Googly Eyes

"Googly Eyes" is not a bad short film but (aside from the unnecessary choice of black and white) it's very conventional in its style, writing, acting, and really just everything about it. It's like the filmmaker wanted to slot himself directly into standard TV and movie work. And I wouldn't have cared if I had seen it once but unfortunately my local PBS station apparently acquired perpetual rights to show this thing and they use it to fill just about any 15 minute gap in programming. They have aired it literally dozens of times over the last several years in a feature titled "Film School Shorts" but which really should be called "Film School Short" because they seemingly have just this one film for the entire damn series.