You know what could do with the queen swearing.When the queen near with kids she use friendly language like Fudge or heck and when their no kids around she swear.That could’ve been a nice detail to add instead people think it’s funny that kids swear.
These " adult " animated shows aren't for adults they're actually targeted for 13 year olds because no one seems to understand what makes an adults animated show funny to adults
no teen would actually enjoy this though unlike shows like family guy there's not an audience for this type of show at least family guy goes all out so there's the facade of comedy
Any thirteen year old I know would hate this show as much as you do. I would say "no one seems to understand what makes an adults animated show funny."
@@GuitarTory that's also one thing some people don't get in appeal of anime: it's not treating its audience like morons or thinks immature = edgy... Compare Berserk or Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to Family Guy ffs. From western "adult" animation I liked Metalocalypse. It was great! Futurama also decent. Then there's the edgelords... Oh and Xavier Renegade Angel seems interesting, makes me think of Kuuchuu Buranko.
How did they have that "hat bumb" joke, and not escalate it to a whole line of troops like dominos? How did they not have an "anti joke" where the soldiers finally get it right and avoid bumping heads, just to them fuck up something else even more important? How did they not have one where one soldier fills his hat with something heavy, so the guy doing the bumping gets hurt instead? These comedy shows need a god damn writers room.
I genuinely can’t understand how the writers for these shows think that anything they make will be remotely funny. It’s like they’re aliens or something
@@Fruityfruitcat Your comment made me imagine a pair of aliens on Earth trying to make a living by attempting to write human comedy. Somehow, this childish thought was way more funny than anything in the actual comedy.
They could have had them never bring it up until the one time they don’t bump each other and then one congratulates the other about not messing up the bow only for something else to go wrong.
The hat joke would probably be funnier if the other guy just didn't say anything, and was just resigned to this annoying thing because of how soulless his job is, and the extent to which the other guy is getting knocked over gets more and more insane
Wow, an actual joke that with good enough execution could have been the funniest thing in the whole series. Such a shame that paid writers are literally worse than the average 13 year old.
Another way of improving it could have been to adapt the time-honored "switcheroo" gag, where after being subjected to the hat bump a few times, the guard tries to circumvent it happening again, say by switching around where they're standing only to have his hat bumped the other way when the other guard straightens back from the head-nod. This could then escalate into more convoluted means of avoiding getting his hat bumped, only for the attempts to go poorly for him.
amazing idea. literally something as simple as having the guy who typically gets hit accidentally hit the ‘hitter’ and have the hitter get super pissed. anything could have improved the gag because it literally had no punch line lol
That's exactly what I was thinking. Just have him say nothing, then have him react at the end. At the very least the "stop" would've been funnier, but you could've had him just straight up tackle the other guy in the background.
It is. It's honestly painful to watch. Like, paradise police was... Eh. Cringy, but good as background noise with the occasional chuckle at how stupid it was. This one was like grating a blackboard for fun
Tryg: it is. I managed to get half way thru it, and I just quit. I made it thru 1 season of the PD cartoon, no problem (tho it sucked half way thru it’s 2nd season.) Usually I develop a “awwww hell, I don’t like to quit” mentality on multiple season shows. (A non-cartoon: Happy Endings, beat me. But I figured it’s not a cartoon…). Yeah I’m an idiot
Something I will _never_ understand about adult animation is, why are the designs all so ugly? I'm pretty sure being an adult doesn't mean we don't like good designs.
A lot of people still think cartoons are for children. So when they try to make adult cartoons, it probably fries their brain on how so they settle for making everything look ugly because cute and appealing is for children.
I think these adult comedy cartoons have mistakenly equated “shock” with “comedy” in the same way American horror movies in the 2000’s mistook “gross” with “scary”.
this show specifically is beyond that. its like they decided to write an outline for an episode with all the description of "this happens" and forgot to add anything else
Well gross-out is a type of fear according to Stephen King, but not all gross-out moments are done well, just like not all “shock” moments are done well. There has to be setup
According to the creators of Southpark, when writing a scene, every plot point must be connected by a "but" or a "therefore". If you have an "and then", you have a massive problem because the scene does not flow properly.
@@xenochris9713Sure. When writing a story or even a single scene, you have to have each point in the scene be connected otherwise it feels like a jumbled mess. So lets take this example: Two groups of people are meeting in a park with their animals. They get together and then their animals start fighting, therefore the groups are panicking , but one of them is ale to calm them down by using a whistle, therefore the fighting stops, and then another guy shows up and starts talking about a pet competition going on in the park, therefore the groups consider joining, but they don't know how to sign up, therefore the man explains, therefore they can sign up. Notice how that entire thing felt disconnected? You can easily split it into completely different sections that stand alone with no connection to the others. The groups meeting up, the animals fighting, and the guy talking about the competition. There's no connection between any single one of those points because the only connections are "and then this happened". When that is the case, its lousy writing because the audience feels the writer really wanted something new to happen without building up why it happened in the first place. Now lets redo that whole thing. Two groups are meeting in the park with their animals, but one of the people drops their sandwich on the ground, therefore a fight breaks out between the animals to get it and they run around the park, but one of the owners uses a dog whistle to calm them down, therefore the chase stops, but a man walks by saying he noticed the dogs running around the park doing tricks, therefore he offers them a place in the dog show, but the group isn't sure if they want to, therefore he mentions big prize money at the end, therefore they say they'll consider entering. The flowed better. Because every plot point in that scene had a connection to something that happened right before it. And it doesn't have to be immediate connections. It could be a connection set up three plot points ago someone later acknowledges, like the man noticing the animals doing tricks during the chase three plot points earlier.
