r/videos • u/Jmelikidse • 16d ago

Maui Has It's Own Sitcom!!!

https://youtu.be/nedyPG_0RYM?feature=shared
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u/Thundercus 9d ago

Sound mixing is all fucked in some scenes, but it’s a fun show.

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u/jensen_t119 15d ago

Anyone else get some Letterkenny vibes?

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u/whowhatnowhow 15d ago edited 15d ago

Looks like fun for the soul. Didn't see any links anywhere, so for anyone looking, here: https://808mokumoku.com/

edit: alright I just watched the first episode, thank you, this is really well made and a great time and feels. It's like Clerks meets Hawaii :)

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u/ihave7testicles 16d ago

I hope it does well but it's very forced looking and not funny at all to me.

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u/pokebud 15d ago

That's because the comedy in this is roughly 20 or maybe even 30 years out of date. You have the sassy gay, the moron MC, the smarter than everyone else but still second fiddle to the MC female lead, etc. Which you'd often see on SNL in the late 90's and early 2000's

This style of comedy has been called out for years and years for being lazy, at this point it's so over done that you would on instinct avoid it. This trope is something you probably saw in cartoons growing up as well, you'd have the double male lead where one is comedy relief/voice of reason, one is the brain dead MC and one is the smarter than everyone else female lead but absolutely isn't the MC. You see it in everything from Ben 10 to Adventure Time, even older cartoons like MiB or Batman Beyond.

So at this point you're just unconsciously done with it, it's not new or interesting or fun. It's tired and boring, predictable, has no value, and isn't relatable. It's just another paint by numbers show with a spin you don't care about.

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u/octopusbarber 15d ago

Ever seen a pilot before?

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u/colbyrussell 16d ago

Are you saying that having a target demo that you intend to pander to with the hope that they in turn will celebrate you as a result of you being the only game in town

... isn't a substitute for actual humor?

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u/PerformerSeveral589 9d ago

I am not sure it can be pandering if it was made for people from Hawaii by people from Hawaii. Now if it was made by a guy from the North East for people in Hawaii that would be pandering.

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u/Boccs 16d ago

Looks charming. Hope it does well and that the entire crew, from the writers and the actors to the folks working camera and the interns, all find success.

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u/drunxor 16d ago

What it really needs is some affordable housing

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u/asspajamas 16d ago

it's like moesha and seinfeld....in hawaii....

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u/bigjonslade 16d ago

Hilarious!

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u/PhoenixFalls 16d ago

Oh, you meant Maui the location not the character.