SANTA INC - The Worst Comedy of 2021

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[@vadandrumist1670]

Re-upload? I didn't think anyone'd be salty enough to go after a negative review, or at least if they did they'd so give up due to the shear number of them.

[@dg4545]

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[@marctaco2624]

Did HBO remove it?

[@Sotau890]

You have returned

[@Samm815]

In reference to your "here's hoping." We're on the edge of World War 3! Yay!🌈🐶🐰

[@tompraeger]

I’ll say it again: A LOT of animated childrens films and series are a THOUSAND times more maturely written than MOST adult animated content.

[@aletanook]

I agree. Most of the western adult cartoons feel the same. With the same style and tone. And they all are so mean-spirited, raunchy, lowbrow, and dumb for no reason. Like sure kids media can be lowbrow and dumb but I feel like there are a lot more good kids cartoons and anime in general than there are adult western cartoons. They at least feel different in some capacity and not just raunchy and mean-spirited for the sake of it.

[@PlanetZoidstar]

That's because most adult animated shows think they can substitute clever writing with saying swear words, and explicit sex and violence. It's what Family Guy devolved into and South Park (mostly) grew out of. Where the social commentary took predecence with South Park, and Family Guy devolved into the template for most edgy adult cartoons.

[@jangamecuber]

Sonic Boom and Gravity Falls are great examples

[@tompraeger]

@@jangamecuber the DuckTales reboot also was surprising mature.

[@arandomchiromaw9979]

One thing I do say is I like it being most instead of all cause if it was the former, my favorite show(Bob's Burgers) wouldn't exist

[@hamishstewart5324]

You know you’re show is fucked when the closest thing you get to a likeable character is the one we’re actually supposed to hate.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

Not true, thats just people falling into mob mentality.We love our villians. Just because the main character doesn't get along with someone doesn't mean we're supposed to hate them. Also just because someone is the main character doesn't mean they cant be a "villian"

[@hamishstewart5324]

@@moxiemaxie3543 I get that, but the show tries desperately to make us like Candy while trying to make us despise Santa, which doesn’t really work.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@moxiemaxie3543 he’s not a villain tho. He’s very supportive and reasonable. Every other character is basically a villain and they’re very dislikable. Edit: he’s probably a deuteragonist

[@witherton8340]

Emily in Paris

[@danialyousaf6456]

@@zzodysseuszz so what would he count as ? He's not an antagonist since he's not really in the way of our protagonists path, he's just some dude who gets picked on for being fat and white I guess.

[@LogeenthLive]

"Santa Inc. currently stands as the lowest rated show on IMDB" HBO (AGAIN), rocking up with Velma: Wassup y'all

[@A.Z.296]

They really want to hold that title

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

Cleopatra: allow me to introduce myself

[@quadzilla7572]

It's crazy HBO the network that's created some of the best TV shows ever, I used to be able to click on anything HBO and know it'll atleast be decent but now I don't even keep a HBO subscription.

[@alexjewett7455]

Warner bros discovery refuses to not be complete garbage.

[@arandomkobold8403]

Guess who's back, back again?

[@Kspice9000]

I've said it before. Seth doesn't make adult comedy. He makes comedy for what children think being adult is.

[@JZR946]

Every joke he makes is about sex or drugs and it gets tiresome about a minute in to anything he has ever done

[@Jerrremy]

I like Donkey Kong

[@notatallfunctional]

@@Jerrremy Me too. I really wish he wasn’t tied Seth Rogen.

[@Vigriff]

@@notatallfunctional I only recognize one person as Donkey Kong and last I checked Seth Rogen wasn't Richard Yearwood.

[@CruelestChris]

Juvenile comedy, you might say.

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

If they wanted a female Santa, why not give Mrs. Claus a starring role?

[@AnotherRandomChild]

Honestly, that would be a fun premise for a movie or short if put in the right hands. Maybe Santa gets sick, hurt, or burned out and Mrs Claus is tasked with delivering presents. Maybe she has trouble at first trying to take Santa's role and preparing for the big day, but with the help of her friends and never ending support from her husband, she delivers the presents to all the children in the world. No woke and political garbage or anything, just a simple and charming (and maybe perhaps comedic) story.

[@strahinjagov]

@@AnotherRandomChild great idea but not enough virtue signaling so no can do 😐

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

@@strahinjagov Yeah, a female character NOT doing something absolutely perfect on the first try is a big no-no nowadays.

[@kaykutcher2103]

There's a family film called Mrs Claus starring Angela Lansbury which oddly enough deals with most of the same issues brought up in this mess of a SerIEs.

[@inyrui]

I mean, Mrs. Clause isn't a female Santa haha. That's like saying my wife is just a female version of me

[@super_beef2662]

Bojack horseman walked so 99% of adult animated comedies could trip over their own feet.

[@avianKneecaps]

is bojack meant to be a comedy tho? i only remember the show being really fucking miserable

[@dahliacheung6020]

Yeah. That show was mind bendingly good and I did also like Rick and Morty. But the difference in greatness isn't really quantified. Bojack was profound while Rick and Morty was just sometimes silly, sometimes clever. (I guess that is quantifiable then...) but whatever this show is right here... It's so bad I can't even keep my face in born neutrality. Almost every time a clip was paid I found myself intensely frowning.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

@@avianKneecaps It's a black comedy at most, but the drama side definitely wins out. Schaffrillas Productions said, "This is not a show designed to make you feel good".

[@GojiraBiscuits.]

South Park is the OG. Family Guy followed 2 years after. Bojack is well over a decade after them. But it definitely has the best drama for an adult cartoon.

[@wolftamer5463]

@@GojiraBiscuits.Well, there was also the Simpsons. That and Futurama were arguably the biggest OGs of all.

[@jgreg3596]

The funny thing is the scene where Santa explains to Candy why he didn’t choose her to be Santa is a very through and logical argument for why he chose the way he did and might have actually been a good twist that maybe, just maybe, might have actually saved the show a bit. And then Candy completely disregards it.

[@marctaco2624]

If she then looked back at all the horrible things that she did and reevaluated the real source of her frustration (the actual policies in place, rather than the appearance of its figurehead) this would have become a masterful and scarily accurate character study.

[@Zulf85]

Candy realising she's the piece of crap she is and working to be better after that point could have 180'd it into something potentially entertaining. Then again, trying to watch the prior episodes of "men bad let's assault them and use buzzwords" just wouldn't be worth it

[@auraicide4883]

That could've been the one redeeming scene. If the show only was leading you to believe that's where it's going to go with the whole political bent, but then it turns out, to be a realistic message that, people who move up in companies tend to be those who have good communication and social skills. But they refused to go with that, while ironically undermining their own message by turning into basically Candy's entire point being she should get the job simply because she wants it, so she deserves it.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Honestly, if Santa fired her for telling him "f*ck you" after offering her a better job and she came back for revenge, hat would be a better story. Predictable, but still better than how this turned out.

[@bibblyboing]

By that scene alone I am fully convinced that this show was conceived to create controversy. That scene was either the writers flipping the viewer off or they added that to further anger people. There is simply no way this was a genuine attempt to create a feminist show.

[@yeetthebeatout6906]

“You know, Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo” -Knuckles the Echidna

[@pikapower_kirby]

Now you're just reminding me that a show primarily aimed at kids and Sonic fans handled certain topics better (sometimes through jokes or one-off lines) than this awful series. I really need to watch Sonic Boom again, honestly.

[@LangstonDev]

Based and echidnapilled

[@ddjsoyenby]

knuckles the based echidna.

[@thegreendragoninn8730]

"What? Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist."

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

....How has *knuckles* got a better grasp on this than some adults?

[@X0.LA_BRAVA.X0]

"There has never been a Jewish Santa Claus!" For a jewish director and jewish voice actor, you'd think they'd know what type of religious holiday Christmas is and why a Jewish santa claus would've never been a thought.

[@cptrelentless80085]

He’s Odin. Unless you think he’s Jesus, but Jesus was Jewish, anyhow. Bearded white guy in a suit, lives in the cold, hands out presents, rides a sleigh. It’s Odin

[@X0.LA_BRAVA.X0]

@@cptrelentless80085 could you elaborate please I kind of dont understand what Odin or who Odin is enough to know what he has to do with this

[@cantthinkofaname5046]

@@cptrelentless80085 Santa Clause was based off a Christian saint though?