@@xenochris9713 Its possible. Just look through it with another person. Critical feedback is great. I have my girlfriend look over my material all the time. Just in case something is off. She's not that much into writing but she constantly tries her best and is actually very helpful. Get someone who can always help you. I'd offer to buuuuut I don't think a youtube comment section is the best place for that. Just don't let doubt get in your way.
I think a funnier take on the Queen would be if she were more passive aggressive and still spoke in 'the Queen's English' like if she were completely charming to someone until she turned away and muttered to herself "one wishes you were not a complete and total bitch" because then you would have some build up before the punchline of "Queen says a swear word" plus passive aggressive humour just hits as more British to me personally.
I think there could have been a lot of potential if she were written like a Lucille Bluth, out of touch, unempathetic, and full of privilege. A joke like the iconic "How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?" could have easily come from a royal in this show if the writers had any sense.
@@rodguy35 And they’d be at a table eating (because when are they not in this show) and everyone else would stop & she’d be like “Did I say something wrong?” And continue eating
Reminds me of RWBY and how the fan favorite was the one mute character. I saw people say that by being mute, it was harder for the writers to ruin her character via shit dialogue
Aside from the art being disgusting, it's just so obnoxiously disjointed. Why are half of the faces bizarre caricatures, while the other half are completely uninteresting? It's not like there's even a pattern to this, Prince Charles looking like a ghoul was a common enough joke that it makes sense on its own, but why does Prince William look like a boardwalk caricature? Why is the queen's face basically normal? I would honestly be fine with the disgusting caricatures if there was a pattern. If all the royals looked like caricatures, since y'know, they're inbred, while everyone else had normal faces, that would be kind of clever and a decent enough setup for humor. Instead there's just a few totally random characters with hideous faces, while everyone else has a normal face that's just done in a bad art style.
I normally don't care on ugly looking characters as long as their writing is good but I hate the way William looks to the point where I just get really angry about it.
The Queen joke would be funnier if she was posh most of the time but at one point snaps and catching everyone by surprise. Or when she's in her room alone she drops the charade
There's so much scope to make her a Jessica Walter style character. Someone like Lucille Bluth or Malorie Archer. Someone who puts on aires in public but when allowed to just be herself is a cynical, nasty, self absorbed woman who barely tolerates her dysfunctional family.
A good way for the two guard's joke to work is for them never talking, they would just be in the background constantly escalating. Maybe at first the guard who gets his head bumped might wear more collars, then maybe you see him with some super glue, then a metal brace built around his head. But nothing works, all building up to a murder mystery episode where the guy who gets his head bumped murders the other guy or maybe the other way around. The point is you can do a lot with this.
That’s actually really funny and would be so much fun to watch as the show progressed. How tf is someone on a RU-vid comment section better at writing a running gag in just a few minutes than experienced comedy writers after months of development
True, but that would require actual effort from the writers. Why do all that when you could just use the same joke over and over and over and over and over again?
I hate this Bigmouth-esque character design so much, it offends me on a personal level that someone actually thought for a moment that this looks like something that is aesthetically pleasing, its just ugly and gross.
I feel like "the main characters trying to fake their way through a charity event they don't know anything about" as a premise has comedy potential. That could absolutely have been an episode of Seinfeld. You'd just have to, you know...write some jokes for it.
I had a teacher who's humor was very similar to this and I think it comes from a mental state of overthinking what humor is and even copying and paste all the wrong ways of doing it.
Real talk: Prince George is... like... A REAL PERSON! And he's literally a little kid! Why is this show "characterizing" an actual child as a vain, malicious twat?!?!?! Why are the show writers, producers, and directors BULLYING a real life kid?! This show is fucked.
Let's be real here, like every royal George is gonna grow up to be a spoiled twat. Anyone who lives in a fucking palace is guaranteed to have a superiority complex.
Another way the “Princess Charlotte is secretly a spy” gag could work is if she’s just really bad at it and she’s constantly almost blowing her cover BECAUSE SHE’S FIVE. Like, the humor of the bit was staring them right in the face. The kids don’t have to have adult personalities. Just write Charlotte like her real life age. The absurdity that the 5-year-old is the one who’s the spy practically writes itself
I breathed air out of my nose imagining this. That would actually have some decent juxtaposition, portraying her as prude as she actually is but just having fucking horrible inner monologue. Would even work better for what they are trying to do, becouse then you can actually end up imagining the actual queen being prude but thinking otherwise.
