#inaccuracy

I looked at the Wild Kratts Fanon Wiki, and I must say it crushed my soul as a history major. I was nearly crying over it 😆. It has so many blatant inaccuracies, and I realized I must show my findings to you all because, to be honest, they are pretty hilarious.

Let’s use Zach’s page as the example, we’ll start with the quick facts:

Family First!

So he’s married to Donita, Gourmand is his adoptive brother, and he’s got a kid, wow, good to know…And I am assuming these are his supposed “parents?”

This is the only Parin I could find, she is a 12 year old child from a video game called Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure. And the only Kermit I know is this guy…so whoever wrote them as his parents, I have no words…except: gross!

Now let’s go to his moral alignment and enemies!

So unless you missed it he is now good! And his true enemy is Zeke Varmigeek! You know, his evil clone, like Toodles, we’ve seen him in the show right??? You haven’t? We’ll go back and watch it! He’s “there.”

Time for some Zach Trivia!

So he has cankles (misspelled in wiki) in the pilot..

Hmmm, maybe, come on Zach, show us some leg! *sexy song starts playing*

He loves them…yeah, I can see that love right here… 🎶 Can you feel the love tonight! 🎶

(It’s the power suits, but the man has similar reactions regardless of whether it’s the suit or bros activating the creature powers).

Now this I need to see, Zach driving a car, Zach eating tuna…he’d probably wreck the car, and he admits he’s more of a chicken guy.

Final his Physical Appearance!

Did I saved the best for last, or what?

See below cut (if you are comfortable) for a slightly suggestive comment (nothing too crude!)

That's explicitly not how Transporters work in the show. You have continuous consciousness in the matter stream.

That’s a zipper on Arthur’s jacket.

I Found this:

If you know me, then you KNOW I was gonna cover this video the moment it came out. And boy am I!

“Famous Actor Gets Arrested On The Job, What Happens Next Is Shocking”

This meant either two things for me:

The actor was accused of something because of some discriminative reason, and a tragic backstory would fix the issue

OR

This was actually the ending of the video where nothing ‘next’ happens and the actor is going to be a black coded jerk who ‘deserves it’

But I KNEW one thing. And the very thing that drove me to this video: Acting. No, not talking about the poorly directed acting in these videos or the awful dialogue these actors are given (they deserve better), I’m talking about Acting as a Job. In general. 

I took classes about this career, I’ve BEEN an actor in my community. I’ve been an actor in my schools. It’s a huge hobby of mine. So I can safely say that I know how the job works in real life.

So accompanying the bad messages Dhar Mann has to offer in this video, I’m also gonna go over: Did Dhar Mann portray the job field accurately?

SPOILERS: NO. NOT AT ALL.

And here’s why:

(Keep in mind, everything I say is my opinion, and not fact. I do not mean to attack the crew involved with these videos in any way, if I do, I apologize. If you think these are good messages, good for you. I’m glad you can unironically watch these videos and see good in them. I just can’t.)

Also before we start this, the video starts with Dhar Mann announcing he just hit thirty billion views (good for him, I guess) so he’s giving away laptops to whoever goes on his Instagram and comments emojis. Okay, nothing wrong with giving away stuff, but like... that seems like a VERY inefficient way to figure out who wins the laptops. Like, you can just type any emoji you want, and he’ll just randomly pick a winner. This isn’t the lottery Dhar Dhar. Just saying.

Anyway, let’s analyze the bad messages AND the Acting inaccuracy in “Actor gets arrested on the job, what happens next is shocking”

1: It’s A Black And White World

This is going to be the #1 Message in nearly EVERY Dhar Mann post I make. If it ends up not being, then we’re not living on earth anymore.

But yeah, what a surprise, human beings don’t exist in the Dhar Mann universe. You’re either a good person, or a bad person, NO in between AT ALL.

EVERYONE has said this complaint! And I did so as well.

So in the case of this video, the set up is about two men in the acting field of their careers, both of them with extremely minor background roles in a show. They both want to get promoted to bigger parts and have their talent be noticed by people. And surprise surprise, one man is humble, the other man laughs a lot. That’s it. 

