May 7 2008'This American Life' Exposes Human Flaws with Pleasing Animation
The new season of This American Life begins this began last Sunday, so brace yourself for the nasally voice of Ira Glass (now with visuals!) with this clip from the first episode. In this animation of a previous radio broadcast, Ira and his friends stumble upon the quirkiness of human behavior when Robert incorrectly believes he was at an event his wife had only told him about. Crazy, right? It turns out memory is flawed in some ways. Thankfully, the whole masturbatory story is set to the visuals of illustration and comics genius Chris Ware, so at least it's grating in a clean, geometric, eye-pleasing way.
Reader Comments
1. Marsha M. - May 7, 2008 2:24 PM
Chris Ware's great and all, but doesn't come close to the genius of Al Columbia!
http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/alcolumbiadoc_thumb.jpg
2. PB&J - May 7, 2008 2:31 PM
Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzz
In a related note...Comedy Central...bring back Shorties Watching Shorties minus the Shorties Watching.
3. Dan - May 7, 2008 3:43 PM
Season premiere was last Sunday, genius.
4. Joe - May 7, 2008 5:15 PM
Quite sweet if not a little too twee and a tad boring.
5. Phil - May 7, 2008 6:20 PM
I like everything except their round snowman butts.
But this show will never last.
6. Alice - May 7, 2008 6:44 PM
That was so clever and so sweet. And so pretty.
7. Dave - May 8, 2008 2:40 AM
No offense, but this is all you've heard or seen of This American Life, you're hardly in a position to judge it. The radio show in particular is one of the most varied, fascinating programs to appear in any medium. There's a damn good reason why the Hollywood studios had a huge bidding war over the first-look rights to stories that TAL digs up.
8. kc - May 9, 2008 2:15 PM
that was great. i really, thoroughly enjoyed that.