Hey hey, Jimmy he took your money, took your money…

[IanCurtis]

Looks like someone reuploaded the pilot. The first free episode had Sherrod in it banging Chip’s mom which I can’t seem to find right now. It was as atrocious as this:

There it is! Thanks, it's remarkably mean-spirited and quite remarkably unfunny. Same reaction I had when I first saw it. Stuff like Kenny dressed as a Cruising style cop (tee-hee, hilarious for some reason), the laborious shinkel reference, the obnoxious girl (Norton's 'girlfriend' at the time, maybe), even the Gottfried cameo is unfunny... I guess he thought people would be 'wowed' by Chip, not so...

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

There it is! Thanks, it's remarkably mean-spirited and quite remarkably unfunny. Same reaction I had when I first saw it. Stuff like Kenny dressed as a Cruising style cop (tee-hee, hilarious for some reason), the laborious shinkel reference, the obnoxious girl (Norton's 'girlfriend' at the time, maybe), even the Gottfried cameo is unfunny... I guess he thought people would be 'wowed' by Chip, not so...

I didn’t even get to the Gilbert cameo. The nerve of him to call South Park sophomoric and then release something where half the punchlines are farts is just Norton in a nutshell.

 

[Lenny's Comic Footster]

I backed at a lower level and got the poster (the same pictured above) and two (bumper sized) stickers a year or so later, that I didn't want or asked for (I was genuinely confused as to why the fuck I was receiving them - there had been zero communication whatsoever since the campaign first began). As I later came to understand, so long as the campaign owner does something (anything at all) to fulfill pledges (even partially or minimally) that constitutes legal 'fulfilment' apparently, hence why they sent the shit out. I threw the poster out (I think) but still have the stickers somewhere (what the fuck am I supposed to do with comically large bumper stickers with Chip shit on them, they look awful).

Anyone who backed knew 100% it was completely shit at the very outset. Norton had been verbose for years about how he knew 'nothing' about animation and that he wanted to 'do something' with his characters. It was the perfect firestorm of idiocy and non-achievement. The original cartoon he launched the campaign with to this day may be the most unfunny thing I have ever seen, it was abysmal and shockingly dull - it appeared to be scrubbed from the internet but I did see it somewhere about a year ago (cannot remember or would post the link). There was a second cartoon done during the run to bolster support (better, but not by much - and that's a bit like saying the first was feces but this one had a half-eaten cherry stuffed into the fecal matter so it was 'better' than the first).

This whole episode is prime Cryptic Web Chronicles if all the details could be found (the 2 x campaign cartoons and the 1 x 'fulfilment' cartoon which Norton dropped with absolute zero publicity two or so years later - it was ok, - and the times he discussed it on O&A - the first push, then immediately after taking callers who savaged the animation and said it was unfunny, I think there was a final discussion/possibly on the Shit show and then it was dead for all eternity due to unrelenting negative feedback - Norton kept saying of the animators 'it costs more money to make the animation more detailed, I didn't realise that, I didn't know how much it would cost). I knew it would be fuck up on top of fuck up but it was truly a shit-spectacle, this was also around the time/within a year of Blobby Kellys website man fucking Norton over and doing the shitty wordpress site for him that he raged about on O&A - it was a great era of technology fucking jimmy.

I was a huge Norton fan at the time but aware enough to have zero confidence (you had to be stupid to believe otherwise based on the campaign cartoon). No great financial loss and one of the funnest fuckup periods for Jim back when he and O&A were riding high (he of course murdered his own career with Jim & Sam a few years later).

Keep in mind he didn't make 61k - chunks of that money went to the platform and fulfilment costs and his animators who - from his own squawkings - appeared to be fleece/raping him.

I'm not reading Danny's 'you guys are obsessed with the past' post about his fuckin' Patrice poster for the millionth time. Dude, seriously.

Reply just to call 2014 you a faggot

 

[aRTie02150]

Remember how bad the actual pilot episode was?

 

[Gronez_Bambatta]

I backed at a lower level and got the poster (the same pictured above) and two (bumper sized) stickers a year or so later, that I didn't want or asked for (I was genuinely confused as to why the fuck I was receiving them - there had been zero communication whatsoever since the campaign first began). As I later came to understand, so long as the campaign owner does something (anything at all) to fulfill pledges (even partially or minimally) that constitutes legal 'fulfilment' apparently, hence why they sent the shit out. I threw the poster out (I think) but still have the stickers somewhere (what the fuck am I supposed to do with comically large bumper stickers with Chip shit on them, they look awful).

Anyone who backed knew 100% it was completely shit at the very outset. Norton had been verbose for years about how he knew 'nothing' about animation and that he wanted to 'do something' with his characters. It was the perfect firestorm of idiocy and non-achievement. The original cartoon he launched the campaign with to this day may be the most unfunny thing I have ever seen, it was abysmal and shockingly dull - it appeared to be scrubbed from the internet but I did see it somewhere about a year ago (cannot remember or would post the link). There was a second cartoon done during the run to bolster support (better, but not by much - and that's a bit like saying the first was feces but this one had a half-eaten cherry stuffed into the fecal matter so it was 'better' than the first).

