Dangermouse (2015)

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Oh boy, this is going to set so many fetishists up.

I find it funny that since this is a British cartoon, it's the American (Jeopardy Mouse) who is the stuffy and serious one instead of the other war around.

Also, this is the second time this year I have seen the Queen of England been portrayed as a corgi with the first being a Mickey Mouse short.

What else would she be? Also, I loved the original show and I'm so happy at how good this new one is. It's exactly the same, except better!

Oh poo, we're on hiatus after this week's run of episodes

Curses! Vulgar, offensive curses!

edited 13th Oct '15 9:40:39 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

Also, this is the second time this year I have seen the Queen of England been portrayed as a corgi with the first being a Mickey Mouse short.

I heard it's because Elizabeth II is supposed to own a corgi.

She owns several.

Yesterday's episode was another showcase for Penfold. Also featured a guest voice turn from Richard Osmond, Armstrong's assistant on his daily BBC ONE game show Pointless, as the Jellyfish. I hope we see that Monkey again, his ideas on dealing with the Asteroid were right bamy (especially the bit about not really destroying it, but making sure it impacted a bit of the planet everyone doesn't like first). Penfold is really growing in this series (and no, not just in the literal sense like yesterday), and more times than not comes off as more capable than DM at this juncture.

edited 14th Oct '15 7:50:05 AM by Zarius

I think we might actually need some more Danger Mouse-focused episodes to balance it out.

DM spoofs "Alien" today. Great twist with Col.K, I should have seen it coming after the line "under our nose". The Professor getting all giddy that her formula worked then realizing it was causing damage was great.

That last one felt like a proper mid-series finale, with three major faces returning (Quark, Jeporday, and Loocifer), plus cameos from some old ones (Snowman was in there). I enjoyed the thumb wrestling solution required to temporarily avoid fighting each other, even if it went pear-shaped after the confession vlogs were ran. Penfold did'nt make one though, which just goes to show what a nice guy he is. He ended up winning the trophy in the end too, even if by accident.

The bit about turning the Earth into a ball for a game of Pong was a little in-joke to the last episode of the classic series where the Earth was going to be turned into a cue ball for a game of snooker

So does anyone reckon the ending of the episode was a cliffhanger?

Still in reruns, but it was nice to see DM and Penfold show up in a segment on Strictly-It Takes Two last night.

Cover Art for the first DVD release◊

Got my hands on the DVD release. Has seven episodes, including the pilot. No extras.

A new episode will air Christmas Day at 9:35 am. A half-hour special starring Brian Blessed as Santa

Blessed are we.

Oh bummer, the Christmas special aired last week on the CBBC Channel and I missed it. Luckily it's on I-Player and the Christmas Day BBC ONE airing is still going to happen.

I saw the Christmas special this morning, and had a blast. Sqauwkencluck refusing outright to believe in Santa despite every other character aware of him and interacting with him was an odd but amusing trait. DM and Penfold constantly giving her hair dryers as gifts prompted a plot bunny for a fanfic I wrote today, poor Snowman, the nature of his character means they can keep doing utterly brutal things to him (like slayriding him through the sun), and he'll find a way to spring back from it if the weather's a bit nippy. I wonder if he can come back from this though?

I liked DM also trying to rely on the normal running time of an episode to thwart Snowman's plan, but then the narrator reminds him it's a half hour special.

And we got our first glimpse of the revamped Count Duckula in a short cameo where he gets into a fight with the other villains. Alas, he didn't have a speaking part.

The hiatus comes to an end on Feb 15th. Just saw a new trailer with Duckula.

Were there a Nanny and Igor?

Alas, no.

Pity; they were my favorite parts of the Duckula show.

So the first three post-hiatus episodes are

"Invention Prevention", in which DM has to prevent a chimp from undoing all of invention throughout history

"Never Say Clever Again", where all the other agents develop super intelligence after eating enhanced celery

And "Sinister Mouse", where DM comes up against an alternate world double

edited 11th Feb '16 12:43:02 PM by Zarius

Oh dear, please tell me it's not yet another iteration of the "anyone who gets super intelligence becomes a stuck up arrogant smarter-than-you snob" plot. I hate that cliche.

"Inventor Preventor" thoughts:

Ah, struck on the head and you find what makes all time travel possible...cute BTTF reference.

I wonder if the gorilla calling Kong stupid back in the past was DM when he was disguised as the dorm captain?

Lots of mayhem to be had here, from the multiple copies of DM, Penfold and kong to Benjamin Franklyn going full retard. And Beelectricity!

Penfold trying to sort out the resolution, and gives up at the end trying to make sense of the whole thing.