The Happytime Murders 

OK , I finally seen the movie and what’s interesting is the actual movie is FREAKIN’ BORING !

Allow me to recommend “ Meet The Feebles “ and “ Puppets Who Kill “ for those who are looking for some good Dark Comedy satirical Puppetry .

THERE IS ONE SCENE I DID LAUGH AT THAT WAS NOT IN THE TRAILER ! When Edwards shoots Phil in the arm and he makes a comedic “ screams like a girl gag ( for example a similar gag used on Johnny Bravo ) “ type scream .  

So was Brain Henson right about what he said in the interview ? I think The Happytime Murders was a desperate sell out to bring Puppet Up ! / Stuffed and Unstrung to a more mainstream direction. The TNN series didn’t work out , neither did the other Henson Alternative stuff. And what makes Henson Alternative fail compared to the inspirations of the original Jim Henson Muppet team behind the camera in all it’s naughty goodness is like what I’ve said before in my previous blog post and blog videos , “ If it’s not creative and or satirical , it’s not funny. “ 

Now that scream thing I mentioned , that was just plain silly and random so therefore I consider it creative. And of course silliness is going back to Henson Puppet roots.

I think this movie would have worked as maybe a free online movie or direct to DVD / Download release . It wasn’t worth being promoted like crazy like it was.

I did like the digital exploding head logo in the beginning of the movie though . 

The trailers feature all the dirty stupidity and including stuff that got cut out. There is a deleted scene featuring a bartender puppet’s singing dick which will probably be included in it’s digital release on the 20th and the 3 combo release in December from what I’ve read.

If there’s anything to like about this movie , it would be .

_ The screaming gag that’s at the end of the movie

_ HORAY Kevin Clash is BACK !

_ Brain Henson didn’t direct a Muppet movie since the 1996 Muppet Treasure Island ( which I did go to the movie theaters to see )

_ Cool looking puppets

_ Lots of well known puppeteer bigwigs performed in the background

_ CGI puppet effects

THAT’S IT ! 

It’s like a Troma movie. ( Does that mean Lloyd Kaufman is going to take down my banner next to Cinemassacre ( AVGN / Angry Video Game Nerd ) on troma.com/links ? lol 

Long story short , I had “ When Aliens Get Bored” shown at TromaDance 2016 and I tried to contact them from 2016 - 2017 about a possible movie deal since they were looking for films and they ALMOST went for the Dr LeBrick specials . And let’s just say that I almost went into desperation to getting the deal , I kind of felt like Jim Henson when he was selling his company to Disney before he died. But Troma said no , they weren’t interested and I became an anarchist so I guess everything worked out for the better. No hard feelings. However I thought the guy I was talking to at the end was a jerk. Bunch of young guys work for Lloyd , plus I dined the wrong number and by coincidence talking to someone who used to work at Troma for a short time. Again , no hard feelings.

Anyway , back to The Happytime Murders . The big shock was not only coming from people of the mainstream but even a bigger shock from the Jim Henson / Muppet fandom communities ( me included ) . But I wasn’t shocked to see puppets do naughty things , I’ve done naughty things in my work , most puppeteers do just like cartoonists and anyone with a since of humor , we all do once in awhile. 

Here’s my reactions

Before seeing The Happytime Murders : This is Dumb ! Is Brain Henson aware of the Jim Henson / Muppet fandom ?

Now seeing it : BORING , DUMB , The Jim Henson Company had a good run 10 years after Jim Henson’s passing but afterwords that’s when it became just a struggling business with barely any creative art , just enough sell out projects to get by .

I’ve already said enough about this stuff in my blog posts and videos regarding my thoughts on The Happytime Murders.

And there’s really nothing else to say except it just makes me want to shamelessly promote my puppet work hoping that it didn’t turn everyone off to the idea that adult puppetry can be just as entertaining as adult animation.

Enough Said ,

_ Erica

P.S. Yes , I did do a satirical puppet parody on The Happytime Murders .

Check it out . lol

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Fred & Byso

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Fred & Byso was a childhood creation almost as old as The Erica Crooks Show itself but most certainly not the most lasting but almost .

I didn’t complete anything relating to it until 2010 which was the first film project I done since my tragedy in 2009. ( Read Adults Get Bullied Too )

In 2010 , I did a short animated test film and served it as a pilot episode.

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In December of 2012 Like The Erica Crooks Show , this too and everything else was rejected

from Comedy Central , [ adult swim ] , and Mondo Media .

