Sad Kids
2019 · 10m · Canada
Directed by Alexander Laird, Alexander Swift
Genres: animation, comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, melancholic
A pitch-perfect mock Canadian after-school cartoon hosted by Shane, who keeps the upbeat kids-show tone while slipping in profanity, sexual references and inappropriate live segments. The final zoom-out reveals the actual audience watching.
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Channel-flipping nostalgia bait that turns out to be a Trojan horse. Stays in character so long you almost miss the rot under the puppet glue.
Cloudflare obscured the page; animation/comedy/satire on NoBudge usually means something sharper than its title, but I won't pretend to have seen it.
Cloudflare blocked the page, but a pitch-perfect Canadian after-school cartoon faithful to public-broadcast aesthetics down to bumper music — with profanity tucked into a Florida facts segment — is Too Many Cooks lineage I'll always show up for.
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It would be a near perfect replica if not for the slippages of profanity and other questionably appropriate material for kids.