paddirn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I sat through a number of episodes from the first series with my son (? Not sure, there seems to be other series now). Each episode is only a few minutes at best, usually just long enough for a single battle. It kind of reminds me of old Saturday morning cartoons like GI Joe, in that it ends up being a sort of arms race/one-upsmanship that goes on throughout the series.
The basic story is that there are these alien (?) Skibidis (the toilet-head things) that are apparently invading Earth. Earth’s only defense seems to be the appliance-people, the most numerous are the Camera-men, but there’s also Speaker-men, TV-men, and others. They’re locked in some sort of massive war with each other, though we never get a sense of how the overall war is going. The skibidis play the skibidi song (not sure the source, but it’s from somewhere, while the apiance people play Tears for Fears “Everybody wants to rule the world”.
Episodes usually revolve around some new combat unit getting revealed by one side or the other and it either overpowering or getting overpowered by something from the other side.
andyburke@fedia.io 5 months ago
well, A+ for getting kids into Tears for Fears. - Gen Xer
edit: thank you for your front-line reporting 🤣