Fred & Byso was basically a Ren & Stimpy rip off . And clearly there was this Ren & Stimpy / Rocko’s Modern Life inspiration .

Byso was basically a Stimpy type character and Fred was basically the Ren type character.

In middle school , I was introduced to the software “ Macromedia Flash 5 “ which at the time was the animation software for independent animators for the internet.

John Kricfalusi / Spumco , Newgrounds , Icebox , Jib Jab , Joe Cartoon , Happy Tree Friends , Homestar Runner , etc

All used this software to bring animated cartoons to the internet.

I already knew what the software was , and my middle school happened to have the software strange enough , and I guess I self taught myself how to use it.

I didn’t figure out sound until later and I couldn’t figure out how to export animation properly instead of filming my computer screen with a video camera ( That explains the animation on The Erica Crooks Show from 2006 - 2007 ) until 2008.

And yes , I did finally get my own Flash 5 software !

Today the software is replaced with Adobe Flash as well as a bunch of other better animation software.

I can still remember ideas for episodes that I came up with as a kid.

I remember telling anyone I meet that this would be on TV someday.

And technically anyone can watch youtube videos on their TV so , yeah I guess I accomplished it a little bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrx8QWrWhAc

One episode was going to be called “ Fred Goes Mad “

and basically it was Dr. Jeckle and Mr Hyde and clearly inspired by

a scene from The Ren & Stimpy Show episode “ Stimpy’s Fan Club “

where Ren almost murders Stimpy in his sleep.

Another one was when Fred dies and he was told by the angel at the gate of Heaven that if he decides to be nice to Byso instead of being an abusive jerk , his soul can finally be in peace and welcomed into Heaven.

Another one was Goodbye Byso where Byso gets carried away by the current of the ocean and Fred starts to miss his best friend until Byso finally washes onto shore at an elderly age and still alive and Fred beats up Byso.

Clearly ripping off “ Stimpy’s Big Day “

There was an idea where they go off into space , ripping off “Space Madness “.

Remember I was just a kid coming up with these ideas. And the thing about inspiration is when you have limited inspirations , it’s going to look like a rip off of something else.

Perhaps that’s why adults are slightly better than kids when it comes to this kind of things because they’ve lived life enough to come up with original ideas.

I don’t know. lol

At age 11 , I was up and ready to have my creativity onto mainstream television . At age 18 - 21 , I had my own public access television show . And now at age 30 , I’m a successful independent filmmaker and other stuff.

Today there’s kids with their own youtube channel and smart phones so ,

perhaps it makes the 11 in me slightly jealous because I didn’t have that in my late 1990s childhood. lol

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November 2 2018 Introduction :

I posted this on the old version of officialericcrooks.com talking about probably the earliest archival existence of The Erica Crooks Show that exists . Now remember the show changed to The Erica Crooks Show in mid-2016 so it’s referred to as “ The Eric Crooks Show “ in this article.

I was 11 years old when I written a post on a puppetry newsgroup with my WebTV at the time , and this really goes to show that you never know who your talking to on the internet sometimes. It’s kind of laughable and embarrassing at the same time. A College Student who doesn’t realize they are talking to an 11 year old kid and not a troll. lol

But anyway what’s interesting is , this is the earliest origins of The Erica Crooks Show. I won’t get my public access TV show until 7 years later when I was 18. So it’s a very interesting thing to share in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Erica Crooks Show I think !

And now the following article ,

_ Erica ( ericacrooks.com / officialericcrooks.com )

In 1999, which was the year that I found out about public access television existed and when I made some home movies of my first puppets which were just my hands with shoelaces around them and a sock, This was the early origins of The Eric Crooks Show. I was only 11 years old and perhaps since the internet was just so new to me that I was quite impulsive. Here's a copy of perhaps my first " welcome world " post on the internet. [ certain names are not mention to protect the legal privacy of the not so innocent ] This was posted in an early puppetry newsgroup.

The Eric Crooks Show Look at this !

ME

10/7/99

E-mail my puppets from The Eric Crooks Show. (The Eric Crooks Show is a

new puppet comedy show.) E-mail these puppets ..

    Barney ( Not the dinosaur)

          Mr. Socky head

          Mr. Stupid head

         Little pink alligator

            Sargent Hand

            Two singing hands 

                 Discoman  

                    Alien

          Fred the news hand 

           Dick the weather hand 

                  Happy boy

               Post women 

                    Pinky

                 Cows & bulls 

                 3 horn Bulls & cows

                     Vantron

( Reply from some ..... college student on the internet )

10/8/99

 > E-mail these puppets ..

