Comedy Central's new animated reality show is a toon hoot

By Kara Ogushi
Online Forty-Niner
Staff Writer

If you've been searching for a show that has familiar animated characters letting loose and acting like the cast of "The Real World" and "Girls Gone Wild" combined, then "Drawn Together" is the show for you.

Comedy Central's newest show is television's first animated reality series featuring eight cartoon characters who look suspiciously like cartoon characters that we have seen somewhere else before.

Xandir looks like a typical video game warrior blended with a little West Hollywood attitude and is constantly mentioning "his never ending quest to save his girlfriend." He pulls out a flute, plays a melody and is whisked away in a tornado to save his "girlfriend." With funny little quotes such as "The tension was so thick that you couldn't even cut it with a plus six sword," Xandir is a character that video gamers can appreciate.

The first episode is full of racial stereotypes and visual sexual innuendos that try to make up for the lack of real plot or story line. With a character like Foxxy Love, a black sexpot who looks a lot like Valerie from "Josie and the Pussycats," if she was a little more ghetto and bi-sexual, you can pretty much guess what is going to happen next.

The premiere covers everything from Clara, a Disney-like princess, and Foxxy Love making out in a hot tub (twice) to a Betty Boop imposter named Toot Braunstein cutting herself because she's fat and psychotic.

The characters prove to be just as disturbed and depraved as reality show characters. With side interviews that allow the housemates to voice their opinions, every reality show cliché is used to get laughs.

Ling Ling is a Pikachu doppelganger, with special electric powers and an attitude to match.

The other three characters are Spanky Ham, a foul-mouthed pig, Wooldoor Sockbat, a parody of SpongeBob SquarePants, and Captain Hero, a Superman-like character who's constantly groping the women of the house.

"Drawn Together" tries to appeal to the male audience while at the same time disgusting them. Although Foxxy Love is shown in tight shorts and no bra with her g-string hanging out, in contrast Toot is shown with cellulite, cuts on her legs, a mustache and her underwear is visible as well, which is a very disturbing thing.

The first episode will premiere Oct. 27 at 10:30 p.m.