Bonus Stage #66 - "Who Shot Mr. Malice?" Talkback

[Eddy]

http://www.bonusstages.com/bonusstage66.html

Case Closed parodies ahead. I'll be posting my review later.

[nakak]

Pretty funny expressions, and animation's better than usual.

Not a bad BS toon.

[Timmay]

Funny.. that shot from the window above CC episode was on just the other night.

[Conan-san]

I lol'ed at that whole "knocking phill unconious for the hell of it" thing.

[Jave]

Non-canon Black Person! I would have never thought! :p :D

Loved the new opening and closing sequences, hope they keep them and they aren't just a one-episode thing.

[SirLemming]

Very good episode, especially for a big Case Closed fan like me. The gigantic rating was funny. My favorite part was probably the "WTF" conversation. Also, the new credits rock, with Phil doing the Pee-Wee dance and whatnot.

[Tash]

This is the first time that I decided to watch this. It was pretty funny, but the characters made it almost unwatchable. Are they always this annoying, or was it for the sake of the Conan spoof?

Anyhow, the point of people dying when Conan walks in the room never gets old, and the spoiler-ridden hint was amusing. Even so, there was something about this that reminded me of that "One Peice of Crap" video from a while back (anyone else remember that?). It was probably the spontanious humor. And the charcter designs remind me of Clerks (not that it's a bad thing, it's just a bit distracting).

Final rating: B-. I don't think that this would amuse me if it was a parody of something I didn't understand (but I think that's the point). I might look at it again if I get bored.

[Jave]

This is the first time that I decided to watch this. It was pretty funny, but the characters made it almost unwatchable. Are they always this annoying, or was it for the sake of the Conan spoof?It's better to watch the episodes in order to get used to the characters, since some of them have changed a lot throughout. It's not that much, it took me less than a week to watch them all.

[Tash]

It's better to watch the episodes in order to get used to the characters, since some of them have changed a lot throughout. It's not that much, it took me less than a week to watch them all.I'm stuck with a dail-up. :sad:

[Eddy]

I loved it. Favorite parts...

- the gigantic WEB-14 rating
- Joel talking about that cat from Krypto
- "How's your leg?" "Pretty sh*tty."
- Detective Ronan
- Someone always seems to die wherever Conan goes
- WTF
- Phil's expression after saying Joel did it
- Knocking out Phil for the hell of it
- Non-canon black person
- "One truth is total radical!"
- "NEXT RONAN'S HINT!" "The butler did it!"

New closing credits were awesome.

[SirLemming]

The characters were pretty much the same in this episode as they usually are.

[Natey]

they had to mention a song in their..... but i thought it was OK funny at some parts but some parts gettin annoying

~Nate~

[shoujoaifan]

The characters were pretty much the same in this episode as they usually are.Pretty much. Don't get me wrong, there's some hilarious episodes here and there, but being a weekly cartoon made in Flash that Matt doesn't get paid for, its not going to be always great, if not out right bad at times.It requires to be a little forgiving of it part of the time.

Hell, Matt's always pointing out how bad BS can be in the show itself. Hell, I think that by making fun of that fact so much it had actually brought it down further for awhile. I hate to say it but alot of the episodes that were bad from S2 and S3 were because of the constant harping on itself, as well as running into the ground the joke of--them dying and going to hell and everything being fine the next episode. Some shows can handle killing characters one episode and them being fine the next, but not this way BUT alot of the other episodes of S2 and S3 were funny, started to get better with S4, and has leapt leaps and bounds since S5, which can use that joke in the spoiler above well-BUUUUT that goes back to it being both a weekly webcartoon that he doesn't get paid for so there's no need to make it good, and that its only gotten better since he decided to no longer make the parent show, High Score, as it was, but make Bonus Stage into High Score, using several of the plotlines he was going to use in HS.








OKAAAAAAAY, enough of me overanalyzing something that wasn't meant to be overanalyzed. This episode was pretty good. All the good stuff has been listed already. I liked Ronan, and making fun of how he got there and why. I thought he was going to spoof more of CC than he did but he did more or less capture Conan's character without going too far and making him a rip-off rather than a spoof. I liked how Elly and Andy didn't care and weren't worried about a stowaway in a bag they never noticed before :p

P.S. I'm never overanalyzing BS again, too much thinking-AHAHAHA, I said BS! Ahaha.....ahha.....ha.....yeah.

[SirLemming]

For anyone who checked the episode out fairly early in the day, note that the credits are crazy different now... including redesigned Craig!

