Dick and Stewart: a new, delightfully dark and twisted animated series from Scarfolk's Richard Littler

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/30/dick-and-stewart.html

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[SlayerTrek]

That was awesome and disturbing. Like Mr Benn or Henry’s Cat as commissioned by the Stasi.

[ikeOnABike]

That would be useful to really freak out some 6 year old kid…

[Scurra]

I thought it would be hard to top Scarfolk, but somehow this manages it. The pitch-perfect style may well be lost on anyone not brought up in the UK in the 70s, but it transcends that and becomes something unique.
Thanks for the link. I think.

[Shuck]

Holy shit. Well, that was disturbing. Julian Barratt was the perfect choice as narrator, too.

@Scurra

I thought it would be hard to top Scarfolk, but somehow this manages it.

Yeah. This feels like Scarfolk’s media intruding into the real world.

[enkidoodler]

I only got about 5 minutes in but the flashed subliminal image (couldn’t get the frame spot on but it looked like eye-surgery?) at 5:19 or so put me off my feed. I’m not a big fan of watching things that flash subliminal messages as single frame shockers… may try to watch the rest, but for now I think I’ll take a pause.

[politeruin]

I assume this is set in scarfolk.

Though scarfolk’s reality can at any time be amended.
For more information please reread the above.

[CanadianBeaver]

That was weird…more please.

[RHK]

Well, that was a nice piece of fiction. I have to go now because my Ring doorbell just told me my next door neighbor just got home and Alexa says I need to order more cat food because I should be running out about now and DoorDash wants to know if I want to order my usual Monday night dinner.

[Scientist]

Was it this?

For more information please reread

[FGD135]

@boingboing

Either way, just imagine what it would be like if children’s TV programmes were written by George Orwell or Franz Kafka. Or the government itself.

It’s not easy to one-up British PSAs from the cold war era.

Protect & Survive - 1970's UK Public infommercials On Nuclear War Preparation

[werdnagreb]

WOW. That’s disturbing. I can’t wait for more.

[euansmith]

They’ve done a great job of nailing the atmosphere of UK 1970’s crappy kiddies animation; “Mary, Mungo and Surveillance Society”.

[Dire]

Nailed it!

Richard Littler (richard_littler)

[Dire]

Like Donald Pleasance narating “Dark and Lonely Water?”

The apocalyptic landscape was bad enough for this Cornish boy raised with fields and rugged coastline -

That f-ed me up for weeks.