High School USA!

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High School USA!
What happens if you combined Archie and Scott Pilgrim with Bully, but gave it to the Family Guy post-season 8 staff? You get this trash.
Genre: Adult animation Satire Black comedy Running Time: 11 minutes Country: United States Release Date: July 21, 2013 - January 30, 2015 Network(s): Fox FXX (Ep. 6) Created by: Dino Stamatopoulos Distributed by: Disney-ABC Domestic Television Starring: Vincent Kartheiser T.J. Miller Nathan Barnatt Mandy Moore Zosia Mamet Jake Johnson Dino Stamatopoulos Seasons: 1 Episodes: 12 FXX (episode 6)

High School USA! is an American adult animated television series produced by Friends Night and Animation Domination High-Def Studios. The series was created and written by Dino Stamatopoulos. Nick Weidenfeld, Hend Baghdady and Stamatopoulos executive produce the series.

Plot

The series follows a group of super-positive millennial students through school. They confront all the unique challenges of growing up in a modern world. Led by the painfully naïve and always upbeat Marsh Merriwether, there is nothing these kids can’t put a positive spin on, from cyber-bullying to Adderall addiction to embarrassing sexting incidents.

Why It Sucks

1. The main problem with the show is that it has no reason to exist, even though it was supposed to be an adult parody of the Archie comics, but ends up becames an terrible rip-off.
2. It tries way too hard to be funny with its South Park-like humor, such as rape jokes, suicide jokes, obscene gestures, etc...
3. The main characters are very cliched and generic.
   • Marsh is a happy-go-lucky guy who likes making people happy. His hairstyle is a rip-off of Scott Pilgrim.
   • Amber is a ditzy airheaded blonde & the typical "popular girl".
   • Blackstein is the nerd.
   • Brad is the bully who cares about beating up other students.
   • Cassandra is the stereotypical Chinese girl.
4. Nonsensical plots, like in the one episode that reveals that Cassandra's parents work at a Chinese phone factory and they send her to United States after getting a plastic surgery to look Chinese, which is just disrespectful to Chinese-Americans.
5. Child sexualization: Underaged characters would often get put into sexual situations, like in this photo, for example.
6. In the episode, Sexting, all of the boys in the school thought it was a good idea to send dick pics in order to make the situation about Brent's dick pic less embarrassing which is just disgusting.
7. In the episode, Choices, It delivers a very tasteless message about teenager pregnancy in which Amber got pregnant and ends up getting an abortion. It turns out that she was never pregnant, which is a very insulting twist ending!
8. Tons of sexual entendres happening for no reason.
9. The theme song is very forgettable, it's just making the audience wanting to know that the show is called High School USA! and nothing else.
10. Horrendous character designs made without depth or detail that results in limited color scheme, with sometimes some character models are recycled.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The animation looks passable, even by 2013-2015 standards.
2. The voice acting was spot on.
3. This show is a huge remark on the phrase: Just because you can, doesn´t mean you should.
4. Thankfully, the show never aired outside of the United States.

Trivia

• The second episode, Sexting, only aired twice because of its sexual nature.
  • Another episode, Best Friends Forever, was banned for its highly sexual content. It was originally scheduled to be the sixth episode, but was never aired on TV aired due to censorship concerns over its depiction of teenagers making porn with adults. It was briefly added to Hulu Plus on 24 Aug. 2013, but was removed shortly after.
• Dino Stamatopoulos, the creator of the show also created Moral Orel.
• Thanks to the fact that the Fox ADHD block is for sale only in the United States, the series never aired outside the country, but also just like Allen Gregory the series isn't available on Blu-Ray, streaming services and DVD. As the only the series can be watched is in the deepest corners of internet.
• Despise being entirely made in USA, the animation for the show was done by an Canadian animation studio called "Loogaroo".
• Many people think Dino Stamatopoulos only did this show as a vendetta, due to the premature cancellation of Moral Orel, we wouldn´t be surprised if that happened to be the case.

         

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