Let’s talk webisodes. There are millions of them out there. Some are high quality and highbrow, yet decidedly low overhead productions. Others are the brainchild of a few ambitious seventh graders huddling in the back corner of a study hall. What’s my point? Like Netflix, and the entire point of this recurring column, there’s an overwhelming amount of entertainment content available to us. When it comes to web series, we really need people to point us in the direction of the good ones.

That becomes easy when big names are attached to a project, as was the case with the Rob Corddry creation, Childrens Hospital. Corddry brought the series to TheWB.com in 2008 and managed to escape the crowded wasteland of the internet by 2008, inking a deal with Adult Swim to bring the hospital comedy to television. The series had internet success, winning a Webby Award, and television success, winning back-to-back Emmy Awards for short-form live-action programing.

Premise:

Rob Corddry didn’t create meta-jokes but he’s working his ass off to perfect them. Corddry plays Cutter Spindell, an actor who plays Dr. Blake Downs on a show called Childrens Hospital. If you’re still following me, this is a show within a show. Dr. Downs, who dresses in John Wayne Gacy-like clown makeup, leads the ensemble cast through a myriad of medical-drama spoofs, out-of-left-field gags and hyper-sexualized hospital banter. If It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Seinfeld on crack, then Childrens Hospital is Scrubs after a four-day meth bender.

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