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 Este programa no es pulento, no es pulento, no es pulento 🎵🎵 (This show is not great, is not great, is not great 🎵🎵) .
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Pulentos is a 2005 Chilean CGI-animated series created by Werne Núñez, Sebastian Correa and José Tomás Correa, and produced by Tercer Hemisferio for Canal 13. It was later officially uploaded to YouTube in its entirety.
Due to the success of the show with Chilean audiences, it later got a 2D movie adaptation released in 2007, and a 2009 spin-off show titled "Walala."
Plot
Brother and sister duo named Nea and Barry move from New York to a newly inaugurated ville in Chile, they learn friendship with 3 other kids and they soon form a Hip-Hop (or Nu Metal) band named "Pulentos." Every episode ends with a song performed by the band, sometimes relating to the episode shown.
Season 2 focuses on their success as a band and how they perform concerts around the country.
Why It's Not Pulento At All
- The animation is very low-budget, rushed, and poorly rendered.
- Characters move in a stiff, robotic way, and the lip-sync is very poor.
- Insane frame-rate drops that can go all the way down to 1 to 2 FPS, which ends up looking like a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
- In the opening sequence, Benzo can be seen painting a graffiti, however, he isn't holding anything.
- In the first episode, there is a scene where the mob of people doesn't move much, and when they do, they move like they are made out of cardboard.
- Textures can corrupt and glitch themselves in and out of existence visibly, the characters also loop in their animations, and sometimes they disappear out of nowhere.
- The infamous scene in the song "Pulentos" in which they sing: ¡El que no salta no es pulento! (EN: The one that doesn't jump is not amazing!) and Jorge the dog freezes in place due to an animation error.
- Most secondary or one-time characters are modified models of existing characters.
- In the episode "Pulenta Maleta," Pulentos go to Valparaíso but due to the low budget, they didn't bother to model the city and just took pictures of it and overlaid the characters on top and not even correctly.
- In one episode there is an "ambulance", however, it's just a floating white box with lights. There is also a "bus" that is an elongated cube with pictures of a real bus on all sides, and neither of them even has proper wheels.
- In some episodes, character models are reused from previous episodes just to fill space on the screen, including characters that were never meant to be seen again after their debut.
- The character design gets odd at times:
- Why does Benzo wear a clown nose at all times?
- Why is Barry bald?
- Tom York doesn't look like a mouse at all, instead, rather infamously, he looks like a sausage with arms and legs with a Mickey Mouse hat. Even the show makes fun of this in various episodes.
- Some characters are very unpleasant.
- Benzo is a very unlikeable character, he only cares about himself and the reputation of the band instead of caring for his friends, he is even capable of replacing them and throwing them out of the band, even though he is not the leader. He at least redeems himself after the episode "Raices" in which he learns his lesson.
- Walala's father (Capitan Zamora) is unimaginably unlikeable and lazy, always beating and mistreating his son, and forcing him to take long walks and do too much work, just because he is part of the military and he believes his son should act like he is too.
- He doesn't care too much about his son's safety, as he forced him to fix the rooftop antenna on a rainy day, which could have killed him if he falls off the roof or gets struck by lightning (considering the show's logic).
- In the episode "Es-3" he gives Walala so many chores that Walala faints due to extreme stress and gets amnesia, and despite being worried about him while in the hospital, he allows the rest of Pulentos to do all the work of taking care of him.
- Tom York, while admittedly funny sometimes, is a one-dimensional character who only thinks about eating and dies in nearly every single episode.
- Doña Mercedes is another one-dimensional character who dislikes Pulentos for being "noisy" yet they practice in their own houses.
- Ramón from the second season and onwards became a lazy trash bag that refuses to help his friends or go to practice, his new voice also sounds depressed.
- Nea is also not a good character, mainly because she bosses the entire band and his brother Barry and sometimes she doesn't get a comeuppance.
- Barry, while a tolerable character, is sometimes disgusting and sometimes unpleasant to his friends especially when food is related.
- Lots of gross-out humor is seen throughout the show.
- In the first episode, "Vamos, Let's go," Barry throws up on the plane twice on screen and even urinates on the flight attendant's body and mouth (at least, accidentally) after she goes to check him in the bathroom.
- In "Pasao a queso," It only focuses on the stinky smell of Walala's shoes and how they want to put him in a competition of who has the stinkier shoes to get a prize.
- In the episode "Es-3," there is a scene where amnesic Walala poops his pants, and Benzo is forced to clean him.
- In the episode "Malas juntas," when Doña Mercedes tries to show Walala's dad a video of Pulentos wreaking havoc, a security camera video of her in the bathroom plays instead, with 4D sound. Also, who puts security cameras above the toilet?
