes to this stuff.
The animation company he's decided to work with is terrible. Look at their website http://www.bighugproductions.com/
The show reel doesn't work, and I can't find a copy online. He either got impressed by the credits, or is trying to be a cheapskate. The people involved in the animation festival created work that is streets ahead of this shit.
Also, the sound is mixed poorly (like the cartoon released the other day by Big Jay et al), the timing is way off, and the studio audience thing is plain bad.
Whatever manager or agent he's got who let him take a good piece of intellectual property and waste it like this should be fired.
Why the fuck is there a laugh track anyway. It's animation not a sitcom. Of course Jimmy has never seen animation for adults he just heard it has a sort of sitcom format.
It's really frustrating. He has this incredible stable of funny characters, and he is wasting them on a shit project. Maybe he should have teamed up with a solid writer to hep him out. The material just isn't good, and the awful animation isn't helping. He supports Schumer to no end, and for what? She puts him in a sketch or two, and gives him a tiny part in her movie only to be cut out. You can't tell me that having Amy Schumer vouche for your project wouldn't help. Call in some favors dummy. Don't settle for mediocre shit.
Jesus. What kind of reel is that? It doesn't convey exactly what they're selling. No matter what it is, the production value of everything is terrible. You had teen on newgrounds making better shit a decade ago. What the fuck are these people thinking? What the fuck is Jim thinking using these guys? How the fuck do they have enough customers to keep that embarrassment in business?
"Big Hug has been helping to make our Job Easier. When we need to fill time with a short segment, they always have the ability to provide us with a feel good, spoghtlight or cunsumer advocate story"
Chip is not a main character. He's Kramer or Newman. He's a scene stealer. Regular Joe is a straight man you base a show around and then have all these weird characters somehow situationally imposed in his life through work, family, neighborhood, whatever. He wants to just do and say Regular Joe shit but these degenerates keep fucking shit up and fucking with him.
I think Jimmy believed he was making a show that was proudly raunchy and despicable, so he didn't have to follow those conventions. So Chip is just there as an inexplicably annoying main character.
Even if you ignore the college student level animation and the unfunny; the biggest obstacle was always going to be that he is incapable of coming up with a coherent and structured story. Tangentially related vignettes isn't going to work unless you have something like Beavis and Butthead on the couch tying it all together. It's embarrassing that a professional would put his name on this. He doesn't strike me as someone who has ever studied the actual craft of storytelling. Just tell a couple of tranny jokes and cash a check, I guess.
I think you hit the nail on the head. All of the great animated shows, like South Park, have a legitimate story with jokes scattered throughout the narrative. I couldn't make it through a minute of this, it's cringey.
I feel bad. I actually want Jim to succeed, and we know how funny these characters are.
Maybe if he made the show it'd be different. The humor of Chip and the others is them interacting in real world situations. But them just doing their catchphrases to each other is weird.
Yikes. I'm not even saying this to be mean, but that was a real piece of shit. Bad mid 90's - early 2000's animation, dialog that would be throw away lines on the radio show, and uninspired characters. Jim should retire this to the dustbin.
Jesus Christ Almighty that was the worst thing I've ever seen. I really hope that Jim has some friends who will be honest with him and tell him to abandon this project ASAP.
I know a lot of people say this but I think I'm done for a while. Nothing else got me - not the racism firing, not the woman beating, not even the bad radio. But this video is causing me to question the O&A thing. This is it folks, take a look at this video then take a look in the mirror.
God damn it I want to like this but it's so fucking bad. Ted doesn't even sound like Ted anymore. Even with my extensive and autistic knowledge of the show and all of Jimmy's characters, I barely laughed at this. How the fuck does this have 10 grand behind it already?
Just watched a man kill off the last redeeming part of himself. If I wasn't already dedicated to hating everything left of the O&A show I wouldn't know how to feel about this.
I'm pretty sure it's self explanatory why this is bad but since Jim probably thinks it's good I'll say this
A pilot is a full episode
The animation is better than the simple "Videomation" family guy shit but based on your price point they're probably laughing at you behind your back for believing this is even somewhat reasonable
There's no storyline at all. It just seems jokes were written and then you built a shotty storyline around it
The funny parts. This is important to a show like this. They were minimal, and I'm an O&A fan. This shit wouldn't make Jimmy Fallon laugh. Chip is normally funny because he will mercilessly stop whatever energy is happening. The problem here is the show had no energy. He's the least funny part of the show but it's his show.
There should not be a laugh track. It doesn't mock or mimic a sitcom so why is there a laugh track? So you can pull out a couple easy jokes from the audience booing Chip every five minutes?
Jim I love you want you to succeed, but I do not think this is in your best interest. Some of the jokes were funny but they seemed like shit that you wouldn't even write. It seemed like a mixture of gross-out humor mixed with your dumb ”topical jokes” from your stand up.
How could Chip Live at Comic-Con be so fucking hilarious while this is difficult to watch.
Constructive Criticism
1. Chip is way too old.
2. The nostrils vibration is a poor visualization of the sound effect. We have seen Jim do this live and that doesn't happen.
3. Chip with his pants down watching Lamar fix the floor boards and Edgar's shitty fingers were the only things I reacted to where I wasn't thinking "this is awful".
4. I understand this is the pilot, but there needs to be more Chip in normal situations fucking things up and shocking people.
5. I get that it's hard to bring these characters to life, but you need to work with a better studio. I actually prefer it if you do this live action. How much is a camera-man, costumes, and security for you do walk around NY and film it?
6. Lose the laugh track.
I'm sorry Jim. I love you. I laughed my balls off the last time I saw you at Cobb's.
How the fuck did he reach the conclusion that this shit is "the one"? I really need to see the ideas he rejected before settling on this as the product that would entice people into handing over actual, honest to god money. The art style, the jokes, the line readings...I hate literally everything about it.
But for some strange reason the thing I hate most of all is how it looks like he's sniffing when he's supposed to be snorting. It's the complete opposite intended effect and Jim just said "fuck it, good enough, people will pony up for this". And not a single person in his life was decent enough to stop him.
I really wanted to like this. I swear I did. It's just absolutely awful in every way... I know it's just a clip begging for money, but there was nothing remotely funny about this. How sad.
i dont know why everyone trashes cokelogics animations. i think theyre great. theyre much more comfortable to look at than whatever shit that pilot was
yeah I like the simplicity of them, sure it's not crazy animations but he gets what is truly needed; the lip-sync, facial expressions and the hilarity of the situation. I remember the vid that got me into him I still laugh my ass off anytime I watch it
Wow. I made it until Edgar started talking.
I would go into everything that was wrong with it, but I don't want it to consume any more of my time than it already has.
JIM NORTON: I AM A PERSON WHO ANIMATES AS A HOBBY - THIS WAS DONE IN FLASH, AND POORLY. You could be getting an episode made for less than 2,000 dollars in terms of paying for animation, and it would be better.
I tend to feel like Jimmy's characters work best in audio only. Also, many or most of Jimmy's characters are exceptionally funny as inserts into a dialogue.
i liked the pilot. I like theres a lot of characters and they all interact in freaky ways (like it probably happens inside jimmys brain during the whole day).
the only thing that bothered me is the nostrils moving when he does the chip noise. that is going to get old really fast
Wow. I was actually pretty interested in this until I heard both Kenny and Sherrod in the span of five seconds. Jesus Christ, Jim, I know you don't have many ACTUAL friends, but could you put SOMEONE fucking likable in this?
I can understand a character based on Kenny....but to actually use him for a voice?? The laugh track is annoying, particularly because the jokes aren't even funny. I made it about a minute in and turned it off, it was really bad. I understand this is just a pilot, but he should of at least polished this turd a bit.
I made it until I heard Sherrodd. what a fucking disaster this is. I don't know shit about animation, but I honestly think I could hire a team of Indians or Pakistanis or whatever heathens over the internet to create something far better than this for much less money
Judging by the quality of this product he's not looking for any deal.
Just imagine sitting in a pitch meeting and having to witness this shit with some twitching worm guy sweating flop sweat and yapping about pedophiliac characters he used to do for his girlfriends.
Probably because all the lines were recorded separately. It would have probably worked a little better if they recorded together, played off each other, and built off each other's readings.
I can't say anything made me laugh out loud, but I enjoyed it. As introductions go, it was fine.
I'd like to see what a 20 minute long episode in the middle of a season would look like. Chip is really funny when he snaps on someone hapless, and if you were to build it up for 15 minutes of him being humiliated then have him take it out on somebody and be over the top mean - well I'm no writer but can see the potential.
I want to see what a 4 hour mini-special at the beginning of the season, with a laugh-track so loud that the viewing audience starts bleeding from their ears, would look like.
Why the FUCK include Kenny? I don't get it at all, no one outside of the O&A fan-base will understand that character, his terrible slow cadence isn't funny, it's annoying and fucking retarded, why waste a main character on your fucking lurch bodyguard instead of maybe including one of your FUNNY comedian friends
I couldn't even finish it. I thought I was just in a bad mood until I saw all these comments agreeing with me. This was just terribly written, poorly animated, and overall pointless. It feels very rushed and hastily put together.
Between an uninspired radio show, daily standup gigs, and a cartoon, Jimmy is spreading himself too thin. If he wants to have a show in some format other than radio, then maybe he should quit his radio gig to focus on it. Just a suggestion.
The cartoon was horribly unfunny, but what's even worse is the IndieGoGo Campaign has madeover $18,000 in 11 hours currently. Who are these morons donating?
Jim should have done a Borat style film as chip visiting like local events all over the country doing interviews. it be funny to see him at some church bbq in south carolina doing interviews (not breaking character once) and very subtly dropping in references to lamar and his mudda. helpin do the carpeting etc. but playing it off that is completely unaware of what is really happening.
Not a a huge fan however, hearing new material from his characters is refreshing. I feel like all I've heard is the same rehashed lines since July 2014.
The cartoon dave and luis made is way better then this. It's not great but it at least introduces characters more naturally and tries to tell a story. I see promise in that one this is just horrific.
Do you feel that the characters you enjoy hearing on the air adapted well in animated form?
