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[Agent Calc]

I love that Agent Calc's balloon-like blue nose deflates the same time his confidence or ego deflates. I love the character designs. I love the implication of Agent Calc being around the same age as me with the flashback where he was a teenager with a One Piece shirt. I love that the villain reminds me of Spamton G. Spamton. I love how the credits sequence suddenly turned this into a spot-on parody of the intro to the legendary GoldenEye 007 (N64).

In short, I...love this.

[Solar Girl: She's fighting for you!]

Brilliant action sequence!

[Demo Reel 2024]

Incredible! You worked on a lot of the best stuff in the last 5 or so years! And in different art styles and different aspects of the 2D animation pipeline!

[Tired Of Being Alone]

This is basically Casper the Friendly Ghost. Great message about how, for better or worse, being kind to others is its own rewards (we likely won't get acknowledged for our good deeds, like the ghost here), yet we all deserve love and companionship regardless. It's interesting the ghost couldn't get what they wanted after literally bringing an old man back to life, but the ghost finally got some love in return by playing cars with the baby.

SnowyPunk responds:

Thank you! Now that you said it I realise it is basically Casper haha <3

[SONIC DOWNUNDER]

Sonic Downunder? Isn't that just Ty the Tasmanian Tiger? Or Kao the Kangaroo?

This has to be one of my favorite JoelyMoley animations in a while. The animation is so smooth (except when it's not smooth for comedic effect, of course), the sound effects are on-point, and it cracks me up every time I re-watch it on both YouTube and Newgrounds, especially the "She's gonna blow!!" part!

[Intelligent News Network (ft. Tomska)]

Why? Why is this so smoothly animated?? I was expecting this video to make me angry because it's a parody of TV news and I'm becoming increasingly convinced every time my mother turns on the TV that TV news is going to destroy democracy as we know it.

BUT NO. I'm just in awe of how smooth the animation and inbetweens are.

[Fantasy Animal Fight]

That mushroom-gorilla thing seems like a FUN GUY! Get it? "Fun guy"?

Okay, okay, I'm leaving now. At least I don't use Comic Sans in my credit sequences!

[EP 1: Origin - METROGENERIC]

I, too, wholeheartedly support Gertrude/Trudy's change in lifestyle. Seeing her former self as a smiling, happy-go-lucky hard worker before the tentacles was unsettling!

[Closing Remarks [Game Changer]]

This looks hand-drawn and CGi at the same exact time and my brain is struggling to process this.

[Trump in Smiling Friends]

Real-life Trump: Pretty much my main motivation to be involved in politics right now is to make him and his constant whining and crying finally go away.

Zach Hadel Trump impression: Comedy gold, keeps me sane in each progressively-unhinged Election Year, also somehow sounds more "real" than the actual voice that comes out of Trump, if that makes any sense.