[@edorasmarauder5761]

​@cptrelentless80085 Since when did Odin do any of that? Santa Claus is based off of St Nick.

[@dejus_e]

@@edorasmarauder5761he was?

[@DonniedrakoE]

The biggest problem with Santa inc is that the entire concept of the show should be letting us root against Santa but after his genuine talk and reason why the mc isn’t getting the position while also giving her an arguably better role he is instantly humanized. Which only makes our mc more unlikeable and her motivations even more flawed due to being a horrible person the entire show.

[@Zulf85]

If someone else had the concept, maybe it could be funny instead of painful and condescending - it's a hard one to pull off but I think someone could. These people just aren't as clever or interesting as they think they are lmao

[@DPedroBoh]

Kinda reminds me of Short Fat Otaku's video "Identifying with evil", talking about how virtue signallers and co. are so twisted they think evil is good and vice versa, or something like it.

[@WildZephyr]

ikr? Santa's reasons are just too good for him to be the bad guy here. :P

[@auraicide4883]

That's part of the (many) problems. She's meant to be an undervalued hardworking woman, but acts like a vindictive, spiteful, petty bully, even when someone doesn't deserve it, and wonders why people don't seem to like her. She doesn't believe in the role of Santa, but she doesn't want anyone else to have it, all to satisfy her own ego.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

What can you expect from a series made by awful assholes though? Of course they have no concept of what's actually sympathetic or reasonable.

[@Hecatom]

I find hilarious how the reindeers are stand ins for black people, and are not only portrayed in stereotypical negative ways, but also want us to believe that it is a progressive show with a message

[@drageveilertsen2509]

Well, the only humans (except that one black guy) seem to be white, everyone else is apparently some kind of fantasy creature. When your "progressive" show has roughly the same representation as warhammer 40k, there might be a problem.

[@stuglife5514]

@@drageveilertsen2509 At least WH40K has humans who are black and Asian and other races. So somehow 40k has more diversity then this. Which is genuinely surprising

[@stoyanb.1668]

Who would have thunk, the ones obsessed with race are racist.

[@TheAngryXenite]

@@stuglife5514 The Imperium is ironically quite inclusive of humans, with their society being largely post-racial and there being no real restrictions on who can become what based on sex or ethnicity* (besides space marines, which isn't an enforced refusal to accept women but simply because it's not possible to make work, and sisters of battle which is literally all-woman because it's exploiting a loophole). This doesn't change the fact that they're EXTREMELY elitist, repressive, and hateful of anything which deviates from the state religion or their picture of humanity, so mutants are fucked and xenos are SUPER fucked. *in general. Feudal hellhole that the Imperium is, different planets have different standards. Some are egalitarian, others not so much. Some have their own racial prejudices separate from fears of mutation, some have sexism, etc.

[@syppy7416]

I couldn't have put it better myself

[@Potatoypotato]

As a woman, I'd be so offended if one of the main reasons I got promoted was because I was a woman.

[@Phoebe5448]

As a fellow woman, I also agree.

[@alexjewett7455]

Honestly, who wouldn't be offended if they only got promoted to tick a box?

[@pondscum4373]

As an animatior myself, I cannot imagine how disappointed the animators on this project must feel. They obviously worked hard to produce high-quality models and animation (far better than this show deserved), and all that hard work is for what? Irrepirably having their names on one of the worst- recived pieces of media of all time. Must be just devastating for them.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

I feel like they should have been given the right to strip their names off the record as compensation It's really sad when movies that are overall bad have 1 or 2 aspects that were done incredibly well, probably because if the team behind it is big enough there's obviously going to be at least 1 person who gives a crap about what they are making and genuinely wants to do something good with what they got, sorta like how every school group project has 1 slacker and 1 productive person in general

[@noahbossier1131]

i feeel sorry for them especially since its a job

[@spideyguy3315]

Did all that hard work for a terrible show that doesn't deserve their creativity. It's the same thing that happens I n movies too.

[@cyborgparrot1996]

What kind of animation do you do? Just curious.

[@TheCouchPotatoWatchesTV]

Seriously! I was just thinking that too! Stop motion gigs are far and few between and very few studios still work in that medium, or have consistent work, so this show must have just broken every one of the animators. They deserved better.

[@tarnell3904]

“I would rather watch an R rated animated Christmas comedy with a touch of a feminist agenda” *said no one ever*

[@fuziontonygaming]

Only brain dead celebs

[@jojogobbo8795]

A touch? More like a slap

[@mr.machine3328]

@@jojogobbo8795 A Falcon Punch.

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

Not true. Seth Rogen said it. No one else did, though.

[@Adamguy2003]

Saying that it has "A touch of a feminist agenda" would be like saying that the movie 'God's Not Dead' has "A touch of an evangelical Christian agenda."

[@jeepmega629]

It’s insane how shows made for actual toddlers can handle certain topics and issues better than shows made for adults

[@PercydeRoloFangirl]

Like bluey?

[@VeryPeeved]

Honestly, people greatly underrate the ability of children to comprehend complex things. Probably because they just aren't good at explaining them. It strikes me as absurd that some people think they can just get away with creating the most simplistic and brainless garbage and get away with it because it's for kids. That's how you get simplistic and brainless adults. But the truth is that they don't make this crap because kids can't handle intelligent entertainment, they do it because they can get away with it, because the kids often don't know any better. So really, they're preying on kids when they should be teaching and entertaining them.

[@kimifw58]

It's insane that people are still saying this as if it's a new revelation.

[@joevaghn457]

@@PercydeRoloFangirlhonestly never seen it been it seems more palatable than whatever else seems to end up showing…

[@koda_dawgg]

​@@PercydeRoloFangirlyes.

[@c.khullabaloo4745]

What's funny is how the show is trying to be progressive but uses every black and gay stereotype in the book to pass as comedy. You can't have your cake and and eat it too.

[@evanbrehm2309]

It reminds me of Seth MacFarlene’s comedy. He’s said several times he’s in favor gay rights, but his almost every gay character in his shows are one-dimensional stereotypes.

[@KariIzumi1]

It works a lot better when you have black and gay writers on staff writing from their own lived experience. See also: Q-Force (I promise you the trailers are horrendously misleading and it’s a waaaaaay better series than the trailers lead one to believe)

[@danielgraham1082]

@@evanbrehm2309 to be fair he doesn’t write them

[@arcanejack]

On the other hand, South Park of all things handles characters with these traits well in recent years and ironically (given its reputation) has become much better at being progressive than most shows that try to be as a result. Despite some characters being based on tropes/stereotypes, there's usually much more to them as characters aside from that and they feel like actual people as opposed to just caricatures as a result. A good example is Token Black who despite being a spoof on 'the black guy' as his name suggests, has many others layers to his character and also contradicts a lot of black stereotypes to the point where he's almost the complete opposite. They also handled Tweek and Craig well too since they didn't slap gay stereotypes on them when they hooked up and handled the subject maturely and realistically.

[@Rahnonymous]

Also made the lead female character revolve around constantly trying to 1-Up a man. That's not insecure or a painfully overused trope at all

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

It's shocking just how many cartoons targeted towards kids and young adults are more mature than the cartoons targeted specifically for adults.

[@marctaco2624]

I think it's because most studios still don't acknowledge them as serious media, thus their writers are given minimal studio intervention.

[@joseluisdejesus3549]

Because the PG rating forces them to be limited in what they can show. It actually forces them to be clever and creative. Thats why many of them have hidden jokes and stuff like that. Meanwhile if they didnt have these limitations they are unhinged and it could be too excessive. So the limitation PG actually has a benefit sometimes for these shows

[@tristanhartup4936]

The best way to put it, simply just having excessive swearing, sex jokes, gross-out jokes and shock bait just for sake of it doesn't make a particular movie/TV show more adult, if anything, it just makes it more childish, because the only target demographic that would get a massive kick out of it would be those who are too young to watch them.

[@maryianna912]

It works kinda like with the swearing. A kid can swear too, but it will be cringy, a lot of unnecessary swearing feels annoying and there are old people saying old and mature thing not swearing at all

[@nastynate4916]

Mature in content in the most immature execution ironically enough

[@markdaniel9657]

Honestly, I actually like the joke at 20:00. Walrus guy makes a regular mistake at a golf court, Candy tries to be a snarky asshole about it, and to her surprise, instead of lashing out or ignoring the question, the walrus gives her an honest response, not realizing that she was just trying to be an asshole. I like this joke because of walrus guy's cluelessness and because Candy gets what she deserves for being the asshole she is. Though I might see too much into it.