Do you feel that the characters were introduced in a manner that would allow someone completely unfamiliar with them (like an executive screening a pilot) gained an understanding of each and their role in the "plot"?
Would it have been far more beneficial if the "pilot" was used as the fundraising pitch and a plot-based vignette was produced and used as a real "pilot" to provide some notion of what the show is about?
I had a smirk on my face while watching it. Why am I being interrogated for enjoying something? Holy shit this sub has become so miserable that we hate any enjoyment.
Went in expecting Clerks cartoon-level animation, dick jokes, and Jim Norton characters. So my expectations were very low to begin with. Home run, Chippah.
Ouch. Not sure what to say. I was really hoping to say "Guys, it's not that bad." If anything, Big Jay's shows promise but it also needs some work (audio-wise).
This wasn't so great, but you have to hand it to jim: he's a talented voice actor. All these characters are vocally distinct and he could carry an entire show with them (if it were better).
Know why this is bad? This is Jim sabotaging himself again. He is afraid of success. He knows the Pilot sucks. He greenlit it because subconsciously he WANTS it to fail.
It isn't all bad. I really like the animation. Reminds me of Ren and Stimpy, but without the lush backgrounds. The story is just stupid, though. Gilbert Gottfried was a pleasant surprise, though.
I can't put my finger on what all the things are, but some things are missing to make this good. I think we all know the potential of all these characters and want to like it so bad, that anything less than amazing is not acceptable....I'm guessing. It should at least seem more quick and improv like....maybe a little more like a cartoon version of always sunny? But yea, this is so far a let-down; hopefully he'll figure it out
Crowd funding is actually a really great option for Norton. He has a lot of fans, and he's got an reputation of being good to his fans, but this cartoon......is not gonna be good, and the next time he launches a project like this half the people will donate. He should have saved this for a better idea
That animation is horrid. If Jim wants to go this direction, it would work better if this was shorter too but even then, Chip comedy is best for the radio.
Why does it matter what companies people use for animation? This really fucks over semi-famous people who think using an amazing animation company with a luxurious price tag will help them reach the next stage in their career.
I mean so long as it looks good and shouldn't matter if these fucks have an emmy background, just fucking make the shit for cheap. I mean if Pixar has a script that's a lump of shit and is just animating it, it's not gonna come out any better just because it's Pixar, see Cars and Cars 2.
As some other guy was stating in another thread these characters work because they're not in the spotlight. Jim should just do a Maron or Louie type show where these guys are devils and angels on his shoulders expressing themselves and coming out at the worst possible moments instead of putting them in the spotlight to write the shittiest jokes possible because it tailors to the characters.
I read all the negative comments then watched, and I have to say, I thought it was way better than that. It was perverse, dark, and idiosyncratic. I chuckled. The studio laughter paid off when visible, offended members of them left and Chip threw debris at them. Before that, there were sly tips of the hat to the device, when he would unleash a dud, then pause a bit to stare at their dead air. Were you expecting Pixar level animation? It was good enough. Not too shabby for self-financed. With edgy content like this, you don't want too much polish. In short: I'd totally watch if it went to series.
Everyone is obviously entitled to their dismissive opinion. I wonder in this case, though, if people want to dismiss it just so they can come here and throw Molotov cocktails. A tendency may exist to gravitate towards a stance that further fuels the narrative of the big three's careers swirling down the toilet.
Oh my god was that pure fuckin trash. And I thought the chip at comic con videos were some of the funniest things I've seen in my life. He really needs to stick to that type of thing.
This is like if Michael Jordan in his prime entered the 3pt contest instead of the dunk contest.. He would do ok in the 3pt contest, but that's not what he is great at.. Jim (and his characters) are best at quick in-the-moment jokes.. So a written format is going to yield decent results, but it will not capture what makes Jim and his characters great.
Kinda interesting that the other guy on the campaign is this guy who works for breadpig which is a side project by Alexis Ohanian, the "guy who does nothing" co-founder of reddit.
I feel really bad for little yimmy, I forget the exact figure but he talked on rogan's podcast about how much it was costing him out of his own pocket for just a few seconds of animations and after seeing it, I feel the poor little fella got severely ripped off, it seems they skipped the entire cleanup process, and a lot of the frames are just straight up poorly drawn.
What about incorporating a character who is just a floating set of moobs with hairs around the nipples? Also, a swarthy, emaciated Morrocan who takes creeper pics and yells out "nigger" with a Tourette's-like lack of context.
Holy shit this was bad, what a carpet bomb. When scripted it totally defeats the purpose of a character like Chip. Jim, scratch this shit and move on. It ain't gonna happen.
Not the world's #1 Chip fan, but will be the first to say that over time he did become an endearing part of the show. Even after reading a lot of comments first, this pilot is so much worse than I thought it could be.
The pace is unbearably slow. I don't get how someone with as much experience and talent as Jim can make these fundamental mistakes. Easier to be a critic I suppose.
One of the worst things I have ever seen and the longest 6 minutes of my life. The word shameful comes to mind.
Wouldn't have predicted Opie or Anthony hitting the near rock bottom levels they are approaching...but for Jim to show this severe a lack of understanding of comedy, I don't get it.
How much money went into this pilot?
39 - Poor Jim. As much as I like the guy, he really is an asshole when it comes to this stuff. The animation company he's decided to work with is terrible. Look at their website The show reel doesn't work, and I can't find a cop...
3 - yeah I like the simplicity of them, sure it's not crazy animations but he gets what is truly needed; the lip-sync, facial expressions and the hilarity of the situation. I remember the vid that got me into him I still laugh my ass off anytime ...
I'm a fan of Jim Norton. He's consistently made me laugh over the years. I think he's very quick witted, intelligent, and uniquely charismatic and funny. However, I'm still reeling from the shock of seeing this yesterday.
This cartoon looks so terrible it conjures that empathetic embarrassment you feel for another as if it were your own. And it's an intense, blush inducing humiliation I felt as I watched that pilot.
It reminded me of an MTV cartoon from decades ago called The Brothers Grunt that seemed to try to pass off disturbingly disgusting imagery as somehow comedic.
I realize what you like or don't like is entirely subjective. I subjectively hate this pilot.
I didn't hate it. I'm not donating but I'll watch the show if he makes it happen. That being said I do think Chip (and maybe even the other characters) would do better in a Beavis and Butthead/Mystery Science Theater type scenario. Jim "riffs" in character while watching whatever and then they animate that. Probably would be better.
Probably. But shit he could go to fucking Anthony's house or studio, do the "Chip Chipperson Show" and just riff on videos in character. 99% of fans would be happy with that shit. So like 27 of us.
YIKES that was bad.. I'm sure they'll say "IT'S CHIP IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE BAD THAT'S THE BIT".
Fortunately I'm sure that will be the only one they release. I'm not saying Jim couldn't do something funny with his characters, but that certainly wasn't it.
Im so fucking tired of animation and cartoons. Can anyone just get in front of a goddamn camera anymore?! What is this fucking obsession with animation.
This was a bad idea. A little Chip goes a long way. Chip is funny in small doses and quick quips, not in any sort of long form scenario. Kind of like when Dice did his own podcast; I love Dice on anyone else's show or interacting with more normal type people, but just unfiltered and long form Dice on his own is too much. I don't know what's worse, this Chip cartoon or Bill Burr's awful F Is For Family, fucking hated that too.
"Im so fucking tired of animation and cartoons. Can anyone just get in front of a goddamn camera anymore?"
There's far more live-action than animation out there, at least as far as adult entertainment goes. I'm glad there's at least a few attempts to create some here and there. But you're speaking like almost nothing is live-action anymore.
You're insane. There is a FUCK ton of comic animation out there. Every comedian either has an animated series, or one in the works, or is trying to get one made.
There's only about enough animated programs out there that you'd still have to actively go out of your way to look for them, though. Unless you've got no cable and internet and work all week but Sunday, and you want to watch Fox on your transceiver box.
Im tired of animation and everyone wanting to do animation. Or trying to raise money for animation. Stop this madness. I know 2 comics here in LA who aren't famous both with Kickstarters to try to raise funds for an animated series. Any podcast you listen to, "What would you like to do in the future?" "Id like to have my own animated series." Fuck.
edit: Cartoons can't take what you already have. Animation is the lowest prioritized outlet for creatives on Jimmy's level of talent. If Jim could draw hands and fingers he'd have made a Chip comic or something himself years ago. But this won't be taking up too much of his time, I think.
I can't say the medium of animation isn't alive and well. But it doesn't come close to rivaling live action like you stated, nor will that ever happen.
I just watched this again. It's funny, fuck you people. The audience boos chip and cheers for uncle Paul and Ted rules. Im not going to give any money but I'll watch all of these
I love how everyone here pretends that this is a legitimate pilot and not just a way to introduce characters and ask for money for the project. Holy shit, how can you not see the "pilot" for what it is?
No shit that's what it is. And you know what it's doing - introducing shitty characters that don't work in a cartoon environment that isn't fucking funny and has no legs to stand on. It has no audience. Even the people who like Jim's characters realized it would never work in a cartoon. It's just a fucking mess and anyone who gave the millionaire money to fund his awful vanity project should be taken out to the wood shed to be wiped off the face of the planet.
I'm willing to give the guy a few actually episodes before I completely chalk it up as a failure. Coming to any conclusions about its ultimate quality based off this "pilot" makes no sense to me.
"Im so fucking tired of animation and cartoons. Can anyone just get in front of a goddamn camera anymore?"
There's far more live-action than animation out there, at least as far as adult entertainment goes. I'm glad there's at least a few attempts to create some here and there. But you're speaking like almost nothing is live-action anymore.
I'm a reddit faggot and I think this is awful because I think shopping out someone's hair is hilarious. Oh and man tits.
Now to what's important, firefly was the greatest show on TV and pokemon gold the greatest DS game of all time. Also I'm latently homosexual as indicated by my suspenders, wooden bow tie, 1880s haircut and waxed moustache.
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143 monkdick 2016-02-11
Oof. That was bad.
27 dankenstein9 2016-02-11
It truly is the Chip of cartoons.
