Drawn Together

10:44 pm

My favoritest “new” show lately is “Drawn Together” on Comedy Central. If you’ve seen it, you understand. If you haven’t seen it, well…brace yourself. It makes “South Park” look like an episode of Barney & Friends. The premise, such as it is: several stereotypical cartoon/comic characters are locked together in a large house, a la “Big Brother.” The situations are absurd, the “plot” exists only in theory, as the characters rarely get involved in reality-TV challenges, and there are no sacred cows: everything gets skewered. The characters represent different types of cartoons and styles, but each one has a repressed and/or bizarre trait that runs counter to their “real-life” inspiration: Captain Hero is modeled after Superman, Captain Marvel, and such; Xandir is loosely based on epic tales of quest and the standard rescuing-the-princess video games; Princess Clara is, well, a Princess; Wooldoor Sockbat is some sort of goofy Spongebob-like creature; Toots Braunstein is a way-past-her-prime incarnation of Betty Boop; Spanky Ham is based on an obnoxious internet video character; Foxxy Love is a take-off on Josie & The Pussycats mixed with some Scooby-Doo elements; and Ling-Ling is an homage to Pikachu and Japanime. I won’t go into detail yet about some of the surprises and jaw-dropping scenes, but I will tell you that episodes of “Drawn Together” can now be purchased on ITunes for $1.99 each (with volume discounts available!).

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4 comments

  1. That’s the official show of my geology graduating class. Try and get the show where they realize Ling-Ling secretes a hallucinagen. Or the octpuswah (spelling is atrocious) one.
    :D

    comment by Kim — January 28, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
  2. I’ve seen a couple episodes and haven’t really gotten into it. It certainly has its moments, though.

    comment by Jeff — January 28, 2006 @ 5:52 pm
  3. I do like South Park, haven’t watched Drawn Together yet..will have to check it out next time.

    comment by Leesa — January 29, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
  4. What do THE GODFATHER 3 and Drawn Together have in Common??

    a: They should have never been made.

    Gee, Let’s rip off some existing cartoon characters, throw them in a house to rip off some existing reality TV shows, and then have unorignal, redudant humor take over the show for the next 22 minutes.. Whoever thought this one is a real Genius!!

    comment by Mitch — March 19, 2006 @ 12:00 am

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