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Strip Search
Strip Search is a reality game show for web cartoonists. They will face off in a competition for a reward that could change one of their lives…So who else is watching Strip Search? You can check it out via the main site or by checking out Penny Arcade's new YouTube channel. (First episode on YouTube here).
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03-05-2013, 08:25 PM | #2 |
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After watching the first episode, my initial impressions were that:
Watched Episode 02 earlier today. Was one of the first people, actually. O_o Happened to check the site at around 2:27am or so, and there was the video, but no one could view it. Private listing. I refreshed ... and it still couldn't be viewed. I refreshed again ... and there were three posts saying it didn't work (they had all just been posted mere seconds ago), and the video now worked for me. Watched the episode, refreshed, ... and saw Robert saying he was looking into the problem, and later saying he'd fixed it. Strange, considering it worked for me before he even posted. ^^; Oh well! Checked the YouTube site ... saw that there were 0 comments ... decided against posting a shameless first post. :p ("If you don't have anything to say worth saying, ...") Episode 02 was definitely more fun to watch than Episode 01 was ... but I'm pretty frustrated by how short these episodes all are. They're simply much too short. Big Brother usually airs three times a week in the summer and each episode, once you strip it of its commercial breaks, is around 40 minutes long. That's 120 minutes a week. Strip Search offers only one-tenth of that. Even Survivor, at one episode a week and only 40 to 45 minutes of footage, is over three times the length of Strip Search's episodes. And while two episodes of Strip Search air each week (one on Tuesdays, the other on Fridays), that still means we get only ~24 episodes each week. It's just a ridiculously tiny amount. I don't mind it nearly as badly with the more podcast-like series on PATV (like Fourth Panel or Extra Credits), but with Strip Search, it's just ... argh. What makes it even more frustrating is the knowledge that all of these episodes have already been filmed. I'm not sure if they're still being edited or if even that's finished, but the mere knowledge that the series has already been completely filmed makes me that less patient. I WANT THE NEXT EPISODE NOW! Please?
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Talon, that fourth one was NSFW. @__@
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But the punchline ...!
Sorry about that. I'd edit in a warning but ... I hate those edit notices at the bottom of posts. -_-; And this one is so cartoony that I don't think it'd get you into hot water. Not if you showed them what the rest of the comic looks like. To be honest, though, anything to do with PATV in general isn't going to necessarily be worksafe / high school kid's household safe. A whole lot of F bombs, a whole lot of weird random sexual comments, particularly on Fourth Panel with Mike and Jerry ... it's not the sort of thing you'd watch at the office with your speakers on and no headphones. So I should probably give you that fair warning too. So far, I don't think Strip Search has been too vulgar? But it certainly will be before all is said and done. The sneak peek for the rest of the season, shown at the end of Episode 01, has some of the houseguests going "fuck fuck fuck", so like, you know that things'll get crass sooner or later.
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Reading through these guys' Twitter feeds, it's become quite apparent to me that the nasty things said in some of the interviews have got to be 100% false / sarcasm. 'Cause like ... it seems like these artists all MEGA SUPER BONDED as a result of their shared experience with the show. They're all following each other, cracking jokes with one another, etc. Not literally 100% of everybody, but like, most of them seem to be keeping in contact with at least 7 of their fellow artists; and given that there were only twelve contestants to start with and counting themselves makes eight, that means that there're only four or fewer people I don't see the group interacting much with on Twitter. Possible spoiler-indication of who goes home soonest? *shrug*
Spoiler: show I thought this tweet funny. Nick writes: Quote:
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03-07-2013, 11:27 PM | #6 |
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So, pretty soon here they'll release the third episode of Strip Search, and with that we'll find out who was the first to be eliminated from the competition. I'm formulating a list right now, but I've only got two people down for certain, and I'll write in the rest later.
Prediction for 12th place: Ty Reasons: Spoiler: show But we'll see, we'll see! This is all just fun, EDIT: I forgot to mention that the other theory I'm entertaining, as I'm sure many people are, is that nobody gets evicted this week. My guess above is only if someone really is being sent home this week. But of course there is always the possibility that they were just alarming the houseguests to try and, I dunno, get 'em workin' serious or to generate juicy tension for reality TV or something. Nobody wants to be sent home without even being given 24 hours to really do anything in the game, and I kind of would like to think that Mike, Jerry, and the others are not so cruel as to do that. But who knows, who knows. If I had to guess right now, I'm leaning 65% towards false alarm, 35% towards true eviction (in which case my vote stays with Ty).
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03-08-2013, 04:51 AM | #8 |
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So I finally got around to watching the first episode of this. My first impression was
A couple of the others grated on me for the exact reason that they didn't seem genuine - Tavis, Lexxy and also Ty a little bit. But it's nice to be able to say that they were the exception rather than the rule. Other than that there really isn't much else to say about episode one. The announcement from the creators felt flat and the whole cringeworthy 'traps' thing was a case of well-written, poorly-performed. The rest of the show was very slick though, as expected of Bionic Trousers. Looking forward to getting into this a bit more later. As a side note, the main PATV site is also worth checking out. I get the impression that a lot of people have already made up their mind about Extra Credits one way or the other, but I can't recommend Checkpoint highly enough.
