Monkey Dust

2003

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8.5| 0h30m| en| More Info
Released: 09 February 2003 Ended
Producted By: TalkBack Productions
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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Monkey Dust is a British satirical cartoon, notorious for its dark humour and handling of taboo topics such as bestiality, murder, suicide and paedophilia. There were three series broadcast on BBC Three between 2003 and 2005. Following co-creator Harry Thompson's death, no further series were made.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
crownofsprats The first thing I will say is that I wish I could give this a higher rating. But the truth is that like all sketch variety shows, some bits are going to be way funnier than others, and the un-funny ones drag down the rating by subverting the high expectations that the funny ones set up. Also, the repetitive nature of the sketches leaves a lot to be desired for the binge-watchers among us, who would much rather just cut all that time-wasting fat away and get to the real meat.But all that aside, if you are a thinking, feeling person ambling your way through the 21st century, then you will want your comedy to be as bleak and dark as possible. Otherwise...you know what you get otherwise. In this regard, the show gets full marks: the show is not just "edgy" or "distasteful" or any of the other stock adjectives you use when you want to hype comedy, but so soaked through to the core with a particularly virulent strain of pessimism that it threatens to implode under the weight of its own melancholy into something unpleasant. It never does - it just sags at times in its comedic delivery - but like..you will want to avoid this if you are the sensitive type. The show is most savage towards the media and the government, obviously, but it never lets individuals off the hook for anything, correctly interpreting the massive ills caused by those aforementioned institutions to be the byproduct of thousands of bad people making bad decisions. It's also quite violent, and depicts lots of cruel and gory things like animal experimentation, medieval executions (courtesy of the Pedofinder General, of course), and generally all sorts of men, women, children, and animals being senselessly hurt or killed.The show also gets high marks for their use of downbeat songs throughout the series, which often act as bridges between segments. It's chilling to learn that one of the show's creators died of cancer - it really comes through in the later seasons, and there is a lot of rumination on hospitals, doctors, and things of that nature. In a way, some of that ends up being a man's attempt to grapple with mortality, stapled forever to its humble corner in the tapestry of our civilization's creative output.In any case, a great dark gem to be discovered by all the clever little thinkers out there who spend their days depressed by the reality around them...
StuOnline One of the launch programmes when BBC3 launched in 2003, "Monkey Dust" is an animated sketch show, that looks at the everyday goings on in Britain after dark. Unlike other shows such as "2DTV", the material contained in Monkey Dust is dark, twisted, disturbing and sometimes slightly offensive, a "mature" cartoon if you like. But the characters you soon warm to, and you realise this is all just so original! The first time cottager, the chatroom pervert, Colin The Liar, Ivan Dobsky the Meat Safe Murderer (found not guilty after 27 years in prison), David Baddiel, the Yuppies; yet you realise that these are all wittily based on real people in the sick twisted country we call Britain today (apart from David Baddiel, who actually is a real person). The sketches all seamlessly blend into each other, but thankfully don't suffer the problem of being too long, as found in the most recent series. Anyone with a dark, satirical sense of humour will love this, its almost the animated version of Little Britain.
cactusx Monkey Dust is a weird show. It must be said. The show's producers will do ANYTHING to get a laugh out of the audience. Sketches involving drug use, suicide, paedophilia may not be everyone's cup of tea and you need a strong stomach to sit through an episode. If you are a parent, don't let your kid watch it. If you are a kid, don't watch it in front of your parents (they'll have you back watching CITV before the end credits.) But aside from the various course swearwords and disturbing scenes there is a clever parody of British and London culture going on. The show's writers love mocking reality TV (Big Brother, I'm a celebrity, etc) and one frequent joke involves Monkey Dust's own reality TV show, People on the Toilet. There are funny sketches involving such popular tabloids as The Sun and the Daily Mail and their attitudes towards asylum seekers and paedophiles (eg the Paedo Finder General.) So watch Monkey Dust on BBC3-if you dare...
Monstro-1 Monkey dust is not a show you should let your kids watch. Or your parents. In fact, Monkey Dust is pretty much unsuitable for everyone. Basically, It makes South Park look like Scooby-Doo.Its a very fast-paced cartoon sketch show, mostly set in london, its all very grim and bleak. Topics it covers include Pedophilia, suicide, child murder, and the Nazis. The funniest moment so far was "The Diary of Anne Frank" as made by Jerry Bruckenheimer. Its not pure comic genius, its dirty, dark and filthy comic genius.Its compulsive viewing if you're into stuff like Brass Eye, Big Train or Jam. I cannot recommend it enough.

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