Drawn Together (2004–2007) User Reviews

I spent a great month with Foxxy, Wooldoor, Ling-Ling, Xandir, Captain Hero, Toot, Spanky Ham and Clara

[boris_kolarov · 8/10 · 26 November 2015]

I like animation and I really wanted to check this out. And I enjoyed Drawn Together. It was funny and surprisingly clever. It's pretty much South Park on steroids - it's more crueler and ruder. First I'm gonna list what I liked about the show.

1)I like how they've mixed different types of animation.

2)There wasn't a single episode that I hated. Sure, not all were excellent but those episodes were still entertaining to watch.

3)For the most part the characters are likable.

4)Great use of gross humor.

5)Funny plots. For example in one of the episodes Princess Clara tries to become great strip dancer, so her father could say to her that he loves her.

6)The voice acting is good.

7)The best episode of the show is A Very Special Drawn Together After School Special and it's so excellent.

8)The best character in the show for me were Foxxy, Ling-Ling and Wooldoor and Toot.

9)The humor overall is great.

10)Good references to another media like Star Wars and Grease.

There are other things I liked about Drawn Together but let's see what I didn't liked about the show.

1)Some jokes were too ''long'' - in one of the episodes almost a minute is spent watching Spanky Ham farting.

2)In some episodes Captain Hero's ego was too much for me.

3)Some moments were just too much for me.

4)I didn't liked the change in Princess Clara's personality.

5)Season 3 dropped the ball a bit. My least favourite of the 3. Still a solid season.

Overall I enjoyed my month in the Drawn Together house. The show had lots of excellent and very good episodes. The best season in my opinion was season 2. I haven't seen the movie, though I saw plenty of negative reviews from the fans of the show. Maybe the show was canceled for good, considering season 3 was the least good in the series, though, again, it was a solid season. From BAD 1 to EXCELLENT 6 I give the show VERY GOOD 5, which is, well, a very good thing about the show.

Sometimes funny sometimes utterly sickening

[falkbay · 6/10 · 15 July 2006]

It seems that everyone has run out of ideas these days. The only solution to achieving humor would be to find out where the line is drawn and then crossing it, further pushing the line forward and then crossing it again. Neither is this right thing to do nor is it intelligent. Offensive humor is simply a lazy solution. Everybody follows that formula nowadays and this is no exception.

Drawn together is sometimes witty and hilarious but there is too much explicit sodomy, incest, grotesque nudity, racism, wanton violence, gore, defecation, language and grotesque portrayals to the point that it is clear that there are no new ideas from the writers and utter shock value should attempt to make up for the lack of intelligence.

Drawn together is neither as subtle nor witty nor well executed as South Park or Family guy. It relies much more on parodying other shows rather than original writing. But some episodes do bring in good laughs and this is one of the better few shows on comedy central. However, some episodes are complete garbage that will make you puke. At the same time, both South Park and Family Guy are also guilty of the former mentioned.

Completely Funny

[cool_fuel · 8/10 · 23 October 2006]

This is a show that will make you laugh and feel guilty for doing so. Therein is the reason behind laughing to it in the first place. It holds borderline sexual and partly racist jokes. So I must caution you now if you're expecting a clean cartoon. People keep saying you can be funny and not use anything negative in your jokes but to the people who understand that sometimes you need those outrageous jokes to laugh harder will enjoy this completely. And remember because you are watching it does not entail you will be corrupted by it at all.

I've given it a 8 for a pure comedy experience with little message to water it down but I can't mark it higher due to the nature of the comedy.

HE DESERVED MORE

[gesupig · 10/10 · 4 February 2021]

This adult cartoon deserved a lot more viewers, it was my favorite show and will always be. rest in peace drawn Toghter

Very funny, not for the weak of heart

[richardscd · 22 March 2005]

If you like outrageous humor, then Drawn Together is great. It parodies such drivel as survivor and real world, exposing them for the tripe they are (I'm not bitter at all, am I). Also, the amount of references and jokes to other mediums make this a fantastic blend of humor. Sme jokes are simple and stupid, some are clever references (Toot as Jabba the Hutt!) and some are really obscure (The MC Escher room!!!) Anyway, I liked it, but it was really offensive and mean (that was the fun). If you have a giving sense of humor, you'll love it. If you're easily offended by any topic at all, from sex to abortion to race, don't watch cause it'll just aggrevate you more.

Wild!

[lambiepie-2 · 6/10 · 21 November 2004]

What an idea: A Cartoon reality show. Someone had to do it and thank goodness it was this group that did. This show is wild and funny -- but not for everybody's taste.

The cartoon characters are drawn very broadly, but look at the casting of reality shows! If that isn't cartoony, then what is? It's a stroke of genius to look at these characters and not relate them to something you've seen before, and not is quite that -- and that's the point.