@@varsityreviews707 I just can't wrap my head around grown adults trying to justify bullying children. It's insane to me that someone can think they're the good guys doing that. Oh boy, I sure showed that 7 year old! The fuck.
@@kayrupe125 I know right. And then this kid is going to grow up bitter and resentful of everyone else because it could very well be that anyone he interacts with in the future could've been apart of or grew up with the people who made this show, not to mention, this will always be there just floating around for people to bully him about it.
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I seem to remember that satirical portrayals of the Queen Mum (before her death) painted her as much more relaxed and rough around the edges than her daughter, and that combined with he caricature of the Queen in this show looking actually a lot like the Queen Mum is messing with my head.
Also the fact that they're an American studio trying to replicate British culture. In the one episode, most British people I know would rather blow their brains out than say the word "vacation". They use "holiday" over there guys
@trueblueprussian 23 how do you come to that conclusion? It's pretty obvious the writers just straight up don't understand anything about the royals or comedy above the most shallowest of understanding.
@trueblueprussian 23 Fuck it. I will go full commie because I just can't stand the "class envy" bullshit. All apes (humans included) instinctively understand things like fairness. Person a was born in a poor family - they won't get higher education simply because they were unlucky. Doesn't matter how brilliant their mind is, doesn't matter how much good they would bring to this world. Person b was born in a rich family - they'll achieve success no matter how pitful they are. Mummy and daddy's money will cover all losses I know it's shocking but we can recognize that this system is wrong. It's not class envy when you see again and again rich people getting away with pedophilia when the poor are being thrown into prisons for the things they can't even control Everytime I see someone commenting about "class envy" I get closer to being a fucking commie. And I was raised in a country ruled by Soviets Congrats comrade, thank you for your contribution in this discourse. Maybe it's time for praxis
One of the moments I found funny was when the unhappy couple (whose names I can't be bothered to remember) have their butlers to do their argument. That honestly tickled my funny bone.
The dumbest thing is that, like, SNL did the whole "what if the Queen was actually the opposite of posh" bit with Fred Armisen and it was hilarious. And if SNL can do it, then it's not exactly a hard bit to pull off.
@@tjenadonn6158 To be fair it depends on the writers and who's doing what in the sketches. Lots of talented people who can actually make really great sketches, but some just fall flat or aren't funny.
Also, if SNL already did it (FKING ELEVEN YEARS AGO) maybe you need to add something to the joke to justify its existence. But it actually seems like they detracted from it. In the SNL sketch, at first you see the queen and she's all nice and polite, and then when they're left alone, she reveals her true, cockney nature. From this video at least it seems like The Prince skipped all that, and just had her rude and abrasive all of the time, so there's no contrast even.
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Even for someone who hates the monarchy, it feels really fucking weird to make the subject of your adult comedy a literal 8-year-old child who actually exists
Making fun at the monarchy can't go any further than lame faux rebellion in song lyrics. You know the kind of thing people can do on the side while people can pearl clutch over it. Not actual biting critique, that's disrespectful or something.
@@mattjk5299 what does that even mean. I'm all for criticism of the monarchy all I was saying was that making the subject of an adult comedy show a real 8 year old is uncomfortable. For me it has nothing to do w/ George being one of the Lizzy's heirs, it's just that he's a child.
I agree. There's actual nonces in the royal family and they keep away from that. Instead, they go after kids who aren't even old enough to have done anything worth satirising yet.
Love how Japan's adult animation lead to animation spanning every genre while western adult animation has basically just become cartoon gag reels with potty humor.
@@The-Singularity-X01 Rick and Morty is crude and its humor is subjective, but it's production is admirable. It uses actual jokes and it's writers have a sense of humor. It also manages to be something more interesting than a joke factory. It's visually interesting and decently animated. It's paced extremely well. And every episode is a full, usually very well thought out narrative. So much so, one could argue the real intrigue of the show doesn't even hinge on its comedy but the fact that it's ostensibly a sci-fi action drama. Is it funny? I dunno. But it has (had?) passion, which is way more than what could be said about this word salad of a show.
These “adult shows” are just called adult show because they say fuck and show nasties, and that’s…sad. There’s an unfair amount of garbage that gets put on in comparison to the actual good stuff. Obviously many times there has been made the point that even kids shows are more mature.
You know, that "running gag" hat bump thing you showed in the beginning is even worse than you mentioned, because it only "functions" at all because the characters are 2d. The way they're standing, they're supposed to be next to each other, and when they bow their heads, they're supposed to be bowing forward. If it weren't an animated show, with the characters drawn at a side angle, the one guy would have to lean his head TO THE SIDE in order to bump the other guy, and thus wouldn't be able to "accidentally" bump him.
It’s wild they give those two characters a whole “arc” or at least I think that’s what they want it to be lol. They sing together and one remembers the others bday after being annoyed wit the pointless hat thing! Which makes me think he had a crush and bumped his hat on purpose but like why the fuck do I care cause I don’t?!
