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Drawn Together: Season Three DVD Release Date: 5th January 2009

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Drawn Together: Season Three DVD Review:

All the blood, puke, and boobs you love are back for the third and final season of Drawn Together. The dirtiest, deadliest, sexiest, and funkiest Drawn Together season ever featured more animated blood, more animated vomit, and more animated nipples than ever before. Watch as Captain Hero tortures his 12-year-old self, Ling-Ling gets put into foster care, and Toot finally gets worshipped as the cow she is. It’s what happens when cartoon characters stop being real and start being animated.

From this explanatory paragraph found on the back of the DVD case, you can tell exactly what type of show you’re getting into when watching Drawn Together: Season Three. If Family Guy, American Dad, South Park, and an anonymous reality television show all got together and had an illegitimate baby (don’t ask me about the specifics), you probably still wouldn’t have an idea of how irreverent, vulgar, and satirical this show really is. It’s a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners animated show on comedy central that, love it or hate it, boldly goes where no cartoon show has gone before.

Let’s start with the colorful cast of characters. Captain Hero is an obvious riff on the Superman cartoon stereotype, Foxxy Love is a Josie and the Pussycats-esque take-no-crap lady who holds her own, Ling-Ling is an anime-inspired character who bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain lead character on Pokemon, Princess Clara is a Disney princess look alike who is a dead ringer for Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Toot is a rendering of Betty Boop as an overweight and pimple-faced character, Xandir is the spitting image of that old fan favorite Johnny Quest (except Xandir’s gay), and Wooldoor Sockbat has the same over-the-top hallucinatory appeal of Spongebob Squarepants.

It seems like a large cast of characters to contend with, and sometimes it certainly is, but it ensures that we’re never bored with what’s happening on-screen. Each of the characters is a thinly veiled parody of some other animated archetypal character, and the Drawn Together creators have a lot of fun exploiting and inverting those stereotypes. Meanwhile, each of the episodes provides a healthy dose of satirical comedy on a variety of social issues such as gun control, racial profiling, homophobia, and organized religion. Admittedly, the jokes (and episodes as a whole) are hit and miss, but you can never blame the creators for being safe. With shows like this it’s important for the creators to go all out, even if it means falling flat on their face sometimes, and Drawn Together always features some new satirical element.

As if the social commentary weren’t controversial enough, the creators also see fit to pack the show with as much gratuitous violence, nudity, and all-around vulgarity as is humanly possible. While this could very easily become overkill, for some reason on Drawn Together it kind of works. The show is disgusting and offensive in many regards, but in a strange way that’s part of its charm.

The DVD set features a couple of extras, but they’re not that hard to skip. There’s a passable Karaoke Sing-Along and some mildly entertaining old network promos. Beyond that, there are a couple of audio commentaries interspersed throughout the set, but the participants often talk about things completely unrelated to the show, making them kind of a letdown.

Drawn Together is certainly not for the faint of heart, but it has a certain charm that the right audience might enjoy. Even if you like the show though, it’s still uneven as far as quality, but at least its always trying it darndest to entertain. If the content sounds appealing to you then by all means check it out, just make sure to come prepared with a thick skin, a strong stomach, and a broad sense of humor.

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Drawn Together: Season Three DVD review written by: Anthony Berk