[@Shenaldrac]

Also he's right. Anal is great.

[@annabella1650]

On the list of things wrong with this series, the fact that the main character was massive asshole is revealing. If this is the type of character the writers thought would be liked and well received, it says a lot about them.

[@calemr]

And this is why, with most shitty propaganda pieces, I dislike the creators. Unlike, say, The Room, where the movie is shit, but I've got nothing against Tommy himself. If anything, the fact he tried is at least a little respectable.

[@fusrosandvich3738]

@@calemr Imagine a child drawing you a crappy hill, tree, and sun complete with a :) on paper and giving it to you. That's The Room. You take it because it's charmingly bad and hang it on a fridge because, like, they tried with total enthusiasm and positivity in mind, ykno? They did their best for you. Now imagine a douch of an adult doing the same thing except instead of handing it to you they shove it in your face, literally. Then when you throw it away because they were being a jerk they get super pissy at you and start screaming at you, all while claiming what they made is perfect. That's Santa Inc. If you don't agree with them, you're their enemy.

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

It’s what they are like as well.

[@SebasTian58323]

Only very specific types of assholes are likeable as protagonists, and for me that's the everyday asshole. He's not some overly aggressive guy who insults people for the fun of it. He's the guy who is just living his life and ends up doing asshole things. Someone like Scott Pilgrim, he's not a great guy, but he's not the type of asshole Candy is.

[@calemr]

@@SebasTian58323 I think the most important aspect is that the writers recognize the character is in the wrong. How much of an arc they go through, or how justifiable that is, can vary from character to character. Scott is recognized as someone who needs to grow up, and he only gains self respect once he apologizes for his fuck ups. He's not portrayed as a good person, even if he's a very relatable one for many people. I'd compare this to Rick and Morty. We're rarely supposed to cheer Rick on, he's clearly a psychopath, and a lot of his victims have a degree of nuance to them. While in Santa Inc., we're supposed to be rooting for someone who's just a really shitty person, because all her victims are 2 dimensional strawmen. (Also: "They're good because their opponent's are bad" is an awful argument. Stalin wasn't a hero for fighting Hitler, and vice versa.)

[@OdinXivraj]

It is so much worse than the main character simply running over a sapient reindeer and leaving him to die, No no no. She runs him over, gets out of the car acknowledges him and his situation than calls him what was established as a RACIAL SLUR toward reindeer than drives off and leaves him to die. She literally makes an accident into a second degree manslaughter and a hate crime! Or hero folks! Yet they somehow wonder why people hated this show.

[@azuki_O]

Oh wow, this went from really bad to worse..... If you take a great adult animated show, Bojack horseman, the titular character does pretty awful things. These are acknowledged though. They're not anecdotal (hope I'm using that word right). They come back to bite him. There can be a good blend of humor and dark subjects but this ain't it.

[@frankwest5388]

@@azuki_Owell that and when BH does horrible things to others it is usually as a direct reaction to a wrong done onto him with most of his really bad actions being primarily self destructive ways of dealing with stress. This keeps him very likable because we get where he is coming from and he mostly only hurts himself. At least he thinks he does until he sobers up the next day and realizes how he dragged everyone down with him. Which leads to the next self destructive spiral. Now there are times where this doesn’t apply and those are often the worst moments of the show. However even then if usually comes from a place of self preservation rather than malice. (Thinking specifically of how he ruined Todd’s rock opera out of er of losing his friend and the control he has over him)

[@alexmartin3143]

Sneak in another edit for that *Or hero folks!

[@alexjewett7455]

What makes this even worse is that reindeer are essentially this shows stand in for black people.

[@shadowednight1600]

To think, this show is why we can't see dislikes on here anymore

[@foxylover9250]

I find it ironic that they ask "How come there's never been a Jewish Santa" and they didn't bring up Hanukkah ONCE, they're so interested in tearing down other people's traditions that they don't even realise how much better off they'd be elevating their own

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

Sounds like modern identity politics in a nutshell, really.

[@aussieman3021]

Yeah, this should've been a Hanukkah series instead.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

@@aussieman3021 still probably would’ve sucked because of all the other issues, unfortunately.

[@ChaoticJester]

​@@eeyorehaferbock7870would have sucked no matter what they tried ngl.

[@gracekim25]

I mean they could have brought up Hannakah overlapping with Christmas at times😅

[@AlexOlinkiewicz]

It's funny how shows made for kids like Kim Possible, Powerpuff Girls, Etc are able to present the creator's views on certain issues in a subtle way that leaves it up to the viewer to decide what they think. While a large part of recent shows made for adults really feel like they need to beat everyone over the head with their views on current issues.

[@daniboy4153]

Old adult shows did issues better than the stuff today.

[@MariusWales]

Yeah, but those shows had competent writers who wanted to entertain their audience.

[@Mate397]

Current day writers are nothing but diversity hires with zero talent. What did you expect?

[@bobpope3656]

Do you think the fact they are showed aimed at kids might be a factor lol. Do you think Cartoon Network is going to air explicitly political cartoons.

[@spideyguy3315]

It's kinda crazy that some kids shows like Gravity Fall for example is more mature than the adult content we receive today.

[@ziplockcreations2313]

My heart goes out to the stop motion animators.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Same They should have been given the right to strip their names off the record as compensation

[@teddylancer2069]

Those poor animators deserve better than this. They should've run out of there when they knew what they're working with.

[@godricktheminecrafted3113]

Yeah, the animation is the only part of this that’s any good

[@idanthyrsus6887]

They got paid and a huge amount of American animation is subleased to Asian studios anyway so they probably had no idea what the show was even about.

[@tristanhartup4936]

They all deserved better than this

[@greenkoopa]

I always told my kids that Santa doesn't have a race, he just looks like whatever family of the house he visits.

[@Robyn-yc5md]

That actually sounds like some cool santa lore, makes him seem even more magical

[@hangfire5944]

this is my headcannon

[@dogshake]

I told mine that no one has actually ever seen him, and that he’s is actually a creature that crawled out from the core of the earth billions of years ago, and chooses a different skin suit to wear each Christmas time.

[@ChaoticJester]

​@@dogshakeChristmas trauma, yay!

[@squirrelsyrup1921]

Santa disguises himself as dad, LOL

[@conformistbastard9842]

The Santa Inc. trailer was definitely one of the reasons the dislike button disappeared.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

BOOM! Get disliked!

[@conformistbastard9842]

Fuck I've been disliked

[@skyviking349]

Or have you???????

[@lainiwakura1776]

There's an add-on for that!

[@EustaBAracer]

Since there isnt a dislike counter anymore: SANTA INC HAD 18 TRILLION DISLIKES PROVE ME WRONG

[@Xehanort10]

15:04 So she's an utter psychopath who wants to kill Santa and take his job but is using being a woman to seem progressive when really she's just someone who happens to be a woman wanting to be Santa.

[@sleepysmartboy6287]

They act as though people are biggoted for not liking a bad, mean spirited character who happens to want to be a woman Jewish Santa. Like I'd take any woman Jewish Santa as long as she is NOT Candy. Candy is insane

[@konnorfoxworth9632]

All this, and the fact she’s not a tragic character who either redeems herself or simply just takes the big fall, honestly makes her the absolute WORST protagonist in the history of fiction! So full of hate, so full of anger, obnoxious and unfunny, selfish to an irrational level, such a pretentious victim, and yet the writers think she’s just a misunderstood savior? No one is that naïve!

[@s3.14dervision]

As a woman, this crap is embarrassing... And insulting. 🎅☠

[@The-Do-It-All-Badger]

I mean fair's fair, there's plenty of godawful men running around. She and Seth Rogen deserve each other.

[@Asageun]

​@@The-Do-It-All-Badgeroh look, there's one now! Quick, run for Santa!

[@dahdanieldudehqshorts7441]

Imagine female Santa gives u ur present just to open it and see Vaseline and fungil cream

[@GumshoeClassic]

The thing that I don't get is... if you want to make a story about a female or jewish Santa Claus so badly, do you even need the whole men vs. women thing... like at all? You could easily focus on having to deal with the expectations towards the role of Santa and who Santa is on their own. You don't need an antagonist or strawman. Hell you could weave in a message about body positivity and christmas being open to anyone if you wanted just by playing off of how we imagine Santa and how hard it can be to live up to that. But most importantly *you wouldn't be going out of your way to piss people off.*

[@auraicide4883]

I think, the fact is, these shows aren't even really about morals that the author wants to share with the world. What they actually want, is to use the show as a platform to make themselves "right" about any debate they ever had, and "get back" at anyone whose ever wronged them.

