The Failure of Mr. Birchum

[@JoseBird]

A lot of people are pointing out I mistakenly called Payday a chocolate bar when there's no chocolate in it. That's because I've never eaten one of those in my life and I'm not sure they sell them in Canada. Apologies for the mistake! Also, a few people have also pointed out the original Mr. Birchum animation produced in 2011 is not an animatic. To clarify, that was the term Adam Carolla used when describing it. If that's not technically right, I apologize for the oversight, but I assumed he knew more about the production than I did.

[@nacloot8700]

It's alright, a lot of people still refer to them as chocolate bars down in the states. Not really sure why though . . . 🤷

[@BretGammons]

To be fair to you, Hershey has made chocolate-covered ("Chocolatey") PayDays since 2020.

[@SysOpQueen]

@@nacloot8700 chocolate bar & candy bar are often interchangeable terms in the US, just as when you visit southern states of USA all soda pop is called 'coke'

[@esbenm6544]

There are chocolate Payday Bars. Has been since the 80's. It was just a seasonal thing that only became part of the regular product line-up in recent years.

[@dannymirjanovic8453]

CANADA???? disgusting. All we eat are paydays down here

[@longlivebeans]

If I wanted to get lectured by a cartoonish old man for 30 minutes, I’d call my father.

[@battlion507]

I mean, I'd pick Uncle Iroh from Avatar. Drink tea, share stories, relax, heck, he'd lend an arm for when you're sad.

[@billbill6094]

​@@battlion507 Uncle Iroh has more wisdom relevant to modern day society in one conversation over tea than the entire Daily Wire staff has in their entire lives.

[@St1ckyGrape]

@@battlion507 Rest in peace, Mako

[@JohnDoe-uf3lj]

Still go call your dad He ain’t going to be around forever 😅 But that’s just my advice 🤷‍♂️

[@prixe12]

@@JohnDoe-uf3lj You say that like its a bad thing

[@justaghostinthesea]

Ron Swanson walked so that Mr. Birchum could run, trip, break his neck, and be scolded by Hank Hill

[@bumblehoney7206]

Question for other Ron fans, do you think he'd like this show if it was a thing in parks and rec-verse

[@pegasusactua2985]

​@@bumblehoney7206 Ron is an old school libertarian, not a bigot piece of shit

[@averyjeanne]

@@bumblehoney7206he wouldn’t even know it exists because Ron doesn’t use the internet.

[@justarandomsquirrel]

@@bumblehoney7206 i feel like no. i think Ron was very set in his ways but ultimately his values were minding his own business and not having others in his business. it'd therefore be out of character for him to like a show that's essentially just mocking others' views and beliefs

[@bumblehoney7206]

@@averyjeanne just imagine a little? If it was on TV in this fictional universe or if April, Tom, or Donna (or anyone) left it running on a shared office screen and he watched it?

[@JesusChristMarie]

They refer to Karponzi as “heteronormative” but don’t realize that that adjective literally doesn’t apply to this straw man character. Birchum is heteronormative, Karponzi is the opposite, the writers just pulled out a random buzzword they don’t understand.

[@kahlilbt]

I lolled at the writers for that

[@Bushido_Brown.]

"The writers pulled out random buzzwords they don't understand." Because they're mocking the stupidity of said buzzwords. Thanks for proving their point.

[@kahlilbt]

@@Bushido_Brown. So why not mock them for what they actually are and the concepts they actually represent? If anything, the joke as written makes a mockery of their conservative audience for hating things they refuse to intellectually engage with.

[@oneofmanygoogleaccountsima4221]

i feel like they accidentally made the joke REALLY funny for queer audiences- like a man calling himself heteronormative cisgender is hilarious to me (super gay super liberal) *because* i know what heteronormative vs. heterosexual mean & have experience with straight ppl’s clumsy attempts to show solidarity with me! (like he means well ofc, but it can be fun to giggle at in the context of fiction) the show sounds terrible but i did get one laugh out of that clip, so i guess the writers went so far down the bad-comedy direction they got kinda good for a minute there

[@OlgaZuccati]

@@Bushido_Brown. hold that can of ratio sweetie

[@MrsBobMom]

So Daily Wire, a media organization obsessed with American made everything, outsources its animation to Spain?

[@ARantingMarch]

Lmaooo right? But when you think about it, it's the most American thing, ever. Keep things in our country (until it's cheaper to do it elsewhere, cuz saving money is even more American 🤭.)

[@MrsBobMom]

@@ARantingMarch so true! :)

[@SurgeryIsWoke]

Also supposedly so invested in preaching that politics should be kept out of entertainment/comidy and all their entertainment is literally just politics lmao

[@santiagomenchaca4248]

It's like saying you quit the fast food job only to realize that is the one with the most stable paid so you stay.

[@SimonOh]

I call it the Daily Wire Fraud.

[@Metonymy1979]

But Hank was never mad at the world. He loved life, propane, freshly mowed grass and his family he just didn't understand some things that were different. But, once he understood, he was accepting. That's why King of the Hill was amazing.

[@Owesomasaurus]

Hank Hill: he's confused but he's got the spirit.

[@themurdernerd]

Hank was genuinely a good man. He loved Peggy and Bobby (even though he didn't understand him) and he was anti-racist - the one episode where he got called racist, he got extremely upset, and did everything he could to fix the problem. And, BTW, he did NOT like George W. Bush.

[@roninfredricson6958]

Hank is often confused, frustrated, and I'd argue sometimes he IS mad at the world. But he's not BITTER. Characters can be funny. Watching someone be very angry can be very funny. Watching someone be very annoyed can be very funny. But bitterness is not very funny. Especially not as the defining trait of the MAIN CHARACTER.

[@quackman]

@@themurdernerd I remember Hank heavily disliking Bush's handshake to a ridiculous degree, but I don't remember him having a problem with Dubya. edit: isn't that the lesson he learned in the episode?

[@themurdernerd]

@@quackman Yeah, that was my point. He of course supported W because he was a Texan and a Republican...but then when Hank shook his hand, he was freaked out by how weak it was. And to Hank, that handshake was an indicator of W's character.

[@ar1456]

The stupidest thing is that the veteran guy is a Vietnam war veteran when based off age he should be like, a gulf war vet. The idiots that made this are still living in the year 2000. Also is so funny that even conservatives think this show sucks.

[@knightofficer]

Yeah that's the big disconnect, they still think millennials are early 20 somethings (or under) being disaffected youths. When some of them are in their 40s and have been through 3 once-in-a-generation market collapses, 2 long and pointless wars, a global plague. And half of them can't even buy a house. Conservatives can't realize that time will carry on without them. Those Vietnam vets now are about as old as they think WWII vets should be, and the WWII vets are mostly gone now. But they can't acknowledge this because they'd have to acknowledge how old they themselves have gotten.

[@DeathnoteBB]

I mean he could be a Vietnam vet depending on his age.

[@ar1456]

@@DeathnoteBB the youngest Vietnam vets are about 65, and while it is possible he doesn’t really strike me as being that old at all, he doesn’t even have gray hair yet. It just feels like an oversight or a clear hangover of the old character.

