C&C - Harvey Birdman - "Gone Efficien..t" [6/13]

[The Landstander]

Man, Birdvey har.

[G1Ravage]

Steve Blum was in the credits!

I wonder who he played.

Yakky sounded dead on.

[Wounded_Dragon]

Didn't think I'd say this, but I wish more time had been devoted to the case...

[Tienshin]

Holy crap! That episode was fast, I need more time to process those gags. I don't know why I laughed, but I did. Fast and often.

My ribs hurt. :(

[MrBananagrabber]

Was it me, or did the animation look a bit worse than usual? It seemed more jumpy. The episode itself was just kinda blah, I didn't really laugh much.

[DSRGirl]

Steve Blum was in the credits!
I noticed that too. I'll have to ask one of friends what part he played later.

Eh, not that good of an episode. The efficentcey expert peaked Birdman's pace even faster then normal. No 11 minute show should move that fast. It was really too all over the place. Not to mention I don't like episode where bad **** happens to birdman and no one else. Espically ones as bad as this.

[wrenchien]

x is back, yeah!

trimmin' his toe nails. nice. looks like harvey is going to be run around.

wow!!? this is a shock.. all these changes happening so fast.

x really has to have a more compact destruction device. but he is funny.

yakky doodle, that poor little duck.. to be tried, huh?

what the heck did get spilled on birdman?!!? sure was green.

all that quackese.

was that supposed to be perry mason!?!? nice homage to a true master.. coming out of nowhere like that.

it's neat mentok can get peeved so easily.

i see birdman gets so tired at night still.

nice fart by the hippo dude.

poor dollar. dollar dollar bill, y'all.

still, mentok has that bubble-gum filled gavel. must smell by now..

was that colin powell!?!?

diddley the squid??! i think i remember him..

poor birdman.. what did he ever do to deserve this!?!

ehhmm.. now that's got to be the wierdest ending ever. wakky getting castration.. and it just abruptly ended.

strange episode. nice episode. surprising episode. still.. not the best of the new season, though... and won't replace dabba don as a great episode in birdman aaw canon, ever.

rushed a little too much for anyone's own good,

wrenchien

[Juu-kuchi]

Yeah, I also saw Steve Blum in the credits as well. He's beginning to get some more roles out of anime now...

Anyway, decent episode. It's just that I never found any of these kinds of episodes to be entertaining. Birdman is always the brunt of everybody's actions and nothing really good ever comes out for him. Even though Dvd was an interesting premise, they played it too long and I wish Birdman could get a break or something. Besides the novelty of famous HB characters in court cases, the other episodes always deals misfortune with Harvey. The only problem is that he doesn't deserve it, and every crack at him seems not at mere amusement but mean-spiritedness.

Other than that, decent episode. 7 of 10.

[GMB]

Not great, but better than the unholy unfunniness that was last week's episode.

The good: Yakky Doodle was a pick from HB's past I hadn't thought they'd use. I wish we'd got to hear more from him. Also, the lack of stupid sex jokes that fell far short of their mark was appreciated. Even more unexpected was seeing Ironside for no good reason. Quite funny that.

The Bad: In it's place we get the basic plot of "Blackwatch Plaid," with little to no humour. Phil being an irriational tyrant sure got old real fast, considering they've done all they can to work it into every subsequent episode. Also, Dvd a one note joke beat hatefully into the ground within, oh a minute.

The Ugly: None of this neccessarily adds up to a funny show. There's been a sizable dropoff in the quality of HBAAL since the layoff. The animation's consistent but the writing is crping the bottom of the barrel. Oh well, at least I didn't feel physical pain watching it this week so let's call it a C+ and go get a pizza.

[shogunthethird]

wow, so this is what it's like watching Dilbert while simultaneously drunk, high and in the middle of a bad acid trip, what's next, Zorak as the evil human resources director Mantisbert? HA HA HA...poking fun at corporate america (coupled with the trauma of seeing "efficient nipples") although the "abuse harvey" thing is getting really old really fast, it worked in "Deadomutt" it kinda worked in "blackwatch plaid" but in this one....it just kind of fell flat

[The Landstander]

I don't even know what that was.

