Acceptable.tv, Ep. 1 "Acceptable.tv Tutorials"

 

Acceptable.tv, Ep. 1 "Acceptable.tv Tutorials"

 

Product Details

• Watch a Clip
• Episode 1, "Acceptable.tv Tutorials"
• Synopsis: Acceptable.tv Tutorials 1 - 8
• Original air date: March 23, 2007
• Runtime: 24 minutes
• ASIN: B000OLO9XY

Product Description

Acceptable.television Tutorials 1 - 8

• Runtime: 24 minutes
• Original air date: March 23, 2007
• Network: VH1

Customer Reviews

Had no idea what this was, but it was entertaining and informative if you want to shoot your own video.

Acceptable.TV was a very short lived sketch comedy show on VH1 (seriously... a comedy show on VH1... wonder why it never took off...) created by the same guy behind Channel 101 and Community, Dan Harmon. This show, however, shares much more in common with Channel 101. If you've never heard of Channel 101, it's a monthly short film competition out of LA where people create and send in 5 minute TV shows, usually comedic in nature. These episodes are then shown to a live (drunk) audience which then votes for their favorites. The highest scoring shows win the opportunity to continue with another episode the next month, and the cycle repeats itself ad nauseum. Go check out the Channel 101 web site and watch the past episodes of 'The Bu' for a good example of the medium done right (by The Lonely Island dudes of SNL Digital Short fame, no less!)
Acceptable.TV follows the same users-rank-the-content concept, with the main difference being that most of the fake TV shows are created and produced by the Acceptable.TV staff. This staff, however, is top notch, featuring Dan Harmon himself along with a crew of some of the most consistently funny Channel 101 regulars. The shows they created were hilariously offbeat, ranging from ridiculous reality-show takedowns (Operation Kitten Calendar) to heartfelt and imaginative cartoons (Mr. Sprinkles). It's hit and miss, but that's the nature of the beast. When they hit, though, they knock it out of the park, with comedic masterpieces like Operation Kitten Calendar, Homeless James Bond, and Who's Gonna Train Me (for the ending alone).
This was a brilliant show with a brilliant concept that was just a few years ahead of its time. It needed to be streamed on the web for free, voted on in real-time by Internet stoners between bong hits. It wanted to be crowdsourced, to be favorite'd and Like'd and retweeted and sent to your grandma, and might have really taken off if it came about after the explosion of Facebook and Twitter and nurtured by VH1. But instead, it was canceled before it got a chance to get some legs.
Or maybe I'm just pissed off that I'll never see episode 2 of Kosbees. Ah well.

 

Acceptable.tv, Ep. 1 "Acceptable.tv Tutorials"

 

Rating: 4.5