9 JadedRefHopOn 2016-02-11
Truly pathetic and painful. Only made to 2:07.
Jim, Jim, Jim...who told you this was a good idea?
7 Leeham721 2016-02-11
Hijacking top comment to say he's been working on this for over 5 years now.
-6 CharlieSheenAids 2016-02-11
I'm a reddit faggot and I think this is awful because I think shopping out someone's hair is hilarious. Oh and man tits.
Now to what's important, firefly was the greatest show on TV and pokemon gold the greatest DS game of all time. Also I'm latently homosexual as indicated by my suspenders, wooden bow tie, 1880s haircut and waxed moustache.
4 NobleSteed 2016-02-11
Reddit sucks but if you don't think this sub is funny then kill yourself
-3 CharlieSheenAids 2016-02-11
How about I overdose on cum
98 pj530i 2016-02-11
I never thought about it before but the reason Jim's character's worked is because they were lightning fast reactions to live conversations.
Chip having a bomb in the middle of a great O&A riff sesh was hilarious. Chip telling a bad joke in a scripted cartoon is just a bad joke.
What would work better is a "Jim Norton & Friends" show. Jim should be the main character, like Jerry in Seinfeld. Chip, Edgar, Uncle Paul would be the Kramer, George, Newman, etc.
38 ice_cu 2016-02-11
Yes, this was the worst way to use Chip. Normally it works because you're in on the joke, so you can laugh and cringe at the unfunny shit he says.
This pilot just gives you Chip straight up, on the nose and with a laughtrack so it becomes just unironically bad. It's like David Brent without the other characters to show the audience what an ass Brent is.
5 AngeloMacon 2016-02-11
It's been said 20 times in this thread, but this is the best summary of why it doesn't work.
15 BrainPainter 2016-02-11
Slice of life with Jimmy's characters as animated extensions of his mind.
We can see them but others cannot. Keeps conversation natural and allows with interjection from the characters while Jim tries real hard to ignore them and occasionally slips up.
3 holodog 2016-02-11
Herman's Head, only disgusting.
3 DaveNone 2016-02-11
The premise of the show could be Jimmy going about his daily life at home, work, at gigs with a film crew and he tells people he's got a crew following him to do a documentary about his life and career. I am sure his core group of comedian friends would play along and be on it for scale or nothing at all and he could do Chip the way he does it on the radio show and at comedy clubs. Group of people standing around talking and he throws out a Chip comment or Uncle Paul, and get the genuine reaction to his character. Be funny I think to get Bill Burr, Colin Quinn, Bob Kelly and others reactions to Jimmy's multiple personalities.
Call it Jimmy's Voices or as an homage to a comedy thief call it The Mind of Norton.
11 Det_Sipowicz 2016-02-11
I totally agree, and that's what I thought he was going for initially. I thought it was like a Jim Norton world, with all of his characters together. That I think could work, not just a....stand alone....Chip...
2 lispychicken 2016-02-11
that is a much better idea.
9 pj530i 2016-02-11
Yeah, but it's understandable that Jim didn't have the same idea. He's just the guy who's been trying to do get something going for years and literally is those characters. I'm a big shot random internet dildo who thought about it for 5 seconds.
It's really weird he went in this direction. I can't imagine he doesn't know there are a million better ways to do it. Most of them wouldn't involve that ripoff ren & stimpy art style with community college senior project level of animation.
10 lispychicken 2016-02-11
Main character, like you said, Jim. All his tranny-chasing, Kiss-loving, Ozzy-humping, awkward gym moments life.
Side characters: I'd like to see Kenny vs Uncle Paul. Uncle Paul always has a ruse to lure kids. From ice cream trucks, to building an unauthorized and underground child care facility ring. Substitute teaching, very amateur photographer for kids sports.. etc. Instead of running into Paul on the streets for random yuck yucks, he's part of Kenny's ongoing investigation.
Any time any character needs something, they hit up Ted's store.. which is the same place (art/location), but changes products as needed - easy enough, 5 seconds worth of material. Chip is Jim's annoying neighbor who mostly ruins Jim's social & work life. "Oh you got a girl over.." or pitching bits for his "shock jock radio life" .. In and out with the moment-ruining "jokes". and Edgar is a bit part (maybe he's Jims building super)
Write the characters as actual characters..I hope he does something like that.
/just spitballing here
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1 JesusLesnar 2016-02-11
Yours would require developing the characters to the point that they have a life complexity. After all, each of his characters are really just one joke. How many times can Regular Joe show up in a scene and tell everyone "eh gimme a cuppa coffee and I'm working" before it gets grating. But if he developed them, there's a chance of him ruining his delivery. Your way is harder and riskier; I don't blame Jim for going a simpler route. Comedy often lives in simplicity.
3 pj530i 2016-02-11
I think its the exact opposite. Newman on seinfeld has no complexity. If it was the Jim Norton & Friends show, Chip could be his annoying cousin who wants to be a comedian and we see him for 30 seconds per episode chippin it up. Giving Jim bad advice on jokes. Trying to do standup himself. Ruining Jim's chances with a lady. The other characters could be neighbors in jim's apartment building who are never the focus but add to the show. Jim could be walking out of his building and pass uncle paul putting up a sign in the lobby that says "Free Babysitting! No tah-uhll tales." This shit writes itself.
How does The Chip Chipperson show require less development than that?
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1 pj530i 2016-02-11
I agree with most of that but the laugh track is an intentional joke. The premise that it's live is silly and it gives chip someone to yell at when they don't laugh. It's not used the way big bang theory uses it, for example.
The laugh track isn't a particularly GOOD joke, but it has a purpose.
2 SlimWiggins 2016-02-11
Yea I think the laugh track can work perfectly if it laughs at other character's jokes and never laughs at Chip when he tries to punch up their jokes.. It can be used the same way with Paul, Edgar, Kirk, etc... The thing is, there has to be "normal" funny characters.. Not everyone can be a one dimensional exaggeration.
1 SedditThrowaway901 2016-02-11
Chip goes to Comical Con was pretty funny, I would watch a show like that. Sort of the cringe humor of Nathan For You
1 pj530i 2016-02-11
I think a lot of people, me included, have a limited tolerance for cringe stuff.
The comical con videos were good but I don't know if it would work in more than 5 minute chunks. It would be an OK segment on a sketch show. Just off the top of my head, I'd call it "Inside Jim Norton®".
1 producerdan 2016-02-11
I totally agree, that's why Chip TV was fucking spectacular.
1 MBTHVSK 2016-02-11
Yeah.....if Jimmy wants a cartoon featuring his characters so bad, he should just pay some flash cartoonist (with better skills than cokelogic) to make a short every couple of months. I enjoyed this pilot as a one-off, but with a few drops of sincere storytelling, this isn't gonna succeed. Perhaps they should have made the pilot different. I think Chip could actually work as a protagonist, if he had some kind of quest he was on besides just being wonderfully unfunny. Anyone remember Chip goes to "Comical Con"? That was better than this.
-3 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Whassat?
Whassat?
Whassat?
93 OpiesBreasts 2016-02-11
This might have ruined chip for me. It sucks.
24 mannylou 2016-02-11
that was a rough go for me. including Kenny didn't help
9 I_am_Norwegian 2016-02-11
Yeah, I love Chip, but this definitively stains that character. He needs an environment that contrasts him. In a room full of funny people, he's hilarious, especially when he can play off something that is actually funny, and in that stark contrast he provides. Though, I also thought those comic-con videos were pretty great.
I've listened to an unhealthy amount of Jim Nortons characters on YouTube. I've watched them all, and I've watched most of them several times. I desperately want more content like that, but this pilot sours that too.
2 OpiesBreasts 2016-02-11
The Comical-Con....Tsss...videos were funny as all hell.
It really is not meant to be a scripted character. Chip annoying people is pretty much the whole gag.
-8 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Whassat?
72 HugsMcbear 2016-02-11
Good to see a Jerry Sandusky reference. So that means he has now talked about this vaguely topical story from 2009 on stage, on the radio, on his TV show and now on this. He really is the new Carlin.
11 telepepper 2016-02-11
Don't forget about the john wayne gacy reference.
4 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
anything to work in kidfucking
2 ArkL 2016-02-11
Hey buddy it was 2011.
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31 MonsteRain 2016-02-11
he used to be
12 telemecanique 2016-02-11
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17 sawxfan23 2016-02-11
This was horrible, and I do agree with you that Jim is best as a 3rd mic, but to say he lacks "work ethic and effort" is not fair. Norton is always out working on a new idea or bit. They may not all be successful, but that is not for lack of effort.
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0 MuricaLite 2016-02-11
Is your job so amazing that you don't do it for the money?
He is making a very solid living doing this shitty ass show.
Norton is not perfect, but I don't be grudge him taking the easy money.
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1 Schadenfreuder 2016-02-11
I agree. His superpower is his lightning-quick reactions to other funny people. That's why he was enjoyable and hilarious on OnA and Tough Crowd, but could never deliver the same laughs in standup or acting.
0 LightBulbExpert 2016-02-11
He's a shitty version of Vos with AIDS and characters.
2 no1raniuk 2016-02-11
I still want to believe he is. Just.
1 GreggsChest 2016-02-11
Agreed. It seems more like a case of laziness if anything, he's definitely capable of being funny off the cuff and has potential for funny and interesting dialogue.
63 Ant_Sucks 2016-02-11
This should have been Chip interacting with real people, then animated. A bit like The Ricky Gervais show. The beauty of Chip and Karl Pilkington is how they interact with real people. Fuck this shit
3 Houghton91 2016-02-11
Maybe this is the plan for it. I'm sure the pilot is simply to showcase all of the characters included in the show in order to sample it and get funding. He hasn't given a plotline or much detail on what the episodes would be like.
1 FloggingTheHorses 2016-02-11
Karl isn't a character though...well, not entirely (he exaggerated his 'manc buffoon' traits after he left radio), but there is a serious delineation between those two.
-4 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Whassat?
Whassat?
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11 MasterShake1171 2016-02-11
What original ideas?
