In the first half of this year, "Don't Panic King" was born.
All kinds of whimsical plots take turns to turn those once little-known demons into protagonists.
"Don't Panic, King" quickly dominated various short video platforms, and was called the Journey to the West version of "The Annual Meeting Can't Be Stopped".
Douban has a score of 7.9 points.
Now the starring Tudou and Lu Yan have started another comedy.
"Abnormal Animal Research Center"
Tudou and Lu Yan are a pair of comic talents who became popular from "Annual Comedy Contest".
Before this competition, Tudou was an ordinary stand-up comedian, and Lu Yan was an improvisational comedian.
Two straight lines that do not intersect because of a game collided, and the combination of "Fat Talent" became popular all over the country.
In "Bus Brothers", the sentence "Brother, I am your twin brother" made the audience laugh crazy. In "Father's Funeral", their brains are opened, but the seemingly tragic scene allows the son to witness so many amazing friends of his father: half-horse, Saturn, etc.
Tudou and Lu Yan staged in "Annual Comedy Contest" are typical comic works.
Tudou's funny and stupid character is responsible for pretending to be stupid and filling, while Lu Yan plays a more serious role, responsible for being more honest and complaining, and part of the humor is focused on misunderstandings, puns, and homonyms between them.
As a small success of mancai, Tudou and Lu Yan's performance in "Don't Panic King" attracted a large number of audiences, but when it comes to the old business, it still depends on mancai.
"Abnormal Animal Research Center", as the first comic short drama in China, tells the unit story of a genius veterinarian and an assistant to heal animals.
"If you study without a certificate, you can't be a doctor. If you don't study, you can't be a doctor."
Every medical student wants to combine practice and knowledge to become a good doctor.
The same is true of Li Yan, under the introduction of his mentor Mr. Wang, Li Yan came to this "abnormal animal research center" with flashing signs.
Although Li Yan was reluctant to be Dr. Wang's assistant in every way, Li Yan was rushed to work after Dr. Wang's divine logic of "veterinarian = respected doctor".
The first to be treated was a lion who was reluctant to eat.
The prescription for diagnosis and treatment is snail powder.
That's right, it's the stinky and smelly snail noodles from Guangxi.
But it's this snail powder, and the medicine is in addition to the disease.
Although it was to heal lions, many people came.
It turned out that the lion's owner and his girlfriend had an awkward fallout, and the other girlfriend thought that the lion was more important than herself and wanted to break up.
This familiar feeling, is it the workaholic boyfriend who neglected his girlfriend for work?
And Dr. Wang is using his exclusive skill - beast language.
When Dr. Wang said ask the lion, Li Yan also tried to explain that "ask the lion" is a diagnostic method and a name for probing the disease.
But Dr. Wang really asked the lion directly: "Why don't you eat?"
After a lot of muttering with the lion, Dr. Wang said that the lion was homesick.
Who believes this? The lion owner directly pointed out the loophole!
The lion is from Guangxi, and asked Dr. Wang if he was not hearing well!
Originally, it was very troublesome to transport lions to Africa, but who would have thought that this lion was from Guangxi.
Dr. Wang immediately looked like he suddenly realized, saying that this explained why he didn't understand a few syllables.
The lion's owner immediately believed it, but his girlfriend found it unreliable.
But Dr. Wang did not stop there, he said that the lion said that the owner was to work hard and take care of himself, buy a house for his girlfriend as soon as possible and get married, so he was with him every day, and did not neglect his girlfriend.
As soon as this passage came out, the lion owner and his girlfriend were immediately reconciled.
At the same time, Dr. Wang prescribed a pair of potions and asked Li Yan to fetch them and meet his senior pharmacist, Zheng Zheng.
According to Dr. Wang's route, Li Yan turned left and right to the shop, and got the medicine from the pharmacist Zheng Zheng - snail powder.
After the lion has taken the "medicine", he has also been cured of the disease, and he has more energy, and Dr. Wang has been praised by the customer's real name!
Li Yan, who had experienced all this, already doubted his life, and hurriedly asked Mentor Wang to resign.
However, Tutor Wang said that Dr. Wang was his younger brother, and Tutor Wang asked Li Yan to intern in the past in the hope of understanding the true face of this younger brother who had been separated for many years and suddenly returned.
Saying this, Li Yan still agreed for the sake of Tutor Wang, who was only one of his students.
After all, he can't leave his job at all, and Dr. Wang doesn't listen to what Li Yan says at all, and only cares about talking to himself!!
"Abnormal Animal Research Center", as a work supervised by Tudou Lu Yan, has more brains than this, and it is like an expanded version of "Father's Funeral" in terms of character setting.
The guests who come here include the deputy captain, the local tyrant, the aliens, etc., and the pets are even more strange, including crayfish and crabs that can be eaten in the sea, as well as parrots and black bears.
The Center for Abnormal Animal Research is not only a veterinary hall, but also a theater, this one is a sea voyage, and the next one is in danger of being exploded in a safe.
There's nothing you can't do, only what you can't think of.
Seeing that Dr. Wang, who is open-minded, and Li Yan, who is more serious about everything, gives people a strong sense of contrast, and with the help of Li Yan, you can also see that Dr. Wang, who can speak beast language, act, and travel around the world, is really hidden.
This work is brain-opening and wonderful in terms of novelty, and Lu Yan and Tudou are overwhelmed by the creation of a stalk.
However, at the same time, there are too many stalks, and too many dense laughs make this work not so funny.
If you don't know much about film and television, anime, many stalks look a little foggy, such as the names of some anime film and television characters, people who don't understand can't understand this joke, and you need to be reminded again.
Perhaps because of the characteristics of comics, every minute the creator tries to incorporate multiple laughs.
But if the audience can't keep up with it a little, they will miss the laugh, and even before the joke has reacted, they are already throwing a joke.
The laughter is too dense, but it makes people a little tired to watch.
Of course, "The Center for Abnormal Animal Research" is not just a comedy, but often uses animals or the relationship between humans and animals to refract social phenomena.
Don't dare to let crayfish into the sea, how is it not like parents who dare not let go of their children, worried about this and that, but maybe it is better for children to let go appropriately.
There are also celebrities who think their pets are too ugly and want to have plastic surgery, actors who make their debut and fly solo in CP groups, etc., behind each story are many social hot spots, which make people think further while laughing.
"Abnormal Animal Research Center" brings a new comedy touch to the audience as a comic short drama, but at the same time, it makes people feel a fly in the ointment in terms of polishing the connection of laughter and the depth of the story.
Audiences who like comics may enjoy it, but those who don't understand comics are always a little less interesting to watch.
Perhaps this is also the reason why this work is not as popular as "Don't Panic King", a good comedy needs more audiences to keep up with the rhythm.