I can't begin to explain this show to anybody who hasn't seen it. Sesame Street on crack is a good way to describe it, which has been said many times already here. My original watching of the show was 2021, so several years after the last episode aired; unfortunately I missed this show in it's prime considering the children on the show are all my age now.
Let me start off by saying this show made me holler and actually gasp at some parts because I was surprised it made to air. Yeah, the jokes are offensive, but I think to watch something like this you have to have some form of critical thinking skills. Keep in mind the voice for Chauncey is also the voice of Towelie on South Park, which kind of adds to the experience for me. There's jokes about every sociopolitical topic imaginable and they rip on literally everybody and everything. You have characters like the letter N and her addiction struggles or the letter 2 who stages her live suicide. There is a whole episode that gets played in reverse halfway through the running. You will see animals giving birth and decaying and you will hear children talk about how love is a neurochemical con job. At some point, the main character is a slave owner in an episode about the olden times. This is peak surreal humor at it's finest.
My only real issue I tend to have with it is some parts of the show are either too much secondhand embarrassment or just aged way too poorly for me. An example for the embarrassment portion are the Clarence bits, where one of the puppets goes around and bothers locals and tends to be an incredible nuisance. He has harassed homeless people, joggers, babies in carriages, people on the phone and to some, I can see the humor in it, but it physically makes me cringe and I just feel bad for the people. I actually skip these parts every single time on my rewatches. The last episode of the series was incredibly boring for me and I was a bit disappointed, but there is absolutely no overarching plot so skipping episodes isn't detrimental or anything. Just choose an episode and enjoy, like a wine on your day off.
As offensive as this show may be, and I watched it knowing full well I will probably see things that will shock and disturb, there are just some jokes that aged incredibly poorly. The Nature episode comes to mind; Mother Nature wants to get a sex change and even though I was laughing when Chauncey was doing the dirty with her lady parts, I still felt that it was just overall transphobic and not actually how legitimate trans people act. Even the satire of the situation couldn't really save it like it does with a lot of other jokes on the show.
Overall though, I wholeheartedly consider this one of my favorite shows. My all time favorite scene is when a young girl goes around asking Wall Street businessmen when they sold their conscience and asking them when the revolution comes, where they will hide. There are so many notable scenes and characters and it's one of those shows that you'll find a new joke each time you watch it again. Please, for the love of whatever holy deity you believe in, watch this show if you like things like South Park or Eric Andre (both shows do connect to this one in a way!)
Let me start off by saying this show made me holler and actually gasp at some parts because I was surprised it made to air. Yeah, the jokes are offensive, but I think to watch something like this you have to have some form of critical thinking skills. Keep in mind the voice for Chauncey is also the voice of Towelie on South Park, which kind of adds to the experience for me. There's jokes about every sociopolitical topic imaginable and they rip on literally everybody and everything. You have characters like the letter N and her addiction struggles or the letter 2 who stages her live suicide. There is a whole episode that gets played in reverse halfway through the running. You will see animals giving birth and decaying and you will hear children talk about how love is a neurochemical con job. At some point, the main character is a slave owner in an episode about the olden times. This is peak surreal humor at it's finest.
My only real issue I tend to have with it is some parts of the show are either too much secondhand embarrassment or just aged way too poorly for me. An example for the embarrassment portion are the Clarence bits, where one of the puppets goes around and bothers locals and tends to be an incredible nuisance. He has harassed homeless people, joggers, babies in carriages, people on the phone and to some, I can see the humor in it, but it physically makes me cringe and I just feel bad for the people. I actually skip these parts every single time on my rewatches. The last episode of the series was incredibly boring for me and I was a bit disappointed, but there is absolutely no overarching plot so skipping episodes isn't detrimental or anything. Just choose an episode and enjoy, like a wine on your day off.
As offensive as this show may be, and I watched it knowing full well I will probably see things that will shock and disturb, there are just some jokes that aged incredibly poorly. The Nature episode comes to mind; Mother Nature wants to get a sex change and even though I was laughing when Chauncey was doing the dirty with her lady parts, I still felt that it was just overall transphobic and not actually how legitimate trans people act. Even the satire of the situation couldn't really save it like it does with a lot of other jokes on the show.
Overall though, I wholeheartedly consider this one of my favorite shows. My all time favorite scene is when a young girl goes around asking Wall Street businessmen when they sold their conscience and asking them when the revolution comes, where they will hide. There are so many notable scenes and characters and it's one of those shows that you'll find a new joke each time you watch it again. Please, for the love of whatever holy deity you believe in, watch this show if you like things like South Park or Eric Andre (both shows do connect to this one in a way!)