Remember kids: Don’t laugh. Laughing is EVIL.

Gosh forbid we promote happiness and a positive human gesture to be encouraged.

I will say that the ‘good guy’s name in this is Bruno.

Meme all you want.

And the ‘bad guy’ here, wants to get promoted outside of his background actor role and be a bigger part. One with actual lines. Which is why he’s jealous of Bruno because he has a single line.

And right off the bat:

Acting Inaccuracy 1: You Can Get Promoted To Bigger Parts In A Production

This is NOT accurate to how the job works AT ALL.

There is NO SUCH THING as ‘getting promoted to a bigger part.’

That’s not how casting works.

Maybe this would work in other jobs, but NOT this field.

Casting is completely decided through Auditions, where ANYONE can participate in them. Basically, these are meetings you go to, where you perform an acting skit in front of the producers and director, to show off your talent and use THAT to express how good you are for their production. If they decide you’re good enough for their show, they have CallBacks to make you do it again to double check before they fully submit you to a certain part in the show.

What part you get in the production, background, or full on character, depends on how good of an actor you’ve proven yourself to be in auditions, and if the director sees you as a fitting role. That goes for ALL PARTS. NOT just the characters. You’re lucky if you even get IN a show. I’ve actually been background for more times than I’ve been a character. I believe I’ve only been a named character like... three times? Four times? I was actually the lead once. Just once though. 

And here’s another thing: Once a cast is locked, IT’S LOCKED. You are that character, and you will ALWAYS be that character for the show. Unless of course you physically cannot be in the show for some reason. If that’s the case, an UNDERSTUDY will take your part. NOT another actor in the show who already has a part. Background or not. An Understudy is a backup actor for a specific part, where their job is to fill in or the actual actor of the character if they can’t be there for whatever reason. You might say “Well that’s pointless” it actually is a VERY useful job for someone to have, as even if the actual actor is there 24/7, the understudy will learn all your lines and all your parts to be prepared for anything.

My point is that, once you have a role. YOU HAVE THAT ROLE. There is NO changing that. And if you can’t be there, the understudy will take your role. NOT someone who’s already in the show with ANY part. 

A bigger role in the show does NOT EQUAL promotion. That is absolutely ridiculous. You CANNOT just promote yourself to be the lead of the show, like you could for a head desk role in business. Especially if the cast is locked in. That is NOT how that works.

So I have absolutely NO IDEA what these people in the Dhar Mann video are talking about, when they say they’re gonna promote themselves to bigger parts. They can’t do that! Doesn’t matter how good they are, doesn’t matter what they do. They are the backgrounds in this production, and will always be. Taking over for the leads if they go missing is NOT their job! 

You CAN’T get ‘promoted’ to the lead role. Especially not in the middle of production. If that were the case, production of the media would be absolute hell, because they’d be switching people every single hour. That’s why they lock in the roles before production even starts.

This is complete bull***t.

Also, the acting in Dhar Mann really IS bad here anyway. Because it’s directed to be corny. You really want me to take this seriously, get a different director who actually KNOWS how people FUNCTION.

But what also proves my points is this line from Bruno: “One day, an actor didn’t show up to set, so the director decided to give me a shot.”

Again, that would be the job of the UNDERSTUDY. Bruno is a background character. He has a locked part. In real life, Bruno would not be allowed to take the guy’s part, no matter what.

I actually agree with the bad guy here, who calls bs on the idea that he could. “You took someone else’s part? I didn’t even know that was possible.”

Yeah. BECAUSE IT’S NOT.

Which brings me to,

2: “Good things come to those who wait”

Said by Bruno.

This is why we shouldn’t talk about Bruno.

Because that is a TERRIBLE message to send to people. 

“Good things come to those who wait” So what you’re saying Dhar Mann, is that if you want to have good things happen to you, what you do is just sit around and WAIT for yourself to get promoted?

NO.

