SpongeRoadie UK
Vomit Boy
I think it's safe to say that I'm not exactly a person that works on feelings. I'm not a robot. I can form my own opinions over something and it's overall quality. However, it's a pretty hard thing to do. I'm never sure of my own judgements when it's based on opinions. I want stats. I want cold, hard facts.
Unfortunately, it's hard to find cold, hard facts in the one thing I love doing in this website. Judging and analysing SpongeBob episodes.
There's a reason why I'm never happy with the results of my lists and my reviews. Are they "right"? Is there a "right" in this kind of topics? I need something that can make me sure of my choices. This is something I've been looking hard to find. So, I decided to try and find a way to extract numbers and stats from an episod when judging it's quality.
And after some decent amount of work (10 minutes) I think I may have found,... well there's no better way of saying it, the scientific formula for funny. Well, not really. This is still in "Roadie's Workshop" and I'm hoping you guys can help me develop the formula into something better.
Basically, the formula is just counting the hit rate and jokes per minute of an episode. The jokes per minute bit is something familiar. It's something that a lot of fans of various comedy shows have tried to use to determine the humourous quality of a show/episode.
The hit rate thing is something I invented myself. Or at the very least, I didn't take inspiration from anyone. Maybe someone did this already, I don't know. Basically the hit rate of an episode is the percentage of successful jokes in one episode. Obviously, not all jokes are going to get a laugh from us. So we have to count the ones that worked.
I've done some tests. These two episodes were the test bunnies:
As Seen On TV
Duration : 11,5 minutes
Jokes : 37
Successful Jokes : 27
Hit Rate : 73%
Jokes/Minute : 3,22
New Student Starfish
Duration : 11,5 minutes
Jokes : 54
Successful Jokes : 20
Hit Rate : 37%
Jokes/Minute : 4,70
Now obviously, there are some problems with this system. For starters, it does not do the following things:
1. Consider the quality of jokes
2. Separate jokes from actual storytelling
3. Judge the story/characterization and other important parts of the episode
So it is far from a perfect formula to determine how good an episode is.
Any thoughts?
(Also, I've been thinking of making a list, like a top 100, just based on this formula. Too much hard work? )
Unfortunately, it's hard to find cold, hard facts in the one thing I love doing in this website. Judging and analysing SpongeBob episodes.
There's a reason why I'm never happy with the results of my lists and my reviews. Are they "right"? Is there a "right" in this kind of topics? I need something that can make me sure of my choices. This is something I've been looking hard to find. So, I decided to try and find a way to extract numbers and stats from an episod when judging it's quality.
And after some decent amount of work (10 minutes) I think I may have found,... well there's no better way of saying it, the scientific formula for funny. Well, not really. This is still in "Roadie's Workshop" and I'm hoping you guys can help me develop the formula into something better.
Basically, the formula is just counting the hit rate and jokes per minute of an episode. The jokes per minute bit is something familiar. It's something that a lot of fans of various comedy shows have tried to use to determine the humourous quality of a show/episode.
The hit rate thing is something I invented myself. Or at the very least, I didn't take inspiration from anyone. Maybe someone did this already, I don't know. Basically the hit rate of an episode is the percentage of successful jokes in one episode. Obviously, not all jokes are going to get a laugh from us. So we have to count the ones that worked.
I've done some tests. These two episodes were the test bunnies:
As Seen On TV
Duration : 11,5 minutes
Jokes : 37
Successful Jokes : 27
Hit Rate : 73%
Jokes/Minute : 3,22
New Student Starfish
Duration : 11,5 minutes
Jokes : 54
Successful Jokes : 20
Hit Rate : 37%
Jokes/Minute : 4,70
Now obviously, there are some problems with this system. For starters, it does not do the following things:
1. Consider the quality of jokes
2. Separate jokes from actual storytelling
3. Judge the story/characterization and other important parts of the episode
So it is far from a perfect formula to determine how good an episode is.
Any thoughts?
(Also, I've been thinking of making a list, like a top 100, just based on this formula. Too much hard work? )