tl;dr? Sorry.

I found this episode very striking for several reasons. From the original episode to the Junior episode, there's an undisguised, intentional change in story and character aspects, especially the level of character development. However, in this concluding episode, the dial is turned up to eleven as you lay out the true story of poor Jerry's life. At this point, your attitude has changed enough that Jerry: The End, unlike the other episodes, is NOT about the abuse of Jerry, or finding humor in failure.

This cartoon took me on a roller coaster of emotion, to the point of confusion, because of the conflict between your dark, abusive humor and the apparant compassion that you have grown for Jerry and the other characters. Jerry: The End begins with the tragedy of a miserable, neglected childhood, but almost immediately, it launches into a disorienting, illogical monologue, which develops into cheese as the woman giving up her own small child argues passionately in his favor. I guess what I am really saying is: you did lay it on a bit thick. After tragedy strikes again, the car scene is another emotional switch, into a really very honest and touching scene, in my opinion the best in the series. You touch on this tragic realism here and there, and when you do, it is heartfelt and graceful. But you transition out of this mode, to one of over-sentimentality, and the transitions are jarring, because the viewer is attempting to shift between different states of what is reality within the cartoon- different states of suspension of disbelief, I guess. This tells me that you yourself weren't sure what exactly you were going for... kind of the summation of the series, actually- never sure if I laugh at Jerry or feel bad for Jerry, which can throw the viewer into an awkward limbo.

The last scene with the tricycles moves back to the sentimental with an even less plausible emotion than the mother scenes. I did not find the last scene to be without merit; however, it was confusing, because Jerry never seemed to have met Jackie before the first episode. Basically, the ending implies that Jerry will have some lifelong friendship with Jackie, but we know he doesn't.

So after the sunset, I'm reminded- strongly- quickly- what the rest of Jerry's life goes like. Although he's just rode into the sunset, he is actually completely miserable, but totally human, and has such a pointless life that no one cares when he kills himself. Talk about depressing. This moment was very effective in culminating all of the misfortune into what felt like a reminder that I could be as unhappy and pointless as Jerry. That's a powerful moment, and not the way anyone expected Jerry's series to end- the character who was comically misfortunate and hopeless ends up being the object of sympathy.

Not necessarily a bad ending- just very unexpected and somewhat disorienting.

Your commentary was actually really nice except for the apple part, which was kind of annoying. You mentioned that the fbf drawing of the legs pedaling looked choppy, but that's funny because I thought it was intentional, to show the bumpy gravel. Actually it made me smile. And you probably know that your animation is top-notch, but maybe you don't know that the animation of this cartoon is easily superior to that of your others. Your lighting effects (ie cigarette) are ace. The whole thing was very well put together, what with the menu screen, commentary, bonus cartoon, and that fantastic intro.

Jerry's spoken line bothered me. It was obvious that a different, lower-quality mic was used. It stuck out.

Uhhhhh. Oh. I remember I wanted to say this. So the first cartoon of yours that I watched was We Are NativeAmericanCats, which I love. This cartoon has very effective blending of the dark humor and the sensitive realism. That is what Jerry: The End seeks to do more ambitiously but falls a little short. When you combine both of those things as effectively as you did in the former toon, it creates a message and presence of voice that are singular to the one and only HotDiggedyDemon.

Script- pretty funny
Animation- very good

The lack of movement and variation in camera angles made it so boring that I stopped watching towards the end. It held this funny cartoon back about a million points. Also, the characters don't have nearly enough body action to look at and little facial expression. There's not enough sound effects and music- did I hear any at all? So you have lack of both visual and auditory interest that is putting your viewers to sleep! Darn.

Seriously, if it wasn't for these huge flaws, it would be a 9 or a 10. Otherwise, it is fantastic! Please consider these as you make your next toon, because to be quite honest, they are more important than your character design and funny script.

Bad grammar, (imo) annoying music, too short, and little value in what is being taught. You're just showing us how you draw a tree. The topic is too narrow to be worthwhile. Maybe if you were demonstrating a Photoshop technique for creating realistic or stylized trees. This one isn't very realistic or stylized and doesn't require a particular technique. Besides that, the friendliness of the tutorial is nice, and the screen doesn't look awful, and it mostly works. (Try pressing replay.)

I wanted to say to you that NOT EVERYONE HAS TO MAKE TUTORIALS.

How many times do I see "Basic button tutorial V.1.1.1" in the portal every day? There's loads of comprehensive, expertly done, professional tutorials. You are a beginner. Beginners do not make tutorials. They use them. No one is needing your tutorials. Your flash efforts are better put to use learning to make games or animations.

Before I begin, note that I will mostly be talking about what to improve. The ratio of negative comments to positive comments does not necessarily indicate a negative or positive review. The numbers at the top mean more.

Alright. Watch out with using someone else's script, because this one is full of cliches, although it could be worse.

You need to build when doing monologues. Every line from beginning to end should be going towards a goal, and moving towards a climax. Create different emotions in different parts of the script- not like one isolated line, maybe a few lines that Insane Larry has a reaction to. What would Insane Larry think of this? What would he think of that? Express it very clearly in your voice. Also your sudden jumps to anger and sobbing were unrealistic. You have to hold back before you can let go. Your character can hold back tightly and put on a good show, but remember the emotion does have to come from somewhere.

Your anger and sobbing are simply unconvincing, and some of your phrasing and inflection is unnatural. Remember as you do the voice of someone you think is "insane" that he is still quite human and should talk like you, I mean, like a regular person with different emotions injected into it. So an "insane" person isn't going to have a different pattern of speech.

Make sure you have a lot of variety in each line. Take a close listen to every line here and think about where the pitch of your voice goes- it pretty much follows the same path each line. Mix it up!

You have some sexy radio voice. I think you need more practice, but I do not think "Sanity" is without merit. Good job.

This is your best acoustic song ever! Great lyrics, actually, usually I don't think the lyrics are as good as the music but I was overall impressed with this song, truly. Keep it up, man. Never stop.

And tabs, please!

You've only been doing this for a few weeks, I see. Well I am pretty impressed. I liked this, it was a little boring and repetitive but catchy. It sounds very nice and basic.

Keep going, you do have talent, to answer your question. Great one.

I need to spend more time in the Audio Portal. :)