Between 2008 and 2009 there was a competition organized by TV Cultura to help promote the production of cartoon series in Brazil. The contest ended in 2010 when several pilot episodes were selected to become animated series, but only two pilots were winners, Tromba Trem and this horrible show!
I really can't understand how this was approved to become an animated series and even air on children's TV channels including Cartoon Network. The show takes place on a planet (which is a gigantic gassy cow floating in space!) and is inhabited by aliens who are ticks with duck beaks (following an infamous pun that only makes sense in Portuguese). The focus of the show basically consists of ticks eating goo with the intention of getting fatter and dying to go to paradise! (Yes, you did not read it wrong) And to make matters worse when a tick dies exploding it is always heard screams from others celebrating its death.
The show has 4 main characters that are very uninteresting, Bolão for example is basically a character that only exists for fat-phobic jokes. And the humor usually consists of sadistic jokes, with dark humor and a lot of eschatological humor too (this show is more like something you'd see on Adult Swim and not during CN mornings).
I really can't understand how this was approved to become an animated series and even air on children's TV channels including Cartoon Network. The show takes place on a planet (which is a gigantic gassy cow floating in space!) and is inhabited by aliens who are ticks with duck beaks (following an infamous pun that only makes sense in Portuguese). The focus of the show basically consists of ticks eating goo with the intention of getting fatter and dying to go to paradise! (Yes, you did not read it wrong) And to make matters worse when a tick dies exploding it is always heard screams from others celebrating its death.
The show has 4 main characters that are very uninteresting, Bolão for example is basically a character that only exists for fat-phobic jokes. And the humor usually consists of sadistic jokes, with dark humor and a lot of eschatological humor too (this show is more like something you'd see on Adult Swim and not during CN mornings).