If you just sit around, dreaming, and hoping you get good things to happen to you, NEWS FLASH, NOTHING will happen to you. You’re just wasting time, and ESPECIALLY in the acting field, you CAN’T just sit around and WAIT for stuff to happen. You have to be there on time, you have to do your job, you have to get yourself recognized. You can’t just publish a book, and then stop there, sit around, and HOPE someone reads it. You know what will happen? NOTHING. You have to promote yourself in SOME fashion! You have to market, you have to work, you have to plan out what you do. 

Waiting for good things is the WORST thing you could do. You’re not gonna get a girlfriend if you don’t talk to her. You’re not gonna get a good job if you don’t work. You’re not gonna get any recognition for a Tumblr post if you don’t write it!

Seriously Dhar Mann, WHY must you take the simplest of stories and make them SO Nauseating and so harmful to people? Just have your ‘good guy’ put in the work to get this job! It’s not hard!

Also Noah, our bad guy, (which thank gosh I can imagine Td Noah instead of this guy) says to that “I like to think of it as good things come to those who take action.”

Dhar Mann wants you to believe that Noah is WRONG.

Except, if you read what I just said, you know that I think Noah’s RIGHT.

You HAVE to do stuff to get somewhere! Noah has the right idea in taking action to call out this inaccurate job representation. He’s trying to put in the work to get promoted, even if it’s inaccurate to how the job works.

HOW is this meant to be WRONG?!

I know Noah’s meant to be a jerk, but that’s the ONLY explanation for WHY this is bad behavior. It’s because the dude laughs a lot, so therefore, every action he does should be seen as negative!

So Noah straight up asks for a bigger part, since the lead actor isn’t available. (Which again, NOT how that works) And ONLY because Noah so happens to look like the lead actor, the director’s like “Yeah, let’s just have this guy be our lead!”

Acting Inaccuracy 2: Looks play a role in what part you get

This one is kind of a grey area. On one hand, yes, looks CAN play a role in what part you get. And half of the time that just has to do with what race you are or what gender you are. No, that’s not a racist way of thinking, that’s just because they need that specific person for the character. They’re not gonna cast a woman to play Batman in a Batman movie, if you get what I’m saying. Like, if your movie’s setting takes place in Asia or something, they’re gonna cast Asians as the characters, because otherwise that wouldn’t be accurate.

With the exception of that though, no, looking exactly like a certain actor DOES NOT play a part in anything. What matters is how good you are as an actor. Especially in a live action production, the actor’s face doesn’t matter. Especially if the work isn’t published yet. Whether or not you look like the actor that’s missing, you’re still not gonna get their part no matter what. They can get anyone to be the understudy of the actor, as long as the work isn’t published yet and people don’t recognize the character, you can have the understudy be the actor, they’d have to be the character the entire way. Face recognition doesn’t play a role.

Again, grey area, but with the exception of the racial sexual border around casting certain characters, what matters is how good of an actor you are. NOT if you look the part.

“If you’re late one more time, I’m gonna have to replace you with one of these extras” -the director

“Keep up the fascinating facts. And I’m going to be aro-nauseous all over you!” -Td Noah

Okay, jokes aside, being late DOES sometimes play a factor. Sometimes actors do end up behind schedule, where in that case, during auditions, they let the directors know if they have anything to attend to that should concern. That way, the directors can work around that and proceed their production to work around all cast member’s schedule. 

Of course, the lead actor does NOT have a good excuse to be late, as he did not email or call them that they were gonna be late. And sometimes if that gets repetitive, that tells the directors that you are not responsible, and that can get you fired. Then your part would either go to, again, the understudy, OR they recast from someone else who auditioned. But again, they would NEVER give the part to someone who already has a part in the production!

One thing you CANNOT be late for no matter what, is Blocking rehearsal. What that is, is where actors and directors go over the entire script, so that they can cut out or alter any parts of the original script that they must make, to understand the time of the show, fit in that, and what lines do or don’t work. That is something EVERYONE needs to be in, because that’s where the script is officially locked, and the lines there are official.

