Stars: Dan Russell, Logan Grove, Kwesi Boakye, Teresa Gallagher, Kerry Shale, Kyla Rae Kowalewski, Sandra Dickinson | Directed by Mic Graves | Created by Ben Bocquelet
When I was a kid I was a massive fan of the likes of Beavis and Butthead and Ren & Stimpy – two cartoons that, even though dubbed “cartoons”, were not really suitable for younger kids.The former show pushed the boundaries of acceptability, often using lewd humour to get it’s liberal point across (something which went over my head, I just liked the toilet humour); whilst the latter took the gross-out route: mixing toilet humour and horrible sight gags, at the same time taking satirical pot-shots at various aspects of society.
In the years that followed, the idea of “adult animation” spawned an entire TV channel in the Us, Adult Swim, which in turn gave birth to one of my all-time favourite animated shows, Robot Chicken,...
When I was a kid I was a massive fan of the likes of Beavis and Butthead and Ren & Stimpy – two cartoons that, even though dubbed “cartoons”, were not really suitable for younger kids.The former show pushed the boundaries of acceptability, often using lewd humour to get it’s liberal point across (something which went over my head, I just liked the toilet humour); whilst the latter took the gross-out route: mixing toilet humour and horrible sight gags, at the same time taking satirical pot-shots at various aspects of society.
In the years that followed, the idea of “adult animation” spawned an entire TV channel in the Us, Adult Swim, which in turn gave birth to one of my all-time favourite animated shows, Robot Chicken,...
- 10/16/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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