JonTron's Happy Hour: Episode 1 - Heads and Horses - Videos for the 97.4%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ijHcQJPKs&t=0s

So now he's following Ricky Gervais's steps with animated podcast/radio chat hours. Huh... At least the sponsorship was at the end this time.

The ROI on podcasts is so absurdly high that it's a borderline bad idea to not have one if you're a content creator. I think podcasts are a bubble that will pop pretty soon.

Can we talk about how animated rick looks like the host from Total Drama Island.

So following podcasts for a while I've seen a trend form. It seems that popularity alternates between two primary styles of podcasts. You have talk-show style podcasts that are more about the personality of the people running it and how they interact, like this or The Official Podcast or something like Last Podcast on the Left. On the other side you have drama podcasts that are episodic works of fiction, often with an overaching seasonal plot, shows like Welcome to Nightvale or King Falls. From what I've seen the drama podcasts are on the way out while talk-show podcasts are going strong. Another style in there is the informative monologue style, so something like Lore or Hardcore History that is just a person presenting information on a subject every episode. But those seem to appeal to a different audience entirely in many respects than the other two, or at least are treated different as they've maintained their popularity independent of the other two.

I think it has to do with how Social isolated people are now a days. Whether it be because they work to much, the growing number of people working from home(myself included in this bunch), or general depression and anxiety that the current generation of young adults is rampant with. listening to podcasts of people just casually chatting, makes people feel like they have a social life and good friends.

i really hate jon's side of the blu-ray thing. if you can't see a difference where others are saying there absolutely is one - that's fine. your have poor eyesight or do not care. but to call bullshit on an entire format just because you don't care is dumb. go on capsaholic and look at any UHD compared to the blu-ray, it's night and day. and on an actual HDR tv it looks extremely natural and good. except t2. t2 uhd is heinous.

don't like the animation, the way they're all just grinning constantly and then sometimes go into full frown is a bit too uncanny. I know it's just an animation but people don't act anything like that lol. Also it doesn't help that i kept thinking of this: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211478/2ad57d3d-710e-4cfd-a3ba-69b5110451eb/image.png

This is literally, unashamedly just The Ricky Gervais Show with a Jontron-sticker on it. It's not even funny how straight up RGS it is, they even used the same "liquid pouring" sound effect for the transition

Holy shit. I thought he would familiar. lol

Or Vault-Tec boy from Fallout, when we forgot that JonTron used to be video game reviewer.

It's been said but yeah, it's copying the whole animated Ricky Gervais show in style: Transitions between conversations, modern-ish take on the old Hanna-Barbera style*, turning the scene into a skit on the conversation they're having, etc. But in terms of how it feels, it doesn't hit the mark, instead of a colder comedic exploits of 2 rowdy straightmen up against an odd but honest fellow where everyone's in the firing line, you've got a bunch of guys who're super warm to eachother but each trying to get those GOTCHA comedy moments from Gervais' show. Maybe this'd fit a longer freeform weekly podcast where they talk about a topic for an hour and regularly get distracted about that one film they all love, but trying to emulate the harsh comedic edge of The Ricky Gervais Show / XFM in a 10 minute burst doesn't connect well with me. *Some interesting differences to note, it feels like the neo-HB style the animated show had mixed with 2010 era grassroots flash animation, but it doesn't vibe with me. The models just seem awkward because they don't exactly fit the half-emulated style (you only really see a change of outline thickness in their arms) and there isn't as much range in the emotion shown.. Going for more artistic backgrounds than cartoony ones is interesting but personally I don't like it as much. I know I've been spoilt by TRGS - the team on that were industry professionals with the time + manpower to work on every aspect of the show, style, character design etc and that's it's unfair to compare the two, but this doesn't exactly vibe with me.

Am I supposed to know who all these not-Jon people are? Their banter is uncomfortably dry and almost painful to listen to at times. I actually thought it was supposed to be a satire of the Ricky Gervais Show at first because of how forced and uncanny it felt.

literally no-one: sergio: I AM ADDICTED TO BLU-RAY

This is such a confusing thing to just... pop out of nowhere. It's like it's taking elements FROM podcasts while also clearly not being an actual podcast? They don't even introduce who anyone is. Who are any of the people here? What is this "podcast" about? Why does it feel so artificial?

I feel like they tried to force the crap out of all the “situations” and jokes.