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121 - Donkey Kong Country: The Animated Series
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The lads hop on Funky Kong’s biplane bound straight for Kongo Bongo as they banana slamma their way through the nightmarish musical that is Donkey Kong Country: The Animated Series. Topics include the origins of televised 3D animation, the staying power of the hit-or-miss songs, and the innate memeability of Eddie the Mean Old Yeti.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Donkey Kong Country: The Animated Series
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- #1: Bad Hair Day
- #4: Barrel, Barrel, Who’s Got the Barrel?
- #6: Raiders of the Lost Banana
- #38: It’s A Wonderful Life
- Computer Animation: A Whole New World by Rita Street. Rockport Publishers, 1998.
- Culte : La planète de Donkey Kong (1996-2001)
- “DKC: Return to Krocodile Isle”. Alex Henderson Animation. 2023.
- “Inside Nintendo’s weird attempts at making movies and TV shows” by Matt Paprocki. Polygon. June 5th, 2020.
- A Note About the Development Process of Donkey Kong the Animated Series by one of its writers
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Commercial: “A Message from the Kongo Bongo Tourism Board” feat. David Armstrong as “Bluster Kong”.