Ranking The Paloni Show: Which Short Should Get A Spin-Off?
Anthology series and movies are an effective way to cover a ton of diverse material in a short amount of time, but they’re also a smart way to scout out new talent and ideas. Some of the most successful ventures started out as short segments that were a part of a larger variety show, anthology, or whole. Hulu’s holiday-themed animated anthology, The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! highlights 13 emerging voices in the animation industry. The Paloni Show succeeds as an eclectic collection of chaos, but in the case of some of these stories it’d be a true shame if this is the last that they’re seen. Not everything in The Paloni Show could sustain the spin-off treatment, and in fact some of these ideas are completely antithetical to the concept. However, it’s still an entertaining exercise to consider each of these shorts, not on their individual merits, but rather their maximum spin-off potential.
All of the material in The Paloni Show makes its mark, but in the end it’s really just “Megahex, Devil’s Night, “The Dreston,” the overarching Paloni family framing device, and possibly “The Creek Down the Street and Slaughter Cafe with serious spin-off potential, whereas other shorts like “The Killer Bathtub,” “Slashtronaut,” and “Banana Party” are so singularly focused on a gag that it’s hard to picture them expanding beyond anything other than these few-minute shorts without serious overhauls and expansions. Even some of the better sequences like “Bet It Was Becca” and “An Alien Halloween Claymation” are more stylistic showpieces than story-driven segments and any spin-off would be predicated on these odd characters in repeatedly foreign scenarios. Nevertheless, here’s a ranking of all of the segments in The Paloni Show according to how effectively they’d work as full-length spin-offs.
14. “The Killer Bathtub”
Rafillo’s “The Killer Bathtub” might be the most visually exciting of all the segments in The Paloni Show, but it’s a one-note idea that really has nowhere else to go. It’s gorgeous and reminiscent of the expressive animated shorts from MTV’s Liquid Television, but it plays like a demo reel, not a premise to build a series upon.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs