Fleabag Monkeyface
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 Behold, the UK's answer to Fanboy & Chum Chum!
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Fleabag Monkeyface is a British animated TV show, based on the popular book series The Disgusting Adventures of Fleabag Monkeyface, written by Knife and Packer, and aired on the children's channel CITV. It is aimed at children between the ages 6-10, and follows the gross-out adventures of the eponymous hero and his two creators, Gene and Gerald.
Why It's Disgusting Indeed
- The show fails at gross-out humor. The things they try to make disgusting and gross don't look like they are, because it's animated in horrible CGI.
- The writing is laughable, as a character will always state what's on the screen as if the viewer is dumb, and a character could talk about an event that hasn't even took enough place yet.
- The writing in general is also incompetent and lacks simple logic, such as in the first episode when Gene and Gerald bring up that The Smuglies (two prim and proper sibling characters) always get in their way and even try to pass them off as noisy. At least in that particular episode, the literally (as it's their only scene in the episode) only thing they do is watch butterflies in the boys' backyard, hardly making any noise. In the same episode too, Dr. Spamflex panics that Fleabag is ruining his plan, before he even did anything to his monster.
- The character designs are expressionless and somewhat ugly, especially Fleabag Monkeyface's (he looks far more hideous than the original character design).
- Dr. Dirk Spamflex, the main villain of the show, has a lot of references to penises (in a show meant for kids), since he has a head in the shape of a phallus, his name is one letter off from dick and dresses up in a cock (another word for chicken) suit that looks similar to a BDSM latex costume and his helicopter looks like a disturbing sexual shape.
- Lazy and unappealing animation (by Sparky Animation), even worse than Fanboy & Chum Chum, especially for 2011 standards.
- It's not very faithful to the original books.
- Dirk's motive for becoming a villain is incredibly petty and stupid: because his TV show got cancelled. Ironically, this show got cancelled less than half a year after its debut.
- Mediocre and just plain bad voice-acting, with the majority of the characters sounding very low-pitched and bored while recording their lines, and many also strangely have American accents (despite being a show made and produced from the United Kingdom).
- Fleabag's voice sounds like Jar Jar Binks (from Star Wars) on helium.
- Speaking of Fleabag, he’s a very disgusting and insufferable protagonist who provides way too much toilet humor.
- Gene and Gerald are incredibly bland, are practically the exact same character, and have no individual personalities.
- In fact, none of the characters in this show are likable.
- The animated series rips off Captain Underpants due to Gene and Gerald's designs looking extremely similar to that of George Beard (more specifically his younger counterpart) and Harold Hutchins, respectively. To add more proof to this, both series revolve around the creators having misadventures with whatever it is they created and both use potty/gross-out humor, though while Fleabag Monkeyface fails at it, Captain Underpants does it in a tasteful manner and even tends to parody itself. It also seems like a cheap of Fanboy and Chum Chum combined.
- The series is extremely repetitive, as almost all of the episodes follow the same exact formula, as it is always about Fleabag and co deciding to make a gross-out themed experiment or do something revolutionary, before Dirk immediately finds out about it and causes things to go wrong just in a ditch effort to try and get his TV show airing again and get Fleabag's show cancelled, in which the gang try to do something about and come out with a solution, which straight away immediately works and Dirk gets easily exposed, with him saying his catchphrase "I want my TV show baaaack!" at the end of each episode, which can get annoying very fast.
- The music is rather stock, cheap, and forgettable at best.
- Some of the experiments that Fleabag & Co come up within a few episodes are unrealistic and make no sense, such as in one episode of the show where they try to invent the idea of gross-out pizza that can be grabbed through the TV for some reason, which is illogical since in real life, it would be impossible since the TV screen is made of glass and if it were to broken, then it wouldn't work anymore because of the damage done to it, and no one would like gross-out pizza anyways since it would taste terrible and the idea overall would be a flop.
Redeeming Qualities
- Some of the episode plots are okay and at least don't copy other episodes' stories.
- Dirk, despite having a terrible motive and an awful design, can be quite intimidating as a villain and does come up with clever solutions to ruin Fleabag & Co's experiments in order to revive his own TV series that got cancelled due to low ratings.
- "Spamflex, You're Finished".
Reception
Fleabag Monkeyface currently holds a 1.6/10 on IMDb.
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