Prince George does seem like an attempt at Stewie? Lots of pop culture references, attempts at meta humor, addressing the audience in a way? Plus English toddler
the thing that sucks is it would be so so so easy to make a good comedy about the royal family. including maybe making a running gag about how the kids are never around/on screen if you didn’t want to mock literal children
Might I also add that this show is EXTREMELY unpleasant to look at? There is literally no cohesion whatsoever to the visual design of the characters. The shapes, the coloration, even the line work of each character all look different. It's not just that the show has an unpleasant design. I consider the weird long upper lip the Simpson's characters have to be unpleasant. But at least all the Simpson's characters have some variation of that same design. Contrast that to this show, where everybody's mouth is shaped completely differently. Princess Charlotte's mouth has a more front-facing design, but Queen Elizabeth's mouth hangs off to the side. I don't like how the Simpson's characters have pure yellow skin either. But at least they ALL have yellow skin, so my eyes can get used to it. Prince Charles has the entire spectrum of the color red on his face, while Prince George has only one shade of pasty white. A lot of adult animations have designs that are either lazy or ugly, but this one's is both unbelievably sloppy and downright revolting at the same time. Even if it were made like this intentionally, it doesn't matter. Actually, that would make this even worse as a creative decision. This design doesn't make me want to laugh, it makes me want to vomit. Given that the writers couldn't tell the difference between gross-out humor and just grossness, I wouldn't be surprised if the art team had a similar predicament. Sorry about the long rant, just had to get this off my chest. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
That's how I always felt with a lot of other shows such as Big Mouth or Paradise PD. Also I fucking hate princess charlotte's weird frowny rectangle mouth.
If you want the reason all adult animated rows look that way it’s because they use 2D animated rigs which are cheaper to animate than hand-drawn animation. Very limited animation and cheaper to produce.
In a lot of movies/shows, what they try to do is make the main character appear as 'human.' They'll be the most pleasant to look at, the most relatable. While other characters will be more exaggerated. (For instance, Hotel Transylvania, Mavis is the most human like, while Count Dracula is thin and exaggerated.) This is to help create a bond between the main character and the audience. I can see where they came from from that perspective, but damn, they failed hard.
The only joke you showed that made me catch my breath in an almost laugh was actually Charlotte pacing on the phone and George going "wait a minute" and it panning back to her suddenly having a full tea party going. I think it operated on the same logic that the old man catching fire worked on you. In that it didn't but the sudden slightly unexpected moment of it almost tricked me into a laugh. And then I did laugh at how hard it had tried to get me to laugh
I sorta hate that it’s based on real kids lol. Maybe it’s just me overthinking it but I can’t help but to associate a lot of the show to the real family (somehow) lmao. If this was my own kids I could still laugh I think but the fact idiots in the world still see this as a documentary, you get spin off lies that kates son is gay or his brother is a super weirdo. My husband and I were like where did they get the ideas for the personalities of these kids ?!
For me the whole “prince Philip died right before this came out and the jokes are still just kinda in there” is the energy I get from the show as a whole. This show is about real people and it fails at actual satire, so it feels like they’re just taking real people and shitting all over them for no point. Especially considering two of the main foci of the show are literal real life minors who have no say in their family.
@@notaspider4084 Well, if you’re gonna take a crap on real people, at least do it well (ahem, Spitting Image). Also… just because an eight year old has a lot of money doesn’t mean it’s okay to make of them. They’re still an eight year old. Base the show on Charles. At least then you can claim more of a moral high ground. And it might be entertaining.
@@notaspider4084 don't say that like it's ok to make fun of a fucking child lol that is literally an eight year old. just because it happens to be born into a rich ass family doesn't mean it should be given unfair, uncalled for treatment. bullying a fucking minor before it can even read properly... you're literally just raising bad people at that point. i was born into a family of nothing, but that gives me no right to belittle a child that was raised with everything. that is still a child-a baby. you're disappointing. i'm all for shitting on shit royals, but not when that royal is a child who isn't an adult and/or a piece of garbage
I admit I did get a chuckle out of a few things. 1.) Kate and William having their servants argue for them 2.) The Queen and Phillip thinking Oliver is a comedy 3.) The morlock bakers
i wouldn’t mind this show as much if they focused it more around the adult members of the royal family with the kids making occasional appearances, but instead they decided to construct entire personalities for children who aren’t even old enough to watch the show. i don’t mind making fun of rich monarchs every now and again, but basing an entire adult animated show on a living, breathing child who just happened to be born into wealth is just creepy, man
Yeah, I think that if they wanted to make a satire revolving around a young prince, they either should've invented an entirely new fictional royal family, (like The Royals did) or made Will or Harry into children again. (Like what Lil' Bush did with George W. Bush.)
The Prince was probably written to be a laughtrack sitcom, but they forgot to add the laugh tracks because, upon seeing the final product, the writers themselves weren't sure which part was supposed to be the joke after the fact.
Not only white... This style of drawing people make everybody look bad. Indian guy telling spoilers is good example. It is visual equivalent of "insulting everyone makes you look like deep and intelligent person".
