Creature Comforts Complete Season 1 DVD 2003 Sumák Dumák teljes első évad / Directed by Richard "Golly" Goleszowski / Idea by Nick Park / 13 episodes

UPC 5999546330779

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 91 minutes

English Summary:

Creature Comforts is a British stop motion clay animation comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes, making it appear as if the animals were being interviewed about their living conditions. It was created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The film later became the basis of a series of television advertisements for the electricity boards in the United Kingdom, and in 2003, a television series in the same style was released. An American version of the series was also made.

In 2003, a series of Creature Comforts films directed by Richard Goleszowski was made for British television network ITV by Aardman Animations. The series has since aired as repeats on Comedy Central, usually late at night. Starting in 2005, it has also aired in Australia on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in The Netherlands on Veronica, on pay television channel US TV, and on the Internet, as well as on the Aardman Animations YouTube Channel.

A thirty-minute special in which the regular characters attempt to perform and interpret the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" was first aired on 25 December 2005.The special was broadcast in Canada on the CBC on 26 December 2005.

Humour pervades all aspects of the series, for example:

• A highly philosophical speech given by an amoeba.
• An alligator praising her neighbourhood, the sewer.
• Animals being scared of their own habitat (aquaphobic sharks and walruses, birds afraid of heights, etc.)
• Background details such as:
  • Insects swarming into a gap in the paving stones when a slug mimics a bird call.
  • Grey aliens blinking in unison.
  • A lab mouse being interviewed while another mouse with a human ear on his back walks by.

The series gently mocks the constructed performance sometimes given by members of the general public when being interviewed for television vox pops and documentaries. This includes the attempts to present a cogent but simple conclusive answer to a general question, a sound bite, and the attempts to present a cheery spin on a complex issue while the subject attempts to hide their personal issues and problems with the issue.

The series is currently repeated on Gold.

Hungarian Summary:

A sorozat megmutatja, mekkora állatkert is ez a világ. Szinte valamennyi állatfaj képviselteti magát, és alaposan megmonda a véleményét mindenről, ami persze minket, embereket foglalkoztat a legjobban.

Regular characters

The following characters are among those who make regular appearances throughout the series. These animals are always portrayed by the same interviewees to maintain consistency throughout the series.

Introduced in Series 1

• Fluffy – a cynical, cage bound hamster from Catford.
• Pickles – an optimistic Labrador who works as a guide dog for a blind man. She is often seen sitting by her owner's side, but the man's face is never shown on screen.
• Clement – an old bloodhound who talks about his past life experiences.
• Sapphire – a teenage dolphin who lives in an aquarium.
• Trixie and Captain Cuddlepuss – Trixie is a dog and Captain Cuddlepuss is a cat. They sit on a red sofa and frequently argue about trivial things. They are the most recurring regular characters in the series.
• Anthony – a mysophobic pig.
• Chappie – an old horse.
• Sue and Lorraine – two walruses who sit on an iceberg.
• Gary and Nigel – two garden slugs who mostly talk about plants and gardening. One of them is accompanied by his young daughter in one episode.
• Dave – a laid-back earthworm who lives with his mother.
• Stan and Ted – two baby birds who live in a nest.
• Sid and Nancy – two rats who live in a garden shed.
• Frank – an elderly tortoise who originally appeared in the Heat Electric television adverts.
• Dennis – a dung beetle who pushes a ball of dung while walking backwards.
• Brian – an amoeba seen through a microscope. Despite being an extremely primitive life form, Brian has a highly philosophical view on life and talks about complex science. Unlike other characters in the series, Brian is a CGI animated character.
• Muzulu and Toto – two monkeys. In the first series, Muzulu and Toto are shown as performing monkeys sitting in a cage and wearing matching pink and blue outfits, but in the second series they are shown without their outfits and living in a forest with other wild monkeys.
• Megan and Gladys – two Welsh seagulls who stand on a landfill site.
• Spanner and Trousers – two stray dogs who sit in a skip.
• The Rudges – a family of sea anemones voiced by the same family as the polar bears in the original Creature Comforts short.

EPISODES ON DISC:

Epizódok:

A cirkusz

Az állatorvosnál

Dolgozó állatok

A tenger

A kert

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