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8 MasterShake1171 2016-02-11
Are you kidding? Chip is a total rip off of a saturday night live sktech where daniel craig told bad jokes. They're like the exact same thing. I'm surprised lorne michaels didn't sue.
4 Sudley 2016-02-11
He wouldn't be ripping anyone off, characters interacting with real people has been a genre of comedy for a long time and it would work better for Jim's characters. Having them say written lines feels forced.
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1 Sudley 2016-02-11
Yeah, and if he made an entire animated show out of those types of interactions then it would probably work.
62 867-5309- 2016-02-11
The people he screened that for who told Jimmy that the pilot is "great," "hilarious," or "terrific" clearly do not care about Jimmy and do not want him to succeed.
Jimmy can be absolutely brilliant and hilarious but this pilot is not a good representation of either.
11 MonsteRain 2016-02-11
but his ex girlfriend likes it
2 prevented_dement 2016-02-11
Which one? There is this bitch with a podcast called camel centre or something, she's awful
Edit: Alright I just watched the clip and that camel bitchs name is in the credit, she's the writer for this garbage lol
3 TijnTijn 2016-02-11
She just needs a paycheck and his sex addicted ass just wants to fuck her one more time so this is the result.
2 prevented_dement 2016-02-11
It's brilliant, some truckers are paying him to impress that chick
8 MyCatsBetter 2016-02-11
uh, no this pilot is incredibly indicative of what this mutant finds funny, it was so hard to watch.
58 apalehorse 2016-02-11
this is what happens when you don't have anyone in your life being honest with you.
20 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Kenny and Jen Carmody LOVED it. They also love their paychecks.
18 apalehorse 2016-02-11
HER NAME SURE ISN'T JEN COMEDY AMIRITE
10 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Her name might be Jen Tell Jim Whatever He Wants To Hear And Fuck Him With A Strap-On So I can Get A Paycheck And Not Have To Get A Real Job Like I Should
19 drunk8gods 2016-02-11
Jenny Golightly?!
8 kevin121312 2016-02-11
lol
1 crazymuffin147 2016-02-11
Jenny StopI'mShittingI'mShitting?
2 yourunconscious 2016-02-11
This is what happens when you don't take criticism well. People stop being honest with you.
-1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
You'd know.
;)
So should I.
:(
46 Gronez_Bambaataa 2016-02-11
Made it to 0:52...fucking oof.
Also, fuck kenny.
13 chicken-named-mike 2016-02-11
God damn it is that rough.
45 A_Faulty_Robot 2016-02-11
I can't believe this is worse than I thought it was gonna be.
43 CookieHaid 2016-02-11
LAMAR - SHERROD SMALL
No thanks.
15 hookahreed 2016-02-11
I'd much rather have a black guy play Lamar.
1 notformeplz 2016-02-11
I'd rather have a black guy play Sherrod.
42 [deleted] 2016-02-11
Poor Jim. As much as I like the guy, he really is an asshole when it comes to this stuff.
The animation company he's decided to work with is terrible. Look at their website http://www.bighugproductions.com/ The show reel doesn't work, and I can't find a copy online. He either got impressed by the credits, or is trying to be a cheapskate. The people involved in the animation festival created work that is streets ahead of this shit.
Also, the sound is mixed poorly (like the cartoon released the other day by Big Jay et al), the timing is way off, and the studio audience thing is plain bad.
Whatever manager or agent he's got who let him take a good piece of intellectual property and waste it like this should be fired.
Edit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opKK1bjghPw - Their dogshit production reel.
28 TijnTijn 2016-02-11
Why the fuck is there a laugh track anyway. It's animation not a sitcom. Of course Jimmy has never seen animation for adults he just heard it has a sort of sitcom format.
9 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
he wouldn't want it to influence his creative process
3 TOPICALJOKELOL 2016-02-11
The laugh track is there to show chip is bombing and not just telling terrible jokes.
1 Gym_Norton 2016-02-11
hes mocking lucky louie or something?
12 cakehornnigga 2016-02-11
It's really frustrating. He has this incredible stable of funny characters, and he is wasting them on a shit project. Maybe he should have teamed up with a solid writer to hep him out. The material just isn't good, and the awful animation isn't helping. He supports Schumer to no end, and for what? She puts him in a sketch or two, and gives him a tiny part in her movie only to be cut out. You can't tell me that having Amy Schumer vouche for your project wouldn't help. Call in some favors dummy. Don't settle for mediocre shit.
11 kevin121312 2016-02-11
It's the same manager/agent that has allowed him to do tranny jokes for 20 years.
5 Sternacthegreat 2016-02-11
I see from the reel, these guys also had a hand in the Dante Nero pilot that didn't get picked up -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iubRUAeTWqU .
13 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Chip's pilot makes that look like The Godfather.
11 bugbombs 2016-02-11
This Site Was Created Using Wix.com . Create Your Own Site for Free >>
1 [deleted] 2016-02-11
Haha!!
8 apalehorse 2016-02-11
holy shit. watch the reel. at the end of it they use jay z music over their clips. do you think they are paying a royalty for that?
3 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Tsss... Yeah why not a royalcoffee or sumpthin
8 NLclothing 2016-02-11
That website for that company requires flash. If that isn't a red flag I don't know what is.
1 WiretapStudios 2016-02-11
Created using Wix
8 phza784 2016-02-11
Nothing says professional like 'This Site Was Created Using Wix.com . Create Your Own Site for Free >>'
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3 I_am_Norwegian 2016-02-11
Jesus. What kind of reel is that? It doesn't convey exactly what they're selling. No matter what it is, the production value of everything is terrible. You had teen on newgrounds making better shit a decade ago. What the fuck are these people thinking? What the fuck is Jim thinking using these guys? How the fuck do they have enough customers to keep that embarrassment in business?
6 DoctorPainMD 2016-02-11
shaky cam, zoom cuts, clips that cut out before you can actually make out what they did, low quality video.
Even the web page design is shit.
3 dickroach 2016-02-11
he's getting played. and his agent or whoever is a scumbag. $200k?
this is a flash animation that one 16 year old kid would have done in a couple of weeks 10-15 years ago to post on newgrounds or albinoblacksheep
2 Abyss_Squid 2016-02-11
They went for cheap and called a graphics and clip editing company for local news and public access tier crap.
2 AsunaKirito4Ever 2016-02-11
From their own testimonials
"Big Hug has been helping to make our Job Easier. When we need to fill time with a short segment, they always have the ability to provide us with a feel good, spoghtlight or cunsumer advocate story"
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Wow this is bad.
They must have the same agent or something.
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1 thrillated 2016-02-11
Describing it as dogshit is far too generous.
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40 hautebird 2016-02-11
You guys don't think this is going to change animation as we know it?
27 monkdick 2016-02-11
I like the parts where he keeps asking for money so we can hear the same jokes over and over.
8 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Really? I didn't like that at all.
6 kevin121312 2016-02-11
YeS iT WiLl
8 Jackthejew 2016-02-11
It will?
8 kevin121312 2016-02-11
ApRel FAhLLs
15 Jackthejew 2016-02-11
FUCK
7 MouseCunt 2016-02-11
NOOOO!!!
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37 CCRed95 2016-02-11
I had zero expectations and i was sorely disappointed
37 poolitzer 2016-02-11
Chip is not a main character. He's Kramer or Newman. He's a scene stealer. Regular Joe is a straight man you base a show around and then have all these weird characters somehow situationally imposed in his life through work, family, neighborhood, whatever. He wants to just do and say Regular Joe shit but these degenerates keep fucking shit up and fucking with him.
8 deegan258 2016-02-11
I think Jimmy believed he was making a show that was proudly raunchy and despicable, so he didn't have to follow those conventions. So Chip is just there as an inexplicably annoying main character.
1 Azrael_ 2016-02-11
That might be the best shot he has at bringing his characters to life. I can see that working very well as long as he gets someone to write it.
36 chrissurra 2016-02-11
This pilot should be called Mohammed Atta.
3 MasterShake1171 2016-02-11
That's the best pun I've seen in years.
35 JoeKhurr 2016-02-11
That was absolute garbage.
1 scottgreenstein 2016-02-11
Garbage is better then what i just watched. I was almost fucking unbearable.
-1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Tsss...yeah what is that for homeless bums or sumpthin
29 hautebird 2016-02-11
Even if you ignore the college student level animation and the unfunny; the biggest obstacle was always going to be that he is incapable of coming up with a coherent and structured story. Tangentially related vignettes isn't going to work unless you have something like Beavis and Butthead on the couch tying it all together. It's embarrassing that a professional would put his name on this. He doesn't strike me as someone who has ever studied the actual craft of storytelling. Just tell a couple of tranny jokes and cash a check, I guess.
15 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
yeah it just jumped right to Lamar fucking Chip's mom with absolutely no background at all. what the fuck? it's terrible.
6 Hot_Pie_ 2016-02-11
So not embarassing at all.
5 majestik6 2016-02-11
I think you hit the nail on the head. All of the great animated shows, like South Park, have a legitimate story with jokes scattered throughout the narrative. I couldn't make it through a minute of this, it's cringey.
3 NevadaJPH 2016-02-11
He only had to put out a 5 min trailer...he could have done MUCH better than this. Or, maybe he can't?
29 DapperDan0979 2016-02-11
I feel bad. I actually want Jim to succeed, and we know how funny these characters are.
Maybe if he made the show it'd be different. The humor of Chip and the others is them interacting in real world situations. But them just doing their catchphrases to each other is weird.
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-2 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Whassat?
28 IggysGlove 2016-02-11
Maybe jim should watch a couple of cartoons first. I know he has no respect for the medium, and it shows.
He should be ashamed for ever talking shit on even the worst cartoons.
27 ISteerTheShip 2016-02-11
I tossed him $20 before seeing it. I now regret my decision more than if I had sent that money to Isis.
6 I-take-beast-shits 2016-02-11
ALLAH STINKBAR OR SUMTHIN TSST TSST
8 Phantas_Magorical 2016-02-11
Hired as a writer
1 imcrapyall 2016-02-11
laugh track Mention about how tight the budget is and where people can donate.
