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Animated Atrocities: The Ceremony

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Some viewers may find this disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

Show: The Brothers Grunt
Episode: 1
Year: 1994

Writer(s): Danny Antonucci

Rusty: “Oh my God! It's Ridley Scott's "Alien"! Look at it! Oh my God! Oh my God!”
Early: “No, son, it ain't Ridley Scott's "Alien". It's worse.”


The inbred hillbilly squids (from Squidbillies) are right. This isn't Ridley Scott's “Alien”; if it were, then I would understand what the fuck was going on! I'm not shocked at all to learn this was made by the guy who created Ed, Edd n Eddy. Danny Antonucci primarily did adult animation in the 80s and early 90s before his stint at Cartoon Network; after all, he created the Eds on a dare. To put it simply, The Brothers Grunt is the nastiest looking and grossest show I have ever seen; this is top 10 bad! This is gross-out without context in its purest form! 


All of the characters in this cartoon look like they're in constant excruciatingly blinding pain, red veins all over their bodies, pale as a corpse white skin, bulging yellow eyes and cold dead blue hair. Forget the theories that the Peach Creek cul-de-sac kids are dead; THESE GUYS MUST BE THE LIVING DEAD! Once more, the story isn't very coherent in the slightest, even though the show by in large is extremely formulaic. Every single episode, these 5 brothers try to chase down their missing 6th brother Perry because, apparently, he's the chosen one of an underground civilization of the living dead. Each and every time they get caught up in shenanigans and to further the tiring cliché, they always miss him by the tiniest increments!


We are never given any reasoning as to why Perry doesn't want to be the chosen one, but I have to imagine it's not good. Otherwise, he wouldn't be in such a panic to escape; then again, all these guys look like they're strung out on all the fucking drugs! The only character with any comprehensible dialogue in this cartoon doesn't even move his lips; I think it's telepathy, but they don't make it clear. And by the by, all of these brothers are named after legendary lounge singers: Frank (Sinatra), Tony (Bennett), Bing (Crosby), Dean (Martin), Sammy (Davis Jr.) and, of course, Perry (Como); yeah, that's not totally disgraceful at all!


I bet you're wondering what the fuck that picture is, eh? Well, according to their leader, these 6 brothers were, and I'm not fucking you, born within the slimy disgusting womb-like back fat of a gigantic floating grunt. To be more specific, they were FARMED for some unexplained reason from his back fat! These babies are absolutely horrifying! And I thought the Mega Babies were gross! These brothers are apparently born in accordance to a prophecy that they would lead their fucked up underground group; As adults, they are anointed in one of the most weirdly disturbing ceremonies I've ever seen: slapped with the Salve of Roid (read: anointment cream) to protect them from sins of the flesh; splashed with the Water of Brut (read: eau de toilette) DIRECTLY INTO THEIR ALREADY SICKENING EYES to apparently protect them from embarrassing situations and social faux-paux, bringing them into even worse pain (That legitimately made my skin crawl! Then again, this whole show does!); swallowed with Tablet of Retsin (read: breath mints) to obviously keep their breaths fresh (I'm imagining all the mints in the world couldn't fix these freaks); and finally, when a ducks ass is rubbed directly into their faces, it goes berserk when it gets to Perry, signaling he's the chosen one.


What the actual fuck!? To make things more confusing, these episodes have filler in the form of 2 full music videos each episode. Clips of the brothers are inter-spliced within them, but they have no purpose beyond wasteful filler! This episode in particular uses "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco. This kills a minute and a 1/2 of a 7-minute episode! The second music video at least has a purpose of the Grunts searching for Perry, which is "Sadness (Part 1)" by Enigma! Any who, because nothing is really choreographed well at all in this show, we aren't given any particular reason as to why Perry escapes. But considering during his coronation where he's essentially put up as a sideshow attraction at their carnival, I have to assume he's in the right for doing so and seeing his brothers as the bad guys.


This show in essence wanted to be 
Beavis and Butt-Head after the real thing got pulled off the air due to censorship reasons. Even MTV hated this show and has done everything in their power to try and make people forget it ever existed. Even worse is how it came into fruition: the show was based off an MTV promotional indent Danny Antonucci did for them, showing the brothers literally shitting out the MTV logo, I'm dead fucking serious. It's the animated equivalent of the Geico Caveman Show.


Cringe-Inducing Audio: 10
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 9
Lackluster Writing: 9
Annoyance: 0
Disturbing Content: 7
Unnecessary Cruelty: 5
Rancid Morality: 0
Low Production Values: 4
Unfortunate Implications: 0
Character Derailment: 0

Final Score: 44/100


The Brothers Grunt is owned by MTV and Viacom.

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To be honest, I kinda liked the cartoon. ^^; I've seen weirder and grosser things on TV since, so this cartoon seemed tamed by today's standards to me.


I remember the first music video was originally "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by P.M Dawn.