Inspired by a European cartoon series hardly anyone here would know. I don't know how it is I overlooked posting it before, but apparently I hadn't.
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They were inexpensively animated, but most of the music was good and sometimes the story was interesting. I was taken by Jessica the Cat for a while, particularly in a number called "Always on the Dark Side" -- in which she plays Marilyn Monroe to the hilt and drives a big pink '59 Caddy convertible.
It had a huge cast. Lou the Wolf is the one your remember -- he sung "Always on the Dark Side" as well. There were gnus, penguins, bats, an elephant who thought he was Elivis (or one of the Blues Brothers). Each song seemed to be a sort of parody of some famous song, or a style of popular music -- Gnu and Jessica did a spoof of John Lennon's "Imagine" for instance. Another identifiable spoof was of "Singing in the Rain." They used to show here on the cartoon channel at about 4 a.m. -- it was God's way of telling me to go to bed already! I have two DVDs of the complete series now -- one in English and one in the orignal French. They can only be mail-ordered on-line.
Eurotoons can be interesting, but also irritating. Most are made with no real dialog, just grunts and squeals that mean about the same thing whether in English, Hungarian, German, Portugeuse or Greek. This makes distribution easy and inexpensive... but it also robs the cartoons of a dimension. The Jungle Show as odd because it was short of dialog, but they had to re-record all the songs for each country it was shown in, so what did they save?
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