1 FloggingTheHorses 2016-02-11
That joke blows any one in that pilot out of the water.
27 _TheConsumer_ 2016-02-11
Jimmy: I have a character that is a pedophile. He'll try to molest a child in the first episode.
Producer: Not zany enough. Could you have someone bite his nose off?
Jimmy: Absolutely! I also have a character, Edgar, that has dry teeth. He speaks slowly and is just generally creepy.
Producer: Can we make him shit his pants and walk around barefoot?
Jimmy: That's what I was thinking! Lastly, the main character, Chip, always thinks he's making great jokes but he really bombs. Badly.
Producer: I believe this only works if give the cartoon a laugh track.
Jimmy: Do cartoons usually have laugh tracks?
Producer: They do now!
2 GetFitFatFuck 2016-02-11
The Flintstones originally had a laugh track.
26 MonsteRain 2016-02-11
This stinks and I don't like it.
25 kevin121312 2016-02-11
The campaign is to fund 5 more eps, like the pilot. He needs 200k to make 5 eps of that? Who put this campaign together, Von?
2 thrillated 2016-02-11
No, she's busy putting the Patrice O'Neal Grave-Robbing Gala of 2017 together, also known as the Patrice Benefit.
-1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Vince?
24 Bret16 2016-02-11
Jim, we know you're reading these comments. You know this is shit. No amount of money will make it better.
23 Sternacthegreat 2016-02-11
Yikes. I'm not even saying this to be mean, but that was a real piece of shit. Bad mid 90's - early 2000's animation, dialog that would be throw away lines on the radio show, and uninspired characters. Jim should retire this to the dustbin.
22 DickAction 2016-02-11
This was shockingly bad.
22 Viking_Lordbeast 2016-02-11
Why is Jimmy so bad at preparing material, but so good at being off-the-cuff? Dat don't make no sense!
7 NevadaJPH 2016-02-11
When he's prepping his neurosis's overtake him. When it's off the cuff it's pure reaction.
1 AngeloMacon 2016-02-11
I guess he overthinks it when he has time and in his case with stand up, over rehearses it.
-4 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Tsss...
1 Viking_Lordbeast 2016-02-11
Damn, I really missed a Chip opportunity, didn't I? I'm going to edit my comment and pretend like I thought of it at the time.
1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
:)
19 BoardroomBimmy 2016-02-11
Ugh.
19 IggysGlove 2016-02-11
A Sandusky joke? Still going to that well jim?
I liked when uncle paul called the kid flirty.
18 kgt5003 2016-02-11
Jesus Christ Almighty that was the worst thing I've ever seen. I really hope that Jim has some friends who will be honest with him and tell him to abandon this project ASAP.
15 Wolosocu 2016-02-11
How much do I have to give to take it out back and shoot it?
15 shemthepen 2016-02-11
I know a lot of people say this but I think I'm done for a while. Nothing else got me - not the racism firing, not the woman beating, not even the bad radio. But this video is causing me to question the O&A thing. This is it folks, take a look at this video then take a look in the mirror.
4 TacoTrots 2016-02-11
Opie was terrible from day one, Ant started sucking ass a couple years before SXM fired him, and Jimmy's been slowly circling the drain since then.
Outside of a few choice clips that we endlessly rewatch on Youtube, perhaps none of this O&A shit was ever really worth a damn.
What in the fuck are we doing with our lives?
14 TedsEmporiumEmporium 2016-02-11
God damn it that was horrendous.
14 mongo_the_loid666 2016-02-11
Matt and Trey are shitting their pants.
0 DoctorPainMD 2016-02-11
Because they both had strokes and lost bowel control?
0 Gym_Norton 2016-02-11
ppl are tricked to like southpark
14 teeshirtspleez 2016-02-11
I am embarrassed for Jim, this is terrible.
14 TriangleDimes 2016-02-11
This isn't very good.
14 SpaceCaseBassFace 2016-02-11
God damn it I want to like this but it's so fucking bad. Ted doesn't even sound like Ted anymore. Even with my extensive and autistic knowledge of the show and all of Jimmy's characters, I barely laughed at this. How the fuck does this have 10 grand behind it already?
2 hookahreed 2016-02-11
Truckers.
13 BlueSkyyyyyyze 2016-02-11
Just watched a man kill off the last redeeming part of himself. If I wasn't already dedicated to hating everything left of the O&A show I wouldn't know how to feel about this.
13 fervt 2016-02-11
If all of us pitch in 15 dollars we can buy the Bam-Lynsie sextape instead.
13 Phantas_Magorical 2016-02-11
I'm pretty sure it's self explanatory why this is bad but since Jim probably thinks it's good I'll say this
A pilot is a full episode
The animation is better than the simple "Videomation" family guy shit but based on your price point they're probably laughing at you behind your back for believing this is even somewhat reasonable
There's no storyline at all. It just seems jokes were written and then you built a shotty storyline around it
The funny parts. This is important to a show like this. They were minimal, and I'm an O&A fan. This shit wouldn't make Jimmy Fallon laugh. Chip is normally funny because he will mercilessly stop whatever energy is happening. The problem here is the show had no energy. He's the least funny part of the show but it's his show.
There should not be a laugh track. It doesn't mock or mimic a sitcom so why is there a laugh track? So you can pull out a couple easy jokes from the audience booing Chip every five minutes?
Jim I love you want you to succeed, but I do not think this is in your best interest. Some of the jokes were funny but they seemed like shit that you wouldn't even write. It seemed like a mixture of gross-out humor mixed with your dumb ”topical jokes” from your stand up.
Good luck bro
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12 Really_Big_Dummy 2016-02-11
So many bad artistic decisions. Too many to list.
12 TriangleDimes 2016-02-11
There is not one salvageable moment in this wreck.
2 MasterShake1171 2016-02-11
number 1 being the casting Club Soda Kenny as a voice actor.
12 winkleham 2016-02-11
Calling Uncle Paul "Sandusky" kind of cheapens the character.
12 xBrianSmithx 2016-02-11
Dammit Jim!
How could Chip Live at Comic-Con be so fucking hilarious while this is difficult to watch.
Constructive Criticism
1. Chip is way too old.
2. The nostrils vibration is a poor visualization of the sound effect. We have seen Jim do this live and that doesn't happen.
3. Chip with his pants down watching Lamar fix the floor boards and Edgar's shitty fingers were the only things I reacted to where I wasn't thinking "this is awful".
4. I understand this is the pilot, but there needs to be more Chip in normal situations fucking things up and shocking people.
5. I get that it's hard to bring these characters to life, but you need to work with a better studio. I actually prefer it if you do this live action. How much is a camera-man, costumes, and security for you do walk around NY and film it?
6. Lose the laugh track.
I'm sorry Jim. I love you. I laughed my balls off the last time I saw you at Cobb's.
2 plasticpaddy84 2016-02-11
I think this sums up how everyone feels about this. Love Jim, hate that cartoon.
12 aaahpeckahs 2016-02-11
In an age where shit like archer is being produced he made this... Good luck
1 aftershave 2016-02-11
Forget Archer, after Rick and Morty the bar has been raised to an insane level.
One of the Adult Swim misfires called Superjail is still funnier than this Chip pilot. You need LSD to even begin to understand Superjail cartoon.
11 AlchemyWizard 2016-02-11
The Ted Scheckler emporium was worth it.
11 MozgNet 2016-02-11
wow. I actually had expectations for this. This is garbage
11 age_of_cage 2016-02-11
How the fuck did he reach the conclusion that this shit is "the one"? I really need to see the ideas he rejected before settling on this as the product that would entice people into handing over actual, honest to god money. The art style, the jokes, the line readings...I hate literally everything about it.
But for some strange reason the thing I hate most of all is how it looks like he's sniffing when he's supposed to be snorting. It's the complete opposite intended effect and Jim just said "fuck it, good enough, people will pony up for this". And not a single person in his life was decent enough to stop him.
11 Jimandthem 2016-02-11
I'm not sure he knows what pilot means
-1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Tsss...yeah maybe he's flyin China Airlines or sumpthin
1 Gym_Norton 2016-02-11
wrong way
1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
" how the hell do you know which way I'm going? "
11 Holyhackjack 2016-02-11
I'd rather see a Jimbobo animation.
10 DButler1979 2016-02-11
Im a big fan of Jimmy and the chip character but that was brutal. Save your money Jim, this isnt gonna work.
1 Gym_Norton 2016-02-11
jokes on you, hes wasting other ppls money
9 silks322 2016-02-11
I really wanted to like this. I swear I did. It's just absolutely awful in every way... I know it's just a clip begging for money, but there was nothing remotely funny about this. How sad.
9 Choooooo_Choo 2016-02-11
Ouch. Not funny. Not uncomfortable. Just bad. Really bad. But not the so bad it's funny. Just sad bad.
9 countfrightenstein 2016-02-11
I agree that it doesn't work, I like all of Jim's characters and they're great on the show but they're just in a weird vacuum here.
9 mannylou 2016-02-11
does harry hater make a cameo?
8 FaggotBannedKeith 2016-02-11
It looks like "Shorties Watchin' Shorties".
Which isn't a compliment.
13 BoardroomBimmy 2016-02-11
It makes Shorties Watchin' Shorties look like seasons 2 to 9 of The Simpsons.
8 turtleguts 2016-02-11
Fawkin peace a gahbage
8 GayNiggerFag 2016-02-11
I'd rather listen to the first 5 minutes of O&J than watch that again
8 dfuller39 2016-02-11
'Written by Jennifer Carmody'. There's problem #1.
5 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Hasn't Jim made fun of Yoko Ono over the years?
1 jasonayeiter 2016-02-11
Jennifer Carmody is Jimmy's "Brother Joe".
7 AcePainterLo 2016-02-11
Oh my god. The video already has almost 50% downvotes. I've never seen such a poorly received crowd funded project.
3 RickArnold2003 2016-02-11
Uwe Boll's crowdfunding efforts haven't exactly been welcomed with open arms either.
7 Dannyprecise 2016-02-11
That was absolutely awful. Those characters values are high in radio form. Terrible terrible cartoon.
