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SAMPLE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

Bee and Puppycat is a short cartoon from the Cartoon Hangover studio, a studio that produces cartoons solely for its Youtube Channel. The show features a female protagonist and a half dog-half cat creature that work for an interdimensional temp agency of some sort. Even this plot summary feels like stretch, because the show is so short (both episodes total at approx 10 minutes) and the show appears on Youtube, so the audience it’s trying to reach seems oddly wide and narrow at the same time. It’s short running time and freedom from TV rating systems make it a really odd, provocative show that exists because of the unique space it occcupies

It’s short running time is a constraint that contributes in a major way to it’s random comedy approach. Because episodes average 5 minutes long, there isn’t time to linger on jokes and plot points, so the show has to keep moving no matter what. The show is probably so short because, since the studio is a youtube channel, it doesn’t have a huge budget, and therefore can’t pay for actors to spend a long time recording or animators to make longer products. The constraint works in their favor overall, however, because it makes the show wackier and more interesting to work under this constraint.