17:19 Camilla never talking is a running joke they stole from Star Trek. There is a background character named Mohn who never does anything but sitting in Quark's bar, probably because his costume does not even allow him to talk. But whenever someone is talking about Mohn, they do like he was the most exciting man in the universe.
That's neat! And also plays into well of the actual history between the Queen and Camilla. I thought the joke was clever, and also non offensive for anyone familiar too.
That might literally be the only way it could be seen as funny; the absurd physical humor only possible in cartoons, like Wile E. Coyote painting a tunnel onto a rock face and the Road Runner running through it.
If they didn't call it out everytime and just left it, I think it'd actually be funnier Edit: Yeah, when he shows the three clips back to back to back without the "punchlines," it is actually funnier 😂
Also, maybe this is a stereotype, whereas I'm a stupid American. But aren't members of The Queen's Guard supposed to be silent? Even if that's a stereotype, I feel like that could be combined with the hat gag to great effect.
I feel like the Queen's gag of being rude and obnoxious in contradiction to her real life character would be better if they did the opposite. Exaggerate her highness's poshness.
Make her extremely posh, with weird rules, slowly add supernatural rules like she has to be invited places to enter and make the dated "the queen is immortal" joke work Its not rocket science
I love the comment sections on reviews of shitty adult animated shows, just filled with people coming up with better executions for the jokes in the series.
Or even just have her vulgar mouth contrast her high class attitude. Make so despite what she says, she's one of the most well managed characters in the show.
The "Princess Charlotte is a spy" joke could've been *hilarious* if she still acted and spoke like a little girl. Or at least funnier than it actually is.
I laughed at loud at folders labeled "DOCUMENTS" Also, they make a joke about how much it sucks when someone spoils things for you...by spoiling GOT for the audience...why couldn't they have just made up a show?
for real, a lot modern children cartoons have so good writing and visual storytelling that they genuinely appeal to adult audiences as well. Crap like this on the other hand doesn’t even try to be art on any existential level. It doesn’t tell a story, it’s not pretty, and fails miserably at the one thing it tries to do, being funny. I can name half a dozen children’s cartoons from the top of my head who do all that successfully and are appealing to adults as well as genuinely valuable for children.
My theory on this show: one day Peter Griffin walked into his living room and said "Hey Lois, remember that time the British Royal family was generally unpleasant?" And then this show punched its way into reality
These caricatures are fkin funny! I’d love to see the creators’ take on Mohammed, the prophet of the Muslim religion! They would absolutely kill if they had Mohammed fck the queen! 😂😂😂💀💀🗣️
There's a video on political cartoons on a channel called "Thought Slime". Taking apart why they're so bad. It's the newest or second-newest video on the channel.
Once in a blue moon, but yes. My personal take on why they're so dead and dry, because the artist is pushing a personal bias HARD and no matter your leaning, that push is clear and transparent as hell and sucks the humor out of it. It takes a skilled cartoonist to make a good political cartoon. And also *why the fuck do they feel this need to label everything let us infer shit we ain't stupid*
The worst part is - minus the fact that this will always exist - is that you could probably fix a lot of the comedy simply by making all the characters act perfect in public and then like they do in the show behind closed doors. It wouldn't necessarily make the show _funny_ but there would be some comedy, at least.
That's what I was thinking too. Would be at least a little funny if you could put yourself in the absurd situation that the royal family act like this behind closed doors irl. Instead it just portrays a weird parallel universe where theyre twats and nothing else.
In a way I think it's what the Writers were thinking this show was except they completely forgot to put that in the show because they expected everyone to watch the show with the same mentality as them, like they just took it for granted that the joke is these people act perfect in public and didn't even bother to show it, they thought real life was enough
Alternatively, make the main characters be the servants, cooks, cleaners, etc - generate comedy through the idea of them having to deal with this horde of rude assholes who don't understand or appreciate their underlings. Make a poignant commentary on the way royal power turns people into inhuman monsters by writing the lower caste people as functional, 3D characters while the royals are these warped caricatures
@@natm5005 Oh come on Stewie is hilairous. Remember when he tried to Mind Control Chris. I was dying. Especially when the mind control device malfunctioned and Chris went after him.
If I had a nickel for every time some media portrays Queen Elizabeth as short tempered and quick to anger, I'd have 2 nickels. Which is not much, but it's weird that it happened twice.
A running gag needs to like, escalate, or change, or be a small part of another skit. Like I could see it being funny if they keep bumping hats *despite trying not to* once they know it's a problem. Like they try to stand further apart; still bump hats, dammit. Or try to avoid bumping hats and to it anyway in a parody of that little dance people do when trying not to run into each other... but with hats. Culminating in true absurdity, like a strong wind blows one's hat off, across the doorway, into the other guys. Doing the same bit, three times, with almost no change, a the "highlight" of a scene, is like the opposite of how to do a running gag.
and if they wouldn't acknowledge it every time, there might be some comedy to it. a background bump that doesn't draw attention for the first two times, with a quiet "stop" on the third, would feel like there was some nuance within the joke. either going full-blown absurd or keeping it mellow might work; they instead chose the worst of both worlds.
like in monty python, "and now for something completely different" guy he starts in an office, then he's in the woods, and i havent watched all of it yet but so far his most exaggerated appearance is one where he's sitting at his desk, up to his chest in water
The main issue is that they're making a caricature of a real child too, this is just gonna be a big point for bullying one day. Why couldn't they have gone the sensible route and just made a fictional kid like Bart or Stewie, or whatever?
