How about this one?
So I get the educational point about brushing teeth...but it's so poorly set up. You can't sing well unless you brush your teeth? Seriously. And in terms of what makes this most disturbing: the talking, toothy bird almost looks furry. And the hands breaking through the mountain at the beginning...yeesh.
That's a very special cartoon, I guess... I know the earlier skits were meant to be weird and surreal, but there's something really off about this one. And coming from the same series that had a cartoon about an elevator opening to find 2 twin George Washington busts, that's saying something.
The imagery is too weird to be surreal or psychedelic. It's too organized to be nonsense. It really seems they built this world of...whatever you call it... weirdness isn't strong enough to be an understatement. But they built this entire odd world where, while nothing is supposed to make sense, it goes too far and bogs down in too many questions. And to me, the least of which are talking toothbrush or toothy bird. Toothy bird makes sense as it's a dental care skit. But it really feels like Mahatma (and yes, throwing a weird name for the sake of weird names is also used poorly here) is in a weird little world of his own. On the one hand, it does feel disturbing. On the other hand this could have been a great series of skits about Mahatma the bird and his Truman Show-esque "everything is made for him" world. But as a stand alone, it's just...everything is a BLAM except for the tooth care bits. There's too much going on at once. It feels that one level of weirdness could have been pealed off and it would have come across as strange but acceptably so. Either the mountains giving him breakfast or "How can you sing if your teeth aren't clean?" should have been taken out. Feels like they were trying to say "How can you be so cavalier about forgetting to brush your teeth? Dental hygiene is important, and you won't be singing and happy when the dentist has to pull out that drill." But it came out as "Purple! Because Ice Cream has no bones."
Disturbing is right. How could this have been considered coherent? I personally find the entire sketch hilariously bad. Yet, I tried making a YTP out o it and it was too freaking incoherent to do anything funny with. I'm not proud of it at all. Can't post it here because the only thing I could think of was immature sex jokes.
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