[@billcipher8645]

I honestly think the best idea how to touch discrimination topics in that show would be if she was discriminated because.. of being an elf It still touches things like being disregarded because of how someone was born instead of who they are as a person and can work on many levels at the same time (it can fit sexism, racism and antisemitism) and isn't as straight forward to make it obnoxious

[@jillianc7485]

bingo. very clear that the show wasn’t made out of love for the storyline- it was made to aggravate an entire group of people while letting the creators pat themselves on the backs for being so “tolerant.” I’m very happy that the show wasn’t well received lol

[@brandonlyon730]

Arthur Chrismas did something similar and was a million times better then this show.

[@leviticusprime4904]

The thing about Santa being any of those things is that the race of Santa never mattered, he’s white because he’s based of the historical character st Nicholas, a white Christian man.

[@pokemonmanic3595]

The worst part about any of these “topical issues” shows is that they don’t do anything with these observations: they just say them and let them sit there and expect you to find it funny because “relatable”. They don’t offer any solutions or ways in which these issues can be fixed or solved nor do they actually derive humor from the situations.

[@couchpotato2222]

To be fair, we as a society haven't figured it out yet. Doesn't excuse bad writing, only emphasizing how hard it is to write something good for a mainstream audience that's actually thought provoking.

[@leviticusprime4904]

Also these “topical issues” will date the show like hell, at least when something like South Park does topical issues they aren’t fucking attacking one side, they go after both

[@HonkeyKongLive]

Because they don't have anything to say. There's no actual message. They don't have a point. All they want is to be praised for how "correct" they are. There aren't even unique observations. No substance.

[@filmandfirearms]

@@leviticusprime4904 Except for that one time they straight up endorsed Hillary Clinton

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

​@@leviticusprime4904 while this show is garbage, you can't always sit on the fence with every issue.

[@crimson8299]

Oh man it physically hurts me that the animation and character design is so good and cute. What an unfortunate waste

[@spacewizardpip1111]

When Santa told Candy she could literally be the CEO while someone else was the face of Christmas while she was the actual boss, just for her to meet that with a “Go fuck your self”, really confused the shit out of me.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

"I can't make you the actual face because your not good with kids, but literally every other aspect of the job, the part you actually want including things like pay, that's all yours." "How dare you give me what I want."

[@walorafak15]

Even Santa looked confused 😂

[@dokuganryu1565]

They want the spotlight, not the responsabilities.

[@DrDimwit]

I think it's a case of the misapplication of a solid trope common to stories with this basic theme. That kind of offer *would* be insulting in so many stories. If the reasoning was "we can't have a *Jewish* , *woman* Santa, but we'll let you run it while a white man gets the credit", then "Go fuck yourself" would have been an entirely valid response! It's a trope in media about people breaking barriers: the offer that acknowledges and wants to exploit their talent but still uphold the prejudice. And it rightly gets shut down by the protagonist, to hammer home the message that can't have it both ways: You don't get to benefit from marginalised people's legitimate skills and talent while actively upholding the unjust system that denies it. But in *this* case, she was simply bad at being The Face. Not because she was a woman, nor because she was Jewish, but because she was *bad with kids* . Which is kinda a big deal for Santa. Which made the offer entirely reasonable *and to her own benefit* . Which means telling Santa to go fuck himself no longer reads as a Brave Stand Against Injustice, but rather it feels like childish petulance.

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

She solely did all this for the attention, attention that she wasn't going to receive because she wasn't kid-friendly.

[@asher8754]

As a Jew I can say I never not once in my entire life felt bad that Santa Claus wasn’t Jewish. In fact I never even thought about it cause why the fuck would I care.

[@billcipher8645]

Yeah it's such a weird concept, I could understand if it was every other minority group besides religious Like, I don't see any muslims being upset Santa isn't muslim either because.. well.. it's for CHRISTmas

[@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095]

@@billcipher8645 Yes. Exactly that. Thanks.

[@GigaChadh976]

Yeah man, I always get so miffed that Mawlid al-Nabi doesn’t showcase Muhammad as a long haired blonde guy from seattle

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

Yeah... That's like me as a Wiccan being upset that Santa isn't Jewish. It... Shouldn't mean a damn thing to me 'cause I don't celebrate christmas And it doesn't.

[@elisabethheiman2104]

Yeah, I’m really confused why Santa has be Jewish because Jews don’t even celebrate Christmas. Also, it makes even less sense to have a Jewish female Santa when St. Nicholas in real life was a male Christian. Sure, Christmas is now very much a secular holiday, but we still can’t deny that the reason that Santa is usually portrayed as an old white man is because the person he is based off on was an old white man. Edit: Okay, that last sentence isn’t entirely accurate, but I think that my other points are still valid.

[@everlastingdragon4520]

Y'know how to make that "Thanksgiving time schedule" scene actually funny or even just slightly amusing? The elf: Why the f*ck are we still on the Thanksgiving time schedule? No one even remembers Thanksgiving exists until the week before!

[@sugarbaby1974]

The concept of a female Santa done in stop-motion animation was already done almost 50 years ago with lovely characters, a real conflict, songs, and action. It was called "The Year Without a Santa Claus" and it was produced by Rankin-Bass, masters of the stop-motion Christmas movies, and it's not only genuinely fun and funny, it's timeless and yet timely. Mrs. Claus debates taking over for Santa when he gets sick and believes that nobody will miss him if he takes a vacation, and even Vixen (a deer, a female deer) gets involved in solving the problem. In short, this series was not needed. In any way.

[@lordhellstrande7188]

I love that one. And I think all of Santa's reindeer are female...don't quote me on that

[@RotaAbyssian]

@@lordhellstrande7188 Don't quote me on this, but at the very least I seem to recall potentially only Prancer and Vixen being female...and MAAAAYBE Comet? At the very least Dasher, Blitzen, and Cupid are typically male, and that's to say nothing about the sometimes present Rudolph.

[@Ambipie]

He's mister white Christmas he's mister ICE

[@jubileetea]

i mean the antlers say it all

[@marshmallowsilk3789]

Not stop motion but, 'Noelle' on Disney+ also does the female Santa thing but the main character doesn't become Santa because she's a woman and "it's about time" it's the culmination of her character development and because she's the best person for the job.

[@daniboy4153]

Besides the fact that the series is unfunny and just not good. Seth Rogen calling everyone who hated his series, "White Supremacists" just made me despise the series in general, along with him. Edit: "Bad Santa" did raunchy Christmas humor better and it still had more heart than this.

[@generichuman2044]

Rogen is another example of someone who has grown a massive ego after becoming famous with little talent. His entire career is basically "weed is cool, now listen to my unusual laugh". Now he thinks people should care about his opinions and politics

[@frederickshaibani5655]

Bad Santa is a goddamn masterpiece and I watch it every year haha

[@haihai9022]

And I thought Sia and Elizabeth Banks were bad

[@gabrielneri2820]

DONKEY KONG!

[@animatewithdermot]

@@frederickshaibani5655 About 2006 or 07 I was on the main Disney lot for a job project. Saw 'Bad Santa' for sale in the shop. This would have been only a few hundred feet from Walt's old office. What the old man would have thought of a movie where Santa says "You won't shit right for a week" for sale on the premises, we can only imagine.

[@goombrosaustrosity4277]

I kinda like Santa because he has to live around all these horrible people and still stays positive the entire way through.

[@cherrypopscile3385]

Have you ever wanted a bunch of annoying 30 year old millionaire hacks to lecture you about their politics while smugly looking down at you? Then Santa Inc is for you!

[@SolarBrain4128]

I'm convinced that celebrities like these set their causes back by behaving in such an unlikable manner.

[@inc3000]

Yes

[@inc3000]

@@SolarBrain4128 Double Yes 🤣, It's Tragic but ironically funny too

[@JoePedo]

30? They're older than that, and showing their age

[@spectralumbra1568]

Following the unironically sexist lead female character in this show, I'm convinced that most aren't arguing their politics, they're arguing what they're hoping are the audience's politics so they can get their "and then everyone clapped" ending without having to put in any legitimate work.