@@tentacledood5784 Imagine if the show focused on a family of one of the royal guards, with Prince George being friends with the fictional child. He could've been realistic to contrast the character that is actually being made fun of, kinda like Chris from the show Dan vs
Yeah I'm trying to imagine finding out there's an animated TV Show that has a main character that looks like me and has my name and is like, literally me. Now I'm imagining that when I was 8...What. The. Fuck. I didn't choose my parents nor what house I grew up in. It's disgusting that this family is allowed to FORCE a child to be alive, and have this all made and done without his consent, yet "it's okay" because...why? Rich? "Royal?" his parents forced him to be in the public eye. Fuck this, I'm relieved I'm not born in this family.
Exactly what I’ve been thinking. I’d write a show about a young prince that slowly grows to realize that a lot of royal life is toxic, and becoming a better person that any of his predecessors.
@@Methus3lah no it should be about a young prince, who grows up to think that he is a better person than any of his predecessors, but he just exerts control over people in a new or different way that’s more insidious than the explicit toxicity of his predecessors
Weirdly, the bumping-hats joke would’ve been funnier if they just never addressed it. Two background characters that don’t speak but are always bumping hats when they bow. It’s still not “funny”, but still an improvement with less effort.
Consider: Every time it happens you can visibly see the guy who gets bumped slowly get more and more irritated with every bump to the point that he's biting back rage. It culminates in a murder 'mystery' season finale where the bumping-guard is found dead. The audience knows whodunit, so it would be the dramatic irony of all the main charaters accusing one another that would make it funny/tense.
They could have had the joke be that her servants don't know what "that little thing I like to eat" is and she attempts to describe it and does a bad job and everyone just gets more confused until it turns out that it's something super common and easy to remember. Or there could be wacky hijinks surrounding them trying to figure out what that thing is without alerting her to the fact that they have no idea what she's talking about. There are so many possible ways to make that funny and they did none of them.
impossible. name a single adult animated show that is unfunny. its literally the pinnacle of comedy every time its executed. like blackberry and tacoma f.d and scoops, the adult animated show about a funny haha lacrosse coach
Fun fact: the Queen used to be an auto mechanic during the war. Up until she died, she would fix her car herself whenever it broke down. Why didn't this ever get referenced on the Prince? The image of this extremely old and posh royal jacking up a car and getting oil and transmission fluid all over her fluffy dress could have been funny.
Why are "adult" animated shows more immature and gross compared to most kid shows? Family Guy (early seasons), The Simpsons, Futurama and some others I don't know of were good because they didn't rely on cringe, gross-out humour, constant swearing and making outdated references (well, early Family Guy didn't).
Believe it or not the kid show viewers (the older ones( despise gross humor. If Only really little kids would watch them(if they also have colourful charecters and are loud that is)). The most despised kids shows are the gross ones. You're not gonna get the money from the teens and adults who still watch kids cartoons. It's rare that they succeed even tho some have. Plus the current creators are more interested in telling a story they've always wanted to see done before. Emphasis on STORY. They use the 'kids' title as an excuse to show that story. The fandom has people from every age group so it needs to be liked by everyone and as said before not all age groups like those stuff. And or just to entertain really really young kids. That stuff needs to be extremely family friendly but also calming or educational. Parents would explode otherwise. Ofcourse this ones can have gross jokes like puking or farting but they can't go as far as some adult cartoons.
Bojack Horseman is another good example of an adult animated show that has good humor and doesnt rely on crude humor to do it, not to mention complex characters that get more than one or two episodes to themselves to really dive into who they are
@@mortimer687 Funny thing is I've heard rumours that Gumball was originally pitched to Adult Cartoon networks but they wouldn't accept it because it was "Too colorful" or some bullcrap like that.
@@aperson4287 It was supposed to be an adult swim show about reject cartoon charecters going too a remedical school but it was changed later. Oddly enough the reject charecter plot line came back in the later seasons as a dimention were useless forgotten charecters got sent
When Family Guy is art in comparison something has gone SO WRONG. But no lie, I can still chuckle at family guy as bad as it gets. But hot damn these new "aimed at adults" animated shows are GAAAAARBAGE.
@@overlordtealover1128 his point is that the graduates are high fiving each other on merit of successfully peddling their hogwash to whoever green lights these shows.
Kids shows have always been more mature. Remember sonic says? The targeted demographic for that show was for adults who come home from a hard work day.
The Queen doesn't even sound like an angry british woman, she sounds like an american trying to do a angry british woman impression. What's the point of that.
