To add to all that: people tend to give this show’s visuals a lot of shit but miss sight of the fact that throughout all the low polygon and simply textured graphics is some amazing cinematography.  Body language and nonverbal expression is more competent than in any similar looking videogame.  Creating the show like you would for a mod of a PC game provides the show some fantastic shots and locales at a low cost and allows the animation to keep up with the furiously paced writing.

But what is perhaps most significant is that this is the first CGI cartoon that is actually funny.

just curious, but do you think these two are expressing a socialist political viewpoint through their comedy?

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On WOnder Showzen, maybe.  I don’t know if it was socialist, but it was definitely political.  I;m not sure about Xavier.

I would like to know if Chatman and Lee actually plan on donating the money that would otherwise have been spent on an expensive Earth Dream sequence in the Bloodcorns episode to benefit people suffering in Darfur.  While that entire joke was very funny and clever, it would be shameful if it really was only just a joke.

I dunno, they strike me as fairly nilhist.. to them, there may be no point of donating money..

This is the best show I ever seen, I laugh at it even through repeat viewings.

I feel like a total pussy admitting it, but I’ll be honest; Wonder Showzen scared the excrement out of me. As much as I loved it, I felt entirely squeamish watching it- the same squeamish feeling one gets when watching World War II Nazi propaganda. Xavier’s a lot less gut-churning (with the same amount of blood, guts, and genius).  The laughs feel good because they’re a little more justified; Xavier’s a lovable dumbfart at times while other characters seem even dumber. Wonder Showzen’s goal was more like.. fevereshly raping your brain in hopes of accessing the laugh button.

PFFR is absurdist.

There is nothing DEEP about it. Its just completely silly, with no real point. If you think there is some deeper underlying meaning, then your mindbrain is working too hard.

no i think your just not gettin it brah

it isn’t “deep”, but it isn’t total nonsense either. There’s usually opinions and underlying points that go along with a lot of the jokes (not all of them). Seriously Xavier and to a more obvious extent wonder showzen have some of the angriest and most frustrated senses of humor out there

“In pain, I found the truth.  And even though pain hurts, you need to confront pain if you want to transcend the crushing pain of your inner pain.” How is that NOT deep?  Okay, if not DEEP, then atleast INSIGHTFUL!

There IS truth in sand-madness, chompsky-honk!

I wouldn’t try to categorize the show or the views expressed therein. Doing so is just a way of summarizing it, and a summary is never completely accurate, so just watch the damn show for what it is. It’s brilliantly deep and paradoxical, while at times completely shallow and juvenile. It is yin and yang. I don’t think they’d rightly limit themselves to something as arbitrary as a genre.

I would have to agree with some of you. I think Nicol3 hit the nail on the head. WonderShowzen was a great show but it was extremely graphic in both imagery and content at times. I loved it for that and I think it did a great job of exposing real world issues but did it in such a way that if you didn’t roll up into the fetal position and cry about how F-ed up political and social issues are then the only thing you could do is laugh hysterically. Xavier is just a bad acid trip that makes you laugh for no logical reason at all.