[@Megatron_95]

As much as i hate Christmas stuff being pushed out every holiday season, this series make the Christmas Hallmark movies look like a national treasure

[@conformistbastard9842]

Sometimes you have to fall real far to appreciate what you have. Real fuckin far.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Oof. That's a pretty harsh statement.

[@merrittanimation7721]

As someone who's been forced to watch a lot of those, this is true unfortunately

[@hafirenggayuda]

Hallmark movies are cheesy, predictable, and catering to "normal" audience; Which this why this series trying to do the opposite.

[@elmono6299]

It makes Santa Claus conquers the Martians look like a pot of gold.

[@StripesZB]

The fact that Santa offers her to run the show from the back and she turns him down proves that she doesn't want actually want the job she pretends to want. She just wants the title and accolades.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*I think Doug Walker (yes, Channel Awesome Nostalgia Critic Doug Walker) said it best:* "By having grown-up humor, you make it more childish. By modernizing the dialogue, you make it more dated. And by changing the source material, you show how much you don't respect what's already perfect."

[@marctaco2624]

despite all he's done, that was a great line.

[@cyanmanta]

Doug may be a talentless hack, but he does occasionally get something right. That screed in his Pearl Harbor review is another example.

[@calemr]

Broken Clocks.

[@anna-flora999]

What source material?

[@hafirenggayuda]

Doug is good at analyzing and explaining story. Too bad he's forcing his show to make skits and jokes that are terrible/unfunny. Watch his analysis, skip his "jokes"

[@drannin]

What gets me is that they actually thought that the protagonist would be funny and relatable. That says some things about the makers.

[@tofanpurnomowaisaka503]

Yup, these old "mis-enlightened" f***ers should've retired from comedy about a decade ago. Some should've never been comedians in the first place.

[@sacha8uk]

Well, she acts, talks and thinks like them, so of course she's funny and relatable! Kind of like the rom-coms where the old guy gets the young sexy girl, because he's a stand-in for the producers.

[@LangstonDev]

Big names in Hollywood are so relentlessly out of touch in their narcissistic echo chambers they can only make things that they like and relate to (themselves).

[@SlapstickGenius23]

The corporate feminists are a mess!

[@heededshadow509]

"There's never been a Jewish Santa Claus" No shit, it's a Christian holiday. It's like expecting a Muslim Santa Claus, there is very specific reasoning for why in the first place Santa Claus isn't even a part of their cultures.

[@deathstinger13]

well, originally it was a pagan holiday that was co-opted by christians and has since become a secular holiday that has extra meaning for christians. easter's the same thing. Halloween's similar, though while it was co-opted by christians it never really became a christian holiday, remaining more of a cultural holiday instead of a religious one and eventually skipping straight to secular

[@emeraldwizard1227]

"Remember I know everything. So I own you fat man". This is 100% something a villan would say. Yet this is said by the main character that we're supposed to root for.

[@Shenaldrac]

Gotta love the body shaming.

[@camilaalmiron5588]

​@@Shenaldractrue

[@needfortweed8734]

Yeah, the whole "adding profanity, sex and violence to animated series makes them adult animated series, therefore funny" is a concept that annoys me. The people making the show seems to forget that a show is only as good as its writing. To me, this is what separates what I consider "good" adult animated series (such as Metalocalypse and South Park) from the bad (Paradise PD and Santa Inc).

[@Randomyoutuber-4831]

don't forget drawn together, which ONLY used shock value as it's humor.

[@SM-yz4hi]

i think it’s this feeling that, because animation is “for kids”, everything else has to be “hyper-adultized” to compensate

[@needfortweed8734]

@@SM-yz4hi pro'lly something like that. Or the more cynical "If we skimp on the production budget and thus, the quality of animation, we can compensate by saturating this thing with very adult stuff. Sex, drugs, minimal amounts of rock and roll, bad language, copious amounts of violence for no good reason coupled with unsympathetic main characters are SOOO adult..."

[@purest_evil]

The shock is over, no more will these animated characters swearing come off as edgy, funny, or thought provoking, nada

[@deezboyeed6764]

Shows like venture bros slap too

[@dallasgrey4247]

As a Jew, my parents taught me about the holocaust when I was 5. They then brought me to the DC museum when I was 7. It was ingrained in my mind from a young age that it is not something to joke about, so I was pissed when this show did. It doesn’t matter that the people saying it are Jews, it’s still not ok to joke about

[@jalejablonsky2396]

It would be like a person of color making fun of Martin Luther’s assassination. It’s still treated seriously

[@TotalXPvideos]

Ofcourse they make jokes of it, they are rich Jews, a step above the normal Jew in their eyes, they only see the twisted positives they can get out of this horrible historic event.

[@michelecastellotti9172]

Also i dont get the part about a jewish santa claus... you guys dont even celebrate christmas, what was the point of that line? This show tries to pander to people who know themselves all too well to listen to its bullshit.

[@jamesbyrd3740]

indoctrination is fked up

[@isaacthemonke233]

Hollywood corrupts everyone.

[@lovetrain2455]

This show was one those parodies of 'cute, family friendly character says fuck and commits gory acts' but played completely straight

[@leviticusprime4904]

So a creepy pasta

[@LangstonDev]

@@leviticusprime4904 only if it has Hyper-realistic Blood (TM)

[@Gloomyfilms_inc]

@@leviticusprime4904 more like happy tree friends

[@WelloBello]

@@Gloomyfilms_inc Happy tree friends was self aware, and had fun with the concept. Santa Inc is a black hole of joy.

[@theheavenlyfb4071]

Everyone has said it before, the entire show is a trainwreck and the one character you're supposed to hate is the most likeable and most reasonable. They spent the majority of the show on their soapbox pushing social politics without making the characters likeable at all while setting it during a time when people forget their differences and come together during the festive season. Then there's "that scene" which made Santa come across as a genuinely reasonable person and was willing to give Candy the most important job in the business, but because it wasn't front and centre she let her ego get in the way.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Seth Rogen will never read this comment, but i wanna go on a constructive Rant anyway: The ‚Premisse that can just not work’ has yet to be invented. Seriously, think of ANY Big Anime, Film, Manga, that was good and ask yourself what the Premisse is in easy words. The objective fact is that there is no Story-Premisse/Plot that ‚has to fail’. There is no such thing. I’m not even trying to motivate more people to start writing stories (even though i wished more people would) but just wanna say that Skill, Planning, Competence, this stuff can make ANYTHING work. One-Punch-Man is a good example for this; do i need to say more?

[@Marines_Memelevolent]

@@loturzelrestaurant did you mean to reply to them, or?

[@theheavenlyfb4071]

@@Marines_Memelevolent I don't think they did, considering I never said the whole "premise that can just not work" thing at all. Seems like they've got on their soapbox and forgot what their point was but just went with it.

[@SergeiMosin]

Remember when this was the lowest rated IMDB show? Y'know, before Velma? Christ, we're at a race to the bottom

[@silverscorpio24]

I feel so sorry for the animators.

[@spideyguy3315]

Ikr, literally the only good thing about this show.

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

I feel sorry for fans of stop motion. I should know; I am one.

[@shawklan27]

This is sausage party all over again heck that features seth rogan so that's something!

[@spongebobdisneymariofan3715]

@@MegamanXfan21xx I mean, the stop-motion for the show itself is pretty good for what it is, but too bad the show has to be ruined by everything else.

[@kurinthekitty6842]

One thing that bothers/annoys me about these type of shows in general Is when let's say for an example a man assaulting a woman it's meant to be treated seriously but when the reverse is happening a woman assaulting a man it's more or less treated as a joke Because men don't have emotions

[@kurinthekitty6842]

Do me a favor If you want a show that does this better Just go watch Tuca & Bertie it's 100x more better than this piece of poo

[@blitzn00dle50]

The creators of this stinking rubbish fire: "lol we sure are helping with discussions of sexual assault a lot!!!!"

