06.17.09 ‘GREY’S ANATOMY’ GAME AS BAD AS THE SHOW

The smug motherfuckers reviewing the game were almost as annoying as i imagine the show must be.

The show is also funnier.

Did I get so bored with this that I googled Sara Benincasa in hopes of seeing her host a talks show in a bathtub?

Maybe.

That game makes Lee Caravallo’s Putting Challenge look like Grand Theft Auto.

Okay, not fair of me to take an anonymous shit on this without at least trying to be constructive, especially because someone at CH is getting paid beans to see how this shit flies on other people’s websites.

Blip Bloop: Premise: Hip young* people who don’t seem like “gamers” take a piss on something that is obviously going to be retarded. This can go one of two ways: they’re:

A. Going to Gangbang Riff on the “gaming” object in question and try to be funny much like other Gangbang Riff shows try to do.

B. “Blip Bloop” is not a real show. They’re satirizing other Gangbang Riff shows. (I now notice there are other episodes, so probably not this one)

So we can probably assume CH is going after the “gamer” niche. The fact they came up with a Blip Bloop animated intro seems to support that this isn’t a throwaway show as well. Regardless of intention, Blip Bloop has a flawed premise if it truly is trying to become a place humor comes from.

Problem: Watching kids making fun of retarded things (in this case a video game) is like watching kids making fun of someone who’s actually retarded. In either case, the subject in question is obviously retarded, so all you’re really doing is pointing out that they are, and by inference, that you are not.

Making fun of retarded kids aside (and by the way, when you’re little and you have a funny walk, that doesn’t make you retarded, in fact in college it may have even maybe helped you almost pull some awesome fucking art poon a couple times so fuck you and all your little popular buddies RS, years from now I will die hating the idea of your face)

If, in this episode of Blip Bloop, your Gangbang Riffers were die-hard Grey’s Anatomy fans, or die-hard gaming fans (or a split of the two), that could be humorous because THE PEOPLE TALKING WOULD CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT.

As it stands you’ve got people who don’t have anything at stake in the GB Riffing. Riffing for the sake of riffing. If they don’t care why should we?

Or perhaps you drop the riffing, and set up a situation where you’ve got two opposites involved. Have two teams of frat boys seriously trying to WIN the Gray’s Anatomy game. (opposites, but still something at stake).

Or have take a group of gals who would actually buy the Gray’s Anatomy game (target demo this game actually women? Or balding Japanese businessmen? Cats?) playing and trying to win something like Extreme Devil Crotch Batting Challenge, while our frat boys play a game like this (again, playing with the combination of disparate perspectives and elements).

Do something. Do anything else. But put people who don’t care about anything in a room to make fun of something that they don’t care about anyway. That’s lazy and safe.

And you know what, a premise like this isn’t fair to your riffers, who I bet are fun, smart, funny people to be around. The type of people that probably wouldn’t ever make fun of guys with funny walks who spend their days shipping their souls wholesale downriver and pathetically attempting to compensate for that with overlong pointless posts on pop culture websites.

You guys can do better. Take some risks. If you’re nervous about a joke, a sketch, or a short that probably means it’s potentially going to be either great or horrible, but at least it won’t be “safe.” And the last time I checked you weren’t calling yourselves “College Safe Humor.” Hell, there’s even a right way to do safe humor if you COMMIT to it, SOMETHING kept According to Jim on the air for half my fucking adult life, and it wasn’t Johnsinville Brats.

When, and if, you guys decide to walk that scary awesome line between AWESOME and HORRIBLE, and you find some sponsors to back you, your shit might not always be humorous, but at least it will always be interesting…much like college proper. Not always humorous, but always interesting.

Sincerely,
Bad Todd

*If you are old enough to remember when video games actually made “blips” and “bloops,” you aren’t that young. You’re certainly not in college, unless you’re on the football team and majoring in “communication studies.”