Saturday Morning Cartoons XLVI: Monkey Dust: Season 1
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
Monkey Dust is a hard cartoon to describe without completely blowing the premise and turning people away from it insofar as it comes off as completely disturbed. Which it most certainly is. Nevertheless, I have been obsessed with it since I found out about it and, like most obsessions, it needs to be shared.
Monkey Dust is a nightmare vision of Britain, a dark, twisted other world full of giant advertising conglomerates like Labia, who takes the job of rebranding cancer as “Closure”, an attractive end-of-life option. Its citizens are no less bizarre. Take Mr. Ivan Dobsky, The Meat-Safe Murderer or so he was known until he was cleared 27 years later. He himself always said he “never done it. I only said I done it so they would take the electrodes of me nipples.” Then there’s Geoff, the first-time cottager, who despite his meek, introverted personality holds the lofty goal of fellating a complete stranger in a public place. There’s also Clive, who constantly comes home late only to tell his wife a lie based on the lyrics to The Eagles’s “Hotel California”, inept chat-room pedophiles, pretentious yuppies, and classically trained actors.
These series of interconnected vignettes and recurring characters make for a delightfully sick experience but it is no doubt one you will either love or hate. Some may be turned off by the humor on display here as it is unapologetically dark; but for those who enjoy their laughs more on the grim side of things you are in for quite a treat.
Saturday Morning Cartoons XLVI: Monkey Dust: Season 1 [YouTube]
Categories: Bodily Fluids, Booze, Britain, Cartoons, Crime, Death, Freak Shows, Humor, Insanity, Losers, Meat, Monsters, Nightmares, Obscenity, Perverts, Psychos, Rail, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Sex, Sickness, Small Children, Smut, Suicide, Weirdos
Posted at 10:25 am on November 1, 2008
18 Comments -
Monkey Dust is my favourite animated show; it’s just so dark and bleak. It’s a shame the other two series aren’t on DVD.
Comment by Ali D — November 1, 2008 @ 11:41 am
This is fantastic stuff. I love the professor giving lectures in the tube for spare change.
Comment by Benjamin Stürmer — November 1, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
OMG! POOOR Mr. Hoppy! *SOB*
Comment by Grisella — November 1, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
Those brand emblazoned fish remind me of the neon-dye injected variety sold in pet stores. Paving the way.
A fine watch, particularly enjoyed the creative name sojourn in the first clip. And then the historically accurate portrait painted of WW2 and our hero, Johnny.
Certainly dark but very well edited and produced. Even mundane actions are panning, color filled shots.
Why have I never heard of it?
Comment by Narkalant — November 1, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
jerry bruckheimer does anne frank. yes.
Comment by traci — November 1, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
i knew this was gonna be great by what the tags said.
best line ever: “i’ve been spit-roasting a hooker with your dad”
Comment by josep yao — November 1, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
Anybody catch the “the horror. the horror” below the ckfc sign? so many nice touches.
Comment by Giania — November 2, 2008 @ 12:30 am
Thanks for linking those together for me. A few hours great entertainment and a New Ringtone on my phone.
Comment by cha0tic — November 2, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Amazing my English friends will love/hate it.
Comment by ITHIDET — November 2, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Classically trained actor.
Comment by ITHIDET — November 2, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
Here you go, a link to make you laugh…
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CSH35_AxUZQ
and one to make you cry…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/13/broadcasting.observerfocus
Have fun.
Comment by Easydog — November 2, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
@ITHIDET
Weirdly enough, I was a commercial producer for a small radio station in Scotland a few years back. And the guy who voices the “classically trained actor” character did some voice over work for me. Can’t remember his name, but I only made the connection when I left the job and was watching the show with the DVD commentary on.
Comment by Ali D — November 4, 2008 @ 6:59 am
@Ali D
Its always odd when that happens.
Comment by ITHIDET — November 5, 2008 @ 7:16 pm
fa fa fada faaa fa fada faa
best song ever.
Comment by Lunchboxxx21 — November 6, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
I’ve been enjoying this show a great deal lately. Thanks Ectomo!
I think the clincher was the Scots baby “I’m goonae rip yer fookin heid off!” After that, I was hooked.
Comment by meatbagwtf — November 7, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
What an awesome find, can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before! Thanks!
Comment by January — November 8, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
I own dis shit. Are i cool yet? no. ok.
Comment by Tark Wilkins — November 20, 2008 @ 6:54 am
CKFC stands for Colonel Kurtz Fried Chicken…
“The horror! The horror!” is a quatation from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, essentially the story used for Apocalypse Now as well. At the end of the film, Colonel Kurtz says the words “The horror! The horror!” shortly before dying. The face on the sign belongs to Marlon Brando, who portrayed Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
Best regards
Comment by Manfred Lohmayer — March 4, 2009 @ 1:21 pm