- Like Diego and Glot, another terrible Chilean show, there are scenes unsuitable for younger audiences.
- As mentioned before, the scene in which Barry urinates all over the flight attendant.
- In the episode "Perros de la calle," after getting the wrong dog from the shelter Barry says: Yo propongo que lo metamos a una bolsa y lo tiremos al rio. (ENG: I propose that we put it in a bag and throw it into the river.) which is animal abuse.
- In the episode "Barry a dieta," there is a scene where Barry is naked on screen and instead of putting underwear on him, they decided to make his stomach cover him up so that nothing shows.
- From the aforementioned episode there is a scene where Barry's replacement grabs Nea's butt, not only is it an inappropriate scene for a children's show, it also shows pedophilia because Nea is 11 years old. Not helped by the fact that it happens in the real Barry's imagination after he passes out.
- The infamous scene in "Mi amigo ET" in which Nea throws her microphone at Walala and he retaliates by throwing his electric guitar at her just because Walala voiced his amusement of putting the alien they found as the new vocalist.
- The band's music ranges from catchy and creative to just cringe-worthy, though it mostly depends on your view.
- Many episodes teach bad morals.
- "Barry a dieta" teaches that eating healthy food to lose weight is wrong and that you should just be yourself, which is a terrible moral.
- "Tocando Madera" teaches that it is okay to deceive others for your well-being.
- "La Mansaca" teaches that it is okay not to help others when they seek help and cry your way into forgiveness.
- Some episodes do not end correctly or end in a cliff-hanger.
- In "Vamos, Let's go," it is never explained what happened with the arrest of Walala's father.
- In "Mi amigo ET," they put us on a cliff-hanger when Tom York gets a ray gun from the alien at the end.
- In "Raton volador," what happened to Barry's toy helicopter is never known.
- In "Tocando madera," it leaves us with a bad ending where Barry is struck by lightning and wakes up, causing a mirror to fall, which means that he would have years of bad luck.
- In "La Mansaca," It is never explained how Walala's father's car was fixed after crashing into Doña Mercedes' stall, and those who robbed the store during the accident are never caught.
- Like Bondi Band, the protagonists are bad stereotypes (Except Walala)
- Benzo is presented as the snooty and obnoxious "leader."
- Nea is the girl in the band and is the bossy of the team.
- Barry is the fat boy that likes eating.
- Ramón is the emo boy of the band.
- Questionable Stereotypes:
- Season 2 episode "Chaufan, arroz con palitos" features the one-time character Lai Fan, and while a likable character, she is a generic Chinese stereotype, she has her eyes closed at all times and pronounces the letter "R" as an "L." She also knows Kung Fu, just to make it more clear.
- Episode "El invitado de piedra" from the same season features the one-time character Mike, who speaks in an extremely annoying North American accent.
- Plot Holes: From the second season onward, Pulentos do concerts in different areas of the country, however, it is not explained how they obtained contracts to do concerts there or how they became popular because in the film it is said that no one knows who they are.
- It is also not explained why Barry and Nea moved to Santiago from New York.
- The movie was a terrible way to end this show.
Redeeming Qualities
- Walala; Jorge the Dog; Ramón (Only in the first season); Barry (Sometimes) and Ricardo (Barry and Nea's father) are tolerable and pleasant characters.
- Nea sometimes worries about others and tries to maintain peace.
- At least Benzo cares about Tom York enough to revive him whenever he dies.
- Walala's father still cares about his son a bit.
- Tom York's voice and lines can be funny at times.
- Some episodes are good, and most of the time, the humor is clever like when Walala gets amnesia, and the doctor explains that the only thing remaining in his head is his hair.
- Season 2's animation is a little better, as it has more fluid and less robotic animation.
- While occasionally out of place, the background music is catchy and fits the mood of the scenes.
- The voice acting ranges from passable to decent.
- Depending on your point of view, most of the band's songs have good lyrics and rhythm to them, but they are poorly executed.
Trivia
- "Pulento" means something awesome, cool, or amazing in Chilean slang.
- This show premiered on the same day as Diego and Glot.
- René Pinochet and Ximena Merchant (voices of Benzo and Barry respectively) then worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, voicing Aang (Rene Pinochet) and Toph (Ximena Marchant).
- It gained a cult following, and the show developed a meme-based popularity primarily because of the bad animation and cheesy quotes.
- The last two episodes were released three years after the previous episode for a strange reason. Ironically, the last episode of the show is about time travel.
- The entire show is available on YouTube officially from both the official Canal 13 channel (Season 1) and one of the directors' official YouTube channel (Season 2).
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