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03-12-2013, 04:37 PM | #9 |
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The fourth episode of Strip Search aired today, and with it we've had our first taste of the eliminations. I thought the episode entertaining but, aside from the first episode, this for me was the most boring one yet. I didn't really need or want a twenty-minute episode devoted to nothing but this 90-minute contest between two comic artists. Jerry and Mike tried to keep things entertaining for the audience at home with some faux seriousness, some over-the-top silly humor, and conversations with the two contestants, but I dunno ... I just found it kind of boring, tbh. ^^; I am happy for Penny Arcade though to see that most of the fans disagree with me on this one. Seems like most people are calling this the best episode yet, and are especially won over by Mike and Jerry's removing the seriousness veil and giving the loser some heartfelt, kind words of advice and encouragement. I dunno, they were definitely polite, but I wouldn't go quite so far as a lot of the fans are going in saying "GOD BLESS MIKE AND JERRY! " for what they did at the end. It's not like they offered to adopt the loser or gave the loser their personal cell phone numbers and said "Whenever you want? Call us," or something. They were just polite ... and then bolted out of the car leaving the loser all alone. ^^; I'd be more on board with what the Internet is saying had Mike and Jerry accompanied the loser all the way back to the airport or something and talked with them the entire way.
As for spoiler details ... Spoiler: show
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03-19-2013, 05:37 PM | #10 |
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Even if it's only a temporary thing, what with how YouTube's top rated comments are like dust in the wind, ...
... I currently have the top-rated comment on the latest episode of Strip Search. Truth be told though, I think it might be a YouTube glitch. 'Cause I see comments with many more thumbs up than mine. So either mine has overall higher ratings but they're not being reported accurately, or else mine really does have fewer ratings than others' comments and my post is simply showing up as a Top Comment for reasons I don't know. Anyway. Episode 06 was decent. It was useful for getting us more information on some of the contestants -- while I see it had the opposite effect on many, for me Nick's interview helped me to care about him a whole lot more than I had up until now -- but it was painful sitting through some of these. I'll withhold my specific thoughts on these, at least for now, but I will say that going into next week ... Spoiler: show
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Episode 07 was very tense.
Spoiler: show Here's hoping that this next cycle's social round is more entertaining and substantial than the previous two've been. We're gonna have to wait eleven days before we can see the next elimination, so it'll only be rubbing salt in our wounds if this week's social is another time-waster. I want to see the houseguests interacting more! Where are their in-house interactions!?
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Haven't posted here for a while. First, before I forget, have this Madoka character map someone made for the six girls on Strip Search. They're mostly forced, but the main two (Erika and Amy) work very well. Anyway ...
Episode 8 was the Round 3 fun episode, featuring the artists pairing up and trying to replicate comic cels based on their partner's verbalized descriptions. Spoiler: show Episode 9 was the Round 3 challenge episode, featuring a Twitter challenge judged by Scott Kurtz. Spoiler: show Episode 10 was the Round 3 elimination episode. Spoiler: show Episode 11 was the Round 4 fun episode, featuring the artists experimenting with spray paint in teams of three. Spoiler: show Episode 12 was the Round 4 challenge episode, and today's episode, featuring the challenge for the artists to design a Chandra Nalaar-themed skateboard. Spoiler: show
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04-09-2013, 02:42 PM | #13 |
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As of the writing of this post, my comment has 29 net likes and is still one of the two top comments that I see when loading the site. Not sure if that's true for everybody or what, but it's pretty snazzy to have so many likes on such a public forum as that.
Copying and pasting some of the replies I've gotten (and the replies I then wrote back) so that you can read them more easily than YouTube tends to allow. Spoiler: show Anyway, pretty cool.
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Episode 13, the Round 4 elimination episode, has set the Strip Search internet ablaze. People are furiously debating whether [the stuff that happened in this week's episode] was a good thing or a bad thing. As someone who was mildly in the In Favor Of camp initially and who is even more centrist now that he's read both sides' impassioned arguments, it's very fascinating to hear people explain their rationale for what side they're on in this debate. Anyway, let's head on into the spoiler box.
Spoiler: show One thing's certain: Round 5's first episode should be the most entertaining first episode of a round we've seen yet.
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Episode 14 was very good. Divided into roughly three parts, we had:
Spoiler: show Episode 15 was fine but not that fun to watch more than once. Obviously the highlights were to do with Abby. Spoiler: show Episode 16. Elimination challenge #5. Spoiler: show
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Episode 17 was very boring to me. Definitely the worst episode so far, no contest. Glad it was so short, though, and glad it got something out of the way that's been hinted at for ages by the trailer:
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Episode 18 was okay. As we enter the second half of the tournament, I find myself caring more and more about the elimination rounds and less and less about the stuff in between. This is partly because the stuff is between is still more contests, just not ones that count for too much, as opposed to being the (as one person put it) "fly on the wall" observations of the houseguests' time spent with each other in the house like you enjoy on a program like Big Brother. I could use more fly on the wall footage and less go kart footage or fake convention footage. But I digress.
Spoiler: show And that actually leads us to anticipatory talk for Friday's episode. Spoiler: show EDIT: Came across this just now on the PA forum discussion for the episode and thought it worth sharing. Spoiler: show
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Episode 19 was great.
Spoiler: show Results aside, what else? Spoiler: show And now, sadly, begins the 11-day wait until the next elimination. Argh, why must you be so spaced out, Strip Search!? >_<
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So, Kris Straub, Scott Kurtz, Mary Cagle (the artist Scott hired to help him on The Trenches and who he later handed the project over to), and the first five eliminees from Strip Search did a
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Just watched Episode 27. Haven't posted here in a while. Brief thoughts on the last eight episodes:
Episode 20: Spoiler: show Episode 21: Spoiler: show Episode 22: Spoiler: show Episode 23: Spoiler: show Episode 24: Spoiler: show Episode 25: Spoiler: show Episode 26: Spoiler: show Episode 27: Spoiler: show
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So ... Ty made a video ...
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Friendly reminder that the season finale airs live in about four hours, at 7:30pm Pacific.
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