The Will Stancil Show - It do be like that, Mr Stancil.

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I get the charm is that it is cheap AI slop for some, but I would like to see some more care into having a consistent art style and not having random family guy background characters.
 
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TORtlEMUStRaNSUS said:
I get the charm is that it is cheap AI slop for some, but I would like to see some more care into having a consistent art style and not having random family guy background characters.
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I think the AI slop vibe adds a certain je ne sais quois.

Are the people in the background going to be white people from the 80s, black people from the 20s, all of the above, none of the above... it's a mystery!
 
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I'd rate the 4th episode as the worst one so far, the jokes fell flat for me with few exceptions and it kind of dragged for too long imo
 
I liked 4 more than 3, but I didn't like 3 very much. About 2 minutes into the tacos/beer sequence, I was thinking "Damn, Emily, give it a rest", then she kept going for like 3 more minutes. Ep. 4 could've been half as long.

Were I Emily, I would start a storyline where Will Stancil is in a hero role trying to stop some vandal bastard carving pumpkins of him, and would take it in sort of a Chris-Chan direction where he's sadistic and single-mindedly vindictive on punishing the pumpkin criminal. Occasionally, a normal police officer would be shown being like "damn, Will, isn't that a bit much?" The first episode would be Will terrorizing the local farmer's market to track down the origin of the pumpkin (and to accuse them all of being too white, of course.) A good gag might be that Will Stancil drinks pumpkin spice coffee, and Jerome notices once, and Will gets really defensive and tries to make it into a native American thing.

Emily, please steal this idea or come up with better ideas so that I don't have to write fanfiction for the Will Stancil Show on the Kiwi Farms. At the moment, I simply have no other choice.
 
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Will Stancil Show. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Stancilculture most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Will's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from his masters in black people studies, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Will Stancil truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Jamal's existential catchphrase "It do be like that Mr. Stancil." which itself is a cryptic reference to Black Twitter's "It is what it is". I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Emily Youcis's genius wit unfolds itself on their phone screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, I DO have a Will Stancil tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
 
Compared to the first 3, episode 4 gives me the impression that Emily basically didn't write a script for it. It feels like she gave the same prompt to like 4 or 5 different AIs, and decided to use every shot from every model because there wasn't an actual story planned out for this episode.

The coffee+twitter intro and "DON'T TOUCH THOSE TACOS, JAMAL!" could've worked fine if they didn't go on so fuckin' long.
 
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