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Sorry to burst your bubbles, people, but I was playing pool in our common-room today as a load of people (mostly science nerds) watched today's Ongezellig, and I couldn't help noticing that it was one of the most desperately, utterly awful pieces of animation I'd ever seen. In order of direness, I think it went something along the lines of references >>> music >>> animation >>> voice acting >>> script, but the whole thing stank to high heaven. Me and my friend were having to stifle our laughter at the absolute hopelessness of it all. Everyone sounded like 1930's RP-speaking twits, schoolteachers and headmasters spoke and acted like an American stereotype of Tom Brown's Schooldays, the dialogue was bombastic without eloquence (and therefore laughable), and the whole thing just came across as a nerdy, exploitative, pointless exercise in dumbness. Best bit? When I overheard some woman speaking in ever-so portentous tones "Thursday… I'll have AIDS!"
I'm not ashamed to say I audibly cracked up at that point, as the rapt audience stared on in hushed admiration and excitement at this doubtless highly dramatic juncture.