Kenneth
Sunday 16th June 2013 4:52pm [Edited]
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Well it's almost midnight and I'm halfway through a long, tedious translation job, so I thought I'd reward myself by checking out Hunka Wunda and seeing what all the fuss is about. Took a while for my dinosaur ISP to stream the first one: Hello Kitty Titties. The accents of the women are a bit common. I know a lot of youse poms talk low-class, but posher accents would have worked better in that brainstorming scene. You won't crack the American market - or even the Oz market - when people can't understand what's being said. Seriously. Work on the audio and enunciation/delivery. And a blackboard? I'd not seen one of them since elementary school. Whiteboards or PowerPoint slides or butcher's paper easels, please. As others have commented, the problem is pacing. Make it tighter. Saw the ending coming a mile off - knew the old geezer was gonna get slapped again. Why were the kitten's tits covered with a bra/bikini top? Bare breasts woulda been the way to go. And half the length. South Park long ago did the superlative send-up of silly shit that gets popular on the net (wide-angle close-ups of dogs in hats).
The best clip I've seen uploaded on the BSG was a Junkmales one that had the great line: "We make the stuff (makin' it, right), and then we sell the stuff (sellin' it), for more than it costs us to make it." Class.
The other great stuff here is anything with James Cotter - as he is now like Peter Sellers - immensely watchable in anything he appears in, regardless of the quality of the script, production or co-stars.
You would do well to get Cotter to appear in future Hunka Wunda sketches. I notice you've followed his example of lengthy credits ('neath the YouTube posted clip).
For the record, the Kitten Boobs is better than about 95% of anything on Indonesian or Chinese TV. So perhaps target the Asian market - that annoying screaming baby as the intro is a good start.