[@Taschara-lp6xy]

That was when the character was part of "Crank Yankers" and while there are similarities between the two I doubt that they are meant to be the same character.

[@garrickmusic]

@@DeathnoteBB Trump is 78 and he dodged the Vietnam draft with a PAID FOR note from a doctor claiming Trump had “bone spurs.” The Vietnam war ended on my 10th Birthday, (April 30, 1975) and I’m 59. Add 8.5 years to allow for six months of being in ‘Nam and the absolute youngest a Vietnam vet could be right now is 67.

[@basicindiebro]

It’s funny how this show pissed conservatives off with gay rep and gay people got into it because of a gay joke in one episode

[@jellef4704]

Funny considering Adam is "get off my lawm, covid denying, small government conservative".

[@HelloHuman1]

Not really, there is just seems to be a lot of unaware gay jokes in this show.

[@randomgenretalk8151]

@@HelloHuman1 Not unaware, there are multiple scenes of Birchum having gay dreams.

[@raeesrichards6786]

@HelloHuman1 The "I love wood" mug comes to mind.

[@AlexaSmith]

pim

[@jonahsmith6454]

As a rare leftist NASCAR fan, I think the noose in the gymnasium is a direct reference to an event that happened in NASCAR in the last couple years. A noose was found in the garage of the sport's only black driver. NASCAR strongly condemned it as an act of hate, and they made a big PR campaign of the other drivers rallying around him. Eventually people noticed the same noose-shaped rope in a photo of the garage the previous year when it was assigned to an unrelated driver. Once conservatives found out that it was incidental, there was huge blowback. I bet Mr. Birchum is directly alluding to that considering it fits their model of a supposed jumping to conclusions.

[@sholem_bond]

I bet that's at least part of the explanation. Thanks for sharing; it would make sense if that was a NASCAR reference.

[@beanstheclown]

Having not seen the full episode, but seeing the "noose" in question, my first instinct was, "That's not a noose, it's just twisted up on itself like someone flipped it up wrong. Why is nobody at the very least making a joke about what a shit job the 'racist' did of tying said 'noose'?" Like, you CAN do this sort of storyline and get actual jokes out of it, but you have to actually try...

[@kimifw58]

I assumed it was referencing the Jan 6 riot. This makes more sense.

[@user-account-not-found]

@@jonahsmith6454 💯

[@Owesomasaurus]

That incident got a lot of non-Nascar press at the time.

[@PillarofGarbage]

they should make the teachers kiss

[@JoseBird]

Where would anyone get a wild idea like that?

[@podemosurss8316]

@@JoseBird * Cue the scenes with Naruto and Sasuke accidentally kissing *

[@brentboymebob8754]

"You so busy arguing you forget you're American" is the most ironic moral coming from a network of debate pundits that attempted to cancel a Nursery Rhymes content creator because she said she respects LGBT people

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

Wait, when was that?

[@themurdernerd]

Yep. Same people who will call Democrats groomers, pedophiles, and Satanists.

[@Corgifan2]

Recently I forget the content creator but all she said was she hoped people who are lgbt are happy. Conservatives went crazy and accused her of grooming children

[@gz5405]

@@BlueTyphoon2017 The creator is named Ms. Rachel

[@CollinMcLean]

@@BlueTyphoon2017 A bunch of people went after a youtuber named Ms. Rachel for having a non-binary co-star and wishing the queer community a happy Pride Month on Tiktok. For context on who she is she makes videos to help kids with their developmental language learning skills after being inspired by speech therapists for her son, who had a speech delay and couldn't say his first words until he was two.

[@Germania9]

"Ha, this new animated series will definitely offend them Wokes!" Wokes make gay fan art of said series "Um, whaa....?!"

[@dannymarie]

No no it's because the left is sooo offended we did it we won!

[@ruffethereal1904]

They hurt themselves in confusion. Hate really does rot the mind.

[@SuperKiobi13]

the show itself offended conservatives for having the main "hero" have a gay friend, which was too much for them too take apparently, how ironic that after claiming that liberals are pussies that get offended by everything they act like snowflakes that need a snowflake that need a safe space from that nasty gay people that dare to offend them with their mere existence

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

@@Germania9 the art is hilarious if you're like me and can't unsee Carponzi being Ian "Vaush" Kochinsky aka premiere centaur enthusiast among the left

[@Truekingr6]

I hope you tell yourself that when trump wins the election. I know how much he triggers you people, and I'm black lmao ​@@ruffethereal1904

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

I just find it funny that the scene of Birchum dancing with Karponzi was by FAR the most well animated scene in the show, like the animators knew what was up.

[@Shades14]

A lot of the animators are, in fact, LGBT+, and were not very happy working on a show that blatantly hated them. It's also funny that DW lied about it being made in America because surprise surprise, American animation is expensive and you have to go through the dreaded unions 😱 unless you want to hire freelance or young animation students who have very little experience (and often times, talent) but even they would probably be more expensive than outsourcing to a small animation studio in Spain. But hey, at least they didn't outsource to Korea or something. Yay? USA? USA?

[@phoenixfire6433]

The animation studio (a small operation based in Spain) consisted mostly of LGBT people who naturally did not take kindly to this show and its creators, so they trolled them by inserting homoerotic imagery throughout (like the “I ❤️ Wood” mug with the phallic axe motif on it, and quite possibly the dancing scene as well), which is another level of pure hilarity.

[@KAIJUCHOMPS]

@@phoenixfire6433 I would be really interested on the source for this stuff, it sounds fascinating and cathartic.

[@theotherther1]

It's like the It's Always Sunny episode where they make a fan sequel to Lethal Weapon and the homoerotic volleyball/shower scene has way better production values then the rest of their film..."Dammit Mac!"

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@Shades14 Actually they're operated somewhere in the Baltics.

[@albineigengrau3212]

So basically they called him Mister Birchum because Professor Oak was already taken.

[@warlordofbritannia]

They both ask if you’re a boy or a girl…coincidence?

[@RealZerenaFan]

But Birchum was made in 1994

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

God.

[@serpentmaster1323]

Guys are we all ignoring that professor birch is there too?

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Birchum is Oak's shitty step father

[@RazorRex]

Gotta love how this show was marketed for how offensive it was but shows from the 90s and 2000s have more edge than this.

[@Birdsflight44]

Adventure Time goes way harder than this, let's be real. So much ethically messed up content in there, and what Lumpy Space Princess did... Even hust the overtones are way more fucked than anything in this show. But its almost like when you make a quality work of art, you can actually get away with things. Meanwhile, these folks are screaming about being naughty to try and convince you that they're doing anything of note in the first place.

[@eko9554]

I thought it would be like South Park or family guy level but it’s just very tame with unfunny jokes.

[@CarbonMalite]

They are trying to offend people that mostly aren't watching. The blast radius here is basically some randoms on Twitter.

[@baraness24]

I've seen edgier episodes of Owl House.

[@Eric6761]

​@@baraness24I've seen edgier episodes on Amazing World Of Gumball

[@hartthorn]

The part I love most of all of this is that Mr. Birchum is the BEST POSSIBLE EXAMPLE of a Mary Sue that has existed in mass media multiple decades. He hits EVERY check box so hard you could do an entire media class on it.

