Badass Bobby

Badass Bobby was an Irish animated web series created by Brian Fitzgerald under the YouTube channel "Buzzy Trombone". It was based off of two short films that his deceased friend Alan did as a joke for two summer courses in 2018 and 2019 respectively, and ran on YouTube for seven months on the channel and briefly came back in 2022. It had the two short films, two feature films and three series of TikTok videos.

Background
Badass Bobby was based off of two short films, which were created by a 16 year old kid with dyspraxia named Alan Wansley, who for privacy reasons on the summer courses went under the name "Paulo Redmondo", a name he felt was cool, and the name Brian Fitzgerald continued to use in honour of his friend's memory. Alan and Brian were friends since primary school and stayed in contact on Snapchat, and sharing a YouTube channel called "Buzzy Trombone" where they spent time in 2016 bullying people who were either pedophiles, or were contemporary people their age obsessing over the app "Musical.ly".

When Alan died from cancer in July of 2019, Brian was heartbroken to hear it, so to help him stomach the reality of his friend's death, he decided to take the two main characters that were made for those two short films and put them in TikTok videos that would make fun of people on the 2019 season of Love Island. Those two characters being Bob and Jack.

Brian initially ended the series in March of 2020 once he felt better about the reality of his friend's death and to do his Leaving Cert. However when COVID 19 became a problem throughout 2020 and the beginning of 2021, he felt much worse about ending the series at an inappropriate time and decided to go back to making videos about the two characters temporarily, (those videos being deleted from YouTube). In 2022 however, he decided to make another film with archived footage of the two characters that he had made from the videos that he had kept in his Google Drive.

The Series
The series tells the story of Bob and Jack, who were genetic experiments born in a research facility in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. For the three series of TikTok videos, they spent their time sitting on a couch insulting Maura Higgins behind the scenes on acid, going on an acid trip making fun of people other than Maura, and going back to Ireland to make fun or Maura again, only getting caught up on the Brexit deal, pissed off about it. The first movie sees Bob as a character, adjusting to the winter series of Love Island changing his points of view about certain people, and the second movie has him lowering his expectations for the future. Both movies having Jack in a supporting role and voice of reason.

The other characters that support their story are characters based off of pre existing characters from other cartoon properties, such as The Loud House, Garfield, CatDog and My Little Pony. With the characters being described by the creator Brian Fitzgerald as "cosplayers who happen to be in the wrong place at the right time".

The series was animated mainly in Powerpoint, but the second film uses a bit of After Effects and Adobe Photoshop. Animation wise, the series was often crude and simplistic for both comedic effect and in order to save time in creating episodes. With it being recorded on an iPhone 7.

Major

 * Bobert "Bastard-face" Leen
 * Jesse Jackson
 * "Walter Wankstain Mathieu"
 * Maura Higgins
 * Leni Loud
 * Lori Loud
 * Curtis Pichard
 * SnarkyMarky

Minor

 * Garfield
 * Odie
 * CatDog (Jimmy and Tommy)
 * Paula
 * Rarity (Katie)
 * Sweetie Belle (Sweetie)
 * Pinkie Pie (Elane)
 * Derry the Duckapus
 * Lynn Sr Loud
 * Rita Loud
 * Lincoln Loud
 * Lily Loud
 * Lana Loud
 * Lola Loud
 * Lisa Loud
 * Luna Loud
 * Luan Loud
 * Lynn Loud
 * Paddy

Celebrities

 * Ian Stirling
 * Laura Whitmore
 * Jeremy Clarkson
 * Tom Kenny

Whiskpuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_As_W6mvCtg&t=1s

DoggoCatto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmFFa5FkHT0

Badass Bobby: Series One
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6kRuyHf333VsJXOEuuWS1D5v5RJXlQLY

Badass Bobby: Series Two
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6kRuyHf333VY_71Cn2ipHMjsFeaz5csV

Badass Bobby: Series Three
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6kRuyHf333VC8sq-c1bF01_6A-zjBMfL

Love Ireland (The Ultimate Badass Bobby Feature Film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKoDTp2Wns&t=2597s

Schizophrenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVh19j097z4

Cococabana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTI68MRDQTk&t=60s

Loud & Soft (The Love Island Movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQhi7d_v5A&t=1542s

Future
Not much is known what is next in store for Badass Bobby as a whole, but Brian hasn't ruled out the possibility of another film and is willing to do it when he feels like it.