7 LonesomeBob 2016-02-11
If a caller sent this into the show, they would destroy it, and rightfully so.
7 always-so-maplesyrup 2016-02-11
the only person who can possibly animate Chip properly is Cokelogic, and the fact that Jimmy didn't use him is a sin
6 NLclothing 2016-02-11
Cokelogic has a great eye for detail, but his actual animation is unnatural as all hell.
6 always-so-maplesyrup 2016-02-11
better than the giant pile of steamy shit presented before us currently, though
1 NLclothing 2016-02-11
I actually haven't even watched it yet, you could very well be right
1 always-so-maplesyrup 2016-02-11
I mean, if you've seen Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie it's basically the same thing - completely ruins the character(s)
1 IAmBecomeGay 2016-02-11
It's the mouths. Everything looks really good but the way the mouths look when they talk is just weird.
3 CCRed95 2016-02-11
i dont know why everyone trashes cokelogics animations. i think theyre great. theyre much more comfortable to look at than whatever shit that pilot was
3 always-so-maplesyrup 2016-02-11
yeah I like the simplicity of them, sure it's not crazy animations but he gets what is truly needed; the lip-sync, facial expressions and the hilarity of the situation. I remember the vid that got me into him I still laugh my ass off anytime I watch it
1 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
yeah I loved them. just the eye movements always made me laugh.
7 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Chip works as a quick ad lib when someone says something in studio, not as a tv show/cartoon.
7 poopstainmcgoo 2016-02-11
Wow, that was awful.
6 AnudderCast 2016-02-11
Wow. I made it until Edgar started talking. I would go into everything that was wrong with it, but I don't want it to consume any more of my time than it already has.
6 davidfeynman 2016-02-11
Piece of garbage
6 McGowan9 2016-02-11
What a monumental letdown.
6 JohnTravoltasHair 2016-02-11
JIM NORTON: I AM A PERSON WHO ANIMATES AS A HOBBY - THIS WAS DONE IN FLASH, AND POORLY. You could be getting an episode made for less than 2,000 dollars in terms of paying for animation, and it would be better.
6 kevin121312 2016-02-11
I'm surprised that he didn't crowbar Baily Jay into this shit heap.
6 albusb 2016-02-11
Bailed at 01:15 Awful....
5 LatinoComedian 2016-02-11
I made it to 1:20. I lose.
6 sawxfan23 2016-02-11
Holy shit that was fucking bad!
6 ewok77 2016-02-11
This was awful even for a pilot.Jimmy you want 200k for this shit! Go fuck yourself
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would have worked far better as a real story and not a reel about begging for money
5 Theyongary 2016-02-11
Good example of Flanderization.
Give it a rest Jimbo, nothings going to pull you out of the grave you've been digging since you "sobered up".
5 TheDarkFezRises 2016-02-11
Was there really any need to force every character into the first 45 seconds of this?
I see it's not getting a very good reception in the youtube comments, I wonder if they'll all just be written off as anonymous baby boy haters.
5 Faded99 2016-02-11
I'm gonna be honest with you.... I didn't find that funny.
5 RickArnold2003 2016-02-11
It stinks and I don't like it.
Was that already used?
9 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Yeah, by Amy Schumer when she first saw her pussy.
10 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
fuckin buried that fat cunt
5 Rugger5353 2016-02-11
Fucking horrible. Another Norton project that will go nowhere.
5 Azrael_ 2016-02-11
Really feel bad for Jim. This shit is really bad :(
5 boring_oneliner 2016-02-11
Ok this is LEGITIMATELY bad. Bad timing, bad dialogue, bad references. This is something Opie would make. This is just so out of touch.
5 ChurchOfBaldOpie 2016-02-11
Couldn't make it through that.
I tend to feel like Jimmy's characters work best in audio only. Also, many or most of Jimmy's characters are exceptionally funny as inserts into a dialogue.
1 TacoTrots 2016-02-11
Just like with Ant, his shit works best in the ol' "theater of the mind".
5 The_Lunger 2016-02-11
I wish Lamar was voiced by DJ Who Kid
1 UpInSmoke1 2016-02-11
Can't afford him.
5 frankdive 2016-02-11
why cant jim do anything right?
2 kevin121312 2016-02-11
because he's a lefty. tsss
3 lesbian_ham 2016-02-11
That's how you use Chip...as a quick stab...not this horse shit.
2 TacoTrots 2016-02-11
Fawkin' homerun, kevin1214142541612!
5 Jayboca 2016-02-11
Fuck..that sucked
5 kevin121312 2016-02-11
If someone else made this and came into OnJ to plug it, Jim would say that he hadn't had a chance to watch it yet.
4 deegan258 2016-02-11
I made it to around 40 seconds. I can't watch anymore. It's on par with edgy Newgrounds animations.
4 runnerup82 2016-02-11
I really wanted to like this but it isn't funny.
4 middie820001 2016-02-11
this was embarrassingly bad. this is going to flop badly. i feel bad. this is hard to watch.
4 MuricaLite 2016-02-11
Ugh. I got 30 seconds in to it. Un-watchable.
What a terrible concept.
4 LightBulbExpert 2016-02-11
I was really hoping for this to be good but it wasn't. I'm actually embarrassed for Edgar.
4 King_Groovy 2016-02-11
jesus... what an incredible piece of shit that was
3 xactraiserx 2016-02-11
i liked the pilot. I like theres a lot of characters and they all interact in freaky ways (like it probably happens inside jimmys brain during the whole day).
the only thing that bothered me is the nostrils moving when he does the chip noise. that is going to get old really fast
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3 FoetusCorruptus 2016-02-11
Wow. I was actually pretty interested in this until I heard both Kenny and Sherrod in the span of five seconds. Jesus Christ, Jim, I know you don't have many ACTUAL friends, but could you put SOMEONE fucking likable in this?
3 wwmarcww 2016-02-11
I can understand a character based on Kenny....but to actually use him for a voice?? The laugh track is annoying, particularly because the jokes aren't even funny. I made it about a minute in and turned it off, it was really bad. I understand this is just a pilot, but he should of at least polished this turd a bit.
2 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
I made it until I heard Sherrodd. what a fucking disaster this is. I don't know shit about animation, but I honestly think I could hire a team of Indians or Pakistanis or whatever heathens over the internet to create something far better than this for much less money
1 JerriShephardini 2016-02-11
"It's Afghanistanimation"
3 NevadaJPH 2016-02-11
Holy shit that was embarrassing
3 -EmhyrVarEmreis- 2016-02-11
Horrendous production values, bad early 90's toilet humor centred around a cast of totally shitty characters.
And the investors and TV networks aren't lining up to put this on their channel ?
1 lordxenu44 2016-02-11
I don't think he's looking for a TV deal.
4 -EmhyrVarEmreis- 2016-02-11
Judging by the quality of this product he's not looking for any deal.
Just imagine sitting in a pitch meeting and having to witness this shit with some twitching worm guy sweating flop sweat and yapping about pedophiliac characters he used to do for his girlfriends.
3 3stepsbackward 2016-02-11
Holy fuck, everything about this is terrible. Chip Chipperson has jumped the shark. :(
Also, whoever animated this should look for a new line of work: perhaps flipping burgers is more their style. Jesus H. Christ.
edit: my favorite/worst part was when Chip landed on shit... for some reason. Also, should have held off on showing Uncle Paul. Too much, too soon.
3 DiamondDave1984 2016-02-11
It doesn't work scripted. It has to be off the cuff.
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Oof...
3 Slette 2016-02-11
Did any of his celebrity friends retweet the link, or is he going to get pissy and unfollow everyone on Twitter again?
3 brasqo 2016-02-11
Love Chip, love Jimmy, but this isn't good....
3 chris2webby 2016-02-11
why does everyone pause between their dialogue? this looks fucking awful.
1 neverbeendepressed 2016-02-11
Probably because all the lines were recorded separately. It would have probably worked a little better if they recorded together, played off each other, and built off each other's readings.
1 proto000 2016-02-11
No one barely ever records stuff like this together. Anyone whos used any sort of audio / video software for more than a week can easy fix this
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2 JimmysLostFat 2016-02-11
Wow...just wow. Can't think of any words to describe how bad this was.
2 Xamtor 2016-02-11
90's Cartoon Network level of animation with dick and shit jokes.
Jim will need all the Viral Spiral manpower behind this campaign, if only he had someone with connections there...
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2 ContentBotHZ54K 2016-02-11
Why did they animate 'Tss' so that it looked like he was just blowing his nose?
2 glyde69 2016-02-11
Was hoping this would be good, but it was absolutely BRUTAL.
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2 truthie 2016-02-11
Worse than I expected and I expected utter dogshit.
2 packitchofsositch 2016-02-11
I can't say anything made me laugh out loud, but I enjoyed it. As introductions go, it was fine.
I'd like to see what a 20 minute long episode in the middle of a season would look like. Chip is really funny when he snaps on someone hapless, and if you were to build it up for 15 minutes of him being humiliated then have him take it out on somebody and be over the top mean - well I'm no writer but can see the potential.
1 LouisCGhey 2016-02-11
I want to see what a 4 hour mini-special at the beginning of the season, with a laugh-track so loud that the viewing audience starts bleeding from their ears, would look like.
2 DRIPSCBW 2016-02-11
Why the FUCK include Kenny? I don't get it at all, no one outside of the O&A fan-base will understand that character, his terrible slow cadence isn't funny, it's annoying and fucking retarded, why waste a main character on your fucking lurch bodyguard instead of maybe including one of your FUNNY comedian friends
5 kevin121312 2016-02-11
No one outside the OnA fanbase will understand a child molesting uncle or a guy with a dry mouth. This, like his comedy, is for OnA fans.
2 Abyss_Squid 2016-02-11
I don't think those cheap animators give a shit about how any normal human mannerism works, let alone Chip's.
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2 panjshirlion 2016-02-11
The only redeeming feature of this is the visualization of Edgar.
