Requirements violation.

[azurelunatic]

I have two major requirements for cartoon barnyard animals.

1. Chickens do not have teeth.


2. Cattle are gender-appropriate.

The character design for Otis from Back at the Barnyard makes as much sense as tits on a bull. OH WAIT.

Comments

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

And that is why I will never watch that movie nor that tv show.

[azurelunatic]

Otherwise it seemed perfectly nice; it's a pity.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I personally will allow claymation chickens in the Wallace & Gromit universe (i.e., Chicken Run) to have teeth.

Because the laws of visual comedy require that EVERYTHING in the Wallace & Gromit universe to show teeth during certain facial expressions. (If a television set or a toaster in that universe were required to have a range of emotional expression, *it* would have teeth.)

[azurelunatic]

http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/The-Biting-Pear-of-Salamanca-29677500

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I didn't realize until just now that she was the original artist.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

See, done up like THAT it's disturbing and wrong. But imagine it done in animated clay, sitting on top of a pile in a fruit bowl on W&G's breakfast table. Somehow it would make sense there, Maybe it's giving advice, maybe it's trying to eat Gromit's cheese-covered waffle whenever Wallace isn't looking--but regardless of why it had teeth, it'd make a bizarre kind of sense and would be FUNNY. :-)

[azurelunatic]

The biting pear is love!!

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! (Uh...I think....)

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

An interesting take on that whole mess.

[azurelunatic]

Oh, that is hilarious.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, it was my first thought too on seeing this. I was just lucky to run into that post while google-image searching (so that I could see the craziness first-hand) which beat me to it.

[azurelunatic]

I mean, you might as well animate a human with a prominent Adam's Apple and put a bow on her head and a dress on her and insist she is a girl.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Kind of like Man-Faye.

[azurelunatic]

Scared now.

[boredinsomniac.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who noticed the whole Otis thing. He's not a bull, he's a male cow. Okay then.

(PS I have tiny cousins)

[azurelunatic]

Now I'd like to see a girl bull.

[boredinsomniac.livejournal.com]

If the show gives us anything to go by, a girl bull would look just like a boy bull but have a higher-pitched voice.

[azurelunatic]

And maybe lipstick and a bow. With the horns. And Ken-lump.

[boredinsomniac.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she could maybe have a bow. I have a feeling the inability to design an acceptable Ken-lump is the reason that Otis is a boy cow rather than a boy bull. It still looks pretty dumb, though.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

So tonight I was watching the rest of the Tiny Gorgeous Chicken Machine Show and noticed that Unicow was in fact a male cow (sorta) with udders and all o_O Although this is just surreal/absurdist comedy [aka pure crack], so it fits. Like, the dream sequence in episode 6 plays off the udders for humor. (Also, help. Starting to slash Unicow and Cownicorn.)