I dont understand how they fucked this up, because Frances de la Tour is literally an old british woman. Why does she sound like a bad impression of one?
The gag about the word “episode” being spelled progressively worse throughout the charlotte joke compilation was genuinely funnier than this entire show
I think the most telling thing about this show is how transparently they're trying to make Prince George sound like Stewie Griffin. This is clearly somebody trying to blatantly rip off Family Guy (but in Britain! With royalty! Get it?!) whilst also horribly misunderstanding exactly WHY Family Guy worked as a show in the first place.
Instead of trying to copy the first couple seasons of Family Guy they're trying to copy current Family Guy. Like, why, we already have a shitty version of Family Guy. It's called Family Guy.
I think what probably seems the strangest thing to me about the show is how the main character is a real person who's a real child. Like it's one thing to make satire of adults for the decisions that they make, but it just seems kind of messed up how the focus is on the kids as well. I don't want to say that it's like bullying children, but I also don't think a show like this is good for the actual royal children since it already shapes how others perceive them. Idk, maybe I'm just thinking too much about it
I'm 100% with you. The very first time I heard about this show, my reaction was "What kind of heartless person makes mocking satire out of an actual child?" My opinion hasn't changed.
Eh, it seems to me that the children aren't the target, they're moreso the "eyes" through which we see the world. Plus, they're all insanely rich and the family is a joke in real life, being an outdated and useless group of people, so who really cares. The kids will never know anything resembling a bad day, and since it doesn't exactly seem to mock or target them, I don't see the big deal. I don't think it's a great plan, but if it had been actually funny, it wouldn't have bothered me. That being said, if it actually targeted or vindictively mocked the children themselves, I might be more on your side. They just don't seem like the target here.
@@d3rrick10493 "Plus, they're all insanely rich and the family is a joke in real life, being an outdated and useless group of people, so who really cares." So it's fine because they are rich. Yet celebs sons and daughters are richer. They are apparently a joke in real life to you. How so?
@@d3rrick10493 What is so funny about being forced into slavery from birth? I really want to know. Because that's what they are. They don't have the same rights as us British citizens. They have less. They are forced into a position due to the bloodline. And how our government works. They can't vote. They can't give a political opinion. They are forced to be ambassadors for our country and forced to be icons of culture for us Brits. As a British person, I want to know the joke.
what i hate is that 99% of the jokes aren't even able to be discerned as jokes unless you think about it and that 1% of jokes that are kinda something seem way funnier than they are bc of that
I think the "Gorgenstein's" gag is about celebrities doing charities for things they know nothing about to maintain their image, but it's not presented well.
Yeah, that's what I thought too. Arrested Development did that same gag by having their characters go to charity events whose causes were directly at odds with each other, which was more clever, much more subtle, and actually was funny. There is an idea for a joke there, it just was executed really poorly.
Brass Eye did it far better in the '90s, having real celebrities and MPs do things like make anti-drug PSAs about fictional drugs and getting them to campaign on behalf of an elephant that shoved it's head up it's anus. They even roped Phil Collins into one of their schemes, getting him to make a promo for a fictional pedophilia awareness group called Nonce Sense. Later on the guys behind it, mainly the duo of Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris, went on to make shows like The Thick of It and Veep, which are some of the few pieces of explicitly political comedy that have managed to stay funny after their zeitgeist has passed.
@@kylejones8289 Arrested Development also did the joke better in S3, when in flashback we find out that they raised a lot of money for TBD, as well as later in the episode where they run a fundraiser for Tobias's body rejecting his hair plugs. It does kinda feel like bullying to compare this poorly thought out piece of shit to Arrested Development.
Watching this analysis, I kept thinking about how Arrested Development has the type of humor this show is going for, but actually makes it funny with a satisfying payoff.
Worked on it. Hated it. Higher ups were so picky they went through SCAD GRADS like crayons. They would hire and Fire people all the time and spoke negatively about staff. And they had the nerve to not train anyone at all so it was Hella disorganized. Ugh. What a horrible experience 😞
Without having seen the show, I think saying Elizabeth has been queen "for more than 10 years" is funnier than the entirety of the show even if you were high.
Worst part is even if it was, they swear so often you're already numb to it, so it's just like an awkward silence while the show stares at you like "....so..? any thoughts on that?" and it's like... any thoughts on what? it's the millionth swearword so far
They swear all the time in South Park, but that’s never the joke, it is just natural, except for the episode that was meant to show that swear words are just words.
Lets admit we didnt support Constructive Criticism (and Humor itself) enough, so we let all this Happen. So let support the s-it out of Jay Excis hour-long video on Doctor Who, just like Madvocate and Hbomberguy did for other Franchises. Is that sometrhing we can all get behind?
The worst part of this show is that an animated satire of the royal family actually could be a great show if executed right and with the actual knowledge of British royalty and the shit around it being used in the writing rather than "haha shitty poop mean words bad person hahaha"
Personally what rubs me the wrong way is the fact that they made the main characters of the show real kids, and actively making fun of them. Poke fun at adult celebrities all you want, but leave the children out of it. They also don't include Andrew which is HILARIOUS. They don't make fun of the alleged predator but they have no issue bullying kids.