2 SpurdoBurdo 2016-02-11
Can people withdraw donations on Indiegogo? I want to see the total go down for releasing that piece a gawbage
2 SedditThrowaway901 2016-02-11
That wasn't too horrible
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2 Z-Tay 2016-02-11
I couldn't even finish it. I thought I was just in a bad mood until I saw all these comments agreeing with me. This was just terribly written, poorly animated, and overall pointless. It feels very rushed and hastily put together.
Between an uninspired radio show, daily standup gigs, and a cartoon, Jimmy is spreading himself too thin. If he wants to have a show in some format other than radio, then maybe he should quit his radio gig to focus on it. Just a suggestion.
2 ImTakingADumpAsIType 2016-02-11
The cartoon was horribly unfunny, but what's even worse is the IndieGoGo Campaign has madeover $18,000 in 11 hours currently. Who are these morons donating?
1 OpiesBreasts 2016-02-11
The type of people that still listen to the Opie show. They aren't all that bright.
2 SirWallaceII 2016-02-11
poor character design
Jim should have done a Borat style film as chip visiting like local events all over the country doing interviews. it be funny to see him at some church bbq in south carolina doing interviews (not breaking character once) and very subtly dropping in references to lamar and his mudda. helpin do the carpeting etc. but playing it off that is completely unaware of what is really happening.
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2 whoaDAVIDwhoa 2016-02-11
chip is unrecognizable in this. scripted chip is not chip.
1 justchippinyaaaa 2016-02-11
Not a a huge fan however, hearing new material from his characters is refreshing. I feel like all I've heard is the same rehashed lines since July 2014.
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1 vgmusic15 2016-02-11
I'm all in with the Chip!
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1 Beavis-s_Litter_Box 2016-02-11
ooof
1 TijnTijn 2016-02-11
The cartoon dave and luis made is way better then this. It's not great but it at least introduces characters more naturally and tries to tell a story. I see promise in that one this is just horrific.
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1 buttriot 2016-02-11
The animation was bad but I like it. You guys are mean.
6 867-5309- 2016-02-11
Do you feel that the pilot is a good representation of the innovative, hilarious comedian that Jimmy has demonstrated he has the ability to be?
2 buttriot 2016-02-11
I liked the familiarity of all the characters. I will say, except to fans of the show, no one will care. Which is a problem moving forward.
5 867-5309- 2016-02-11
Do you feel that the characters you enjoy hearing on the air adapted well in animated form?
Do you feel that the characters were introduced in a manner that would allow someone completely unfamiliar with them (like an executive screening a pilot) gained an understanding of each and their role in the "plot"?
Would it have been far more beneficial if the "pilot" was used as the fundraising pitch and a plot-based vignette was produced and used as a real "pilot" to provide some notion of what the show is about?
1 telemecanique 2016-02-11
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1 buttriot 2016-02-11
I had a smirk on my face while watching it. Why am I being interrogated for enjoying something? Holy shit this sub has become so miserable that we hate any enjoyment.
1 telemecanique 2016-02-11
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1 Battler4321 2016-02-11
The one glaring problem is that this will only be funny (ostensibly) to people already familiar with Jimmy's characters. Otherwise...yikes.
1 MonsterRayn 2016-02-11
Went in expecting Clerks cartoon-level animation, dick jokes, and Jim Norton characters. So my expectations were very low to begin with. Home run, Chippah.
3 BoardroomBimmy 2016-02-11
Dum Dum!
1 fishcado 2016-02-11
Ouch. Not sure what to say. I was really hoping to say "Guys, it's not that bad." If anything, Big Jay's shows promise but it also needs some work (audio-wise).
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1 BrainPainter 2016-02-11
This isn't an abortion like everyone is saying it is, but I would think about redesigning uncle paul and edgar.
1 hkpp 2016-02-11
tss he should change the title to N is for Not Picked Up or somethin
1 Evilblueyoshi 2016-02-11
Read all the comments before watching, maybe you guys lowered my expectations, but it wasn't that bad. Kenny was the humor killer.
1 Xx9mmParabellumxX 2016-02-11
Was it spectacular? No. But I thought it was Ok.
1 no1raniuk 2016-02-11
Ooof. I had (misguided) hopes for this project too. Poor li'l Jimmy...might have a full breakdown once this tanks.
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1 MartyVanB 2016-02-11
The laugh track. Is he trying to be ironic like Louis with that piece of shit HBO show?
1 spicysandwich80 2016-02-11
This wasn't so great, but you have to hand it to jim: he's a talented voice actor. All these characters are vocally distinct and he could carry an entire show with them (if it were better).
1 762x39mm 2016-02-11
Does Kenny have to be with him everywhere he goes?
1 boring_oneliner 2016-02-11
Know why this is bad? This is Jim sabotaging himself again. He is afraid of success. He knows the Pilot sucks. He greenlit it because subconsciously he WANTS it to fail.
1 shinkleboutit 2016-02-11
Wasn't funny....at all...
1 danimalplanimal 2016-02-11
well....at least Ted showed up, that made it worth while for me, I dunno about Chip though
1 winkleham 2016-02-11
Every time I try to think of a reason to like this, I remember that Kenny is in it, which makes it impossible.
1 jbaconbits 2016-02-11
I thought Jim was getting a talkshow on IFC?
1 hautebird 2016-02-11
13k so far. What are we setting the o/u at?
1 michaeIcolestie 2016-02-11
I never realized there are such things as good and bad voice actors but Jimmy is god awful at this. This pilot fucking sucks
1 SayntJ 2016-02-11
Yeeeeesh....
1 nhlroyalty 2016-02-11
Wow that was painful with a few amusing moments
1 F_H_Rileys_MaitreD 2016-02-11
It isn't all bad. I really like the animation. Reminds me of Ren and Stimpy, but without the lush backgrounds. The story is just stupid, though. Gilbert Gottfried was a pleasant surprise, though.
1 boydave777 2016-02-11
I can't put my finger on what all the things are, but some things are missing to make this good. I think we all know the potential of all these characters and want to like it so bad, that anything less than amazing is not acceptable....I'm guessing. It should at least seem more quick and improv like....maybe a little more like a cartoon version of always sunny? But yea, this is so far a let-down; hopefully he'll figure it out
1 BumbiBestie 2016-02-11
No comment.
1 georgie_best 2016-02-11
How many people in here are gonna say "oof" before the end of the day I wonder. Is gonna be like oof town or sommthin
1 DSaucy66642069 2016-02-11
the pacing is horrid
1 jonesy6969 2016-02-11
Crowd funding is actually a really great option for Norton. He has a lot of fans, and he's got an reputation of being good to his fans, but this cartoon......is not gonna be good, and the next time he launches a project like this half the people will donate. He should have saved this for a better idea
1 opesterthejokester 2016-02-11
That animation is horrid. If Jim wants to go this direction, it would work better if this was shorter too but even then, Chip comedy is best for the radio.
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1 imcrapyall 2016-02-11
Why does it matter what companies people use for animation? This really fucks over semi-famous people who think using an amazing animation company with a luxurious price tag will help them reach the next stage in their career.
I mean so long as it looks good and shouldn't matter if these fucks have an emmy background, just fucking make the shit for cheap. I mean if Pixar has a script that's a lump of shit and is just animating it, it's not gonna come out any better just because it's Pixar, see Cars and Cars 2.
As some other guy was stating in another thread these characters work because they're not in the spotlight. Jim should just do a Maron or Louie type show where these guys are devils and angels on his shoulders expressing themselves and coming out at the worst possible moments instead of putting them in the spotlight to write the shittiest jokes possible because it tailors to the characters.
1 That70smoke 2016-02-11
I am disturbed... but intrigued. More chip please!
1 Slette 2016-02-11
I listened to about a minute or so, and bailed when I saw his ex as a character. From there I just skipped to the parts where Edgar was on screen.
1 misstheolddaysfan 2016-02-11
Do people like the animation style?
1 jfral 2016-02-11
I read all the negative comments then watched, and I have to say, I thought it was way better than that. It was perverse, dark, and idiosyncratic. I chuckled. The studio laughter paid off when visible, offended members of them left and Chip threw debris at them. Before that, there were sly tips of the hat to the device, when he would unleash a dud, then pause a bit to stare at their dead air. Were you expecting Pixar level animation? It was good enough. Not too shabby for self-financed. With edgy content like this, you don't want too much polish. In short: I'd totally watch if it went to series.
Everyone is obviously entitled to their dismissive opinion. I wonder in this case, though, if people want to dismiss it just so they can come here and throw Molotov cocktails. A tendency may exist to gravitate towards a stance that further fuels the narrative of the big three's careers swirling down the toilet.
1 TacoTrots 2016-02-11
https://youtu.be/-ICzu5V_fqQ
1 ptb4life 2016-02-11
Nothing about this works. I hope Jimmy didn't spend too much money on it.
1 BlackHiert 2016-02-11
The Pilot should of been him doing the news.
1 sanfrancisco69er 2016-02-11
Oh my god was that pure fuckin trash. And I thought the chip at comic con videos were some of the funniest things I've seen in my life. He really needs to stick to that type of thing.
1 SlimWiggins 2016-02-11
This is like if Michael Jordan in his prime entered the 3pt contest instead of the dunk contest.. He would do ok in the 3pt contest, but that's not what he is great at.. Jim (and his characters) are best at quick in-the-moment jokes.. So a written format is going to yield decent results, but it will not capture what makes Jim and his characters great.
1 fuckjeah 2016-02-11
Kinda interesting that the other guy on the campaign is this guy who works for breadpig which is a side project by Alexis Ohanian, the "guy who does nothing" co-founder of reddit.
1 C-T 2016-02-11
I feel really bad for little yimmy, I forget the exact figure but he talked on rogan's podcast about how much it was costing him out of his own pocket for just a few seconds of animations and after seeing it, I feel the poor little fella got severely ripped off, it seems they skipped the entire cleanup process, and a lot of the frames are just straight up poorly drawn.
1 wilfguy13 2016-02-11
The pilots a pisa gawbage. But I gotta admit, I've watched it at least 15 times now.
1 NoremacMartin 2016-02-11
It wasn't that bad. I laughed a couple times.
1 Ryencoke 2016-02-11
Holy fuck was that terrible.
I love Jimmy and Chip to death. But my sweet lord was that painful.
