Quinton Reviews

One of their godkids also caused Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination and thus World War I. Basically, Cosmo and Wanda should have gone to Fairy World Prison centuries ago.

I wonder if every fairy has a "Godkid Hall of Infamy" full of kids who've used their magic to alter the course of history for the worse, or if Cosmo and Wanda are the only ones these sorts of things happen to. Honestly leaning towards the latter.

When I saw this thread's title, I thought it felt familiar and I heard it somewhere. Then I remembered the youtuber getting mentioned in this video:

In the video, Super Eyepatch Wolf actually described Quinton Reviews as "an intrepid Garfield historian". When I initially heard that bit I thought, oh please, a Garfield historian is not a thing.

Aaaaaand I checked Quinton's channel and my God, was I wrong.

Edited by dRoy on Apr 2nd 2024 at 7:03:00 PM

He really should get back to what he missed in Garfield since last time. Granted, it's probably just the movie coming up, but still.

Also, if they made Poof older, they'd have to give him a real voice instead of that bizarre Randy Jackson cameo they do in the actual movie.

In a late April fools' day video, Quinton is missing and his dad takes us through The Beverly Hillbillies and its sister shows:

Oh my that runtime is crazy.

Edited by Bullman on Apr 3rd 2024 at 5:05:32 AM

I have no idea how he managed to make a 38-hour-long video get onto Youtube.

Sheer force of fucking will.

I just realized this is the guy who did those ridiculously long iCarly retrospectives.

They're good in the sense of being nostalgic and comprehensive. It helps me do some research on iCarly and Victorious and the Schneider verse without having to rewatch the whole series. He makes good points about the show's inconsistencies and character development.

Not fond of his overbearing, finger-wagging male feminist persona though.

For most of the first Victorious video and the iCarly one he frequently accentuates the negative on Getting Crap Past the Radar and Comedic Sociopathy every chance he gets. I don't get the impression he likes or liked either show and sees them as an Old Shame rather than something that could be genuinely enjoyed.

He makes plenty of good points about the show's inconsistencies, morbid humor, and adds some background to some episodes/seasons, but I loath the "everything back in the 2000's was incredibly unfunny, unoriginal, or offensive, aren't we so much more enlightened now by treating it like the plague" attitude that a lot of popular essayists have now.

Legit the first two things in the ibinged iCarly video he reacted to positively were Sam and Freddie kissing, and T-Bo making a race card joke - that he adamantly followed with by saying the joke was of such quality it couldn't have been written in the script and must have been an ad lib.

If you haven't seen his video on Dan Schneider, then all of that time spent keeping the negatives in full view had a purpose. Theres a central thesis running through it all that, ultimately, he has to change at the end because he is ultimately not the same as he was when he started making the videos. He admits to some pretension on the subject, but it does have a purpose.

Damn, weird that people who take the time to do in depth analysis and commentary also have political opinions about those works. Especially about a work that is specifically tainted from the reputation of the infamous showrunner.

I got through about 4 hours so far, midway through season 1 of Petticoat Junction. Other than being somewhat amazed this exists, (a) I wasn't aware that some of the early episodes fell into the public domain, (b) the early episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies are a lot more serialized than I remember, (c) since the main town was Hooterville, I always thought of it as the Hooterverse.

I grew up in the 1970s so I saw a lot of these in syndication, though the B&W seasons were often omitted.

So, what's the joke with the April Fool's episode? He didn't just make a straight 38-hour video out of a gimmicky sitcom, did he?

Wait does he review the shows or are the shows just aired, without commentary? I mean the post with the link mentions it's his dad "taking over".

Edited by phantom1 on Apr 5th 2024 at 7:57:57 AM

I am sure the joke is just that his dad is the one doing it and the length. Because otherwise it is just a straight up review of the sitcom.

By that I meant his dad is the one reviewing it.

Edited by Bullman on Apr 5th 2024 at 10:15:14 AM

It's also a pseudo-callback to an earlier review in which Quinton mentioned that his dad was having a good time re-watching beloved shows like Beverly Hillbillies and should make his own review show.

Reviewing gimmicky TV shows is kind of his whole thing. As April Fools jokes go, the only really weird thing is that it's his dad.

I think the joke is his Dad is temporarily taking over the show and reviewing a show from his childhood.

Also it being longer than 24 hours is kind of a joke in and of itself.

And also the fact that it's a day and a half long.

The video is as long as a whole work week at a job that also doesn't want to pay benefits.

Lot of youtubers use april fools to only half-joke these days. Like the new Polyphonic video essay on "Tribute" by Tenacious D has sections making jokey analysis of the nonsense filler lyric part, but is also just a genuine rumination on the nature of creating art and chasing impossible visions of perfection. One channel I watch, Uniform History, does a breakdown of uniforms from movies for april fools, this year Spaceballs, and despite being a joke, he also really does go through what you would need to get to recreate the looks (useful for cosplayers and people planing halloween costumes).

That part was just an inevitability.

And it got taken down on copyright claims by Paramount. Never mind it's back up.

Edited by phantom1 on Apr 10th 2024 at 5:50:34 AM

Started to watch the Failure of Victorious (and yeah I agree, it IS a great title) and currently an hour into it.

...Jesus Christ, this video is LONG. 5 and half hours long vid in 2022...back then I thought Dan Olsen's two hours Line Goes Up was really long and even naively assumed that video essays won't get any longer than this.

Oh, what a sweet summer child I was. Well, probably still am.

Anyways having only watched 1 or 2 Beverly Hill Billies episodes and zero Petticoat Junction episodes, and honestly basing this on getting 11 hours into the video, I think Petticoat Junction might be more problematic because it is less of a farce. Like it's easy to ignore the fact that Jed thinks Ellie Mae needs to say,act less boyish to catch a man, because she also puts on a ballgown to play football in and has a jaguar cub around the house, but as Petticoat Junction is slower and has a "heart" etc we are forced to focus on Kate putting out the moral that women should obey men (despite owning her own business, I'm definitely with Quinton's mom and dad with this).

All right, finally finished the Failure of Victorious video. I did skip the excessively long second intermission, though.

This is the first video essay ever that I had to listen through multiple days (normally I just listen to them like a background sound while I do my chores, exercises, etc).

And yeah, it's genuinely impressive that at no point - aside from the intermissions - I was actually bored listening to it...and just how unhinged and creepy the show was...