[@dvillines26]

well you see for a conservative cultural critic, what Mary Sue means is 'female protagonist' with the implication that it is a bad thing for women to be protagonist in any genre FOR MEN. so, action, sci-fi, epic fantasy, serious dramas.

[@Bushido_Brown.]

​@@dvillines26No, that's not what conservative critics have a problem with. You know this though. You're purposefully miscrontruing their argument though, because you can't argue against their point otherwise. Typical.

[@Bushido_Brown.]

That's supposed to be the joke. Whether you find it funny or not is your opinion. Huge difference between a comedic character be liked despite his flaws rather than serious character have no flaws and be perfect for the sake of the writers bad writing/political talking points.

[@hartthorn]

@@Bushido_Brown. all of that is nonsense. No, it is not part of the joke. Even just in the clips shown, it's just the world bending over backwards to prove the shmuck right. And it's utterly absurd to try and pretend this isn't just bad writing with an EXPLICIT political bent. This show is "shoving politics down your throat" more than every single piece of Star Wars media combined, and yet you give it a pass?

[@hartthorn]

@@Bushido_Brown. And yes, women protagonists, or even being as competent as men, is exactly what modern conservative critics have a problem with. Because they don't actually HAVE any arguments. Everything they've said about any of the various women can just as easily be applied to a dozen men in similar roles.

[@__Andrew]

Turning "and then everyone clapped" meme into a tv show is one of the most conservative things i can think of. Christ.

[@Kth77]

This is "I drew you as the triggered soyjack and myself as an alpha chad therefore I win," the show.

[@theomegajuice8660]

It's weird how they don't get that the comedy of these shows was that the guy doing the rants is supposed to be a dipshit, even while being a sympathetic, relatable and ultimately well-meaning dipshit. Birchum is just a mean guy who bullies people who don't get a chance to answer back. Nobody likes people like that, even when you actually agree with some or all of what they're saying

[@Mr_James_And_Watch]

Now have you seen Velma?

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@Mr_James_And_Watch lol fair, but i think this show is even worse. (by a wide margin, tbh)

[@-tera-3345]

@@idontwantahandlethough Though in respect to Velma, it is part of a trend that I find kind of fascinating, where conservatives cry over the "woke libs" "ruining tv" or whatever, but the biggest examples they complain about are things that even those "libs" hate.

[@seraphonica]

DailyWire seems to be trying to paint themselves as the place people cancelled by Hollywood go to continue their careers... but this series really shows it as the place people mildly inconvenienced by a small part of Hollywood go to burn their bridges and cry about the island they're stuck on.

[@jossypoo]

I like hearing about the ones who leave when they find what they think is a platform. Like the SNL of conservatives

[@ND-nr6mx]

And then they had the AUDACITY to cancel Candace Owens for exercising her free speech?! Big Conservative is trying to censor us!

[@generalhorse493]

Basically like Prince John from Disneys Robin Hood They throw an angry tantrum when they cannot have their way, they call for mom and suck their thumb and do not want to play! The sniveling, groveling, weaseling…

[@Emery_Pallas]

errror 404 likes, here's my like as a comment to keep it like this

[@HurricaneDDragon]

It breaks my heart that Patrick Warburton is involved. 😢

[@crestren5996]

I love how they had to add a black character that agrees with the main character so he doesnt appear as racist. And yes, this applies to the New Norm which is somehow worse than Mr. Birchum

[@xero2135]

Because New Norm is just a lazy pro-conservative take on All In The Family.

[@mariettelafferty8774]

Both are worst

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

That was why the Daily Wire itself hired Candace Owens. I wonder, whatever happened to her? Oh right...

[@iluvwafers]

​@FrozEnbyWolf150 well, tokens will be used 😂

[@jamesrule1338]

"everyone clapped" and "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" the show.

[@miahammond8499]

This show really shows the holes in conservatism, in that they pose mr bircham as a hated outsider who speaks truth to the masses, but also depict him as the power, as someone who says what everyone believes and beloved for it.... You can't be the enemy of the masses and the voice of it at the same time

[@valivali8104]

It also shows cracks and contradictions of conservative idea of masculinity.

[@ElBoricuaBlancoYT]

Portraying your enemies as both weak and strong is a hallmark of extremist ideology

[@RoseKamado-wf3ff]

Not really, those things are also holes on the left. Both sides are guilty of demonizing each other. I’m not political and am annoyed by both. This show is terrible in almost every way, it just happens to be conservative the same way Velma is too “woke”. This is a much more nuanced take and describes the world much better

[@miahammond8499]

@@RoseKamado-wf3ff the fact you view velma as a similar show but "woke" discredits your take instantly lmao

[@tsingletary6311]

How is "zero-tolerance for mentioning intolerance" a jab at the left and not the right? I'm flabbergasted.

[@tsingletary6311]

College professors: "Critical race theory is a way to understand the impacts of racialization from American inception to today." Conservatives: "We have zero-tolerance for mentioning intolerance." So much fits this format, that I hope this clip becomes a stock response to right wing identity oppression.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Mr. Birchum, the conservative show with the largest progressive fan base

[@xp7575]

🤔 I thought it was hysterical until I realized that the writers thought the butt of all the jokes was somehow the hero, that made it even funnier 😂

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

It is so odd.How so many people review the show without a given running for a few years

[@esbenm6544]

@Windchanter420 That one is too lame to get any kind of large fanbase

[@morbidsearch]

And then on the reverse side of the coin, the 'anti-woke" crowd is obsessed with Bluey

[@esbenm6544]

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper cope

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"People that aint like us are weird amirite?" Behold, the unabridged conservative comedy bible

[@gregmark1688]

Every conservative "comedian" ever in a single line.

[@xibalbalon8668]

Conservative comedy is for comedians who never got over being heckled and called unfunny

[@Kth77]

When your worldview is "the other is scary" your comedy is pretty limited.

[@lifeisadrag7705]

@@Kth77 Yeah, it's not like conservatives can't be funny but stuff like that can limit how far you can take it.

[@MattEldritchHorror]

That's pretty much the meat and potatoes of King of the Hill, yet that show always seems to be fondly remembered by people in rose tinted glasses.

[@-N0V4-]

I wouldnt consider it a failure, my AO3 Birchum/Karponzi fic has over 300 views. Judging by the comments people love it

[@RedRan6er]

WE NEED MORE BIRCHUM/KARPONZI FICS

[@darknesskingsized8996]

Lmao is that a real thing you made

[@-N0V4-]

@@darknesskingsized8996 yep. When I learned about how everyone was basically trolling the show with gay fanart I just knew I had to join. There's something liberating about writing 600 words about two fictional men kissing knowing the creators of the show are probably fuming at the overall response they had to their show.

[@seto007]

I will never be able to get the sequence of Birchum and Vaush eyeing each other up before embracing one another and romantically dancing out if my memory

[@nootnewt3]

5:46 I think Danny Trejo the type of guy who takes everything. He was in the newest Yakuza game and in every interview you can tell he had no idea what Yakuza was lol

[@abisnail4888]

Same deal in Fallout New Vegas. Voiced a companion, has a lot of lines, doesn’t even remember the game he was in. Voice acting sometimes is just showing up and doing one take into a microphone. Do a few of those very few days and the gigs sort of blend together after a while.

