"Come along to a place we've been before..."
Lammigan and Little Diesel, respectively.
Little Lion's Den is a surrealist sketch comedy show. It features Landon Lammigan (a young man lathered in petroleum jelly and dressed in a dirty onesie) and Little Diesel (a puppet with a deep, synthesized voice) as they trade banter, share inane news segments and ominous life lessons, and interact with ridiculous guests.
The brainchild of brothers Nathan and Alex Ward, who also play the main duo, the series is filmed on old camcorders out of a Cleveland garage. It's been described as "a shell-shocked, LSD-drenched, doomsday-prepper version of Pee Wee’s Playhouse."
The first season is available for free
on Means TV.
Tropes
- Butt-Monkey: If there's some misfortune to be had, it's pretty much a guarantee that it will fall on Little Diesel's head.
- Disappeared Dad: Diesel and Lammigans' fathers killed one another on a hilltop in Vietnam in a friendly fire incident.
- Grossout Show: Features insects, sickly closeups, and other unpleasantness. Lammigan wears a dirty gray onesie and his face is perpetually covered in a thick, sickly layer of petroleum jelly.
- Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: The "flies" in episode three are house crickets. Justified in that it's a surreal show starring unreliable hosts and that crickets are easier to find, buy, and film.
- Perverse Puppet: Averted. Diesel's creepy and sounds like the Devil, but he's easily the nicer guy between the two.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: Lammigan, who frequently holds a pair of knives with his toes.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Lammigan occasionally treats Diesel like someone he wants to kill and occasionally like a dog, but they're firm friends. The pair met just after 9/11, when Lammigan — for no specified reason — shot Diesel in the head with a rubber bullet, tied him upside down, and doused him with gasoline.Lammigan, fondly: Diesel, when you woke up that morning, I couldn't tell tears from gasoline and gasoline from urine.
