Bagboy

You guys from 3 years ago criticizing this like it was ever going to be more then this, really need to do some research. It was a Brule special, ya dangus

My two favorite statements from other reviews: "I liked John C. Reilly in Step Brothers, but..." and "This feels low budget, the dialog is awkward, no one can act."

One of the things about satire that makes it so funny to me is knowing that, inevitably, someone out there doesn't get it. The same holds true for anti-humor.

I completely understand that it's an acquired taste, and I'm not expecting anyone to come to the realization of how it works and pull a 180, but a lot of these complaints are pointing out the exact intentions of the show. They weren't trying to make a real sitcom with a coherent script. They weren't trying to cast top of the line actors. This show is from a fictional universe inside another fictional universe. It's absurdist, awkward, a parody of 90s sitcoms. You can call it boring, awkward, or dumb, but just realize that the meta joke is essentially that it's boring, awkward, and dumb. It's a cosmic gumbo.

Another thing I find interesting is the overlap between this humor and mainstream humor. Too Many Cooks went viral a few years ago. People liked the Old Spice commercials, and even the Purple Mattress ads were big for a while. The Room is now considered a comedy. And yet still, we have people watching Bagboy expecting to see something on par with Everybody Loves Raymond or something. Again, not saying people have to find it funny, but they should at least understand the intent. Some of these reviews are like if they went to Cirque du Soleil and complained that there was too much acrobatics and not enough dialog.

Made to look like a old TV-show from some odd little local TV-Channel but lacks even an ounce of humor. I can enjoy a good spoof, but the problem here is that it is an awful piece of (insert a suitable word of your choice that really reflect the worst thing you know). I feel bad writing more letters than this, because every single letter is yet another moment of my life wasted by this garbage so I think I'll stop righ

Another reviewer is criticizing reviewers from three years ago that they had to do some research about Bagboy, that it was a Brule special, or whatever. To me it doesn't matter what kind of special it was, and yes I don't know Brule and I honestly don't care, as this short movie is just dumb. Silly humor okay, at least once in awhile, but this is just beyond silly. I did like John C. Reilly in Step Brothers but I wonder what he was thinking agreeing to play in Bagboy. The only positive thing about Bagboy is that it is really short so you only waste your time for 22 minutes.

Bagboy asks a lot of you. One, it assumes you know who Dr. Steve Brule is (he's a John C. Reilly character from the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job universe who also has his own spin-off show, Check it Out!). Two, it asks you to believe that Brule's idiot-doctor character (who is in no way qualified to be a doctor) has somehow written, directed and starred in a sitcom pilot set in a grocery store. Three, it demands that you accept that Brule has somehow pulled this off while being the least professional actor (remember, an actor playing an actor) on set, constantly blowing his lines, getting into legitimate accidents, and blurting out directions to other actors mid-scene.

It's a big ask, but it's okay: Bagboy is a comedic gem for those in a Tim and Eric mindset. The pacing is tight, the jokes are constant, the premise is absurd, and the cast is a delightfully weird mix of a couple of "legitimate" actors and a whole host of the non-actors that powered Awesome Show Great Job, like David Liebe Hart and his terrible, terrible puppets.

If you like absurdist comedy and have 22 minutes to spare, you could do a lot worse than Bagboy.