[@celd8772]

Was in the audience of a speech he gave, he said he takes every job he can if someone reaches out to him including a lot of student films apparently

[@YoungArgonaut]

not only is birchum a more interesting character in the original animatic, but also the style and animation looks so much better and unique

[@manjackson2772]

It looks like king of the hill recreated in Pivot

[@YoungArgonaut]

@@manjackson2772 pivot my beloved

[@pcorn86]

The art style of the pilot reminds me of The Goode Family, one of Mike Judge's less successful projects from around that time.

[@hillbillypowpow]

​@@pcorn86I remember that show, it was ASS. Sad to hear Mike Judge was involved

[@ToxicHAL]

@@manjackson2772don’t insult pivot like that.

[@CaptPeon]

Considering that Adam Corrola got divorced in 2021... i think he's writing his own fan-fiction...

[@Relli80]

That is not surprising I used to listen to his wife’s podcast and he sounded like a complete nightmare. When your podcast partner is worried about you over your partners anger over leaving tea bags in the cup it’s time to re-evaluate.

[@CaptPeon]

@@Relli80 eek! What's this name of her podcast/episode? I'd be intrigued to hear how a radio "sex counselor" (loveline) failed to satisfy his wife! 🤣

[@jonw7214]

The gay fanfiction following is probably the most hilarious thing that could happen to this show

[@uglyoldjafar7060]

mr birchum yaoi is peak

[@theConcernedWyvern]

Honestly the story of a stuck-in-his-ways woodshop teacher butting heads with the inexperienced, militant diversity and equality officer of a school, where they both eventually learn to appreciate each other's perspectives and grow, ans then end up in a happy relationship, sounds like a phenomenal premise. Nothing like a good ol enemies to lovers plot.

[@HyenaDandy]

@@theConcernedWyvern Yeah like... They unintentionally set it up as a perfect pairing.

[@saga685]

Corolla and TDW have been marketing this as "the show Hollywood won't let us make", but it sounds like Carolla has had multiple opportunities to make Birchum. How can you claim to be cancelled when you've been given countless opportunities to milk a dried udder?

[@FragmentJack]

Well, they need to make sure the narrative about “they” holding them back sticks. It’s ironic. They are always talking about how liberals make excuses for not excelling in life and are always blaming others for any setbacks.

[@cameronheaton9900]

Easy, they need to play victim while also being a bully.

[@The1Coleberg]

It’s very telling that Karponzi is meant to be *all* of society that has left Mr Birchum behind. One character represents the contrasting views to Birchum instead of him having the minority opinion - as he would in real life.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

My shop teacher was a fit young man who had a broken nose from his days playing football. He loved the students and was fantastic with us.

[@bsnow304]

I'm jealous. Mine was a creep who got arrested for being a creep

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@bsnow304 at my high school it was the band director, who was _married to a former student he taught at the middle school in the past_ who then proceeded to [do “things” to teenage underage girls] for a long time before being caught- I knew the one he got caught over, my sibling 5 yrs older than me knew another who testified at his trial. Of course I assume he started the relationship with his wife- another teacher by this time- when she was 12 🤢

[@bsnow304]

@@OscarLangleySoryu That's terrible

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@bsnow304 yes it is

[@OrgaNik_Music]

All the shop teachers I had were either young, enthusiastic guys or washed up hacks who let us do whatever and didn't care.

[@WikiSorcerer]

I'm shocked people didn't immediately accuse it of being woke for giving the main character a black friend.

[@Daedalus117]

Oh don't worry, people have accused it of wokeness

[@leress]

They definitely did since there is a gay character in the show.

[@davidtaylor142]

They did

[@raeesrichards6786]

People accused it of being woke for the gay token character; thankfully, at least: Birchum wasn't called woke for having a black friend.

[@unknown6390]

The wokeness compass goes from one pole to the next depending on which way they want to grift

[@sydhamelin1265]

The Daily Wire's strategy is unsustainable. The eventual reality, that these people weren't "canceled", they were just left behind, will cause the collapse. You can't make any real entertainment, when your pool is strictly people who have proven they cannot entertain.

[@jonathaneilbeck2263]

Or major scandal breaks out. Outfit like that's bound to have a scandal breakout, regardless of how much oil and drilling money is used to cover it up.

[@sydhamelin1265]

@@jonathaneilbeck2263 Heh, yeah that's definitely in the cards. Just from what I saw in this vid, the show is fundamentally unfunny. I think conservatives feel like the ordinary world is attacking them, so all their material gets so weirdly political. Like, in the writing room, they won't allow any jokes that don't have politics intertwined.

[@DomVonDoom]

​@@sydhamelin1265It definitely feels like they are on the "attack" all the time. Like they can't have a single thought or line of thinking that doesn't include a way to "own the libs" or other perceived enemy real or imagined.

[@mommalion7028]

If 50% of the audience isn’t being served by the the other options a subscription model May actually work. We won’t know yet.

[@manderly33]

@@mommalion7028 Not if the output sucks. Also: 50%? Lol you wish.

[@arkenthusiast]

The noose plot reminds me of the 2020 Bubba Wallace noose incident when NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, who had just gotten the confederate flag banned, found his garage pull string tied into a noose. He was concerned about a potential hate crime but the FBI concluded that the noose was tied before his team moved into that garage. I remember conservatives saying people were too quick to claim racism when honestly it was a pretty reasonable assumption

[@Des17S]

"You as a black man are going to jump to conclusions that noose tied where you work is racism pftt. How silly.". The real question is...why was it up there for so long and no one investigated or did anything about it until then???

[@samb8744]

Dam, the animation in the 2011 pilot was so much better and full of character than the actual show now

[@crazyluigi6664]

Hell, that peanut butter sniffing dogs joke was funnier than anything from The Daily Wire show. Also, the Payday bar moment felt more emotional by comparison to whatever moments they want to claim as emotional as well.

[@Basteal]

Old man power fantasy is that he's not only still relevant, but he's the smartest person in the room and everyone should listen to him. It's funny how, as people get older and weaker in a lot of ways, they convince themselves they they're actually at their best, and it's everyone else who's wrong. I hope I never get too old headed to remember that.

[@Daedalus117]

The best part is when those old people are in a position of power and they refuse to step aside and let a younger person in instead of just fucking retiring

[@DaedalusShard]

It doesn't help that a lot of people don't adopt a lifelong learning mentality and assume they have known everything they need to know most of their lives. They fail to adapt in personal and professional spaces alike. Corolla is literally recycling comedy material from almost 30 years ago and ideas from the Bronze Age.

[@Daedalus117]

Y'know I was thinking more of people like Diane Feinstein who chose to die in office rather than foster a replacement and retire like a normal person, but I guess Biden works. Though if he was gonna step down he should have done it a while ago so a proper non-rushed primary could be held

[@paolo2763]

Oh God... It IS Old man power fantasy! That's really sad :S

[@Dakadaka69]

Ur 19 😂

[@Fluffkitscripts]

I don’t think it’s right to say they’ll grow up to be divorced men. Women are getting more socially conscious, they probably won’t get married in the first place.

