Creature Comforts Best New TV Animation
Creature Comforts Best New TV Animation by Roxanne McDonald
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Well, claymation, actually. And not so “new”. So lucky are we that Nick Park’s cast has gone from the silver screen to TV. |
Before we were all flying into cyberspace at the flip of a switch, those of us who were big claymation fans had to wait for the yearly animation festival that would come to the Palace of Fine Arts each May.
We were so in love with “Creature Comforts” that when the
award-winning animator Nick Parks made it available on video tape (along with several winning animations from around the world), we snatched it up to watch it more than once a year.
Then we got Wallace and Grommit in our neck of the woods, then gasoline commercials as delivered by talking cars with adorable accents.
In 1989, “Creature Comforts” was a single piece featuring animals from around the world in their natural habitat inside one zoo. The animals each discuss with an interviewer how they regard or feel about their living situations and conditions. Penguins and polar bears and a puma (and many other adorable and quirky creatures)
communicate the human responses to their tenement and dorm living, the puma being my (and, evidently many others’) favorite, as he tells reporters the problem is there is just “not enough space,” just not enough space” (with emphasis on the p).
Now, after the UK has had the series for years, we get the Ardeman creations for TV, “Creature Comforts” as it kicks out the jams with a different topic each week, different animals divulging, and different American dialects—as they are received by way of the preceding real-time human interviews.
Nothing better in this category/genre, than dachshunds and donkeys talking about sex and love.
Nothing better than claymation that makes us laugh.
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