This whole episode is prime Cryptic Web Chronicles if all the details could be found (the 2 x campaign cartoons and the 1 x 'fulfilment' cartoon which Norton dropped with absolute zero publicity two or so years later - it was ok, - and the times he discussed it on O&A - the first push, then immediately after taking callers who savaged the animation and said it was unfunny, I think there was a final discussion/possibly on the Shit show and then it was dead for all eternity due to unrelenting negative feedback - Norton kept saying of the animators 'it costs more money to make the animation more detailed, I didn't realise that, I didn't know how much it would cost). I knew it would be fuck up on top of fuck up but it was truly a shit-spectacle, this was also around the time/within a year of Blobby Kellys website man fucking Norton over and doing the shitty wordpress site for him that he raged about on O&A - it was a great era of technology fucking jimmy.

I was a huge Norton fan at the time but aware enough to have zero confidence (you had to be stupid to believe otherwise based on the campaign cartoon). No great financial loss and one of the funnest fuckup periods for Jim back when he and O&A were riding high (he of course murdered his own career with Jim & Sam a few years later).

Keep in mind he didn't make 61k - chunks of that money went to the platform and fulfilment costs and his animators who - from his own squawkings - appeared to be fleece/raping him.

I'm not reading Danny's 'you guys are obsessed with the past' post about his fuckin' Patrice poster for the millionth time. Dude, seriously.

Thank you for sharing that with the group.

 

[DanMullenButNormal]

Keep in mind he didn't make 61k - chunks of that money went to the platform and fulfilment costs and his animators who - from his own squawkings - appeared to be fleece/raping him.

Yeah I must've been thinking about your post about the poster and stickers

he was also lazy as shit and out sourced everything to some companies ofc they were going to rape him, and hired some woman he tried to fuck to write and produce, very unprofessional

 

[BenDovid]

I'm not reading Danny's 'you guys are obsessed with the past' post about his fuckin' Patrice poster for the millionth time. Dude, seriously.

I was asked about it. Are you just upset that you've been reading every last word I write online for the last decade and you ran into a repeat? Stop paying so much attention to me if it bothers you so much. You could have posted that post word for word without the last part. But you just had to make sure you got your jab in right?

 

[Sue Lightning]

Alright I'll say it.

OP you were literally 13 years old in 2016, when this chip cartoon shit happened.

I understand you knowing about O&A stuff because you listened to the show on youtube, but how the fuck do you know anything about this?

Because I followed the subreddit stupid. I remember when people would call in to Opie and Jim and harass Jim about this. WE’VE BEEN OVER THIS! I’ve listened to O&A for maybe 9 years and been on the sub for 8

 

[The Talking Dead]

Looks like someone reuploaded the pilot. The first free episode had Sherrod in it banging Chip’s mom which I can’t seem to find right now. It was as atrocious as this:

Christ, that's even worse than I remember it being. He probably spent no more than 20 minutes writing that piece of shit and then outsourced everything else. Delusional fucking worm to ever think that would be anything but the colossal embarrassing failure that it was.

 

[IanCurtis]

I was asked about it. Are you just upset that you've been reading every last word I write online for the last decade and you ran into a repeat? Stop paying so much attention to me if it bothers you so much. You could have posted that post word for word without the last part. But you just had to make sure you got your jab in right?

Oh, Danny... (sigh) I'm admitting to funding Norton's crap cartoon in a thread bashing anyone who funded Norton's crap cartoon - maybe we can all learn to laugh at ourselves. I put as much time and thought into that final line as I did into reading your Patrice poster post (literally zero and who the fuck on earth has read your drivel for ten years running - lol! - come on!), I honestly never assumed you'd even read it. Your response did genuinely make me laugh though - all gay, butthurt and #MeToo sounding etc. Cheers!

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

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I wasn't even at Sirius anymore and I get a call from Bob Kelly. He knew I was a poster collector so he wanted to know how to get a poster done for the Patrice benefit which was being setup by Burr and himself. I came up with a rough estimate of what it would cost all in for production and online orders, (tubes, kraft paper, labels, etc.)

The total was roughly $5,000. Both Kelly & Burr thought it was too much, so I said to Bobby, do you need me to put up the cash for this? And so I did. Contacted an artist I like, got in touch with a print house, put up a simple online shopfront and even ran the merch booth at the show. I wasn't at all worried about making the money back, that was simple. I packed and shipped every online order, dealt with damages, returns, etc.

After raising over $20,000, I took my $5,000 back and cut a check to Mama Patrice for $15,000. Nice right? Well, no good deed goes unpunished, so weeks after the sale, I start getting calls from Bobby asking me for "numbers". He wanted like a spreadsheet of costs vs sales, so I typed something up and sent it over. He calls me again saying "the numbers aren't good enough", implying that I owed Mama Patrice more money or something after literally going out of pocket on every expense for this, never mind dozens of trips to the post office. I then explained to Bobby that I used my own money and executed every step of the process myself. Not one outside party did a fucking thing here and if he doesn't like my "numbers" he can do it himself next year and see what shit costs with his own wallet. I guess he thought I was skimming off the top? I wasn't, but now I was pissed. I told Bobby Kelly to suck the entirety of my cock and to never call me again very loudly in a Microcenter parking lot.

I never got a thank you from Bobby or Burr and never spoke to either of them again.

Mama Patrice was awarded over $15,000, which I'm sure she gambled away on video slots months later.

Edit - If you have one, last few sales have been $150-$175. Righteous bucks!

If true, they set up a perfect storm for suspicion and enmity. Obviously you're going to wonder if the dude is skimming off the top if you just hire a random acquaintance who enjoys collecting posters rather than contracting through a printing shop. Really dumb decision making on the part of Bawby & Burr... all to avoid fronting the $5K?

I wonder what made Bawby think the numbers weren't "good enough?" He would have experience with poster sales/profits from doing tours with Dane and selling merch, etc.