[@chaosvii]

Hope springs eternal.

[@theketaminekid1241]

Yeah, ouch

[@stevonwhite8933]

Yeah, don’t think many of the young boys/young men that are brainwashed by the Alt-right will ever get that chance. More and more women are just not gonna settle for *anything* .

[@Whiteythereaper]

I would love if this were the case, but those types of guys usually always manage to find _someone_ to be tricked enough into thinking they're the right person to end up married to

[@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS]

It's kind of like how some studies have said abortions rates are the lowest they've ever been because of birth control and other contraceptives. Women are just getting not pregnant to begin with as much anymore.

[@philipvipond2669]

Alternate title: "And Then Everybody Clapped-The Animated Series"

[@jaywhangmakes]

Please Clap: the Animated Series

[@darrens3]

@@jaywhangmakes THE Clap: The Animated Series

[@lucasmatiasdelaguilamacdon7798]

You know how this series could’ve been good? Make the liberal teacher the main character. Make him be the newcomer into a Small town. Make him have to learn the ways of rural america, of the people he needs to teach. Make him learn the grievances of small town communities, make him lear about the common ground he shares with them. That the working class struggle is common to both the urban public school teacher and the rural small town worker.

[@dougthedonkey1805]

So like the private teacher in Fiddler on the Roof basically

[@themurdernerd]

That's entirely too "woke" for that crowd

[@Trunks1200]

I laughed so hard at Carolla saying "birch is the name of a wood" and some guy in the background going "you're right" lmao

[@lbcyber]

24:45 Adam Carolla angrily complaining how he thinks he has more comedic talent or noteworthiness than Tig Notaro is fucking pathetic. Just needed to get that out there.

[@unknown6390]

Him making a disgusting joke proposal to that girl on the phone should easily revoke his comedy card

[@aSwineofCulture]

seriously... "Live" is an all-time great standup special; raw, introspective, heart-breaking, but also hopeful, life-affirming, and hilarious

[@DichotomousRex]

It's such a disgusting dig, and there isn't even a joke there. Tight Notaro is an icon.

[@gilmour6754]

Adam's just bitter that the goodwill Loveline gave him dried up 15 years ago and he's got nothing else.

[@darthnephilim]

Tig Notaro is not funny at all but neither is Adam Carolla.

[@MrGameSecrets]

New Norm straight up reads like dry satire. This is the type of shit my friends and I say to each other in truck guy voices.

[@Colddirector]

I love how Elon's entrance is so self-congratulatory and out of touch that it's pretty much exactly how a leftist mocking him would depict him.

[@jonathaneilbeck2263]

​@@Colddirector It felt North Korean propaganda.

[@burgerpocalypse]

i fully support mr. birchum and the new norm. we need more conservative cartoon productions that waste billionaire money

[@iziah2161]

Mr birchum x norm

[@phoenixfire6433]

Petition to start a Daily Wire cinematic universe (it’ll keep them busy and be a great way of burning the Wilks brothers’ money)

[@fandroid6491]

More conservative cartoons with vaguely hot conservative men so we can make more yaoi

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

@@fandroid6491 more conservative toxic old man yoai? And we'll make the conservatives pay for it!

[@rogirek3362]

@@chickadeestevenson5440 If you believe the news coming out of Grindr, they already are paying for it.

[@piotrwisniewski70]

17:24 unrealistic, no Asian father would say "good job son" he would say "you're not a failure this time son"

[@jamesrule1338]

Imagine writing, multiple times, "and everyone clapped" as an ending to a story.

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

Nice strawman liberal. They actually said, "and everybody STOOD UP and clapped."

[@jamesrule1338]

@@TheModdedwarfare3 I stood up and clapped when I read this.

[@guavapaste]

@@TheModdedwarfare3 You are wrong, everybody stood up, lifted an american flag, played the US anthem, _then_ clapped.

[@mavericklysander]

Hilarious that the standard tumblr fake story "And everyone clapped" is treated very seriously in this show.

[@violetbackedstarling]

Unfortunately birchum died after being mugged by the evil down with cis bus

[@dvillines26]

'And everyone clapped' is a dead serious trope in conservative spheres, with absolutely no sense of irony. In particular there's that stupid story with a Marine and an atheist college professor that the Facebook brainrotted evangelicals adore. with no recognition of how cringe it is. because they literally, sincerely believe it is a thing that happened, in part because they want to believe it, and in part because the idea of ever thinking critically frightens them because then they might have to self-reflect on their own life and choices and admit that they're at fault for some things.

[@mavericklysander]

@@violetbackedstarling tragic that it happened just after he gave that kid a lecture about ordering warm milk at Starbucks

[@Alex-cw3rz]

"Worth it or Woke" says it all, if something is bad, it can't just be bad, that has to be because it's woke. It must be exhausting constantly pretending everything is because of some woke conspiracy even when it's just a bad TV show or movie.

[@dvillines26]

they don't even have any discernment, so even when superficial representation and cringe liberal things are at fault, nobody gives it any credibility because they're saying it about EVERYTHING. I'm of the opinion when you implement political leaning into something poorly, no matter what part of the spectrum it's on, it sucks, but these people don't think that way. They're stupid, so if they see any LGBT people in media portrayed as anything other than villains, it's WOKE AND BAD. A number of other things trigger them in the same way, including invoking feminism (although Hollywood is notoriously bad at sincere feminism and it's usually buzzwords and glib namechecking).

[@eko9554]

Sometimes if it’s a good show or movie that happens to have representation of minorities, they will still call it woke. Like monkey man or Baymax the series.

[@erranttemplar2303]

“Lady Ballers” might be successful for the same reason Asylum films are somewhat successful: it was cheap to produce and enough people wanted to see how bad it was for it to make money.

[@dangerousdays2052]

And the positive review bombing Lady Ballers got from literal incels with nothing better to do. 😂😂

[@catdogmousecheese]

My theory is that The Asylum is a front for some criminal organization who just makes bad cheap movies to launder their dirty money.

[@CollinMcLean]

@@catdogmousecheese I have the same theory regarding Steven Seagal

[@portmantologist]

It's funny how conservatives keep inventing fictional universes that validate their beliefs, and audiences keep rejecting them.

[@gagaplex]

I can never look at Brett Cooper and _not_ think "Rule 63 Ben Shapiro", damn.

[@patrickclarke8623]

Rule #1 of comedy: Be funny

[@mr.pavone9719]

The problem is Adam Corolla has never actually been funny.

[@ChicaneryBear]

Rule #2: if you can’t be funny, be clever

[@lizardguyNA]

@@ChicaneryBear What's rule 3? Surely going down the list of rules will eventually find one Corolla follows.

[@misael960]

@@lizardguyNA if I remember correctly, youtube caps comments at 500, so we couldn't.

[@soupmix999]

​@misael960 that's crazy /pos

[@CakeGoober]

Babe wake up he's doing deadbeat dad brickleberry

[@Grizabeebles]

The Comedy in Mr. Bircham sounds like the kind of "memberberries" call-and-response mocking and jeering what the audience doesn't understand that my Dad finds funny. He's the kind of guy who still repeats one-liners from 80s action movies and expects a laugh.