[Xfox]

Eh, not that good of an episode. The efficentcey expert peaked Birdman's pace even faster then normal. No 11 minute show should move that fast. It was really too all over the place. Not to mention I don't like episode where bad **** happens to birdman and no one else. Espically ones as bad as this.
I think that just about sums it up. This episode moved way too fast for most jokes to register, and when they did, they weren't all that funny. The Dvd plot got old quick. The actual case was an afterthought tacked on just so that they could justify having one in the episode at all.

I don't know what the rest of you think, but it looks to me that Harvey Birdman is sinking fast.

[DSRGirl]

By the way, Steve Blum was the voice of Yakky Doodle and Stavos. The man's got range. You gotta give him that.

[The Drizzle]

Birdman makes me speechless.

And not in a good way. =(

[Delthayre]

I'm going with: Eh

[G1Ravage]

By the way, Steve Blum was the voice of Yakky Doodle and Stavos. The man's got range. You gotta give him that.
WOW...what a talent.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

I don't even know what that was.

a really hyper blackwatch plaid ripoff? :confused:

[Grenzer]

WOW...what a talent.
I only knew it was Steve because I heard his demo clip at the Anime on DVD forums some months ago, he can do a great Goofy impression to.

[Eddie G.]

I've known writers who do drugs and a few who don't, the writers who wrote this are on drugs and from how fast this went i think I know which drugs.

Anyway this wasn't horrible, because the concepts and a few jokes were alright. But too much stuff was crammed into it like the dumb Greek resturant thing (I felt like the guys were taking the pardoy and stereotype of Greek resturants and making a parody of that.) Never has so much material gone by so fast and the end result was waht's on Harvey's jacket.

I saw no animation problems.

[Mr. Pedro]

I'm going with: Eh
I'll do ya one better. This ep was bleh. Not as much as a chuckle out of me. I feel like I'm seeing too much of these "Phil pulls some crap and zaniness somehow ensues at 1000 mph" episodes. How about we go back to having an actual case instead of trying to shoehorn a billion gags into fifteen minutes?

I'll give it one thing though, I never expected to see Yakky Doodle pop up. But didn't get that bit near the end (Chemical castration. Was that supposed to be funny?):confused:

Mr. Blum helps to avert a failing grade, but barely.

Grade:D

[Captain Harlock]

This episode was so good, I turned it off halfway through. No lie. I figured, why watch the rest? I wouldn't be able to handle that much awesomeness.

[PaQ]

That was by far the funkiest HBAAL that I have ever watched. They really took the whole efficiency to the extreme, so much so that I don't even know if I enjoyed the episode.. It was like just finished.. So strange.

I did enjoy Yakky Doodle, not enough of the little fella in my opinion. :) I always liked his voice and I remember the cartoons of him back in the day so it was nice to have him in HBAAL, too bad he was more of a subplot instead of the main plot.. And I don't even want to think about that Chemical Castration bit at the end.. :shrug:

The efficiency had some humorous bits, but it just went too quickly for me to absorb anything.. Poor Harvey, everything happens to him.. I did like that loudspeaker that had an eyepatch like Phil, oh , and Colin Powell was in the court crowd.

I give "Gone Efficien..t" a B-

[Space Kitty]

The Greek guys reminded me of the two "foreign" bugs on Disney's A Bug's Life.

[ScrewyWabbit]

I've never seen such horrible reviews for a show that's not meant to be taken seriously. Are you guys fans of this show? It doesn't seem like it. Every episode since "Speed Buggy Chase" has been beaten to a pulp by at least 80% of the members here. It's like it's your job or something.

If you don't like it, that's fine, but must this show get the crap beat out of it if it isn't well liked?

[The Landstander]

I liked most of the first 10 episodes of the show...before this season...

