crownofsprats The first thing I will say is that I wish I could give this a higher rating. But the truth is that like all sketch variety shows, some bits are going to be way funnier than others, and the un-funny ones drag down the rating by subverting the high expectations that the funny ones set up. Also, the repetitive nature of the sketches leaves a lot to be desired for the binge-watchers among us, who would much rather just cut all that time-wasting fat away and get to the real meat.But all that aside, if you are a thinking, feeling person ambling your way through the 21st century, then you will want your comedy to be as bleak and dark as possible. Otherwise...you know what you get otherwise. In this regard, the show gets full marks: the show is not just "edgy" or "distasteful" or any of the other stock adjectives you use when you want to hype comedy, but so soaked through to the core with a particularly virulent strain of pessimism that it threatens to implode under the weight of its own melancholy into something unpleasant. It never does - it just sags at times in its comedic delivery - but like..you will want to avoid this if you are the sensitive type. The show is most savage towards the media and the government, obviously, but it never lets individuals off the hook for anything, correctly interpreting the massive ills caused by those aforementioned institutions to be the byproduct of thousands of bad people making bad decisions. It's also quite violent, and depicts lots of cruel and gory things like animal experimentation, medieval executions (courtesy of the Pedofinder General, of course), and generally all sorts of men, women, children, and animals being senselessly hurt or killed.The show also gets high marks for their use of downbeat songs throughout the series, which often act as bridges between segments. It's chilling to learn that one of the show's creators died of cancer - it really comes through in the later seasons, and there is a lot of rumination on hospitals, doctors, and things of that nature. In a way, some of that ends up being a man's attempt to grapple with mortality, stapled forever to its humble corner in the tapestry of our civilization's creative output.In any case, a great dark gem to be discovered by all the clever little thinkers out there who spend their days depressed by the reality around them...

Arthur Novikov Monkey dust strikes me as something that only a person with the mentality of a 15-year old could enjoy. The commercialistic, corruption and capitalistic themes that come up are overly obvious, thus loosing the touch of hyperbolisation, because the whole show is so over the top, you expect every frame of it to be exactly what it is. The reoccurring characters are one-sided, and have no depth, for they do the same thing over and over again. The guy, who never gets what he wants and is watched, the middle-aged man who comes back to his wife, and tells her that he did something, and then she points it out that it's the plot of a song/show/book/movie, and then he admits to doing something like "being a cum-dumpster in a anonymous bukkake", the child with the father hating mother-divorcée, the paedofinder general, and others do the same thing over and over again, and sadly, it becomes boring after the first witnessing. Also, oftenly the "joke" is stretched out for the sake of showing how horrific and macabre everything around them is, but with the first part of the joke(and the remaining part of it) overinflated, the show gets lost in the concept of shock. To introduce shock, no matter if it is considering culture/nature/greed/etc, you need contrast. Example - Baraka. In monkey dust, the point is, I guess, to show people that the world is wicked, and everyone is screwed up in their own way. Sadly, there is no contrast, and the viewer gets used to the setting, gets used to the fact that everything will go wrong, that everyone will be cruel, that babies will curse, that children will die, and that lie,rape,sodomy,burglary will rule the day, and no suffering will be shown. The idea is to show, again, I guess, that the public is blindly dominated by the onslaught of different media, thus no reaction is gotten from it when introduced to a stupid commercialistic concept, but this idea is again, overinflated, and it just seems that the people are better off like this, unsuspecting, unknowing. With no contrast, we don't get the shock. With no knowledge of what is good and what is bad we cannot laugh at the bad and see that all light has gone. In short - overrated, one sided, no depth, reoccurring theme, no variety, no plot.

Jackson Booth-Millard Monkey Dust is quite a confusing cartoon with many different uses of animation. Every sketch of the show, unless they are using regular stories or characters, they change the type of animation used. There are some disturbing incidents in this show. There's drug use, suicide, some swearing, some light violence and much more. But it's just an example that a show will do pretty much anything to get laughs. But it does make you laugh occasionally. They have very short stories in pubs, hospitals, night clubs, homes, on the streets and many other outrageous or even normal places. I wouldn't say this was one of the best cartoon or animation shows, but it is good. It won the British Animation Award for Best Comedy. It was number 48 on The 100 Greatest TV Treats 2003. Very good!

Monstro-1 Monkey dust is not a show you should let your kids watch. Or your parents. In fact, Monkey Dust is pretty much unsuitable for everyone. Basically, It makes South Park look like Scooby-Doo.Its a very fast-paced cartoon sketch show, mostly set in london, its all very grim and bleak. Topics it covers include Pedophilia, suicide, child murder, and the Nazis. The funniest moment so far was "The Diary of Anne Frank" as made by Jerry Bruckenheimer. Its not pure comic genius, its dirty, dark and filthy comic genius.Its compulsive viewing if you're into stuff like Brass Eye, Big Train or Jam. I cannot recommend it enough.