chatuchuk Review of Oggy and the Cockroaches

Oggy and the Cockroaches (1997–2018)

Absolutely brilliant cartoons. I wish there were more.

[10/10 · 28 August 2006]

Anyone who does not like this show must have the sense of humour of a cockroach. These cartoons are brilliant. Thanks to three positively satanic cockroaches, life is anything but simple for Oggy and his red-neck cousin Jack. In a house with endless rooms, corridors and staircases which go on and on, chaos abounds in full speed chase scenes as Oggy rushes after the cockroaches. Skates are trod on and Oggy falls down hundreds of stairs, bazooka missiles are fired, huge weights are dropped and dynamite explodes. Plots have Oggy changed into a cockroach, sent into the internet, a new Ice Age occurs when a fridge door is left open and ends when it is casually shut again, a super-bouncy material ends up bouncing their house to the Moon, a new insecticide instead of killing cockroaches makes endless copies of them, and so on. The show is packed with a helter-skelter of gags around these five likable characters who, like Tom and Jerry, are given real depth. Five volumes, each containing twelve episodes each came out on DVD in 2003 (in English).