Monkey Dust

Nobody cries in Monkey Dust - a sense of dislocation pervades and everybody just accepts their fate, resigned to the inevitable. Everyday absurdities fly on past like murderous crows (they have those where you live, right?) - a mood engendered by the lazily ambient music soundtrack that has that woozy Blue Jam three-in-the-morning feel. At its heart, Monkey Dust is the stuff of urban nightmares. The animation allows them to go places other sketch shows can't or don't dare. As BBC1 lurches from one sitcom disaster to the next, it's comforting to know that BBC3 is emerging as the new breeding ground for cutting-edge comedy and drama. Monkey Dust is f*cked up but it's funny.moreless

This is British cartoon making at its best, Dark, cynical and surreal.
I just love the way it pokes fun at britains dark underbelly in a surreal and ironic way.
I love the character who are SO unPC including the suicide bombers from smethwick and ivan dobsky the serial killing spacehopper obsessed innocent jail bird who only said he done it to stop the police from tortureing him but he keeps killing people when they release him.
Only in Britain can this sort of cartoon be made.
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Monkey Dust is one of those shows that you watch at night when the rest of the family is in bed, and you change the channel when you hear a bump outside the door that might indicate someone coming in to see what your watching. About as far from a "kid's show" as you can possibly get, it puts to bed the old lie that cartoon shows are for children. Having only seen series one (which i bought on DVD off of eBay) i have only seen a small portion of the twisted material that makes up this show. My personal favourites are the Classically-Trained Actor, a man who "mostly gets voice-overs", who has me in stiches every time he is on screen. Episode 6 of series 1 contains several brilliantly done sketches involving The Cyclists, which really have to be seen to be fully appreciated. Another genius sketch is the 'Look Who's Talking'-style baby, who's thoughts about his parents attempts at naming him are what everyone watching is thinking, names that no-one would wish on anyone but their worst enemy. Ivan Dobsky, the Meat-Safe Murderer, always provides some sinister laughs when teamed up with 'Mr Hoppy', Divorced Dad's attempts to connect with his son are genuinely depressing, and Geoff the First-Time Cottager is a much more desperate and cringe-worthy (not to say perverted) version of Colin, the office joker from the Fast Show.
However, its not all gold. The Chatroom Pervert doesn't always hit the mark, and is almost TOO repellant for the sketch to work (barring the outcome of the sketch in episode 6); The Yuppies are genuinely irritating, which was obviously the point, but the sketch is not enjoyable to watch. The Image Consulting Firm is obviously an attack on the recent fad of rebranding companies that are fine the way they are (such as Royal Mail becoming Consignia becoming Royal Mail), but again it does not really work as a straight comedy sketch.
Having said that, the show taken as a whole is a genuinely genius comedy sketch show. Most of the sketches are two or more out of: hilarious, revolting, disturbing, worrying (because you see yourself in the loser main character), etc. While it is true that some segments do not work, or fail in achieving the effect they were made for in the first place, this is true of almost all comedy shows. Taken in its entirety, any one episode of Monkey Dust will contain something for everyone (within reason: probably not a Watch-With-Mother program) from the viewer wanting cultural satire, to the South Park graduate looking for better done toilet humour, to the Family Guy lover looking for humour that is just so random and crazy that you can't help but laugh. A brilliant show with lots of potential to get even better, I defy anyone who watches this show not to put up a sign in their office saying "No W**kers". 9/10moreless

Monkey Dust is a rather dark and disturbing cartoon, even though it is a comedy. It is certainly not a cartoon for children, sometimes it can be too dark to really watch, you have to be in the correct mood to want to watch it.

Truly, the most twisted, GOOD show out there. However, the changing animation styles from segment to segment may be rather distracting.

This is probably the most confusing, original, dirty yet hilariously funny program i can think of. Packed with hilarious shorts, dirty sketches and brilliant spoofs throughout the program.
The show varies in sense of humour, nature and sketches all the time, maybe putting some people off because they tune in to watch it at the wrong time. But there must be something in there for everyone if you look hard enough.