[@fawnieee]

Or, worse, they treat the a buse/harm of men as empowerment of women when the basic principle of feminism is literally equality 😮‍💨

[@NUISANCE_ANIMAL]

as a man, i can confirm this/hsar

[@Shenaldrac]

Yuuup. Men can't be raped by women, because all men are big and strong and all women are small and weak so a man could just keep from getting raped by overpowering them. Because rape is always only about pure physical assault and never involves emotional and verbal manipulation, blackmail, sedatives, or any number of things where you don't need to be better at violence! Oh also, knives and guns _do not exist,_ so women can't use them to enact sexual assault against men. /sarcasm

[@bartoszdulas1703]

Actually "I always regretted never being in the war. Legal murder is the shit" made me laugh, but as you said it's only because it was unpredictable of the character to say something that wasn't meant to be stereotypical or dirty joke

[@filmandfirearms]

That whole "Santa-splain" scene feels like something that they would've done while they were just spitballing ideas to see what worked, complete with an incomplete punchline, but somehow they thought that was worthy of the final release

[@lordhellstrande7188]

It sounds like when you're trying to think of an insult but you just stammer and it comes out just stupid

[@cosmicspacething3474]

@@lordhellstrande7188 I mean that could’ve been funny if they were more tongue in cheek about it. Like the main character was the one screwing up

[@isaacthemonke233]

"SnowMan-Splain"would've been dumb but atleast would've made sense

[@John-doe955]

You have to love how the shows protagonist, the person who they want us to root for, is portrayed as a literal sociopath who has none of the qualities that would make them a good Santa Claus replacement like being good with children or being apart of the religion that actually practices Christmas.

[@frankisnot1148]

It feels like they were trying to pull off the same thing Bojack Horseman did, except they forgot that Bojack actually faces consequences for his shitty actions.

[@lilykujaqueen4037]

For all its faults, If theres one thing I like about "santa inc" it's the character designs. I find Candy beautiful with her prominent hooked nose, curly hair and thick eyebrows.

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

@@lilykujaqueen4037 Stop motion animators are always some of the most creative, passionate, and genuine people in their industry. They wait years for the chance to work on something big like this. For some people it's literally once in a lifetime that their work gets syndicated. and then they get fucking SANTA INC.

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

When you look at the word Christmas you realize something The wire Christ is in it as if it's a holiday for christens don't ya think ?

[@TotalXPvideos]

Truly makes me terrified in a way or Seth Rogan and Sarah Silverman, since they apparently feel this is just and ok.

[@starstrudel8417]

basically the epitome of "the flavorless movie to play at an office party for everyone to stand around and chuckle at in a thin attempt to disguise their own misery"

[@mqfii8992]

You know, that whole scene where Santa Claus calls Candy, not only he went out of his way to explain why he didn't chose her (mind you he doesn't have any obligation to do do), but he made so many valid points, you can't help but agree with him. Even awful writers can have a stroke of genius sometimes. And then they probably realized they were making too much sense that, to remedy that and don't contradict their message, Santa Is immediately revealed to be a total crook. It's more hilarious than anything In the show.

[@afellowpotato]

I'm just replying so you can see how much likes you got

[@capadociaash8003]

@@afellowpotatobased

[@FifinatorKlon]

But you forgot the part where Santa is a nazi fascist TERF who hates women.

[@kaplingnag7267]

same@@afellowpotato

[@Asageun]

​@@afellowpotatoquite so

[@BovineDesigns]

It's so beautiful that Seth Rogan was able to unite everyone over a common idea. Granted that idea is the absolute destruction of his "career" but I think we're all on board.

[@gabrielneri2820]

he's career isn't destroyed he's just going to switch weed for bananas

[@BovineDesigns]

@@gabrielneri2820 hoooooh, banana

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

We never should have done away with stoning.

[@ijustlikebees]

All the weed fried his brain.

[@mario10zeus]

How the hell does he still have a career is my question. Dude can only play stoners.

[@Hadescat]

As someone Jewish, I am baffled why a Jewish person would want to lead Christmas. We don't even celebrate it?!?! We have our own holiday for the season!! I read the show highlighting her being Jewish as an antisemitic "Jews Run Everything" trope :/

[@Xehanort10]

5:29 Ah the "good" old "If you don't like badly characterised, written, produced, acted and directed films and series you're prejudiced against all minorities" routine.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

I really hate it when directors use minorities that if given the choice probably wouldn't have wanted to be in the final product as a safe net in case their content is shit It really shows that they don't care about equality or representation, just about money

[@christophealexander3262]

Well im an Asian christian so... They make fun of christian a lot in the show and i guess i should love it?

[@eduardogomez4275]

Seth Rogen went to the Elizabeth Banks School of Directing, just like Sia and maybe Sophia Takal.

[@nb8817]

I like how the show constantly tries to gloss over or completely ignores the real world historical accomplishments of women and poc’s just to prop up/justify the idea of Sarah Silverman elf being the first, fictional, female Jewish Santa, because that’s totally not degrading or bigoted at all. 🙃

[@syppy7416]

I hate this show more than the Nazis in the trailer's comments ever will

[@CruelestChris]

Well feminism's always had a nasty habit of doing that, starting with the idea that a woman could be proud of just running her household for most of history. Nope, women's strength and willpower was invented sometime during the industrial revolution, apparently. Coincidentally about the time that industrialists wanted to shove them all down coal mines.

[@mario10zeus]

Silverman has been in the Hollywood bubble for so long, she has no idea how she is perceived by the public.

[@The-Do-It-All-Badger]

I'd tell you what my rabbi friend called her but I'd get in serious youtube trouble for that. I can tell you it's extremely brutal and Dave has absolutely no chill tho.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

@@The-Do-It-All-Badgerlet me guess: it was the kind of thing that would be considered unashamedly anti-Semitic if it weren’t the fact that it was a rabbi who said it?

[@The-Do-It-All-Badger]

@@eeyorehaferbock7870 Unashamedly, perhaps even *rabidly*, anti-Semitic, were anyone but a bonafide rabbi saying it.

[@darkestccino5405]

I remember Sausage Party being well-received at launch and people calling it a welcome relief. Now, it is used as a demonstration of what NOT to do for adult animation. And I consider that to be a good progression of people's tastes in media.

[@TonyAMO]

I never really liked it anyway. It was immature, disgusting, and they were trying too hard.

[@SparkpadArt]

I heard opinions on it quickly went south when word got out on how poorly they treated the animators.

[@steamboatwill3.367]

Yet ironically it's what the anti-sjw mob want more of ( even when they admit it's terrible )

[@GreatNegus]

I thought it was OK...until I got to that final scene. That scene ruins anything redeeming about the movie.

[@candylide]

In my country a lot of kids didn't even know it was an adult movie So you can guess...

[@girl-di3nn]

Total Drama Island a children/ teen TV show had Lashawna the most stereotypical black woman ive ever seen in cartoons that I’ve watched and they somehow made her one of the best characters in the whole show. How tf did a cartoon show made for literal ADULTS fuck up such an easy character to make and give personality to? Literally one of the easiest stereotypes to write and they made it so cringey and unlikeable

[@بسيطو-ر7ص]

TDI Is awesome!!!! I agree Leshawna is a good character

[@rjante2236]

She was likable and actually friendly for the most part.

[@StripesZB]

Drawn Together's Foxxie Love is another good example of a character that is meant to be very stereotypical but is written in a way that makes you root for them.

[@dahliacheung6020]

Yes, she was lovely and hilarious and also very nice. I miss that show. Good example!

[@Local_Metalheadd]

"There's never been a Jewish santa!" Yeah, can't think of a single reason why

[@friedipar]

Rogen&Silverman: "We call this one 'bold and brash'" Everyone: "more like 'belongs in the trash'!"

[@auraicide4883]

I'm a feminist myself, yet...I don't stand with any of what these writers have to say. Just how I feel... if these shows actually cared about any of the things they claim, then they would make an effort to make their representation of issues....good? If you care about these issues than you should try to present it in a mature fashion. Instead we have cheap shots delivered with juvenile humor and making extreme caricatures of anyone with a different view point, that it self-sabotages it's own message. If these issues matter, treat them with respect.

[@admech590]

Yeah; and stop advocating violence against people you don't like.thats what the other side is advocating; I thought they're supposed to hold themselves to a higher standard.

[@auraicide4883]

@@admech590 That's a thing these people forget when it comes to strawmen and pushing for violent solutions against real groups. Maybe the other side are full of self righteous, irredeemable, assholes, who are actually as bad as you say they are. Thing is, you're supposed to be better than them.

[@madmonty4761]

@@auraicide4883 im sorry that your cause is tainted by those people you know the ones the ones that think man bad

[@Bleofuse]

@@admech590 Totally Agree can't help but think that Silverman wrote that joke since she's a terrible person.

