It’s not bad for a pilot – not really laugh out loud funny, but I had a few chuckles. For anyone reading, it’s worth a look. I think the show suffers somewhat from two things:

• the low-tech animation, which can be distracting at times (too many essentially static, undetailed shots where really the only thing on screen is just a very simply moving head and arm) and also makes it difficult to get a sense of characters living and working in a concrete environment (obviously, I’ve no idea how similar or different a full production might look);

• and from the inanimate-object-heads themselves – the lack of facial expression makes it very difficult to get a handle on and identify with the characters. I’m not sure how you might address that without going into Disney/Pixar territory.

I’ve no idea if this has attracted enough interest to go further, but if a full series is to really have legs, I think there’s a couple of things that might serve it well (they’re just suggestions that suit my tastes, by the way – I sincerely don’t mean to tell you how to make your own show):

• Show us the fruit of their labours, somehow, and how it affects their world. Office sitcoms are essentially bottle-shows and it’s hard to root for a character if you don’t know what they’ve really achieved beyond a high-five at the table. One of the things that made Better Off Ted work for me (if not enough other viewers to save it from cancellation) was the Veridian advertisements – it gave a sense of the company and it’s characters accomplishing something, even if what they accomplished was completely screwy or incomprehensible;

• Show us their world, as well as ours. They’re very surreal characters in a surreal environment, so play that up as one of the show’s strengths – give us pet cats with electric-fans for heads coughing up xylophones, environmentalist campaigns to stop high-rise office-buildings from tap-dancing too loudly at night, give us the third reich attempting to exterminate the international lightbulb conspiracy, whatever. It wouldn’t be appropriate to post a spoiler here, but that bit at the end of the scene where one character’s having a smoke is the moment that made me laugh properly – it’s that scene that took the show out of the mundane and into “I’m glad I watched this” territory.

That’s all I can think of right now. Thanks very much for making this show for everyone and thank you very much indeed for sharing it so freely – it’s genuinely appreciated. I wish you the best of luck with the project. :D
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And seriously, they’re giving you their work for free, and instead of “thanks”, THIS is what they get?

The UK doesn’t have Gatorade as far as I know. We do have a foul-tasting drink called Lucozade that sounds similar (assuming it’s still on sale), but it will make you say prayers to the porcelain goddess long before it cures a hangover. :P

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Anon Ymous … Just my comment is annoying… see the comparison ?