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Project Name: Trying My Best
Asking For: $7,632 on Kickstarter
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Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $3,872
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 26
Description: The pitch video for Trying My Best begins with a sock puppet vomiting up 100,000 teeth onto his sock puppet dentist. Based on that description, you can probably figure out if you’re the sort of person who wants to read on.
Trying My Best is a new web series created by Australian comedy group Birthday Loyalty Club. It stars Jessie Ngaio as a colorfully-dressed young woman who creates a show that “feels something like a surreal Sesame Street as imagined by an unstable young pervert,” explains the project’s pitch video.
Birthday Loyalty Club plans to fill Trying My Best with all sorts of colorful characters and bright sets. We can only imagine the rest of the series will be filled with all of the vile creations you would never find on the actual Sesame Street.
Creator Bio: Beyond its online videos, Birthday Loyalty Club recently put on a stage production called Slutmonster and Friends, which one reviewer described as “gross-out porn of the highest quality.” Sounds like fun!
Best Perk: Birthday Loyalty Club will reward each backer who pledges $50 by using a puppet to scream that person’s name. They describe it as “so stupid,” but there’s no denying it’s kind of fun.
Why You Should Fund It: Trying My Best has a lot of positive qualities going for it, but it’s biggest plus is how unabashedly different it is. This is the sort of project that wears its independent spirit like a badge of pride, and for that reason, it is exactly the sort of series services like Kickstarter were made for. It needs just a few thousand more dollars to unleash its special brand of mania upon the world. I think it deserves to get there.
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