You'd think you could name your daughter after Sgt. Carter's girlfriend from Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., and you'd be able to sleep at night, knowing she'd grow up to be a fine upstanding citizen who wears scarves to her college classes, focuses on her studies, and stays away from the wacky weed. Unfortunately, there are no such guarantees in this life. Bunny is a sociology student at USC circa 1970, who has become disillusioned with everything, but takes respite in hash, potluck spaghetti, and the witty repartee that always follows.
NOTE: Since the short includes depictions of actual drug use, it is marked explicit to be on the safe side. Otherwise, it's pretty squarely in PG-13 territory.
Comments
This short is meant to be a warning about drugs, but it didn't want to come off as too preachy so it just describes "Bunny", a girl who started out with lots of energy and enthusiasm about many different things. She goes to college, and eventually you figure out that she slowly "turns on and drops out". Time after time she talks about how she used to be interested in something, but now she's given up on that. In some sense the short succeeds in that it is not overly preachy, but at the same time it doesn't really do anything or go anywhere, so at the end you're thinking "Well, that was a waste of time!".
Toast and Rice does a good job with the short, providing a variety of comments and a few running jokes that go through most of the short. I enjoyed it. The technical issues are handled fairly well for most of the riffing. I'd say it's a 4.5, which I'll round up to a 5. It'd probably rate higher, but the original short really is doing NOTHING and there's a limit to how entertaining you can make "nothing"!