Danger Mouse appreciation (the cartoon)
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Danger Mouse appreciation (the cartoon)
I just got the dvd used for cheap, holy shit this is awesome. The first season is all 10 minute episodes, some of them are miles ahead of adult swim in terms of absurdist humor delivered in a short batch.
It's hard to describe if you've never seen it. A mixture of off the wall plots (villain tries to take over the world with giant chickens, villain tries to take over the world by turning elephants into sugar cubes, etc), simple animation with occasional touches of trippy brilliance, really really bad jokes and puns delivered enough conviction and deadpan to turn them to comedy gold, parodies on movies (this is way ahead of its time), half-serious half-satire touches of good old fashioned british snob racism in cartoon form (check out the foreign accents), plus a ton of other shit that's too crazy for words.
Watching this I have no idea how this is supposed to be for children, it would go over the head of most teenagers, forget younger kids.
Also, Baron Greenback is my new alias
It's hard to describe if you've never seen it. A mixture of off the wall plots (villain tries to take over the world with giant chickens, villain tries to take over the world by turning elephants into sugar cubes, etc), simple animation with occasional touches of trippy brilliance, really really bad jokes and puns delivered enough conviction and deadpan to turn them to comedy gold, parodies on movies (this is way ahead of its time), half-serious half-satire touches of good old fashioned british snob racism in cartoon form (check out the foreign accents), plus a ton of other shit that's too crazy for words.
Watching this I have no idea how this is supposed to be for children, it would go over the head of most teenagers, forget younger kids.
Also, Baron Greenback is my new alias
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Hey - remember that Trap Door DVD you copped off that Chinese Cockle Picker type? You should upload some of them.jimmy78 wrote:Basically my childhood right there!De Seven Free wrote:Jamie & The Magic Torch
Danger Mouse
Trap Door
Duckula
The Wind in the Willows
Didn't know they all came out of the same studio... Jamie & The Magic Torch was the shit!...
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http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/jamie.mp3jimmy78 wrote:Jamie & The Magic Torch was the shit!...
Love how the theme goes from something Immortal Technique or Necro would sample, to Supergrass.
yeah! Every ep ever made, for 5 sovs...Y@k Bollocks wrote:Hey - remember that Trap Door DVD you copped off that Chinese Cockle Picker type? You should upload some of them.jimmy78 wrote:Basically my childhood right there!De Seven Free wrote:Jamie & The Magic Torch
Danger Mouse
Trap Door
Duckula
The Wind in the Willows
Didn't know they all came out of the same studio... Jamie & The Magic Torch was the shit!...
I'll try and get a few upped....
Dangermouse was the shit. His boss was some sort of Toadman right?
I can't believe that you guys know about trapdoor. Those episodes only went for 5 minutes if I remember correctly.
I seem to remember every episode the little blue blob thing accidentally opened the trapdoor and got chased by a monster. Was he not listening to the theme song???
DON'T YOU OPEN THAT TRAP-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
CAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN THERE
They really couldn't have made it any more obvious.
I can't believe that you guys know about trapdoor. Those episodes only went for 5 minutes if I remember correctly.
I seem to remember every episode the little blue blob thing accidentally opened the trapdoor and got chased by a monster. Was he not listening to the theme song???
DON'T YOU OPEN THAT TRAP-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
CAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN THERE
They really couldn't have made it any more obvious.
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that is a dope sample. if i could only find a higher quality version...De Seven Free wrote:http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/jamie.mp3jimmy78 wrote:Jamie & The Magic Torch was the shit!...
Love how the theme goes from something Immortal Technique or Necro would sample, to Supergrass.
Moolah wrote:Dangermouse was the shit. His boss was some sort of Toadman right?
I can't believe that you guys know about trapdoor. Those episodes only went for 5 minutes if I remember correctly.
I seem to remember every episode the little blue blob thing accidentally opened the trapdoor and got chased by a monster. Was he not listening to the theme song???
DON'T YOU OPEN THAT TRAP-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
CAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN THERE
They really couldn't have made it any more obvious.
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