Just a fun fact.

So skimming through the video, where all you need to know is that Noah plans to sabotage the lead actor so he can get his part, by breaking his car, poisoning him, etc. This causes the lead to never show up, and production goes in the garbage pin, stressing out the director. 

And Bruno, the entire time, is like “Hey, I know production is going badly and some things need to be altered in order for this to work, and that I am a part of this production as well so therefore I should contribute... but I’m just gonna sit back and do nothing. I’m not gonna help anyone. I’m not gonna suggest anything better. I’m just gonna sit back, keep my mouth shut, and HOPE that everything gets better.”

And yeah, the director has the job to arrange scenes and decide on stuff like this, but no matter what, you are a part of this production! You must help your crew! You must be there for them and suggest stuff when they hit a block! You don’t make official choices, but as long as you don’t overdo it or take over, you are allowed to help people! Always! Doing nothing is EXACTLY what gets you FIRED!

To be clear, NO, an actor does not decide their lines, that’s up to the director. However, it IS their job to be the character. It is their job to understand what their part is, what they must do for that role, as well as provide ideas for the producers regarding that character to help them understand that character as well. You can suggest, but not take over. There’s a difference.

So anyway, Noah sabotages the lead actor, making them forced to recast. Again, they CAN’T cast a person who is already in the show!  But the director decides to cast Noah anyway, because... bias. For some unexplained reason. We can’t possibly make that clear or flesh that out because otherwise we wouldn’t have filler of Noah being forced to play as a bear. Ha ha!

And then surprise surprise, Noah gets arrested because he sabotaged the lead actor. He goes to jail for a year.

Okay, fair enough. That IS illegal.

AND THEN they decide to give the role to BRUNO. The guy who has done next to NOTHING THE ENTIRE VIDEO. And everything goes his way, because he did NOTHING. He gets the lead role.

Again. NO. THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.

It’s also harmful lessoning even ignoring the inaccuracy of the job. It doesn’t matter if Bruno is on time every time, it doesn’t matter if he gives a hundred percent on his part, he WOULDN’T be the lead! That’s NOT what he was cast for! 

If you’re gonna say that Bruno gives a hundred percent! SHOW THAT! SHOW HIM working hard! At least THEN you’d have a point with your message somewhat! But NO, you DIDN’T show him working hard. You just showed him sitting in the back and doing nothing! He doesn’t do anything to help the crew, he doesn’t do anything supportive, he doesn’t help AT ALL. We don’t even see him do his job! We don’t see ANYONE doing their jobs! It’s just a bunch of talking about nothing, and sitting around with awful dialogue.

The message basically turns into: “If you want a promotion, DON’T DO ANYTHING. Sit back. Relax. Allow bad stuff to happen. As long as you’re not responsible for the bad stuff, you don’t have to do ANYTHING noteworthy to get promoted.”

Great! Guess I’ll slack off at work! Guess I won’t be there for my crew! Guess I won’t help make this production better! Guess I won’t even TRY! 

Thanks Dhar Mann! I learned something great today! *sarcasm*

Maybe I am Noah deep down. “Come on, a little effort out there people!” -Td Noah

And that’s how the video ends. The guy who does NOTHING gets EVERYTHING he wants. And the guy who TRIED to be efficient but simply went at it the wrong way goes to JAIL.

That’s it.

So kids! If you want something so bad, you don’t do anything! Acting jobs are jokes! Acting means bias and random recastings, and screwing over the very concept of auditions! If you try to do something efficient, you’ll go to jail. 

The message here SHOULD BE “Accept the part you have, and don’t sabotage people out of jealousy!” But that’s NOT the message Dhar Mann is trying to deliver, it’s “Good things come to those who wait”

Which again, isn’t a good message to send to people, especially those who already slack off at work. 

As for the job accuracy: There is next to nothing. I guess they address the importance of scheduling here...? But other than that, EVERYTHING here is inaccurate. Acting careers DO NOT work like this AT ALL.

Oh geez, I’m tired. I’m done.