Talk:Fabuloso Friday/The Script
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First Things First
This is the place to point people from now on anytime anybody anywhere criticizes how the Show is written/performed. The end.
The Future of Fabuloso Friday
After entering this, I found out that there's already a place for it.
The Section Where We Commiserate About Our Brilliant Contributions Left On The Cutting-Room Floor
Sigh. That's democracy for ya.
- yeah, ALL my contributions, even the funny ones, were cut. I think I'd actually make a better editor than writer. ~~Anonymous
- oh wait, I had one - "wishing I had been thinking, so you didn't have to..." ~~Anonymous
- Hey, my S-s-s-something from the Bible didn't even have a chance. --AaronStJ 13:50, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Am I the only one that misses the Bobo twins remark? 65.114.186.10 12:16, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Still waiting on that peanut butter, guys.
- NO! I miss the bobo twins too. I think the first fabuloso friday was way too disorganized. It turned into an oligarchy where a couple people decided what was "consensus" and what wasn't. Fresheneesz 13:26, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
- We had voting! Real, honest voting! We really did our best to make sure the actual consensus was being followed. --AaronStJ 13:49, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
- I know you did, but it was really really disorganized. I doubt many people knew where to vote on that, even if they cared. 68.6.101.96 14:49, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Oh, well... I was looking forward to hearing Ze sing over my duckie song! [1] :) Worrydream
It sucks :-(
Well I'll be the first to go out and say the final script seems to have lost most of the good gags. And, before you think I'm being petulant, I'm not just saying that because my stuff has been voted out (some of it's in there). I was too busy finishing off my awesome opening sequence to notice that all the hard chargers were wrecking the good bits.
- Naahh not like the header implies, sure it's preplanned; Fabuloso Friday wasn't intended for those who wrote the script, but for those that didn't! Whats the use expecting the punch line if you wrote it?! --Yozef
- Good job. I hope he uses it. Overall I think the process was more fun than the bland script-by-committee that got produced. There are a lot of good versions buried in the wiki somewhere, but I have neither the time nor the patience to find them and patch them together. I only hope some of the material floating around gets used in later shows. Seeing how Ze has worked in the past, it probably will.--Yves
- Oh well, that's democracy, and this, natch, is purely my opinion. It was fun. Maybe if Ze lets us do it again we can actually improve on this. Mr malaise 02:19, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
- God Forbid!
- Naw, it doesn't suck. I dug through the history and I do think some fairly obvious things were mishandled by "those in power". For example, the song relied on the very brief "asshole babies" bit to set up the "babies smoking" and "babies drinking" lines, so you can't cut that and then leave the song in. Looks like people cut the baby bit because 1) they thought it wasn't politically correct or 2) they thought it was making fun of a "deformed" kid. If you actually click on the picture, you'll see that it's just a ugly pacifer... that was the joke. Likewise people voted against the "ticker" bit because they said it wouldn't be legible. Even after various graphics were posted showing it would be legible, they didn't bother to change their votes. Gotta love an informed populace (and a vote counter that doesn't understand the nature of polling)! All that said, people should still be proud of what was made. I'm hoping people go through the history and dig out the gems that got stomped on then post them on a new page, on their talk pages, whatever. There's some great stuff in there. muyfabulosotalk
- Good analysis, muyfabuloso, especially on the whole baby thing. I thought the song was the weakest bit so to see that stay in and the other lines go was a shock. For me, the World Cup section (which I wanted in for topicality but also wanted better gags) got neutered. Sure, we got some "pictured here" material in (though not astounding), but the Beckham & Cole pic thing was left in without a gag. Wassupwidat? Oh, and making the old Europeans-call-it-football just totally killed that gag. It's a frigging World Cup - the whole world, except America calls it football. You could keep the gag without pissing on Europeans, but that seems to be the flavor round here, and I don't think even Ze's humor is that xenophobic. Still, better shut up or folks will think I'm a lame participant. I'm not, I just wanted "solamente gags!" Mr malaise
It's too hard to evaluate a script by itself. The real test comes shortly. There are parts that I don't think are funny, but I might get a nose bleed when I see Ze do it. We can do a post-mortum here. (BTW, looks like the final edit pass broke the 3-minute mark.) --Sford 11:49, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
It seems like it kept the topics while cutting out most of the jokes.
- Exactly!
- Hey, no need for the great stuff to get thrown into the history garbage bin. PLEASE, if you guys know where the good stuff is - copy it to Fabuloso Friday 2. And I figured out a way to correct the song - asshole-baby thing: have references to lines that your line refers to. See MetaFabuloso for that. Fresheneesz 13:29, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Poor Ze :(
Fabuloso Friday is Fa- awkward?
You should have charged people to participate, sweet cheeks.
forget what people tell you (except me, obviously) and just go back to doing whatever the eff you want. maybe you should take an extended (and sadly, show free) vacation, I think you could use it.
Amy out!
- I liked the idea somebody had about next time orgainzing around a coherent theme. I don't actually think the point is to try to do Ze better than Ze can (we won't ever be able to do that) but to do something crazy and different. I disagreed with the "that's not what he would do" comments. If he wanted to do what he would do, he wouldn't have given us the wheel.
I agree with you Amy, and so that means, I must agree with myself. I'm the only one that I like to agree with anyway. Buncha hard chargers! You script writers should learn some team work. The republicans agree, maybe that's why they rule your asses! HA! I disagree with they're idealogies, sure, but at least they make their ideas happen
- thanks, person! Amy
Yeah, it really felt like about five people decided to go for it hard charger style and no one else really got to do much. If only those five people were funny.
I think I might have contributed if there was an actual conversation going on between people who might want to create a script, but... it was just this wiki clusterfuck.
Five days and five monkeys does not make shakespeare.
The funny parts were very funny. Most of the script had no humor to it whatsoever though, and it went on for far too long.
When the audience writes the script, who becomes the audience? Ze should force himself to watch this once for every download it gets.
Whoomp, there it is
Random, uncollected thougts: Yeesh, 4:27. Well, looks like I read it fast. Really fast. It was 3 minutes when I did it, promise. I think it mostly worked. Some bits were kinda awkward, but we did pretty well. Ze's set for the the intro was perfect. His fake moustache is hilarious. He took smoking jacket a little literally. Looks like he chickened out on the hair dyeing, but oh well. I think we just learned people do table readings. Parts that worked on paper didn't work so well in real life. The salt image seems to have been lost. That's probably my fault. The song worked well. The best part, I think, is that I couldn't stop grinning like a moron watching it. Thanks for indulging us, Ze. --AaronStJ 13:36, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Oh, and I just read the coments. Looks like people actually liked it. That's the best thing of all. --AaronStJ 13:46, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Who was this for, anyway?
One look at Ze's homepage shows that he's all about creating things that let people have fun. Did you have fun working on this? I sure did. In the end, who really cares how it turned out? The real hard chargers are the ones who didn't bother to pitch in and play the game. Their loss! -- Worrydream 14:01, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
- Well said. It is still nice to know people seem to like, though. --AaronStJ 14:05, 9 June 2006 (PDT)