Sweden actually had a show like that back in 2004 called "Hey Baberiba", that satirized the Swedish royal family (though it was live-action, not animated). They didn't work any royal kids into the jokes so it was also in well taste.
It's truly amazing. That running "gag" with the the one guards' hat hitting the other guards' hat would've worked if he *didn't* acknowledge it. It wouldn't have exactly been comedy gold, but it would've worked. How could they screw up such an easy joke!? Also, the way the princess's mouth is drawn really...pisses me off and I don't know why. It's like everything about this show is designed to be as insulting and annoying as possible.
Imagine if the guards where just acted like statues they just stare blankly at the characters and instead of having them walk they leave the scene via a quick blackout and when lights come back on their just not there
I feel the same way about the spy gag, if prince george didn’t continue to point out “hey something’s up here” basically explaining the joke it might’ve been a bit more funny
They just never acknowledge it but it keeps happening and making the scene awkward each time and the last time it happens you just see the guy in the background hit him in the face like "STOP IT!"
This kind of show would work much better with the Queen serving as a straight-man to all the insane hijinks going on around her in the court. Always maintaining a dignified air regardless of the situation could be the basis for many jokes, and every now and then we get a subtle hint that there's some real fury building just underneath the surface of her impeccable façade. Like, we never actually see her enraged but every now and then we get a subtle action that shows just how much she loathes the pompous and vapid people surrounding her and allows her to vent some of the frustration she feels, usually in some way ending with the person who annoyed her getting their comeuppance as the end of the show. That is how you add some funny juxtaposition to someone who's known for being formal and reserved: you subtly imply at there being something else underneath it all. You don't make them say "fuck" in every sentence and expect it to be funny.
Exactly. Or having her make clever sarcastic comments or backhanded "compliments", and the other characters are too stupid to figure out that she's insulting them.
Ok, so I've been thinking about this for SEVERAL days now, and I think I finally get the Demi Lovado thing. The joke is that most of these sorts of animated adult "comedies" are written by conservatives, so when the subject of Demi Lovado being nonbinary comes up, we, the audience, are expecting something offensive or transphobic. But it never happens, Prince George is totally nonchalant about the whole thing, and I guess that does count as a subversion of expectations, but just barely, and if I'm being honest, even that seems like a reach. I don't really have any other explanation for this, though, so that's the best I can come up with.
Honestly, the "hat bump gag" actually could have been executed decently if the two had absolutely no speaking role whatsoever. They just take orders, open doors, lean, bump, and don't even react more than lifting the hat back up. Repeat until the "punchline" where the guy finally says to stop. The one interaction they have and it would have been a decent joke from how absurdly mundane it is. But nope, you gotta point it out every time so you can make sure your audience knows it's a joke that's meant to be funny.
TBH they could've made an actually funny show by just amplifying actual things about the real life royals. Like the incident a few years ago of the Queen marking her containers with a whiteboard marker to make sure the guards weren't eating all her peanuts is funnier than the whole series put together
Also the reason visual comedy and slapstick works is the acting. As soon as this video shown Mr. bean I involuntary smiled because Rowan Atkinson is a great comedian whose acting and mannerisms were tested and fine tuned for years in front of a live audience, he knows how to make people tick. Animators can also achieve that to some extent but they need good writing, smooth animation, and timing. See Kenny dragged out by rats in South Park or entire Genie routine in Aladdin. The "those two guys" is an old comedy trope and was done so well in many movies, actually twice in Pirates of the Caribbean with two pirate guys and two guards. How the hell did they manage to include a fail-proof duo of "we're supposed to be stoic but see us do something wacky" royal guards and... still fail to make them even mildly amusing?
@@TheTeremaster Queen Elizabeth had a sense of humor if her own and did enough wacky stuff like tasting dog food for her pets to be worth just a genuine tribute to her antics and urban legends. Like there's a story about Gagarin (first russian Ukrainians sent to space, unfortunately returned) having a royal dinner and after drinking team with lemon, eating a lemon (because russia is so poor it was a luxury)... Story goes that while everyone was embarrassed, Elizabeth took her slice and ate it too, easing the tension. It's just one of many stories even someone who doesn't know anything about British royalty besides Diana being dead overheard, Queen was a goldmine for comedy.
Yes this. Like the concept of the hats bumping and the one guy getting increasingly annoyed until he breaks the rules of being expressionless and silent is funny.
The art is just disgusting, like I understand that the point is that we don't like the royal family probably, but like why depict them as these nightmare creatures.
What annoys me about it is that only some characters are weird critters. If it was just all the royal family it could be a kind of funny joke about them being inbred but no random people will look like gremlins and some will just be normal humans with incredibly boring designs
What needs to happen is that they make another one of these shows, with obvious Rick and Morty art inspiration, lazy humor, the works. But by the end of the 2nd episode, things start to derail, and the genre shifts. Horror, existential drama, anything.
