Boyster
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Boyster (Molusco in French) is a French animated television series created by Fabien Limousin, Frédéric Azémar, and Emmanuelle Fleury, broadcast from June 16, 2014, on France 3 in programming block Ludo, to May 1, 2020, on Disney XD and since February 8, 2016, on France 4 in the programming block Les Minikeums. In Belgium, the series broadcast on the OUFtivi channel. Molusco is the first European cartoon to be broadcast in South Korea. The series revolves around the daily life of a boy named Molusco Likowski (voiced by Yoann Sover), who is a half-human, half-oyster child with seemingly useless powers who tries to live an ordinary life while hiding his secret. The series premiered in 2009 with a four-minute pilot episode and subsequently purchased by Disney XD and France Televisions.
Plot
Life as a little boy is not easy when you're an oyster. Half-human, half-oyster, Boyster is different. What other child can communicate with animals, make pearls by eating calcium, and has a flying and talking shell as a twin brother? His dream of living the ordinary life of an 11-year-old boy challenged by his supernatural powers, which can get him out of sticky situations or get him into a lot of trouble. Boyster is a touching comedy dealing with universal subjects such as the search for one's identity and exclusion.
Bad Qualities
- The main problem with this series is that just like Sidekick and ToonMarty, the series is mean to the main character, and he is often unfairly tortured; just like Sidekick, it suffers from unsympathetic characters.
- Shelby is the brother of Boyster and the worst character in the series. He is selfish, crazy, and determined to have everything he wants, like in the series finale "A Very Special Advisor", where he will make the mayor of the city a dictator all because he has deprogrammed his favorite show.
- Ozzy is just a generic tough guy who is nothing more than an Alpha Bastard.
- Teachinator (Marion Pluss), the substitute teacher, is despicable with his students and is one of the worst teachers ever.
- Rafik is the generic, silly best friend of Boyster, who's basically the Butt-Monkey of the show.
- The concept of having a young boy who's half-oyster, while promising, is executed quite poorly here.
- Fake synopsis: In the summary, we learn that Boyster can talk to whales, except that in not a single episode we see him talking to whales.
- The series tends to use toilet humor.
- For example, one of Boyster's powers is that he sweats rotten fish.
- Some powers are only used once, like the power that allowed him to store electricity.
- The animation, although decent, can be outright low-quality.
- Some images often reused as:
- A group of children who do not move that we can see again in unquestionable episodes.
- An image representing a car pile-up scene in "Supermollusk" that we see again in "Bust a Move".
- Some images often reused as:
- The English version dubbed in the United Kingdom has scenes that are removed, although it's understandable since some may be disturbing for a children's cartoon.
- Aside from censorship, there are also disturbing, inappropriate scenes as mentioned below for a children's cartoon that you can see right next to it.
- Heck, out of 52 11-minute episodes (26 half-hours) dubbed. Only the first 34 episodes (17 half-hours) were aired in the US, meaning that the last 18 were only aired in the UK.
- There are a handful of bad episodes like:
- The Necklace (an awful way to start the series)
- Supermollusk
- Thunderbolt
- Shelby, the Art Lover
- Fish Humor
- Marble Fever
- Video Star Vanilla
- Three Hours of the Condor (an episode of torture towards Molusco)
- Free Gilly (one of the worst episodes of the series)
- Hero Thanks to Him
- Wings of Love (probably the worst episode of the series)
- Girlster
- Blackmailed!
- Prank a Lot
- It's Not Easy Being Clean
- Kitchen Nightmare (also counts as one of the worst)
- Pearls Before Swine
- Now You See It
- Superstition
- A Very Special Advisor (a terrible way to end the series)
- The series ends on a cliffhanger because in the series finale, Boyster throws the CEO of the oil company who has become a worm into the ocean and sees him become a human again while saying, "I will come back.", except that a second season was never made making this series end on a cilffhanger.
- All in all, it's forgettable. It also shows how poor French animation of the 2010s is like other infamous French cartoons of the 2010s.
Good Qualities
- Some nice characters like Boyster or Alicia.
- The concept of a half-human half-oyster child is promising, although poorly executed.
- There are good episodes here and there.
- Unlike other cartoons, Boyster's creators were not lazy; they gave every character a different nose, and a lot of them have different body and head shapes and skin color.
- In addition, many people appreciated that Lola and Eugene Likowski, two secondary characters who are the parents of Boyster, are an interethnic married couple.
Reception
Boyster received an unfavorable reception at a 5.1/10 on IMDb and a 4/10 on Senscritique.
Trivia
- In the United States and United Kingdom, the series suddenly stopped airing, perhaps due to lack of viewership, so the last English episodes never aired.
- A lot of things have been censored because of Disney.
Comments
- French shows
- Cartoons
- Shows for everyone
- Shows with bad morals
- Disney shows
- Disney XD shows
- Shows that lasted only one season
- Shows that ended on cliffhangers
- Unfunny shows
- Obscure shows
- Average shows
- France Television Shows
- British shows
- Torture shows
- Cult shows
- Gross-out shows
- Cancelled shows
- Mean-spirited shows
- Foreign programs
- Misleading advertising on television