Created by Erik Crary and Raj Patil for 60Frames, the series was
off to a fantastic start thanks to intrinsic fanboy humor and the fact that as long as the wearer is in a location outside the Death Star, watching anyone do anything in a stormtrooper costume is amusing.None of the following episodes had a hook as good as a Star Wars character, but each played off the Things You Can’t Do punchline well, touching on burglary, martial arts, and cleavage.
Unfortunately, the series was as short-lived as the run time of its episodes, and after four installments, 60Frames chose not to renew. I’m guessing because the view count just wasn’t there (though on average the episodes received 90K views a piece, which would seem like enough to greenlight further production, but that’s a topic for a different article), and that’s partly because Things You Can’t Do didn’t stay true to the uber-short-form.
Crary and Patil stretched out scenes a touch too long (a few to many kickspins on the yellowbelt, one too many pans back and forth in the neighbor’s home) when the beauty of the genre is that everything’s boiled down to the bare essentials.
Always leave them wanting less might be a rule in the internet’s microfame game, but in online video, its better to err on the side too little than too much.
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