The F.E.D.S.

This is one of the animated shorts from THE ANIMATION SHOW: VOLUME 2. Most of the shorts in this DVD collection are rather poor because very few are funny and the emphasis is much more or art than entertainment in this second installment. For better films overall, see VOLUME 1.

This film is actually one of the better ones from the collection, but it still didn't do much for me. The story is about some ladies whose job it is to travel to grocery stores giving out free samples. In addition to describing their job, they talk about what they dislike about it as well. Considering that their job only entails this sort of repetitive work, the narration and plot was incredibly dull. Fortunately, the animation style, while not particularly good (it was VERY hard on the eyes), it was at least different--unusual enough to merit it being seen if you are an animation junkie. However, as I said, it is hard on the eyes, as none of the animated characters or backgrounds stay still--they all bob up and down independently of each other and are enough to make you seasick!!

F.E.D.S. stands for "Food Education Demo Specialists"

They are the people you see in grocery stores or other big discount stores (BJ's, Sam's, Costco," etc.) who "feed a lot of unthankful people."" She feed them pint-sized cups in which a promoted food or drink is being served as samples to shoppers in the store..

In this animated short, we see women serving stuffed pork chops, key lime pie, a drink. These women give us their opinion of the job and the customers. They are very frank and realistic-sounding, and varied in their comments..

The examples of customers wasn't varied, however, mainly just one guy who drank samples of some drink and instead of one, he kept drinking all the samples - a real hog. From what I've seen at grocery stores and the like, I've never seen someone act like this guy, so that part was unrealistic. Also, the sales people in this animated feature are all young but in real life, they are a lot older.

This "cartoon" featured lifelike animation. I've seen this kind of animation more and more on TV in the last year or two. It's not that appealing to me, frankly, nor was the story in here. Everyone seemed obnoxious.