Nov 2014
From 2003-2005 the trusty, silky voiced, Queen's English BBC produced and released Monkey Dust.
If you haven't heard of it, go and find it at all speed.
A mix of animation styles from various studios, this sick, twisted, and wickedly funny comedy mish-mash knew no bounds. From paedophiles, cancer, suicide, and bestiality, to novice cottaging, telephone waiting queues, twats, and serial killers, no bar was too low, no line to far to cross, and recross, and the cross again for good measure.
Partly the brainchild of the late Harry Thompson (sadly taken from us by "Closure"), this epic series was trash in all senses of the word. And it had an epic soundtrack to boot. I'll never again hear Goldfrapp's Lovely Head without thinking of Clive up to his nuts in a King Charles Spaniel, or the denoument of Pulp's Sunrise without seeing Ivan Dobsky his... new... space-hopper...
And now, hopefully, neither will you!
Though some of the references are dated, and others peculiarly British, there's plenty here for all and sundry - provided they like the sickest of sick comedy.
A mildly amusing anecdote, if I may.
Some time after watching Monkey Dust, my kids got into a BBC kids show called Octonauts. When watching the Flying Fish episode, when confronted by an injured flying fish, I blurted out 'I never done it! I only said I done it because..." then realised where I was and who I was with. See for yourself (at about (3:44)...
If you haven't heard of it, go and find it at all speed.
A mix of animation styles from various studios, this sick, twisted, and wickedly funny comedy mish-mash knew no bounds. From paedophiles, cancer, suicide, and bestiality, to novice cottaging, telephone waiting queues, twats, and serial killers, no bar was too low, no line to far to cross, and recross, and the cross again for good measure.
Partly the brainchild of the late Harry Thompson (sadly taken from us by "Closure"), this epic series was trash in all senses of the word. And it had an epic soundtrack to boot. I'll never again hear Goldfrapp's Lovely Head without thinking of Clive up to his nuts in a King Charles Spaniel, or the denoument of Pulp's Sunrise without seeing Ivan Dobsky his... new... space-hopper...
And now, hopefully, neither will you!
Though some of the references are dated, and others peculiarly British, there's plenty here for all and sundry - provided they like the sickest of sick comedy.
A mildly amusing anecdote, if I may.
Some time after watching Monkey Dust, my kids got into a BBC kids show called Octonauts. When watching the Flying Fish episode, when confronted by an injured flying fish, I blurted out 'I never done it! I only said I done it because..." then realised where I was and who I was with. See for yourself (at about (3:44)...