1 Prowler_Dante 2016-02-11
Maybe I'm one of the odd men out, but I thought it was pretty funny, a bit dated, but funny. Animation reminded me of Ren & Stimpy.
1 ThankGodForBeer 2016-02-11
Jesus Christ, Jimmy. What the fuck is this?
1 Schadenfreuder 2016-02-11
Why did she bite Uncle Paul's nose off?
1 justchippinyaaaa 2016-02-11
Was it a micheal Jackson reference? That's all I could think of
1 GiygasFetus 2016-02-11
oof...that sucked
1 ScoliOpie 2016-02-11
This is brutal. I'd rather watch A night at Club Piscopo.
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1 F_H_Rileys_MaitreD 2016-02-11
What about incorporating a character who is just a floating set of moobs with hairs around the nipples? Also, a swarthy, emaciated Morrocan who takes creeper pics and yells out "nigger" with a Tourette's-like lack of context.
1 dickroach 2016-02-11
This would have done great on newgrounds 15 years ago
Edit: $200000? Holy shit hahaha. And flex funding? What an asshole
1 Pale_Pen15 2016-02-11
I was happy Ted showed up
1 FitLikeArtieLange 2016-02-11
Holy shit this was bad, what a carpet bomb. When scripted it totally defeats the purpose of a character like Chip. Jim, scratch this shit and move on. It ain't gonna happen.
1 proto000 2016-02-11
Yikes..
1 thewordthewho 2016-02-11
Not the world's #1 Chip fan, but will be the first to say that over time he did become an endearing part of the show. Even after reading a lot of comments first, this pilot is so much worse than I thought it could be.
The pace is unbearably slow. I don't get how someone with as much experience and talent as Jim can make these fundamental mistakes. Easier to be a critic I suppose.
1 thewordthewho 2016-02-11
One of the worst things I have ever seen and the longest 6 minutes of my life. The word shameful comes to mind. Wouldn't have predicted Opie or Anthony hitting the near rock bottom levels they are approaching...but for Jim to show this severe a lack of understanding of comedy, I don't get it. How much money went into this pilot?
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1 DickAction 2016-02-11
I'm a fan of Jim Norton. He's consistently made me laugh over the years. I think he's very quick witted, intelligent, and uniquely charismatic and funny. However, I'm still reeling from the shock of seeing this yesterday.
This cartoon looks so terrible it conjures that empathetic embarrassment you feel for another as if it were your own. And it's an intense, blush inducing humiliation I felt as I watched that pilot.
It reminded me of an MTV cartoon from decades ago called The Brothers Grunt that seemed to try to pass off disturbingly disgusting imagery as somehow comedic.
I realize what you like or don't like is entirely subjective. I subjectively hate this pilot.
1 placermutka 2016-02-11
aaaaaa boooooooo
1 cosko 2016-02-11
I wanted to like this but still didnt.
1 ASK_IF_IM_SINGLE 2016-02-11
Is Jim Norton retarded?
0 MrTimSmith 2016-02-11
I didn't hate it. I'm not donating but I'll watch the show if he makes it happen. That being said I do think Chip (and maybe even the other characters) would do better in a Beavis and Butthead/Mystery Science Theater type scenario. Jim "riffs" in character while watching whatever and then they animate that. Probably would be better.
1 Jimandthem 2016-02-11
If it is 200,000 for original episodes it would cost more to get the rights to something to riff on
2 MrTimSmith 2016-02-11
Probably. But shit he could go to fucking Anthony's house or studio, do the "Chip Chipperson Show" and just riff on videos in character. 99% of fans would be happy with that shit. So like 27 of us.
0 MasterShake1171 2016-02-11
Well... I liked the theme song. :/
0 Zenaesthetic 2016-02-11
YIKES that was bad.. I'm sure they'll say "IT'S CHIP IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE BAD THAT'S THE BIT".
Fortunately I'm sure that will be the only one they release. I'm not saying Jim couldn't do something funny with his characters, but that certainly wasn't it.
1 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Jim DOES does something with the characters. He interjects them into OnJ every once in a while. That's plenty.
0 MilesDavisRose 2016-02-11
Wow Jimmy this sucks and it just totally ruined your characters. I can obviously see why no one wanted to back this shit
0 Det_Sipowicz 2016-02-11
Im so fucking tired of animation and cartoons. Can anyone just get in front of a goddamn camera anymore?! What is this fucking obsession with animation.
This was a bad idea. A little Chip goes a long way. Chip is funny in small doses and quick quips, not in any sort of long form scenario. Kind of like when Dice did his own podcast; I love Dice on anyone else's show or interacting with more normal type people, but just unfiltered and long form Dice on his own is too much. I don't know what's worse, this Chip cartoon or Bill Burr's awful F Is For Family, fucking hated that too.
3 daveyDuo 2016-02-11
"Im so fucking tired of animation and cartoons. Can anyone just get in front of a goddamn camera anymore?"
There's far more live-action than animation out there, at least as far as adult entertainment goes. I'm glad there's at least a few attempts to create some here and there. But you're speaking like almost nothing is live-action anymore.
0 Det_Sipowicz 2016-02-11
You're insane. There is a FUCK ton of comic animation out there. Every comedian either has an animated series, or one in the works, or is trying to get one made.
1 Abyss_Squid 2016-02-11
There's only about enough animated programs out there that you'd still have to actively go out of your way to look for them, though. Unless you've got no cable and internet and work all week but Sunday, and you want to watch Fox on your transceiver box.
2 Det_Sipowicz 2016-02-11
Im tired of animation and everyone wanting to do animation. Or trying to raise money for animation. Stop this madness. I know 2 comics here in LA who aren't famous both with Kickstarters to try to raise funds for an animated series. Any podcast you listen to, "What would you like to do in the future?" "Id like to have my own animated series." Fuck.
1 Abyss_Squid 2016-02-11
Just walk away from the madness.
edit: Cartoons can't take what you already have. Animation is the lowest prioritized outlet for creatives on Jimmy's level of talent. If Jim could draw hands and fingers he'd have made a Chip comic or something himself years ago. But this won't be taking up too much of his time, I think.
1 daveyDuo 2016-02-11
I can't say the medium of animation isn't alive and well. But it doesn't come close to rivaling live action like you stated, nor will that ever happen.
1 Det_Sipowicz 2016-02-11
Thanks, literal daveyDuo
0 lordxenu44 2016-02-11
What do you have cancer or something made me laugh. It would be a lot less awkward with a soundtrack.
0 lordxenu44 2016-02-11
I just watched this again. It's funny, fuck you people. The audience boos chip and cheers for uncle Paul and Ted rules. Im not going to give any money but I'll watch all of these
-1 pitt1991 2016-02-11
Chip was disappointing but the other ones were pretty funny
-1 Dickdickdicks49 2016-02-11
I thought it was good, fuck you guys.
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2 hautebird 2016-02-11
You don't think it's good?
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-3 rferg2 2016-02-11
Its as good as any cartoon on today. Its Jim Norton we're talking about here people! He should get rid of Sherrod though.
5 BoardroomBimmy 2016-02-11
No, it really isn't.
-3 aso513 2016-02-11
I love how everyone here pretends that this is a legitimate pilot and not just a way to introduce characters and ask for money for the project. Holy shit, how can you not see the "pilot" for what it is?
3 BoardroomBimmy 2016-02-11
No shit that's what it is. And you know what it's doing - introducing shitty characters that don't work in a cartoon environment that isn't fucking funny and has no legs to stand on. It has no audience. Even the people who like Jim's characters realized it would never work in a cartoon. It's just a fucking mess and anyone who gave the millionaire money to fund his awful vanity project should be taken out to the wood shed to be wiped off the face of the planet.
6 aso513 2016-02-11
I'm willing to give the guy a few actually episodes before I completely chalk it up as a failure. Coming to any conclusions about its ultimate quality based off this "pilot" makes no sense to me.
1 TheFatMosque 2016-02-11
if he's asking fans for $200k then the pilot should be absolutely hysterical. it isn't.
-5 cuntbudday 2016-02-11
I love it!
7 [deleted] 2016-02-11
Then why don'tcha marry it or sumthin'? tss tss
4 sjeffiesjeff 2016-02-11
homerunchipperson
-6 georgie_best 2016-02-11
Look at all these fags in here pretending not to have enjoyed that
-1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
Tsss...yeah what is that for homeless bums or sumpthin
27 dankenstein9 2016-02-11
It truly is the Chip of cartoons.
8 Phantas_Magorical 2016-02-11
Hired as a writer
1 Viking_Lordbeast 2016-02-11
Damn, I really missed a Chip opportunity, didn't I? I'm going to edit my comment and pretend like I thought of it at the time.
3 daveyDuo 2016-02-11
"Im so fucking tired of animation and cartoons. Can anyone just get in front of a goddamn camera anymore?"
There's far more live-action than animation out there, at least as far as adult entertainment goes. I'm glad there's at least a few attempts to create some here and there. But you're speaking like almost nothing is live-action anymore.
1 telemecanique 2016-02-11
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1 imcrapyall 2016-02-11
laugh track Mention about how tight the budget is and where people can donate.
5 kevin121312 2016-02-11
Hasn't Jim made fun of Yoko Ono over the years?
1 I_Hate_Knickers 2016-02-11
:)
9 JadedRefHopOn 2016-02-11
Truly pathetic and painful. Only made to 2:07.
Jim, Jim, Jim...who told you this was a good idea?
7 Leeham721 2016-02-11
Hijacking top comment to say he's been working on this for over 5 years now.
-6 CharlieSheenAids 2016-02-11
I'm a reddit faggot and I think this is awful because I think shopping out someone's hair is hilarious. Oh and man tits.
Now to what's important, firefly was the greatest show on TV and pokemon gold the greatest DS game of all time. Also I'm latently homosexual as indicated by my suspenders, wooden bow tie, 1880s haircut and waxed moustache.
1 jasonayeiter 2016-02-11
Jennifer Carmody is Jimmy's "Brother Joe".
1 scottgreenstein 2016-02-11
Garbage is better then what i just watched. I was almost fucking unbearable.