No Dikkering Around

No Dikkering Around

Why Production Quality Doesn't Matter

Four reasons

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Scott Dikkers
May 02, 2024
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In the 1970s, Chevy Chase and Mike O’Donoghue shopped a hilarious screenplay, Planet of the Cheap Special Effects. Nobody wanted it.

Chase and O’Donoghue got it. Hollywood didn’t, at least not in the 1970s.

This industry later embraced lo-fi, to an extent, with Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Adult Swim, Between Two Ferns, and the whole Funny or Di…

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