[@MetalHeadbanger7]

Now you are a feminist that should've been instead of everybody getting the darkside of it.

[@user-qz6nk1le5n]

She is so "mansplaining" that she is allowed to end all her jokes without being interrupted

[@Torvar]

"There's never been a woman Santa!" The sentence the entire series is based on.

[@wilmagregg3131]

@Code Turtle "Noelle lhas left the chat"

[@papershadow]

I'm just sitting here wondering if the "Jewish Santa" thing was unironic and that dumb, or a bad joke that was told so incompetently I don't even know if it is one or not.

[@Oturan20]

These _people_ have obviously never seen a Hallmark movie in their lives.

[@doctoromega009]

This only proves that bad writers, actors and directors deserve to be visited by Krampus.

[@coreymyers5613]

15:50 This made me laugh. "Right, now that the cancer is out of the way, we can move on to the good stuff...The comedy." "What comedy?!" "Yeah, exactly!"

[@ironicugandan5826]

These are one of those shows that "empowering women" means they can do basically anything and get away with it but if a guy does something bad he's a villain.

[@jonathansolano9648]

I found it funny how much she hated that men had their own spaces where they do manly things but I never saw her once invite any guys to her wine parties with gal pals.

[@Saltedroastedcaramel]

That's feminism for you

[@megapeebs2631]

I was so mad when Santa turned out to be the villain, he gave a wonderful explanation as to why he didn't pick candy, the job is all about delivering presents to kids and someone who can't connect with kids is just wrong for the job. Why did they have to go for the cliche twist villain trope when he was doing so well?

[@jorcornel558]

The problem with these forced politics in shows, is that they just vaguely SAY why something is bad rather than show it. People are a lot more reasonable when they fully understand an issue, like with Santa's heart to heart, but the show would rather make their antagonists """evil""" and thus make any argument they impose invalid, because the evil man said it.

[@Bored_Overthinker]

Exactly. When writing, it's important that you show, and you don't tell. Exposition should be used sparingly and only when it would be basically impossible to tell the story through anything else. There's certainly a lot more emotional response actually watching someone get hurt, rather than somebody bring it up afterwards. Like, imagine in return of the Jedi if C-3PO and R2-D2 were just talking about all the droids that were being tortured instead of you actually watching them get tortured, that entire threat would have had such little impact because you didn't actually get to see the horrors, you just heard about them second-hand from someone else.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Agreed. That is why nuanced storytelling is important, otherwise, it'll either be blindly wanked or just written off as milquetoast propaganda. Either way, it won't gain a fanbase and at best, it'll be a flash in the pan. I don't get why corpos keep failing again and again to understand this.

[@izakthehumblememeseller9340]

Hearing Gilbert Gottfried simply speak made me smile more than this show probably ever will

[@fuziontonygaming]

R.I.P. Gilbert

[@izakthehumblememeseller9340]

@@fuziontonygaming R.I.P.

[@insertnamehere5809]

At least he was a Jew that was funny, unlike Rogan & Silverman.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

@@insertnamehere5809and he could voice-act, too!

[@Sir0fficerNasty]

Imagine making Hanukkah Inc. making fun of Judaism. It would be called antisemitic and banned.

[@angelabryant9766]

Ya know what's funny about this show? It fails at the basic concept - not just in the ways he described, like 'Why does it have to be racist and sexist that all of the Santa's are male, white, and fat', but my bigger question is 'Wait, Santa gets replaced? Isn't it just one immortal guy? Santa Claus is a name, not a profession.' So like, even before the show's done anything, you already have something I'm instantly questioning.

[@Wobmiar]

I feel, in a good show, that Santa Claus being a title and not a name can be a neat concept. Like the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, whatever. It would be original and cool... If handled well. Unfortunately not the case here

[@Keznen]

@Wobmiar Elbuod Arthur Christmas did it right.

[@RotaAbyssian]

I mean, that concept isn't really new. The Santa Clause and Earnest Saves Christmas covered that, to name a couple, and ESC even ended with a Black Santa! There was no uproar over it, as it's both Christmas, AND the Earnest Movies were funny and wholesome.

[@sophisticautistic5453]

Stop motion should be used in more shows that aren't adult comedies.

[@marctaco2624]

We have Tim Burton's lineup and that's about it.

[@sophisticautistic5453]

@@marctaco2624 Tim Burton line up? HOW DARE YOU NOT MENTION AARDMAN!

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

There's The House on Netflix. That was really good.

[@marctaco2624]

@@sophisticautistic5453 that too.

[@SuperSwordman1]

@@sophisticautistic5453 And Laika!

[@beelzebubcrumpethorn]

31:01 This one scene of Robot Chicken is funnier than the entire Santa Inc series.

[@flodoll9800]

Robot chicken is a masterpiece compared to this 😂

[@skeetskeet7041]

The worst part? Had the show stopped with the heart to heart scene of Santa explaining his reasoning it could have been good. That scene was perfect, like an actually really well written and scripted scene. Then they toss it aside. So yikes.

[@Laxhoop]

The fact that everything Seth Rogan has done since The Neighbors 2 has had a “feminist agenda” as he puts it, makes me believe that he has some god damn massive skeletons in his closet. Especially because of the fact that his old best friend, James Franco, was recently cancelled for sleeping with his acting students. James never tried to portray himself as an Uber feminist, so by modern Hollywood logic, he didn’t think that what he was doing was wrong. Which, by my guess, means that Seth must be doing some FAR worse sh*t, behind closed doors. Some Epstein stuff. He seems like the type.

[@piss7610]

James Franco also abused people too, so its like he's trying to distance himself

[@ddjsoyenby]

he's harvey weinstien jr or the white bill cosby (and not in a way you'd want to be) isn't he?

[@KristenDETW]

Are you seriously comparing Franco trying to sleep with underage girls to Rogen making a few bad movies/shows? WTF.

[@polterkitty3639]

Mmm yes Seth Roggen is a feminist now literally Jeffery Epstein.

[@daltonwade2506]

Bold ass claims to make about someone you don't know personally, have you considered not making baseless accusations against strangers?

[@Bored_Overthinker]

I'm getting really tired of people doing cynical and edgy takes on things that are just supposed to be light-hearted and fun. Nothing can be fun anymore, everything has to be cynical, edgy, and spiteful. It feels like nowadays, joy and fun are dead and whininess reigns supreme.

[@jalejablonsky2396]

I mean with current politics and the pandemic….. what else can they express?

[@Bored_Overthinker]

@@jalejablonsky2396 there are always things to be happy about

[@jalejablonsky2396]

@@Bored_Overthinker True, I'll give you that

[@Bored_Overthinker]

@@jalejablonsky2396 Glad we can see eye-to-eye on that.

[@jalejablonsky2396]

@@Bored_Overthinker I'm often not a people pleaser. Cynics think I'm too optimisc, and optimisists think I'm too cynical. I belong to neither camp, because I turn total opposite to the otherside, because I do think we have things that can be positive, but I can also agree there are alot of negatives, but to suggest both points until you reach an extreme is just not me at all, so for what it's worth I understand not being a fan of negative media, and frankly I'm getting tired of seeing it these days, to the point where I'm becoming more optismtic than I usually am.

[@brunnokamei9623]

If Seth Rogen still have the balls to stay in the entertainment industry after that, you can have the balls to declare your feelings to your crush. So go ahead, dude. The "no" you already have.

[@steamboatwill3.367]

Well, he's in the upcoming "Chip N Dale" movie wich looks........ interesting. And he's voicing Donkey Kong in Illumination's Mario movie.

[@lillyrichter3383]

Honestly, just looking at the visuals out of context, they don’t look that bad. Apart from the mouths that they added in post and the other flaws you mentioned, they pulled the stop-motion style off pretty well in my opinion. Some of the characters and set designs look cool. I’m sorry for the animators who had to work on this though. Imagine you invest countless hours and true passion for your craft into a series, and this is the final product.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Somehow The Nightmare Before Christmas, which came out some 20 years ago, still manages too look better.

[@RprSonic]

19:27 you know it's sad that a Disney cartoon is more mature and adult than this entire show.

[@Transmission_Rory]

Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are about as funny as a bus fire. Adding corporate woke to it is just dousing petrol on the flames.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

At one point, they used to be funny.

[@stevenschnepp576]

@@TommyDeonauthsArchives Were they, though?

