Editing Odd Job Jack (section)

==Production==
Odd Job Jack was created by [[Smiley Guy Studios]] in [[Toronto]]. The show was originally developed as a [[web-based cartoon]] and based on an early short the creators made called "The Seen",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cfccreates.com/content-hub/the-seen-odd-job-jack/|title=The Seen (Odd Job Jack)|website=Canadian Film Centre|access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ODD JOB JACK - About The Show |url=http://www.oddjobjack.com/abouttheshow.php?sec=5 |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=www.oddjobjack.com}}</ref> which released in 1997, but quickly moved to [[cable television]] distribution.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://playbackonline.ca/1999/06/28/26079-19990628/|title=Guys plot revolution|date=1999-06-28|access-date=2024-06-15|website=[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]}}</ref> The producers of the show pay homage to their web roots by maintaining a [[web site]] that contains unique interactive content to support each episode, largely consisting of [[Flash games]]. They advertised this connection as being a "[[Situation comedy|sit]][[.com]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/odd-job-jack-comes-full-circle/article20403035/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240611025747/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/odd-job-jack-comes-full-circle/article20403035/|title=Odd Job Jack comes full circle|first=Victoria|last=Ahearn|website=[[The Globe and Mail]]|archive-date=2024-06-11|date=2007-10-10|access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref> An advertising deal with [[Molson Canadian]] helped fund the move to television.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://playbackonline.ca/2003/02/17/branded-20030217/|title=Producers buy into branded content|date=2003-02-17|access-date=2024-06-12|website=[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]}}</ref>

On July 14, 2006 in an email to subscribers, Smiley Guy Studios announced [http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php FreeJack], an initiative under which they have started releasing the master files of every character, prop, and background from every episode for the upcoming season under a non-commercial [[Copyleft|share-friendly license]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://drawn.ca/2006/07/24/freejack-odd-job-jack-and-creative-commons/ |title=FreeJack: Odd Job Jack and Creative Commons |access-date=2007-07-14 |archive-date=2010-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521092949/http://drawn.ca/2006/07/24/freejack-odd-job-jack-and-creative-commons/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/2006/11/28/odd-job-jack/|title=Odd Job Jack|website=[[Creative Commons]]|first=Alex|last=Gakuru|date=2006-11-28|access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/2006/07/26/oddjobjackfilesreleasedunderacclicense/|title=Odd Job Jack files released under a CC license|first=Eric|last=Steuer|website=[[Creative Commons]]|date=2006-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://torrentfreak.com/odd-job-jack-for-free/|title=Odd Job Jack For Free|date=2006-08-04|first=Ernesto|last=Van der Sar|website=Torrent Freak}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200607/freejack.html|title=FreeJack|date=2006-07-29|first=Ned|last=Batchelder|access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref> However, in 2007, after the fourth season the show definitely ended production.

Every episode is structured by the opening theme, the full episode and the closing credits. The series featured an experimental form of [[described video]], wherein rather than a neutral narrator, the actors would describe visual sequences in-character.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10209-006-0025-0|first1=D. I.|last1=Fels|first2=J. P.|last2=Udo|first3=P.|last3=Ting|first4=J. E.|last4=Diamond|first5=J. I.|last5=Diamond|title=Odd Job Jack described: a universal design approach to described video|date=2006-04-20|access-date=2024-06-24|journal= Universal Access in the Information Society|volume=5 |pages=73–81 |doi=10.1007/s10209-006-0025-0 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/that-is-one-big-wiener|title="That is One Big Wiener!": Accessibility, Irony, and Odd Job Jack|first=Isabel|last=Pedersen|date=2009|journal=The International Journal of the Arts in Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249923110|title=Described Video Information and animation: a case study of Odd Job Jack|date=January 2008|access-date=2024-06-24|journal=International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing |first1=Bertha M.|last1=Konstantinidis|first2=Emily|last2=Price|first3=Jonas|last3=Diamond|first4=Deborah|last4=I. Fels|volume=1 |page=108 |doi=10.1504/IJSHC.2008.020484 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0145482X0610000507?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.7|title=A Comparison of Alternative Narrative Approaches to Video Description for Animated Comedy|first1=Deborah I.|last1=Fels|first2=John Patrick|last2=Udo|first3=Jonas E.|last3=Diamond|first4=Jeremy I.|last4=Diamond|date=2006 |volume=100 |issue=5 |pages=295–305 |journal=Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness|doi=10.1177/0145482X0610000507 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>