Drawn Together - Uncensored!: Season Three

Rating NR Formats DVD Genre television series Starring Peter Avanzino, Dwayne Carey-Hill Directed by Various Publisher Viacom

Season 3 of this shock value extravaganza is just as jaw-dropping as ever.  This stuff is sick, sick, sick.  Half of the time I was laughing at offensive jokes and bizarre randomness, and other times I was shielding my eyes from disgusting images.  The final season of Drawn Together somehow pulls off an interesting feat.  It manages to make me laugh and feel repulsed at the same time.  Half of show is side-splittingly hilarious, and the other half should never have seen the light of day. 

For those of you not familiar with the show, it’s a Big Brother spoof involving eight completely different cartoon characters under one roof.  The shenanigans they get themselves into make no sense and usually end up with the deaths of a few characters who magically appear alive in the next episode.   

In this season, a few of the episodes had some ideas that were wacky and brilliant.  My personal favorite was an episode where dramatic homosexual homophobe Captain Hero communicates to his teenage self in the past via walkie-talkie.  It results the death of his loved ones as well as violating a sandwich in public.  Why would he do this?  Because Captain Hero claims that when he was a teenager, someone ruined his life and vowed revenge on some other poor soul.  Other crazy scenarios include the cast being trapped in a car and going mentally insane from it, fat disgusting Toot being mistaken for a sacred cow in India, and their baby selves trying to hide their dead babysitter from the parents.  The overall ideas behind each episode are funny in their bizarre way.  Some of the racist, sexist, and tasteless jokes are on par with the things your class clown might say. 

Most of the characters have their own diverse quirks, causing their extreme opposites to work in humorous ways.  Racist Princess Clara always has something to say because everyone else is a minority, which works especially well when she decides to side with Satan and rebels against her obsessively right-wing views to practically become a hedonist.  The Pokemon-like creature Ling-Ling attempts to be as stereotypically “Asian” as possible, and Xandir’s homosexuality rubs off on everyone else, which creates plenty of random gay scenarios that are entertaining.   

The final episode ends on a whimper as the entire cast is “eliminated” from the show due to the cancellation.  This was an obvious stab at Comedy Central for canceling the show, but it happened so abruptly that a big question mark appeared over my head.  It could have ended on a more fitting note, but I’m guessing that’s the way the show’s crew was feeling at the time.   

The down side to this show is that the humor goes straight for the shock value to the point where it isn’t funny.  Necrophilia, bestiality, child abuse, molestation, and torture are all present in this single season.  It’s like Family Guy and South Park times a hundred.  There isn’t anything funny about the nymphomaniac Foxxy Love having sex with Astro from The Jetsons, or discovering that Linus from Peanuts clings to his blanket because his drunk father beats him at night.  An extreme close up of genitals ridden with flies and mold was far worse than any of the dirty drawings in Superbad. Distasteful jokes can be funny and I don’t believe in censorship, but there’s a line where it stops becoming funny. 

Probably the worst move that this show makes is how far it goes to make Toot appear as disgusting as possible.  The animation is sickening and sometimes made it nauseating to sit through.  It had to endure the torture as Toot pulled food from orifices and ate it, tried to get a donkey to have sex with her, and popped zits on her butt which covered the mirror in pus.  Anyone who finds this funny should have their head examines, because the only word that came in mind for me was “gross.”