[@samovarsa2640]

My God, the boomer equivalent of that one kid who thought that quoting lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail made them instantly funny...

[@commandergs1390]

@@samovarsa2640To be fair, that’s an incredibly funny movie in its own right.

[@112428]

​@commandergs1390 And was also incredibly low budget. But they embraced it, and had good writers.

[@podemosurss8316]

@@112428 Well, no wonder they were low budget after they had to fire those people who kept writing about nooses in the credits.

[@RazorRex]

I wouldn’t be surprised if The Critical Drinker (Stinker) sucked up to this show.

[@Mafon2]

Whoaaaah! I need to watch it !

[@RazorRex]

@@Mafon2 I mean he sucked up to Lady Ballers and other Daily Wire trash.

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

I’m surprised he hasn’t made a video about it yet. Is he struggling to think of ways to defend it or something?

[@RazorRex]

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 Perhaps. Of course, he recommended Blue Eye Samurai when if anything he should hate it because of the strong female lead, the Asian cast, and the fact that the only white person is the antagonist. He probably only liked it because of all the naked women.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

@@RazorRex …or maybe he rated it on its objective story writing? Blue Eye Samurai has great story telling. This objectively isn’t. I’m not saying Drinker doesn’t have biases, we all do, and if you think you don’t you probably have the worst ones, but this ain’t it.

[@Kaylakaze]

Jimmy Kimmel knew "The Man Show" was a joke. Adam Carolla internalized that shit.

[@EmmaMaySeven]

I thought Birchum = birch 'em. He's a teacher and "to birch" is to inflict corporal punishment, so a not-too-subtle nod to rightwing talking points about how kids today are out of control and need a good thrashing. And, of course, Birchum is the kinda teacher who would wholeheartedly engage in such a thing. But it's literally just about wood? Okay.

[@warlordofbritannia]

You’re implying a far greater level of subtlety and intelligence than they possess.

[@ZW_Zacattack99]

As someone who’s literal last name is “Wood”, that’s deep.

[@theConcernedWyvern]

Dang i didnt know that! Learn something new every day

[@bumblehoney7206]

I feel so bad 😂 you were so generous with your optimism that it couldn't be THAT bad

[@porqupyne1493]

when i first heard of the show i thought it was smth to do with the john birch society. conservative old white dude named 'birch' being held up as a heroic figure and all. but when you hear about the origins of the character being 'adam carolla wanted to take the piss out of woodshop guys he used to know' then the goofy wood name is fair enough

[@CherryHotSauce]

I agree that Mr Karponzi was the stand out character. He shined like a rainbow sun in unicorn heaven.

[@jhonshephard921]

so even the fake Vaush is likable

[@theomegajuice8660]

He kinda just seems like a more forced version of Mr Frond from Bob's Burgers to me... and he's being pitched against an aggressive adult man instead of a group of weird kids so it hits pretty differently

[@daemonspudguy]

​@@jhonshephard921what's great about that is the fact that Vaush is pansexual. Openly pansexual. Karponzi is clearly meant to mock Vaush specifically and they couldn't even get the most basic facts correct about the guy they're mocking. The levels of fail are truly astounding.

[@basedeltazero714]

​@@daemonspudguy I honestly doubt Karponzi is meant to be a direct attack on Vaush so much as the sort of leftist-hipster-manbun stereotype that at one point he had. ...besides, if it was meant to be a Vaush parody they'd probably have made it... worse.

[@shanefoster2132]

"All those horrible shop teachers that loved woodworking and hated kids..." That's really sad and unfortunate. I was lucky enough to have a shop teacher who loved craftmanship and teaching kids.

[@aralornwolf3140]

I had three... Though, shop, woodworking, and electrical... each class was a different school... (Middle School, Middle School in another province, High School)...

[@tatkkyo9911]

My experience was 2 out of the 3 shop teacher i had hated kids the 3rd i had was a metal shop teacher who cared and taught decently

[@phoenixfire6433]

Here’s a useful list of things that are funnier than Mr Birchum (and The New Norm, while we’re at it): - Newton’s Principia Mathematica - Nico Robin’s backstory - Having three Flyfish spawn at once - Large patches of nondescript, drab algae - Velma (god help us) - Ten-hour Skibidi Toilet compilations - The movie “Grave of the Fireflies” - Hitting yourself in the groin repeatedly -The fact that this show was made unironically

[@jamesrule1338]

Love the inclusion of Grave of the Fireflies on this list.

[@ExtremeWreck]

- Tomorrow's Pioneers

[@rambbler]

- Desert Bus full play through

[@Reruro]

Jesus you can't just toss out a Nico Robin backstory like that.

[@valivali8104]

- that this Mr. Birchum shows how illogical, full of cracks and contradictions conservative idea of masculinity really is.

[@ABLW100]

The way you said "Mr. Birchum looks like it was drawn on the 4's" was such a dig. Loved it!

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Wait the show outsourced its animation abroad? Lmfao!

[@jampine8268]

Wouldn't be a conservative if there wasn't any hypocrisy.

[@dvillines26]

ain't no way American animators would do it for the peanuts they were willing to pay.

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

Part of the endless reasons this failed is because Birchum is conspicuously inspired by animated dads like Homer Simpson, Peter Griffon and Stan Smith. But those are mostly parodies of poor fatherhood, here instead they have interpreted their nostalgia of those better shows into a straight-faced belief that these were *actually* examples to follow.

[@royalhydra9790]

Would ironically make him popular, since a alarmingly high number of conservatives kind of just admit they don't respect their kids

[@lazyhammerwieldingpenguin2247]

Thanks to this show, Adam Carolla will always be remembered as, "more talented than Dave Ruben."

[@bsnow304]

Truly a high bar to clear /s

[@jaywhangmakes]

That's the biggest faint praise toward Adam Carolla that I have ever heard.

[@psycher7]

Accurate, but I think I'll stick with how I've described him for years, "less talented than Jimmy Kimmel", which is also an achievement of sorts.

[@neongrey333]

@@psycher7 this all creates the most hyperspecific range within the lower half of the mediocrity zone that no one ever needed

[@drewfromyay882]

He's known for The Man Show and Loveline, not for whatever garbage hes doing now.

[@OrgaNik_Music]

The most annoying part is that there are a lot of ideas in the show that could go somewhere interesting, but then they just default to "Mr. Birchum was right and then everyone stood up and clapped" every time.

[@CascadianRanger]

Honestly, that little scene of the pilot Birchum sitting, listening to some old merica country rock, and enjoying a Payday is... wholesome. Beautiful even. Its a man who maybe knows his day is coming to an end, but instead of angrily lashing out and imposing it on others for it to survive, he instead stealing a moment to enjoy the parts of that day that brought him joy. It is contructive, healthy, and even aspirational. Like, i think we all wish or strive to be able to have those little moments, where it is just us and our past, if only for a momebt.

[@criticalevent]

Trying to be Bill Burr with Adam Carolla talent.

[@billbill6094]

F is for Family succeeds where Birchum never could.

[@lich109]

"Talent".

[@ToxicHAL]

@@billbill6094yep and F if for family is based on Bill Burrs dad.

