As a sitcom, "The Story of a College Student" has a relatively scattered plot, one unit per episode, and most of them revolve around the daily events of college students.
For example, in the first episode of Roll Call Incident, the plot revolves around the incident of college students skipping classes during roll call.
Due to different course models, college students are different from fixed classrooms in primary and secondary schools. They generally take mobile classes, many courses, and even multiple classes at the same time.
There are many students and high mobility, so teachers do not know all the students. In order to prevent individual students from skipping classes, roll call and sign-in have become a common trick for teachers.
Many students competed with their teachers over this matter for the sake of "freedom"...
Most people who have gone to college have had similar experiences. Even good students who have never skipped classes have basically seen the excitement of others.
Although the performance of "The Story of a College Student" is slightly exaggerated and funny, it can easily resonate with the audience.
Even those who have never gone to college will find the clips in the play fresh and interesting.
Especially for students who are still in the abyss of middle school, it is easy to yearn for the "free and beautiful" college life.
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The first episode calls out the storm and just introduces the plot. The four leading actors appear at the same time to explain their characters.
Starting from the second episode, the four people began to take turns to be the protagonists, and the others played support. In a few episodes, all four people appeared together.
This is also a common pattern in sitcoms. If there is no main plot and if you want to make trouble, you have to find the leading actor.
Each person digs two rounds, plus the plot brought by the guest stars, it is almost enough to make up the number of episodes of a TV series.
This is true for "Wulin Gaiden", "The Story of the Cooking Class" and "Family with Children".
Since "Underground Traffic Station" has a main plot (the Anti-Japanese War), the plot mainly relies on the occurrence of events, and there is less exploration of characters, but in essence, the two are similar in nature, and the difference is the expression method.
The protagonist of the second episode is Lu Pangpang. Because he is "unconventional" in his work, he is targeted by the student union and is picked on every day to find trouble.
In anger, Lu Pangpang teamed up with his roommates to rectify the student union, causing him to lose face. This angered Wang Xiaotang, the boss of the student union, and the first pair of happy enemies in the drama began to appear online.
Everyone knows what a college student union is, and the protagonists have a tough time attacking each other, which is definitely fun to watch.
It can be said that in the first two episodes of "The Story of a College Student", the screenwriter was very accurate and scratched the itch of the audience.
After the two episodes were aired, there was a small stir on online platforms such as Bibo and Dianhu. Shanhe watched it for a while, and most of it was positive. The latest Douhua score was also released, reaching 8.4 points.
Although this rating is not comparable to Zuo Le's sitcoms, it is still very high, even slightly surpassing the two "Family with Children" directed by Gao Xinjian.
With such a good reputation, director Xue Jun was so happy that he almost jumped up. At least he still has some sense. Good reputation does not mean good ratings.
Whether "The Story of a College Student" is considered a success depends on its ratings.
The next day, the premiere results of "College Student's Story" were released, and Xue Jun's mental arithmetic was half over.
The average ratings for the premiere were 0.91, which was about the same as expected.
After all, it is a new drama with a moderately well-known creator. The first broadcast will definitely not be too strong. The key is to work hard in the later stages. Xue Jun and Shanhe know this well.
The next day, "Stories of College Students" aired episodes 3 and 4, and the ratings increased, but not by much, only to 0.94.
This growth rate is not bad compared to ordinary TV dramas, but compared with those popular dramas that have received huge ratings, the gap is not even the slightest bit.
Xue Jun and others generally have an idea.
"The Story of a College Student" has only 30 episodes and a limited broadcast period. There is little hope of breaking 2. If you are lucky, it reaches 1.5. It can be considered a hit drama, but it is not enough to be as popular as "Wulin Gaiden".
Frankly speaking, this result is actually not bad. When "Underground Traffic Station" won the Spring Festival ratings championship, the ratings were only 1.72.
With an average ratings of 1.5, it can even rank in the top 10 of the year in years where the overall ratings are poor.
However, Xue Jun and Shanhe's expected goals for "Stories of College Students" are compared to "Family with Children". They hope that it can become a sitcom series as famous as "Family with Children".
The first two episodes of "Family with Children" both had ratings of over 2, and the third episode even scored a terrifying 2.43. Comparing the two, "Story of a College Student" is indeed not enough to watch.
Xue Jun was a little disappointed, but there was still a trace of luck. After all, "Stories of College Students" had only been aired for two days, so maybe it could make a comeback.
But when the ratings on the 3rd and 4th days came down, Xue Jun completely gave up the idea of surpassing "With Children" in ratings.
During the four days of broadcast, the average ratings will reach 1.1.
The advantage is that the trend has been rising steadily.
The disadvantage is that it is too stable and there is no sign of jump growth at all.
Xue Jun finally gave up on catching up with "With Children" in ratings, and he didn't feel too disappointed.
After all, the results of "The Story of a College Student" are not bad. If nothing else happens, the company will make a sequel.
According to the previous plan, three films were filmed. As long as I can maintain this result, even if I am not as good as Gao and Kong, I can still have a place in Shanhe.
At the very least, you don’t have to worry about the new director coming to the company to blame you.
After Xue Jun gave up his obsession with the ratings of "The Story of College Students" and planned to let it develop naturally, things took a turn for the better.
There is a saying that if you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade.
"Story of College Students" did not perform well on TV platforms, but it has always been very popular on online platforms.
The online broadcast platform of "College Student's Story" this time is BiZhan. As one of the biggest beneficiaries of the sitcom produced by Shanhe, BiZhan is very sensitive to the sitcom produced by ShanHe and spent a lot of money to grab "College Student's Story" from other websites.
Exclusive broadcast rights.
After its launch, "Story of College Students" has a younger-oriented laugh line and plot, which is very suitable for the currency site's majority of young users under the age of 35. It has been widely praised on the site and has achieved outstanding results.
But this was only popular within the currency site. What really made "The Story of a College Student" popular was the 10th episode of the TV series.
Lu Pangpang and Li Fanda started a live broadcast. Li Fanda said a lot of slutty words in Tangshan dialect with a devilish accent. He was soon targeted by a large group of evil up-persons, and the popularity suddenly increased.
After that, several big guys from cryptocurrency exchanges took action one after another, further increasing the popularity.
Until a big up owner combined Li Fanda, Mrs. Qian, Shopkeeper Qian and the late Mrs. Zhao’s sketches with classic high-energy lines to create a Tangshan dialect ghost and animal collection - [What is this?].
Once it was posted, it reached the top of the currency site's hot list within two hours, and was then transferred to the scarf. It was on the hot search list that night and quickly reached the top 3 of the scarf hot search list.
In the next two days, the video's influence continued to grow, and the popularity remained high. The magical Tangshan dialect was sought after by netizens, and it also created several popular Internet memes, which became popular all over the Internet.
The Tangshan dialect caused by the ghost animal video has become popular, and Li Fanda, who is the protagonist of the video, is also popular.
At this time, Shanhe, Dongshan TV and Coin Station, who had already sensed the signs, as well as netizens who had been following the trend, joined forces and worked together.
Various funny clips of "The Story of College Students" began to circulate on major online platforms, and their popularity continued to rise...