Ummm, how?  You haven't given their, uh, email addresses...

 >    Barney ( Not the dinosaur)

 >          Mr. Socky head

 >          Mr. Stupid head

 >         Little pink alligator

 >            Sargent Hand

 >            Two singing hands 

 >                 Discoman  

 >                    Alien

Don't suppose that's a xenomorph-type Alien...?

 >          Fred the news hand 

 >           Dick the weather hand 

 >                  Happy boy

 >               Post women 

 >                    Pinky

 >                 Cows & bulls 

 >                 3 horn Bulls & cows

 >                     Vantron

 >

10/12/99

ME again

I'll let you know what chanel it's going to be on .

       E-mail my puppets at ********** The show is going to be taped at Comcast studio .

 Alien is a alien puppet . OK ?

    If you don't Beavene me wait and see .

( that guy who doesn't realizing he's arguing with an 11 year old )

10/14/99

> I'll let you know what chanel it's going to be on .

>        E-mail my puppets at  .................

Ah, there's the missing info.  Now everyone that was poised waiting to email

your puppets can spring into action.

>  The show is going to be taped at Comcast studio .

As in Comcast Cablevision?  So it'll be a cable-access show, or...?

>  Alien is a alien puppet . OK ?

OK.  I was just being cheeky as I'm currently working on a xenomorph-type

Alien puppet (as discussed recently in this newsgroup).  For those that

followed that discussion, stay tuned and I'll post a URL of a webpage

summarizing how the project went when I'm done.

>     If you don't Beavene me wait and see .

Oh, don't worry; we definitely Beavene you.

As a kid, I didn't funny know what I was doing except that I had this bright idea and totally enthusiastic about it and if I knew this guy was sort of mocking me, I would have been really emotionally hurt. But in this case I was a little confused. 

But out of all people who said rotten things about me and my work, this guy was most likely the first where ever the hell he is now and who cares. 

But what I find so funny about this is that this College student with some university email is arguing with an 11 year old. Technology has changed but human beings haven't. Though I'm a person who much prefers to live and let die in the past but since I felt this was not only such a very important piece of perhaps the earliest surviving anything of my earliest works but to show that there was idiots who thought me and my work was stupid before youtube.

Where ever this jackass is now, If he knew, he'd feel the fool of what that message would become 15 years later.

The Eric Crooks Show

_Erica

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My locial Pride community is also fighting for Trans rights .

So to all fellow Trans people and allies and LGBTQ+ People , I send love to you all.

Peace and Pride ,

_ Erica

#WontBeErased

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The Making of The Erica Crooks Show Behind The Scenes :

Puppet Building and Production ( 2015 )

The following features foam caricature puppets of famous people

and is a work of parody / satirical fiction , any similarity beyond parody and satirical caricature is coincidental and unintentional.

Sort of inspired by Mad Magazine and Spitting Image .

Originally seen on officialericcrooks.com in 2015 ,

Erica Crooks herself takes you behind The Scenes of The Erica Crooks Show ( aka The Eric Crooks Show until 2016 ) and the making of a celebrity parody satirical caricature puppet comedy sketch in terms of building new celebrity parody caricature puppets , puppeteering the new puppets and what the final satirical sketch looks life ( after editing and so forth )

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#throwbacktuesday Check out the making of this picture with bloopers and a blog video from ( 2015 ) https://youtu.be/TXn3AQfup6g In response to the worldwide tragic news of Charlie Hebdo shootings #jesuischarlie , An image was created by the satirical puppet show The Erica Crooks Show peacefully standing up for Freedom of Speech.
This footage is Erica Crooks talking about just that.
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Hi everyone . Through out my life , I've noticed that Not All Artists are Equal .

Some care about art the most like me , while others don't mind selling out.

Perhaps this will bring interest to all those passionate artists out there . :)

_ Erica

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( My brief cameo in the anti-Trump satire puppet short film “Send Me To Jail” ( 2017 ) )

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For all those fellow Transgender artists out there , you too probably have heard the news about Trump being transphobic. I'm a Transgender Woman myself so I know what it's like. In my satirical art , I tend to not only bring awareness about injustices but also to bring light entertainment and good the the world.

There's a quote I can relate to which goes like this. " Art Should Disturb The Comfortable , And Comfort the Disturbed. " So in these rough times , it relates just the same. :) _ Erica ( ericacrooks.com / officialericcrooks.com )