Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Uncle Grandpa

Immediately after Steven Universe,  I watched the animated series Uncle Grandpa which is basically a polar opposite. This show has zero depth and makes zero sense. I can hardly even explain the premise but I'll give it a shot.


Uncle Grandpa is about a guy with a moustache that somehow is everyone in the world's uncle and grandpa and drives around in an RV with a realistic flying tiger, a talking fanny pack, a walking, talking slice of pizza and a giant lizard that looks a bit like Godzilla, helping kids with their problems.                            
                           

I mean, every episode has basically no plot and is just made up of a sequence of surreal imagery and loud noises. But I would say it was terrible, if I hadn't laughed all the way through, therefore I wouldn't be able to tell you what I was laughing at, sometimes I was probably laughing for the sake of laughing.

But I did enjoy it. The visual gags work, even if at times they are generally quite disturbing. And even the colour pallete that is so bright and so in-your-face somehow works with the mad tone as does the simplistic slapstick cartoony style.

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