Bonus Stage
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Bonus Stage (abbreviated BS) is an animated Flash action/adventure/comedy series that focuses attention on the randomness, sarcasm, and parodic moments of life.
The cartoon is focused on Joel Dawson, a wannabe scientist that has a giant hobby for action. Phil Argus, a normal person with superpowers, follows Joel in his adventures and is mostly frustrated, serious, and expressing facts. There's Elly Strife, who has a crush on Joel that mainly goes unanswered, unless you count Phil's crush on her. Phil also has a mom, named Jessica Argus. She's middle-aged, but she acts and looks as if she's a 25-year-old woman who just wants to now fit in with the crew. She arrived when she couldn't stand her son, Phil, describing his life as miserable and empty.
Rya Botkins is a robot created by Joel Dawson as an attempt for yet another 'trophy girlfriend' like June Crane, another robot built by Joel, but Rya is quite different. She is a cynical monster who verbally rips people (Mostly Phil) apart, and she is not really Joel's girlfriend. It's not known why Rya has a robotic voice while June has a normal sounding one, but this is could be attributed to the bizarreness that is Joel Dawson. Rya has turned into a human in Episode 79. Unfortunately this led to her permanent death, a controversial move to some Bonus Stage fans.
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The Origin and More
All this started with High Score, the original show before Bonus Stage, which we think got started as an attempt to compete with Homestar Runner. Unfortunately, the cartoon only lasted 4 episodes and was cancelled due to lack of interest from the creator.
Bonus Stage was created by Matt Wilson. Matt hates some of his fans, because they do not think or behave like normal rational human beings, as well as the fact that none of them are ever satisfied with any specific direction the show goes, making it impossible to adjust the writing.
Matt also does (nearly) all the voices on the show and uses FL Studio to create his background music and theme song. He uses Swift3D for his computer-generated images (often referred to as CGI) such as the intro (letters in the name), and the introductory Couch Slave Studios scene.
Information
- Series length: 9 hours, 6 minutes and 53 seconds.
- Episode quantity: 89 episodes.
- Main settings: Charismaville, Outer Space, Hydrox
Fun Facts
- Matt Wilson was the creator of High Score, a popular Flash series. After a while, Matt decided to update weekly, so he created the spin-off known as Bonus Stage.
- After around thirty episodes of Bonus Stage, Matt couldn't control the site anymore, so High Score died. He did, however, post the Bonus Stage episodes at Newgrounds, and later created a whole new site for Bonus Stage.
- High Score episodes can still be seen, however. The HS site is now located at highscoreonline.adiversions.com. When you click on any links, you will be taken to the old site, which is now an advertising space. Just type ".adiversions" after "highscreonline" in the URL. You will eventually find the High Score episodes.
- Bonus Stage soon became more popular than the original HS series. By season 3, the episodes became longer. Many edits were made to the episodes already there as well.
- Before The Day The World Did Stuff, Bonus Stage was always known as "High Score's Bonus Stage." It now goes by just "Bonus Stage."
- Starting with Phil and Joel IN: "Baby Ballface Must Die", Bonus Stage episodes were being released bi-weekly.
- Bonus Stage has officially ended due to financial trouble. There will be a Japanese dub version of Bonus Stage coming soon.
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