AwesomeFunny

AwesomeFunny.com is a humor website that features exclusively original content across a variety of media. AwesomeFunny is best known for the flash cartoon How to Kill a Mockingbird, which it released in November 2004. The cartoon became an Internet phenomenon or meme. The site also has a "weekly" comic called "Sum". Sum is a reference to Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am).

The site's administrators like to include the fictional characters Zorlok 7 and The Viceroy in random content on the website. The only contact information listed on AwesomeFunny is an email address, registered to the domain. The site was created by Anthony Scodary and Nico Benitez, two students at Stanford University in California.

How to Kill a Mockingbird

How to Kill a Mockingbird is long for a Macromedia Flash cartoon, running for over 12 minutes. It was created by Stanford undergrads Nico Benitez and Anthony Scodary. Spread mainly by email and usenet, it never achieved significant Alexa rankings.

Synopsis
The cartoon begins as a book report from an elementary or middle school student about To Kill a Mockingbird, but after the first minute or so it becomes obvious that the narrator only read the first chapter or so of the book. The report quickly diverges into a bizarre adventure story that revolves around pirates trying to destroy an evil mechanical mockingbird after it steals their treasure. It is soon learned that the pirates must find a book called "How to Kill a Mockingbird" (which looks suspiciously like the real novel) to discover how a mockingbird can be killed. The only catch is that the pirates must travel back to ancient China to steal the book from the ninjas (which strangely are from Japan) that hold the book in their fortress. The pirates battle the ninjas for nine years, until a fleet of mockingbirds come to destroy them all. The pirates and ninjas decide to join forces and try to destroy the mockingbird the only way that works: “by hitting it with the moon.” The pirates and ninjas eventually succeed in doing this by using all the nuclear explosions in the world.

Invention Pioneers of Note

Invention Pioneers of Note is a flash cartoon about a television program of the same name featured on the History Channel and the desperate attempts to keep the show alive. The show stars "famed historian" Winston Whitworth and his associate, Q.M. Van Greebs. Whitworth speaks rather quietly and boringly, occasionally making a joke of sorts using very dry humor. Van Greebs is a German alcoholic, who becomes more and more drunk as the series progresses, eventually needing subtitles to be understood.

Invention Pioneers of Note (the tv show, not the flash movie) spans six seasons. The first season explores Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, inventor of the fountain pen, the hot water bottle, and the railcar brake. The tone of the show begins rather seriously. During the second and third seasons, the History Channel tries to market the show to a younger audience using "X-treme marketing". The inventors shown are Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and peace, and Alexander Graham Bell, who not only owned all the phones at one point (even yours), but would be older than every other person in the world if he were still alive today. For the fourth season, IPN sells out to various advertisers, most notably Burger Boat, creators of the spicy and delicious Flame Burger. The fifth season stars Emilio Estevez and a CG dragon, and basically consists of them talking rapidly about nothing in particular. And just when you think the show could not lose more meaning, it moves into the final season, which consists of little more than a bizarre dance to the song Brown Eyed Girl.

Learn the Computer

The most recent addition, this is in 5 parts and is to be released part-by-part. At the present time, only the intro and part one are available. It is in the format of a 5-segment program meant to teach the buyer to "Learn the Computer" but it soon becomes obvious that the narrators have very little idea of what they are talking about.

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