{"id":40077,"date":"2023-10-07T01:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40077"},"modified":"2023-06-18T07:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:25:42","slug":"for-better-or-for-worse-the-good-for-nothing-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/07\/for-better-or-for-worse-the-good-for-nothing-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"For Better or for Worse: The Good for Nothing (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fbofw-goodfornothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fbofw-goodfornothing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fbofw-goodfornothing.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fbofw-goodfornothing-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fbofw-goodfornothing-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s weird how \u201cFor Better or Worse\u201d never actually took off as an animated series. Comic strips like \u201cCharlie Brown,\u201d \u201cGarfield\u201d and even \u201cThe Boondocks\u201d hit big as series, with the former two offering up their own iconic Halloween special. \u201cThe Good For Nothing\u201d is a Halloween special mostly in spirit as the central conflict is set primarily on Halloween. That doesn\u2019t make \u201cThe Good for Nothing\u201d bad. It just never quite rises to the occasion to be as good as \u201cThe Great Pumpkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Halloween, and son Michael is having trouble with a local bully named Brad who insists on tormenting him. Meanwhile, family dog Farley keeps getting himself in all sorts of trouble, causing him to eventually run away after he\u2019s branded \u201cgood-for-nothing.\u201d But when Michael gets caught in a tight spot with Brad, Farley shows up and proves he&#8217;s more than just a &#8220;good for nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Good for Nothing\u201d is a nice, sweet, albeit a tad milquetoast, Halloween special that doesn\u2019t do a lot with the whole occasion. The only thing scary is that Michael has to deal with his horrible bully, who stops at nothing to make his life miserable. The parents, and little sister Elizabeth don\u2019t really do much during the half hour TV special, as most of the movie revolves around Michael trying to get around Brad, and Farley coping with his new nickname. As with the comic strip, \u201cThe Good for Nothing\u201d relies a lot on the charm of the Patterson family, and how they deal with conflicts through non-violent means.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is sadly pushed in to a spot where a violent confrontation is inevitable, but the script does a good job in using it as a means of emphasizing Farley\u2019s importance. I don\u2019t know if \u201cThe Good for Nothing\u201d is essential Halloween viewing (not a fan of \u201cThe Goblins are Out\u201d song), but it\u2019s a sweet animated short competently bringing to life a typically amusing and reliable comic strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s weird how \u201cFor Better or Worse\u201d never actually took off as an animated series. Comic strips like \u201cCharlie Brown,\u201d \u201cGarfield\u201d and even \u201cThe Boondocks\u201d hit big as series, with the former two offering up their own iconic Halloween special. \u201cThe Good For Nothing\u201d is a Halloween special mostly in spirit as the central conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[64,99,219,302,340,441,580,1130],"class_list":["post-40077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-halloween","tag-kids","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40079,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077\/revisions\/40079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}