Personally I keep watching/reviewing because I keep expecting this show to be as funny as it could be and have been disappointed for most of this season. I liked last week's fine, and "Devlin" was good, but beyond that... =\

[ScrewyWabbit]

thanks for answering nicely... I just wanted to know why everyone is kicking this show in the nuts, yknow?

[Wounded_Dragon]

I liked pretty much all the early ones. I know I liked last week's. I don't know, it just felt like they took a good joke concept (the efficiency) and beat it into the ground tonight. The case had promise but the episode whipped by and it was done.

[Carolina Red]

Although I think last week's episode was the best of the new season (with the great knockoff on puberty), I think that this one went rather quickly, but at the same time it had some really good parts, especially the Greek restaurant workers and Chemical Castration...I mean, Yakky Doodle. That was a great impersonation too. I also liked the lawyer who was reciting poetry, it reminded me of one of those Oliver Stone movies.

I really liked what Harvey and company was doing at the end too.

[The Frog]

I didn't like Dvd and I didn't like the Greek restaurant thing, so that ruined a lot of the episode for me. However, Mentok was funny as was Yacky Doodle. I just didn't care for the budget cut subplot at all. I thought the actual case was much funnier.

[Lord Dalek]

I liked this one surprising enough, the manic pace kept me interested. Not nearly as bad as some of last year's Sealab episodes. B-

On annother note: It's official, both english and japanese seiyuus for Spike Speigal do impressive impersonations of Clarrence Nash.

[Haruhara]

what..the..what WAS that? i did not get a bit of it. O.o

[WingZombie38]

I actually found this episode amusing. Go figure. I liked how handled the situations he ended up in. I looked at the creds specificly to see who did Yakky. I was amazed at how well an imperssonation, Blum did. Very nice to hear him on Harvey.

Did anyone understand what Yakky changed his name to? :confused:

[Spongebrain2.0]

Yakky Doodle changed his name to Chemical Castration.....:shrug:

[Juu-kuchi]

Oh yeah, did anybody notice Inch High Private Eye being part of a shish kabob?

[Eddie G.]

Oh yeah, did anybody notice Inch High Private Eye being part of a shish kabob?I knew there was a person on the kabob but I didn't realize it was Inch High.

[kinglogan]

I've seen alot better, i've seen alot worse. Had funny jokes, but very very rushed.

[Classic Speedy]

Was it me, or did the animation look a bit worse than usual? It seemed more jumpy. It was choppier than usual, and it was easier to tell it was Flash. That's what I got out of it, anyway.

Wow, I've never seen so much frenetic action within 11 minutes. This could become the next Flipmode, in that it takes subsequent viewings to fully process it all. I liked the restaurant bit, as well as the squandering of one toilet paper sheet per stall.

But they really need to get back to basics- the majority of the humor from the first 10 episodes were the court cases. The plots that mostly deal with the law firm and all its time outside the courtroom reject the backbone of the show. GRADE: B-

[Spastic Minnow]

I generally really like Harvey, so this isn't like I'm a person that says everything since some point sucked. Most of this batch was very good.


But I didn't think too much of this episode. The "beat Harvey down" plot was just plain worse than the other ones and it's an overplayed gag anyway. Maybe if they degraded Harv for a reason other than "we just want to pick on him."

Compared to other HB's I'd say this was about a 2 out of 10.

[PaQ]

Oh yeah, did anybody notice Inch High Private Eye being part of a shish kabob?I'm with The Blue Wolf, I noticed that there was a person on it, but didn't think of the Inch High P.I. till you mentioned it.. Poor guy..



Short guys always get the long end of the stick..

[Vincent Warlock]

:mad: I can't make heads or tails with this show. Just when I think I'll only give it one more chance, a good episode is shown. So I watch next week... and then it sucks again! This one was no exception. The puberty episode was good because of the inclusion of case time and many old characters, but this week's episode was back to that maniacal collage of unrelated crap that every OTHER week has to offer. In other words, SLOOOOOOOOW DOWN! Pick a topic and stick with it! ... ... And really, did we NEED to see the fat guy at the end?
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