Modern Toss (TV series)
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| Modern Toss | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy Animation |
| Created by | Jon Link Mick Bunnage |
| Starring | Simon Roberts Fiona Terry Christopher Rowe Camilla Corbett Yvonne Tansley |
| Voices of | Ralph Brown Mackenzie Crook Anthony Davis Simon Greenhall Paul Kaye Lee Kern Doon Mackichan David Schaal Lucy Scott |
| Theme music composer | Dominic Nunns |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (including pilot episode) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Alan Marke Jim Reid |
| Producer(s) | Jane Harrison |
| Running time | 22 min. approx |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | = IFC |
| Original airing | July 11, 2006 |
| External links | |
| = http://www.ifc.com/moderntoss Website] | |
Modern Toss is a partly animated British comedy programme based on characters from Modern Toss, a profanity-ridden series of cartoon booklets. It is written by Mick Bunnage and Jon Link, who write for their company *hitflap.
Following the DVD release of the first series in November 2007, a second series began on 23 January 2008.
The show is currently being aired on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) in the United States and on 4Music in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Characters
The following recurring cartoons appear regularly in the programme:
- Alan: the figurehead of Modern Toss, Alan is a cartoon scrawl who repeatedly sabotages his middle-class friends' get-togethers, resulting in his fleeing, pursued by "Roger", shouting, "Come back, Alan, you wanker!"
- Accident & Emergency/Citizens Advice/Customer Services: members of the public ask a patient woman at a help-desk bizarre and often ridiculous questions. Contains the recurring theme of an angry Texan yelling into the phone, complaining profanely about a recently purchased cheeseburger, and who appears in every segment, regardless of the topic.
- Barney: a man who periodically turns into a red Incredible Hulk-like monster at the mention of Alan Titchmarsh, and causes destruction in a mad rage, followed by embarrassment at what he has done.
- Drive-By Abuser: a blunt moped-rider who "considers" various things before hurling profane abuse at them.
- Cheese and Wine: a person at a party asks someone a question, and the other replies in a coarse and aggressive manner.
- Fly Talk: a pair of flies discuss goings-on, often involving being trapped in a celebrity's car/house/hat and witnessing unexpected behaviour (such as David Attenborough urinating on his open fire).
- Gnat Burglar: a giant gnat which sucks the entire contents out of things and injects it into other things.
- I Live 'Ere: a West Country farmer recounts his violent assaults on trespassing (English) members of the public.
- Illegal Alphabet: a large number of human-sized letters that congregate in a field to form rude words (including odd portmanteaus such as "pipecock"); they are then ambushed by truncheon-wielding police. These scenes end with a Radio 4-style voiceover announcement, for example: "That was Illegal Alphabet in 'illegal piss meeting' followed by 'unauthorised shitcasket'".
- Mr Tourette - Master Signwriter: a gruff Frenchman who creates inappropriate signs (more often than not, with a sexual leaning) for bewildered customers.
- Peace & Quiet: a man who seeks peace and quiet in his garden, but is plagued by noise from neighbours and others nearby.
- Planet Chat: a Jerry Springer-style talk show in which the Moon and several other celestial bodies argue, usually turning on the Earth in the end.
- Prince Edward, Royal Entrepreneur: rarely seen in the programme, Prince Edward tries to profit from (often tasteless) Royalty-related merchandise.
- Seawalker: another infrequent feature of series - a man with very long legs walks out of the sea onto the beach, whereupon a leg is severed by people playing frisbee.
- Sneezeman: a little man with a huge nose who experiences uncontrollable sneezing fits, usually injuring himself and causing extensive damage to property.
- Space Argument: two inept astronauts who disagree while carrying out routine space-related tasks.
- Underground Wolf Gobbler: a giant semi-human monster that pops up out of the ground and eats things, i.e. trains or oncoming traffic.
- Work: an unenthusiastic employee expresses his unwillingness to come in, or do any work.
The theme music is Brindisi (by Verdi) from La Traviata.
[edit] Broadcast history
- UK
- Channel 4 (2006, 2008)
- Adult Swim on Bravo (2007)
- Paramount Comedy 2 (2008-)
- 4Music (2010)
- Australia
- ABC2 (2008, 2009, 2010)
- Russia
- 2x2 (2008)
- USA
- IFC (2009)
- Finland
- SubTV (2010)
- Mexico
Once TV (2010)