[@ninjalectualx]

Burr is still right-wing, he's a libertarian

[@criticalevent]

@@ninjalectualx What he's not is a stupid hack with 4 jokes.

[@OneLorel]

Would you say the problem with the “society’s left him behind” framing is that the show is trying to say he’s better than the rest of the world. Each of those other shows have their person left behind learning from the new and growing, touching into a deeper hope that anyone (no matter how left behind) can grow and be kind and good to others.

[@OneLorel]

I precommented

[@daltonanderson3718]

Tyler Fischer literally went on Joe Rogan and said he can't get jobs because he is white discriminated against. Goes to show the type of talent Carolla got to work with if this guy was all he got.

[@DAVA653]

In short: just watch King of The Hill instead

[@hellaradusername]

Duckman was a 90's adult cartoon where an anti-PC character with a lot of vices was allowed to rant at length in every episode but it worked because he was allowed to be wrong, and it wasn't just a mouthpiece for the creator's sincere beliefs. Also the character had a lot of emotional baggage and some hidden depths. It ran for like 5 seasons on cable before being abruptly cancelled after a cliffhanger.

[@RyJones]

I miss Duckman so much

[@unknown6390]

Duckman was a masterpiece

[@lonesavior]

Duckman walked so Bojack Horseman could fly.

[@RusPitman]

@@RyJonesit’s on KZbin

[@jamesrule1338]

The episode where Duckman's son (forget his name, not going to look it up) become the messiah to a planet of very dumb aliens lives rent free in my head. "Blessed are the pacemakers, though they prevent us from inheriting earlier."

[@WillowGardener]

"vaguely lefty ASMR voices to lull you to sleep and you've already watched all the videos on my channel" Outstanding.

[@pleuriglosse8198]

I genuinely laughed out loud!

[@Inferno144]

I see Mr. Birchum and go 'Yeah, if Hank Hill was an unlikeable asshole that never changed' Go watch King of the Hill, its golden TV show era.

[@edwardzignot2681]

King of the Hill really is great. I'm a leftist and I still love it, and still consider Hank Hill one of the greatest T.V. characters ever written. He was conservative, for the time, but still learned from mistakes, treated even people he disagreed with with compassion and empathy and was genuinely funny. Putting Hank into uncomfortable situations and seeing how he dealt with them was always a highlight of the show and usually resulted in you gaining respect for this fictional man. He was a genuinely good, again fictional, guy, unlike any modern conservative character I can think of. Even when you disagreed with him, you could understand why and how he came to the positions he did and learn something about yourself in the process!

[@Inferno144]

@@edwardzignot2681 You lost me at Lefist. Good for you tho, I just dont care for politics.

[@manjackson2772]

​@@Inferno144you're on a political youtube channel

[@Inferno144]

@@manjackson2772 Really? I watched most of his other videos and it didnt seem that way.

[@dangerousdays2052]

@@Inferno144 Nice to know you don't believe in workers rights. 🙄🙄

[@grfrjiglstan]

2:06 That’s actually a pretty clever visual gag. If the punchline was “look at their hasty, superficial attempts to appear more progressive” instead of “this is a sign of the actual biblical end times”, we’d be in business.

[@teylawhite687]

Okay but why the hell did they reference the fascism hammers from The Wall in the “ToolLivesMatter” sequence???

[@lordofhyphens]

Yeah, I was a bit thrown seeing the walking hammers and wondered for a minute if Doug Walker's animated face would show up

[@ottagol1985]

They're still under the belief that "Black Lives Matter" are communists... even though communists and the black community are not on each other's Christmas Card lists for decades.

[@themurdernerd]

@@lordofhyphens If that happened, the suck would be so hard, the universe itself would implode

[@Bluehawk2008]

Calling the pilot an "animatic" sounds funny, when it has more detailed linework and animation than the later show. An animatic is usually a very rough animation (like keyframes only without tweens) or even just the storyboard panels with timing and placeholder VO.

[@jadewedge6082]

There's something immensely gratifying to me about seeing some awful people launch their awful service with their awful shows... And having it like. Flop, in a way. And they can't really blame '''THE LEFT''' or ""CANCEL CULTURE" for it. Only their own audience, lmao.

[@jonathaneilbeck2263]

That's the problem with trying to appease the ignorant and bigoted. You have an audience of idiots.

[@GeneralBolas]

"Can't" blame them? Of course they can, and they will! Sure, it'll be complete nonsense, sour grapes, and sore losership. But that's kinda the conservative brand at the moment.

[@jadewedge6082]

@@GeneralBolas Yeah. Yeah I guess they will.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

What I like best about this show is funding was cut to shop classes ages ago and you won't find them anywhere in America

[@yopi7239]

Washington still mostly has shop classes

[@CutYourBangs9]

A couple highschools in my area still have them

[@dalekrenegade2596]

My old Highschool's has since been turned into a pretty sweet biolab. Not so fun fact the old woodshop teacher tragically died years ago but is remembered fondly even getting a VERY well made portrait made in his honor.

[@escapefr0mslender]

Im in DC I got shop class

[@outlawruby]

i went to school in suburban atlanta and i think we only had one high school in the entire school district which had a woodshop/metalshop(where you fix cars i think) class. And this was the largest school district in the state. All the money goes towards athletics for the most part.

[@xenosphobatic]

Hank from King of the Hill stands alone in that, despite the world having passed him by, Hank doesn't try to revert it or to change the world. Rather, he adapts himself as best he can to the new world he finds himself in. He also loves his son and tries to demonstrate it the best he knows how, which is especially challenging with his upbringing.

[@MrRattlebones640]

Its funny how conservatives dont see the irony of claiming "everyone is offended at everything nowadays" whilst simultaneously making a show complaining about aspects of modern society.

[@dr_popcorn]

based Death fan

[@jeremygregorio7472]

I'm just shocked anyone remembers the Green New deal. Also the show sounds like it gets a list of talking points given to the writers and those writers have to write a show around them

[@raeesrichards6786]

Wait, did something happen to the New Green Deal...?? The joke sucked, but I didn't realize it also didn't hit for people because it fell out of the public consciousness. This just shows that current affairs jokes don't work well for animation as it's a medium that takes time to produce (especially when it comes to culture war jokes, as culture war politics changes all the time); Mr. Birchum likely started in production in 2022, when the New Green Deal was still [relatively] relevant.

[@ew275x]

I think it means the joke was written back when that was relevant since the pop culture references feel very outdated in the show.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

@@raeesrichards6786 so the Green New deal died because the people in Congress pushing it did a stupid ass preamble bill full of social justice warrior stuff and that let the right wing paint it as an SJW bill instead of a jobs bill. I think it was AOC and the other squad members who did it and they learned from it to their credit and dropped the SJW stuff from subsequent bills but by then the damage was done SJW is just woke is just political correctness and Americans have had 40 plus years of non-stop propaganda telling them how horrible political correctness is so you have to as a liberal or a lefty stay away from it.

[@jaywhangmakes]

Where was the hype and energy for the Green New Deal? It disappeared after the COVID pandemic.

[@SpottedHares]

@@raeesrichards6786no. It was more a marketing plot because form some reason conservatives think that being green and not completely destroying the biosphere is bad because….. they don’t seems to know we also live on this planet.

