Gogs (1995– ) User Reviews

Claymation for the post-pub generation

[Billius44 · 9/10 · 15 February 2007]

Bodily fluids, slapstick violence, toilet humour and dinosaurs. Gogs was simply brilliant.

10min episodes each containing two short 5min stories, shown at odd times as fillers on BBC television in the early 90s. I never get tired of watching Gogs, and it still makes me laugh - the clay figures lend themselves wonderfully to cartoon violence and exaggerated expressions. The plot lines, such as they were, revolved around an ordinary family of cavemen dealing with ordinary issues - dinosaurs, bears, earthquakes and.... er... horrible snotty colds.

Basically, if you like Tom & Jerry - you'll love Gogs. And if you're a parent, you'll get a huge laugh out of the hideous, manipulative, vomiting, crapping baby.

Claymation from the 90s

[atomius · 7/10 · 7 July 2007]

This is a pretty funny claymation show that has aired on reruns on several occasions and is still quite amusing. It concerns the life of a group of cavemen (prehistoric people) and theyr'e day to day life. It is really quite hilarious, and entertaining. The setting is used well and the animation itself, whilst not up to the glorious heavenly standards of 3D, is not bad, in that it works, and that's all thats needed. The 'adventures' of the family involve the usual spectrum of 'cavemen' genre including meat, beasts and the weather etc. It'd be nice to see more of this and less 'princess natasha' and 'the amazing adrenalini bros'. The scenes involving the baby were especially funny.

Well Worth Watching

[cmjl-1 · 23 October 2004]

"The Gogs" are a rather dysfunctional family living in pre-historic times who spend most of their time trying to find shelter, or avoid large animals, or both.

There's Grandpa, a flatulent old geezer who thinks that any problem can be resolved with the use of his club...

There's Father, a witless man who tries to come up with good ideas to feed and clothe his family, but the plans that he develops to fulfil his ideas invariably end up with him in the bottom of the pit, or the stomach of the dinosaur.

There's Son, who spends most of his time looking dumb, blowing mucous out of his nose. And yes, it's green...

There's Daughter, the clever one of the bunch, who comes up with designs for flying machines, physics equations and other such stuff...

There's Mother, the undisputed head of the family, who brokers no crap from any family member, dispatching ne-er do wellers with a quick fist in the jaw...

and there's Baby, who spends most of his time screaming loudly, pooping, making maniacal faces during storms and draining his mother's breasts or milk faster than a good DVD shop can drain your credit card.

A brilliantly written and filmed series from Wales (the Welsh do know how to laugh), replete with humour from the characters themselves, along with nice touches like the occasional piece of newspaper blowing past in a storm.

Laugh out loud funny...not just for kids

[russellcarvell · 10/10 · 27 January 2013]

Okay, there's not a whole load of stuff i could write as spoilers, as it's just solid gags after gags, in-between a loose story. I watch Gogs every year or so, because it's just such a classic. I'm now 43 years old, by the way. The timing is excellent, expressions brilliant, scenarios stupidly funny. I've given it 10 stars, only because it doesn't go to 11! My fave characters are the mum and baby. The animation is all in clay, but it doesn't suffer for it. It actually gives it an extra dimension over today's CGI generation. Whoever wrote the scripts was a genius. Remember that there's no dialogue, it's just grunts, screams, growls and wails. Somebody, anybody, Channel 4 or whoever, please bring out another Gogs!!!!

superb comedy

[simonpcpearson · 9/10 · 22 April 2010]

there is something about good claymotion that just makes it seem even funnier than any other format..possibly including live-action.

The fact that claymotion has a physical presence gives it a reality that even the most expensive CGI lacks.

Not that there is anything sophisticated about gogs..its stupid, crude, tasteless and very, very funny.

The name gogs comes from a nickname for those in North Wales by other parts of Wales. It was chosen for the severely strange family of cavemen (or should that be cavepeople) because the Welsh believe gogs are primitive.

The Gogs in this series certainly are..especially Son who hasn't got a thought in his head and likes nothing better than to share his bodily functions with everyone else.

Hilarious..well worth seeking out

Gogs

[jboothmillard · 6/10 · 2 May 2006]

When I first saw this fantastic series, I thought it was from Nick Park and the creators of Wallace and Gromit, but it isn't. Basically it's all about a thick stone age family living their lives trying to survive and develop. The family are a near bearded Father, a stressed Mother, a bearded Grampa, a near smart young girl, an idiotic young boy, and the fantastic baby. Throughout the series they try to fly, build a swing, fight and eat dinosaurs and warthogs, avoid storms, get colds, get involved with gorillas and encounter a bear in their cave. The main reason this is a funny Claymation show is that it uses all great disgusting habits we as humans have, i.e. crapping, burping, farting, sneezing and vomiting. Good!

Its creepy and ugly

[sh-65030 · 1/10 · 30 May 2020]

I really hate this show nowadays! Because it's nothing like aardman

It's rude, it's entertaining and hey...it's clay!

[sauron-15 · 13 January 2003]

People tend to recall Walace and Grommit once asked about there favourite claymation cartoon. Although the latter has of course a unique quality of it's own it would be just unfair to simply skip "Gogs". The story's are brilliantly simple. It's the use of time and sound that make it so catchy. I will never forget the scene in witch the entire prehistoric and pre-brain family tries to drag a giant (sleeping) bear out of there house (cave). The stupid faces of the characters, the sound of the bears nails on the stone ground and the look of total bewilderment on a passing bird are hilarious. Question is, will this unbearable treatment awake the bear...? Go see for yourself!

Gogs rocks!

[Snap Dad · 18 May 1999]

The "Gogs" are a prehistoric family that interact with dinosaurs etc. on a daily basis. They are like a prehistoric 'Simpsons' only less like 'The Flintstones' and more like 'Ren and Stimpy'. Confused? Don't be. The Gogs are entertaining, and gross at the same time. The guy who continuously blows snot bubbles from his nose seems to have no other purpose, but this is what makes it fun. The clymation adds a textured feel that is sometimes missing in slick animation/computer generated programs.