Jacques Rouxel
Director
Les Shadoks (1968)
N°Zo
Les Shadoks is an animated television series created by French cartoonist Jacques Rouxel which caused a sensation in France when it was first broadcast in 1968-1974. The Shadoks were bird-like in appearance, were characterised by ruthlessness and stupidity and inhabited a two dimensional planet. Another set of creatures in the Shadok canon are the Gibis, who are the opposite to the Shadoks in that they are intelligent but vulnerable and also inhabit a two-dimensional planet. Rouxel claims that the term Shadok obtains some derivation from Captain Haddock of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin and the Gibis are essentially GBs. The Shadoks were a significant literary, cultural and philosophical phenomenon in France. Even today, the French occasionally use satirical comparisons with the Shadoks for policies and attitudes that they consider absurd. The Shadoks were noted for mottos such as: ⁕"Why do it the easy way when you can do it the hard way?" ⁕"When one tries continuously, one ends up succeeding. Thus, the more one fails, the greater the chance that it will work."
Released April 29, 1968
Episode 2 min
None+
Keywords: imdb.long-time-ago, imdb.2-dimensional, imdb.bird, imdb.narrator, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.alien-language, imdb.monosyllabic + 9 more, imdb.ruthlessness, imdb.planet-earth, imdb.anthropomorphism, imdb.surrealism, imdb.stupidity, imdb.planet, imdb.cult-tv, imdb.absurd-humor, imdb.character-name-in-title
Production Companies: Canal+, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
Network: Canal+
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Canal+
2 min/ep
416 min
April 29, 1968
Feb. 18, 2001, midnight
Ended
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