[@tofanpurnomowaisaka503]

@@TommyDeonauthsArchives rogen yes, silverman no. She has always been annoying.

[@haihai9022]

The only thing I have seen Silverman in was Wreck it Ralph. Haven’t seen the sequel, and I never will

[@cybertek3188]

Those two gotta cut back on smoking weed.

[@gyroscope915]

Honestly if this movie was a little more self aware it could have been an amazing parody. The idea of someone who had valid reasons for not getting the job, and is over all a pretty terrible person but keeps blaming everyone else for their own short comings has potential, just look at bojack. The main character is a terrible, but it works. Especially with the idea of her killing people to get ahead. But they really wanted you to like the main character, and that's where it falls apart

[@AidanD1776]

12:40 RIP Gilbert Gottfried

[@potato1341]

13:00 I was about to call BS that no human could make the "noise of a pig being castrated" but holy shit she got it dead on

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

What’s sad is that Sarah Silverman isn’t entirely bad at voice acting; she did an alright job voicing Vanellope in Wreck-It Ralph. But that role worked because Vanellope was meant to be a hyper little girl who appeared obnoxious at first but then revealed herself to be capable of more. Not just some random bitchy Karen (yeah, I went there) who had to make unnecessary gender-based insults against others.

[@starsprouts_]

I said this before but I'll say it again: you don't need to rally on s3x, drug,, swears or offensive humor to be consider an adult cartoon; you can use them but not abuse them, all it needs its to tell a story, be deep or just be funny without the need of being gross

[@kingamoeboid3887]

Even Andrew Dice Clay and George Carlin can make crude comedy timeless.

[@kimifw58]

Just stop saying it. It's already half the comments under these videos.

[@dahliacheung6020]

⁠and even if you abuse them, some shows do and get away with it, you can't rely on them to be the story all on its own. You can have the jokes but the plot itself needs to be stronger than the jokes.

[@theotakux5959]

The problem with doing a show, especially a comedy, with a 'message', is that if you make the message too heavy handed, not only are you going to annoy the people you're trying to spread the message to, but even the people who agree with you are going to find the show annoying. Putting the message ahead of the writing just gives you a a show or movie that nobody will enjoy.

[@TemplarWarden]

The funny part is, you talk about all her horrible character traits and shit she's done. I'm like, "Yup, sounds like corporate material."

[@tacticalpossum7090]

Haha yeah successful companies bad, I get it. So wise.

[@danieltobin4498]

Yeaaaah…yeah you’re right.

[@toyamwarr]

I applaud anyone who made through the entire season of this show. I only made it to episode 3 before I gave up. The toxic feminism throughout the show made all the profanity more frustrating. I’m so tired of other women wanting to “take down the patriarchy” when their ideas are no better than what the guys are doing. How is it better just because a woman is the jerk in charge now?

[@benjirivoh]

sometimes they literally become what the hated so much, its cause shes a wOmAn. gross. it insults actual feminism.

[@gamingforever9121]

Feminist hypocrisy color me shocked the politics of this show are about as subtle as a brick to the head .

[@origami83]

Feminists dont care about equality, just about power. I see no feminist rally for equal amount of representation at the sewage plant or any other shitty job.

[@benjirivoh]

@@origami83 Eh. Depends what side of the internet you're on. If you're on the side where some "feminists" call all men disgusting, and is hypocritical about equal rights , Cancel out queer people etc, then yeah they aren't shit. If you want to see actual feminists seek for equal rights, then watch promising young women, or talk to their fan base or people who are into womens rights but can take a joke, trust me they are out there. but despite this show not even remotely being anything about equal i wanna laugh at pieces of shits like this who thinks that just they are who they are means they can get away with shit.

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

@Mr. Orange It's called corporate feminism. This girl boss bullshit. It only gives an illusion of progress while conserving old structures CEOs won't stop being assholes simply because they're female but if there're more women in the positions of power then neo liberals can claim we defeated patriarchy That's why intersectionality is important. It touches on inequality in different aeras. Not just gender but also access to education or health care Tl;dr: girl boss narrative is often used by MLN piramid schemes to scam women. It's as far from real feminism as you can get

[@williambutcher7429]

“There’s never been a Jewish Santa before” *I* *WONDER* *W H Y*

[@moonbeamsun9066]

Honestly I’d really like it if Santa seemed antagonistic and sexist when Candy is just an elf working there, but when she starts to try and work her way up snd they get to know each other she learns that he really isn’t that way, she just saw him that way because her position made her resent him. Also including another female character who had the potential to be Santa but was constantly snubbed or denied the role. In the end Candy helps her become the next Santa and she learns that even though she didn’t become Santa, she was able to inspire and help someone else to.

[@clobertina8176]

100x better Because it's actually creative

[@noalapizza-paella3986]

better plot

[@regenbogenwolf]

You know what would've been neat? If the MC realized how horrible her motivation for becoming Santa was and have her have an internal conflict over it. Maybe have her earn the position in the end, but she gives it up for black Santa, because she realizes that he is better suited for the job. The show has a good set up to make a discussion about the meaning of representation and how to implement it, to bad we didn't get that.

[@captc0ck5lap60]

"What if I did something really bad, but it was for the greater good?" - An Elf, unironically.

[@giantpinkcat]

A little off topic, but I'm just gonna say I appreciate you going into this trash (Actually that's too generous for this "show") with an apolitical eye. This show might be a special kind of horrendous to me, but when a piece of media is politicized, people have a tendency to get their minds so winded up in their own politics they forget to actually critique the media. And sometimes the piece of media will end up living in people's heads for weeks, months, or even YEARS.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Agreed That's something that I really disliked about reviews of "high guardian spice" At first everyone was just "meh feminism bad, trans bad, woke sjws etc" but when Uniquenameosaurus did a honest review of it I actually learned a lot about how to do representation right, what kinds of pitfalls can ruin a show and how to make a good series set in a magical setting When queen serafina did a review of it I saw a lot of errors I missed on my first viewing And when Jamie de longe did her rewrite of moments in the show I finally saw the potential of the show on my screen All of these people could have just written off the series as "some sjw cash grab" which it was but instead of complaining and moving on they used it to provide knowledge and entertainment that overshadowed the original project

[@JamesP7]

Name a single HGS review that DIDN’T critique the show fairly. Cause I’ve watched countless reviews of the show-by people of varying political standpoints-in both hour long review format and episode by episode analyses of the series, and not a single one of them ever claimed those things you said. In fact, they largely pointed out the fact that many white knights of this show will slander their criticisms with those very same blanket-level statements that you’ve stated. Just because the reviews point out the awful LGBT representation and the misandry of the writers doesn’t make their critiques invalid. The fact that 95% of them bring up the writing, animation, voice acting, characterization, world-building, plot development, etc. as the core flaws of the show really shows that you just wanted to use your politics as the basis as to why those reviewers are “wrong”. The people you named pointed out the same/similar problems with she show, but you zoned in on politics and diverted your attention away from the primary issues those “woke-despizing” reviewers had with the show. Off the top of my head, I can list at least 10 large names that have fairly criticized this show (in review/analysis format) [only checked up the channel names for some spelling/capitalization]: MangaKamen, dannphan, BlackLightJack, Just Stop, NECRO XIII, Manga Writer, Literature Devil, Anime America, NatalieXHunter, and Trumann. (Not sure why I listed these off, but I guess if you are gonna name-drop channels whose HGS reviews you didn’t despise, then I’ll do the same…)

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@Code Turtle what's wrong with peace maker? I think I've seen 1 or 2 ads about it but haven't see the show

[@mqfii8992]

I find it kind of ironic that "adult" shows, especially comedies, lots of time have the most childish writing and humor ever. It tells a lot when cartoons aimed at kids/teenagers or independent creators are more mature than your show.

[@Shhhhhhhh622]

It's so disheartening knowing that the biggest advocates for progression are the most bitter, hating and nasty people I have ever seen.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

That’s the thing though: these kinds of people aren’t really advocating for progress. They’re literally just complaining without doing anything for any legitimate cause. There’s a difference.

[@goingunder2548]

​@eeyorehaferbock7870 They care about progress that will benefit them only. That's why so much time is dedicated to the Jewish character while the black coded and gay characters are relegated to stereotypical side characters. Being truly progressive means advocating for policies, changes, representation etc. that you don't directly benefit from simply because you're an empathetic person.