Could this be designed more effectively to annoy anyone who isn’t an 11-year-old boy???
It is basically a kid with an annoying helium voice who is aggressively jump-cut to come across like an ADD-version of Robin Williams (think about it). He manically bounces from topic to topic, freaks out, bugs his eyes - oh, and while he does, he veers from funny, to cute (well, kinda) to bringing up line-crossing topics…
My girls (ages 11 and 13) LOVE him. Think he’s hysterical. I think he’s extremely annoying. He was on an episode of iCarly the other night (a show we like to watch together as a family), and it was the WORST EPISODE EVER. However, when he wasn’t being “Fred” on that episode, he seemed like a nice, normal teenage boy.
I lasted three seconds. My god thats the fastest i’ve gone from never having heard of someone to wanting to kill them in the most painful way possible ever.
The helium voice kills it. Take that out and make more creative use of the jump-cuts, and he might have had something funny. But the voice needs to die.
I thought the subplot involving Spencer having his life ruled by a “Magic Meat Ball” was pretty funny. Especially the bit with the ostrich.
Having heard of Fred but never actually seeing him, I think I only laughed once at the link above. The humor happens to remind me a lot of the random stuff the characters on iCarly do on their fictional webshow, so I guess kids really like that sort of humor. (I think iCarly is possibly the best-written live-action show for kids on TV today, and the press seems to agree with me. It’s just that the “webshow” bits are very random like Fred is.)
He already did on an episode that aired on President’s Day. He wasn’t that annoying there, actually (maybe because he didn’t actually appear that much).
What are you old farts banging on about? I thought the aged couldn’t hear high pitched sounds. This is the first I’ve heard of Fred, but he is fraking high-larious. What a kid thinks a young child would sound like. It works are regular humour, and meta-humour. The only thing funny-er than a pitch changed sound is a reversed sound.
Although I admit, if I wasn’t actively watching the clip, I wouldn’t want it on at all. If that sound was playing in the background, I would go nuts in short order.
Oh, and I am not an eleven year old. Nor, though I’ll admit, am I old enough to have an eleven year old.
Major favorite of my 10 yo and 12 yo. Right up there with http://www.angryalien.com/
(movies in 30 seconds with bunnies–if the movie is R rated, so are the bunnies)
I think if that was my child I’d have to send him away somewhere. Either to receive professional help or just so I wouldn’t have to listen to that voice anymore.
