I started watching this show at the beginning of 2013 after my cousins introduced it to my family. It is just AWESOME. I think that each original cast member is so talented as an actor. I think they all have awesome chemistry that brings each sketch to life.
I really, really admire their commitment to all-ages humor. The original cast always brings each sketch's concept to a really funny, fun, and very creative place. SOOOO CREATIVE!!
I think it's also really cool that a bunch of the original cast members are multitalented, taking multiple roles as actors, singers, dancers, writers, and sketch directors. It's so cool and fun knowing that a talented actor who knocks funny stuff out of the park also writes some of the sketches you love!
For example, in a personal interview, Mallory described herself as being more of a "behind-the-scenes" person. She said she loves writing sketches and editing. Every viewer knows that Mallory is a super talented and hilarious actress, so knowing about her skills offstage is really cool, too. Likewise, Matt is an incredible actor, and also created the show and directed some sketches.
All of the original cast members seem like very personable, smart, and cool people. This shows not just in their clever ideas and versatile acting (I think they all do a great job as elderly characters and very young characters), but in their steady commitment to family-friendly humor.
The ONLY reason I put this show at nine stars instead of ten is because of the quality of sketches that the new cast has put out. I think that the new actors seem good individually, and some are talented in singing and dancing like the old cast, too. After the past few years, after watching almost all of the new sketches, I don't think the new cast has a chemistry that draws in every age like the old cast did. I think their lack of chemistry can be frustrating and annoying to watch, ESPECIALLY because some of the ideas they have are really funny and creative!! I just think that they tend to take a funny concept, like two dancing inflatables at a car dealership going through problems, and stretch it for MINUTES longer than it is actually funny. It just kinda makes the sketches more SILLY than they are CLEVER, and overall a more childish show.
Tori has a very nice voice but she overacts in almost every role she is in, like she is living as an anime character. This becomes very clear in the Sailor Moon volleyball sketch, which is so, so cringy and unfunny and uncomfortable to watch cuz Tori just seems to be enjoying it way too much when it's not a funny representation of anime at all. Of course I understand that anime parodies are supposed to be overacted; I just mean that Tori carries this over-nervous energy with her in ALL of her roles. She mostly plays super awkward girls and, in the comment sections of these videos, Tori herself comments on how awkward she actually is in real life. Nothing wrong with being an awkward person, it just seems kinda attention-seeking how she is so confident in showcasing her awkwardness all the time.
Naomi, who I first saw in the "Love Your Lyfe" videos, is really annoying to watch, too. I'm sure she's a super sweet and cool person. It's just really hard to watch her. In the "Goodnight Moon" sketch with Jetta, I think she's funny. I like that sketch a lot!! But other sketches featuring her, like the "Gravy Genie" and "Anonymous Complaint" ones, are hard for me to take.
I think April is super cute but she is not a good actress in any of the sketches I've seen her in. She seems very awkward in every sketch.
I think the actors are all too awkward to click together. I don't think Jason fits in with them. I don't mean to say that because I have watched him for a longer time; I think he is an AMAZING actor and I think he should be back with the JK Studios crew where he can bounce off of them better.