The video is created by TomSka, the founder of the popular animated sketch series "asdfmovie". TomSka is trying to understand why asdfmovie has been successful despite its seemingly random and nonsensical humor. He analyzes the series by breaking down its comedic elements, such as subversion of expectations, wordplay, and parodies, and identifies common themes and motifs, including death, violence, and absurdity.
TomSka creates a massive spreadsheet to categorize and analyze the 226 sketches in the asdfmovie series, looking at elements such as character deaths, violence, and the use of weapons. He also examines the emotional responses of characters and the audience, and identifies the most commonly expressed emotions in the series.
To further understand what makes asdfmovie popular, TomSka creates a website where users can vote on their favorite sketches. The results show that people tend to prefer sketches with fewer violent or disturbing elements, and that they enjoy sketches with funny voices, literal outcomes, and angry characters.
Using the data from the website, TomSka identifies the top 10 most popular sketches in the series, which include "Play That One", "Pie Flavored Pie", and "Doctor Nerd". He notes that these sketches do not feature recurring characters and may be less polarizing or overexposed than other sketches.
Finally, TomSka uses a computer algorithm to predict the most perfect asdfmovie joke, based on the data from the spreadsheet and the website. The resulting joke features a combination of elements that are commonly found in popular asdfmovie sketches, including accidental death, suicide, non-fatal injury, and a celebrity guest. However, TomSka is ultimately disappointed with the result, feeling that it does not live up to his expectations.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. asdfmovie is a web series created by Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell in 2008.
2. The series has 12 episodes, 5 songs, 1 gold record, 1 book, 1 card game, and 1 billion collective views.
3. TomSka compiled 226 sketches from the series into a spreadsheet to analyze their comedic composition.
4. The sketches use various comedic devices, including subversion of expectations, true random, literal outcomes, wordplay, dark turns, violence, parody, and more.
5. TomSka defined four categories of death in the series: accidental deaths, murders, suicides, and suicidal intent.
6. The series has a total of 26 accidental deaths, 41 murders, 18 suicides, and 12 suicidal intents.
7. TomSka analyzed the circumstances of character deaths and found that 131 deaths occurred in the series.
8. The series features various types of characters, including celebrities, babies, and animals.
9. TomSka created a website to rank the sketches based on user preferences and collected 2.2 million votes over 80 hours.
10. The top 10 most popular sketches were revealed, with "Play That One" being the number one favorite.
11. The computer predicted the most perfect asdfmovie joke based on the rankings and attributes.
12. TomSka's card game, Muffin Time, is available at muffintimegame.com.
13. asdfmovie13 is scheduled to be released in the near future.