[Eddy]

...Matt should make a "One Truth is Totally Radical" shirt.

[Railith]

I liked it all, it hit the source material dead on and the new intro and ending was awesome.

[Daikun]

It looks like the WEB-14 joke got Jeff Harris' (http://www.thexbridge.com/wts131.html) attention. ;)

[Ultra Mike]

Well Web 14 does fit Today's BS


It contains ranting,Phil talking about a possible Joel robot used to annoy him with questions, who was probably ranting about Streaky the Cat that we only caught the tail glimpse of


adult language,"How's your leg feel?
"Pretty s****y"


immature adult humor,Jessica being wacked out on drugs (well why else would she be seeing pixies everywhere, unless she's been dipping into the sticks if you know what I mean)


rabblerousing, Ronin talking about who was the killer and trying to get everyone to buy his shirt (hey he is the leader... of mystery solving).


and something to think about,Never trust non-cannon black people.


in other words, stuff kids REALLY like."Always watching cartoons, and playing video games."


Parental guidance is suggested and seriously recommended. Well that's why Rygar was in the box.... to protect him from the crazy death.

Seriously though. Good episode. IMHO, worth the wait, although I know matt wants to get back to updating the cartoon weekly. Well whenever he can right?

BEST PARTS: Mostly already mentioned. I also like the various pans of Mr Malice's body, the case closed refrences, and of course the random line up (with Dick and another Ronin being in it for some reason).

GRADE: 4.375 Out of 5.

[Kazuya Prower]

The new Craig looks great. The episode is hilarious. Is it me or does Evil look a bit different?

[Invader Z]

...
Case Closed parodies ahead?! Probably awesome!
Anyway, I liked the ep. But it seems the better BS seems to get, the closer we get to the 100th ep... :sad: :( :crying: :( :sad: :( :crying: :( :sad: :( :crying: :(

[TrogdorNyimbhat]

That's the second worst internet flash cartoon I found from a forum ever. The worst is the one about a short yellow The Cheat like thing dying alot of times aften talking fast about how it feels about news and some three retarded judges.

There were like three jokes, I can't even stoop to call the other random gibberish jokes. And what's the thing with the (non-canon?) black person?

Harsh, whatever that's how I feel. It lasted way too long, if only it was half the leinght I wouldn't even have said anything. A complete waste of my time, I could have totally seen another episode of Red vs. Bloo, Homestar Runner or Happy Tree Friends. Dubbing was awful as well.

D- :\

[shoujoaifan]

And what's the thing with the (non-canon?) black person?The joke is that there's no regular black characters on Bonus Stage, him getting blamed when he wasn't there before, and poking at how black people are often blamed for crimes they didn't commit (not all the time, but it happens).

Its far from perfect, and even for a weekly flash series for which he doesn't get payed for, there are alot of episodes that do outright suck. If you still want to give it a chance, start with Season 5. Most of those are pretty short and funny.

(For the most part the only thing you need to know from the earlier episodes is that they die and come back to life regularly, like how in some cartoons on TV they'll die at the end but are fine by the next one, except that can happen within the same episode here. Yeah its weird, but as you probably already know, Flash webcartoons normally are.)

[TrogdorNyimbhat]

The joke is that there's no regular black characters on Bonus Stage, him getting blamed when he wasn't there before, and poking at how black people are often blamed for crimes they didn't commit (not all the time, but it happens.)Well if this cartoon came out right after MJ was acquitted that's pretty ironic. Not to mention OJ and Mike Tyson, though he spent three years in jail he's still an example not all African Americans are accused wrongly.

[Timmay]

Well if this cartoon came out right after MJ was acquitted that's pretty ironic. Not to mention OJ and Mike Tyson, though he spent three years in jail he's still an example not all African Americans are accused wrongly.
It came out a bout a week before MJ was acquitted.

[Natey]

i didnt catch that about NON cannon black guy!:p halairious. the guy who said NCBG did it is a copmlete iddiot.

~Nate~

[Stickman]

I never want to see this episode again.

Sure, I liked it fine. I really enjoyed it, especially Elly and Andrew going against the episode guide and the new end credits.

I also hate this episode, cuz over at www.bswiki.com (http://www.bswiki.com), I thought I'd do a service to the Interent. So I wrote most of this episode's transcript. I had to watch it over & over again, becuz every time I tried to pause the thing, the lip synch failed. I stopped caring after I heard how Streaky the Cat was a bomb-*** superhero for the 10th time.

Why did I do this? I was bored, & didn't have access to a car.