[@witzitzilin]

Mr Birchum is not a failure, it's my favourite BL right now

[@JeremyBearimy913]

BL?

[@hyche_-6790]

​@@JeremyBearimy913it stands for "Boy's Love", which is the japanese term for gay romance stories, like Yaoi. Hope this helps :)

[@verskarton]

@@JeremyBearimy913Boys Love. Think Yaoi without the naughty bits.

[@Senturia]

Boys love? ​@@JeremyBearimy913

[@JeremyBearimy913]

@@verskarton ... I now have even more questions than I had before...

[@foartistry8]

Don't go attacking my OTP like this

[@dominomasked]

Shipping harder than Amazon

[@GenuineMartin]

It's always a psychologically damaging when Jeremy Boreing appears on screen. I'm like "Oh hey it's Sam Reich, beloved CEO of Dropout and host of Game Changer-- wait oh no oh no oh no"

[@trennerdios]

He truly is the anti-Sam Reich

[@JDLupus]

0:34 seconds in and I'm already astounded at how blatantly sloppy the animation is; closing the car door right through his legs like that.

[@KartkaPapieru_]

That "tool lives matter" joke is just gross...

[@RusPitman]

As much as it seems like they’re comparing black people to property (such as a work tool) it’s probably just the tired old conservative comedy trope of “mentioning a thing is the joke”.

[@billbill6094]

​@@RusPitman Even inadvertantly they're cheapening the movement caused by the undeniable overpolicing and deaths of black americans by the police, caused by legislation written to disrupt black communities that were getting too involved in their political future. Even if they didn't think of "we're comparing black people to property" when writing the "joke", they're still purposefully trying to cheapen what they consider "annoying complaints" from black america by tone deafly comparing it to a mild inconvenience that they can actually conceptualize. It's borne of the complete inability to fathom the reality of millions that they're priveleged enough not to experience.

[@kingarndt9194]

It´s obviously gross and disrespectful. But first of all: totally uncreative. And I hate to say it, because of the implication, but "MeTool" would have worked better, at least (and yeah, I write this only because of the sound, not about the content). And I know, that´s a cynical joke, nonetheless. Oh, god, I hope, Dailywire will not contact me to write better punchlines. :D

[@KartkaPapieru_]

@@kingarndt9194 True, you could at least chuckle at this.

[@KartkaPapieru_]

@@RusPitman quite probably

[@slim_streams]

I've never clicked on a video faster Also it's so interesting to me that this series almost has some hint of nuance that it immediately tramples. Like birchum talks about how his younger years were great but flashbacks show he had a pretty bad life, and he's clearly trying to cope. But because the series is insistent on birchum always being correct, he can't progress past that mindset. It'd be hilarious if this show somehow gets more seasons and they're forced to actually progress his character

[@unknowngod8221]

well there a anime where the mc did not progress at all pass season 1 and maybe 2 literally he did not develop at all btw it's name is rent a girlfriend so really they can do that lol

[@fayerawcliffe7794]

The beef character is so funny to me cause my dogs nickname is Mrs beef and we constantly just yell “beef” at her in the same voice

[@catbatrat1760]

After she's been sitting in your lap for a while: "I smell like beef."

[@baileywright729]

2:33 all dogs are peanut butter sniffing dogs. they all do that.

[@blindjedi636]

Do you know what’s sad, the idea of a man stuck in a changing world with his dysfunctional family trying to hold everything together himself was done better with the incredibles

[@keiththorpe9571]

4:45 "And all of whom, much like me, became old, out of touch, and irrelevant...over the years!" Yeah, I had to finish that thought for him.

[@SaffronicSaffron]

The art style of the original short or pilot looks so good. Like it was in the early 2000s.

[@infinitesimalperinfinitum]

He doesn't even know tools. There's no such thing as a "hypoid" saw. It's a circular saw with a hypoid gear. Which does next to nothing to the operation, it's just a cool word Milwaukee can write on the box. And I've never heard of, nor could find an example of, a "banjo saw".

[@aralornwolf3140]

A banjo saw is a saw that cuts banjos. Duh!

[@themurdernerd]

Yeah I thought it was just a nickname for a band saw...

[@theotherther1]

It'd be interesting if Birchum got a student from a country like Burundi, Sri Lanka, China or the islands of the Torres Strait, where woodcarving arts are a matter of national pride. But that would require going out and learning something about the inherent humanity of people who aren't white.

[@AnonJuggerbot]

"Its too late wokies, I've drawn myself as the chad, and you as the soyjack"

[@CorndogMaker]

animatics don't have full animation or color like that. That is just a pilot episode. animatics are just a story board with the keyframes roughly timed out. Calling that an animatic seems to have been a marketing choice to preemptively apologize for the pilots limited animation

[@MichaelKoenig-dm8sr]

You're kind of missing a huge chunk of context for the rope thing. The noose falling conveniently into the shape of a noose, the joke of automatically assuming racism, and the general reaction to the noose are all references I believe to the 2020 incident where Bubba Wallace claimed someone left a noose in his garage. It turned out the noose had been there since 2019 actually because someone tied it that way as a hand grip, and at some point while using the bay Bubba thought it was a noose directed at him when he happened to notice it. Honestly makes the whole episode worse because 1) the rope hadn't always been in the gym, it was removed then reinstalled 2) The noose as a simple loop had purpose, the janitor brushing it aside is just coincidence and 3) As stated in your video, the incident would've been stronger with an actual person targeted, to further strengthen the tie to the reference material

[@psycher7]

Wallace didn't claim that. His pit manager did. They had just moved into a new facility. The manager thought it looked weird, but walked around every garage to see if any other door had it. Turns out it was left by the previous occupant.

[@referencetosomething4187]

A note on animation: while it's true that drawing on 2s vs 1s does save time and money, there are several other factors that are also considered. Drawing a whole new thing every frame opens up twice as many opportunities for mistakes, and can lead to an animation looking "soupy" if 1s are used all the time without consideration for timing. 1s are mainly necessary for fast actions like running or when the background is moving with the character. But other than that, 2s work great in most other situations. 3s and 4s get more noticeable for sure, but there are plenty of skilled animators out there that can be clever about their use. That being said Birchum looks to be animated on 6s by animators who (justifiably so) don't give a fuck

[@SpottedHares]

Apparently it was outsource to an India animation studio that has a lot of LGTB+ people working there. Which does seem to explain the homo erotic under tons the show has with Birchim and Karpanzi.

[@pengwin_]

The Daily Wire audience is like a intolerant version of the "thatguywiththeglasses" audience with how they just want glorified crossovers of untalented people.

[@jaywhangmakes]

It's more Rooster Teeth for CHUDs, considering all of their pundits and staff members who have no training in acting participate in their entertainment contents as actors.

[@Colddirector]

@@jaywhangmakesExcept Rooster Teeth did make some good stuff. DW from what I’ve seen has made nothing that isn’t partisan slop, completely incompetent or both. Maybe it’s just my bias speaking but I think early RvB still holds up well, while basically nothing from TGWTG has aged well

[@budderk1305]

birchum is a wood pun? wow so deep

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

I mean eh does love wood