Flight Attendant Steven Slater: The Animated Version [VIDEO]

The Taiwan-based studio, a unit of Next Media Ltd., recently released its latest work: the tale of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who left work Monday after a profanity-laced address to a plane full of passengers, exiting the aircraft via the emergency chute at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.

“Soon, for TV, animation will be as standard as a color picture on a newspaper’s front page,” Mark Simon, commercial director at NextMedia, said. “It does drive the ‘ivory tower old-school journalism professors nuts that the one Asian news medium now penetrating the West is animation.”

The Slater video may be embraced by U.S. viewers more for (possibly) unintended comedy than for news value. Some of the Funny or Die-worthy moments include the “Arggh!” sound that the Slater avatar emits when he is hit by a falling suitcase; the bleeped-out tirade he gives over the plane’s intercom (which stands out all the more since the rest of the video is in Chinese); and the culturally-insensitive, verging on caricature shirtless man who greets Slater when he returns to his apartment. This is classic, forward to a friend type stuff.