Every stereotype is here and played to the hilt. there is something to offend everyone. Should we be laughing at it, or writing letters to Comedy Central asking them to take this off the air? Well, I have a warped sense of humor so I wont be writing to Comedy Central anytime soon. This is hilarious! And it does make you wonder what the heck ARE you looking at reality shows for? It's a cartoon, it's ALL a cartoon.

At least this one is brave enough to be exactly what it states.

Great Cartoon! Wish it was still on air

[michaelpapelman · 9/10 · 8 January 2020]

Drawn Together is one of the best adult cartoons out there. The plots are unpredictable, creative, and hilarious. Early on, it was a reality show parody, but after the first season, that premise takes a backseat to just generally crazy adventures. This show catches flack for touching on some mature and dark topics, but a lot of the "offensive" jokes are actually witty, clever, and placed at exactly at right time. Basically, the shock humor felt like it served a purpose. The third season has a mild decline in quality, but overall, this is a brilliant cartoon.

how not to do a "controversial series"

[diegonciopilato · 7/10 · 16 March 2021]

This series is like south park without grace, it tries to be controversial without intentions behind, without criticism, it is only vulgar for being vulgar

A brilliant comedy watched by a few

[charlotteulyatt · 10/10 · 17 February 2007]

I love this show so much and always enjoy the characters crazy shenanigans every episode. People say that it is a rip off of south park but I disagree (mostly because I cant stand south park)the voice work is excellent the animation is the best I've seen for an adult cartoon in many years and the script is witty and innovative.

However I have a feeling that many of the plots are likely to offend a lot of people. Not only are the jokes risqué some of them are in bad taste. Saying this though if you enjoy the programme you can usually come to the the conclusion that these are cartoon characters and as such behave as cartoon characters (completely insane).

A prime example of this insanity usually rests with captain hero who believed that raping xandier and his parents would somehow erase their memories and believing that a Greek family living next door was a Greek fraternity who had a goat mascot that was actually their daughter who coincidentally looked nothing like a goat!

Probably the Stupidest Crap on Television

[GB_Koolio · 1/10 · 13 October 2007]

Drawn Together. Essentially (and supposedly) the first ever reality show that ultimately spoofs all the goofy "reality" shows out there by putting an interesting twist on things, I.E. presenting the show as a cartoon, containing every possible cartoon stereotype you can think of while injecting as many pop culture references, gross-out humor, graphic violence and sexuality as possible. Sounds like the oh-so-common grand recipe for another hilarious (albeit South Park/Family Guy ripoff) animated spoof on society, right? Wrong. And I'll tell you why.

Normally, Drawn Together most likely would have easily lived up to all the hype it received prior to its official televised airing, with the previews showcasing all the typical satirical humor and content these types of shows carry, and giving the viewer a brief falsified glimpse of what was supposedly to come and creating the illusion that this show might actually be considered "humorous" especially considering the hefty amounts of shock-value Drawn Together relies on. Unfortunately, even if the previews and teasers did in fact convince a considerable audience to tune in to view the pilot episode, I seriously doubt that even half of the original viewing audience bothered to tune in to view any subsequent episodes, or even ever watch the show again period, for that matter. Why you ask? Well, for one thing, if you're reading this and asking that question legitimately, in good conscious I would have to assume that you've never actually seen the show. And if you are a fan, forgive me for my personal opinions, but in all honesty I for one simply cannot fathom how anyone would actually enjoy this show.

The main problem Drawn Together has is that despite initially having all the right tools needed for a quality satire on the current day and age, Drawn Together fails miserably to utilize these tools correctly, and instead bounces off the walls with confusing, irrelevant and inconsistent punch lines, that, although are caught quickly and easily understood by the casual viewer, don't end up actually garnering a chuckle from the viewer because these points of humor are not used at the right times during the show. It's like taking a blank, white canvas, having all these different colored paints, and then taking all the paints you have and soaking the canvas with them all at the same time and hoping to come up with a beautiful masterpiece. It simply isn't going to happen.

The reason why shows like South Park, Family Guy and even Robot Chicken have been so successful despite having a very similar approach to comedy is because the creators and writers of these shows understood that having an at least fair amount of consistency and relevance to their product were essential attributes needed to back up the humor their shows present. It's all about being able to accurately build your storyline in such a way that you are able to plug in your humor so that your product actually ends up being funny. Shock-value and randomness alone is simply not enough to make a show funny, and in turn usually just ends up making a show overwhelmingly annoying and painful to watch. The Simpsons and Futurama have not exactly lived up their own respective hypes, but even they have not imploded with miserable failure the way Drawn Together has.

Unless they are reacting to surprisingly positive ratings Drawn Together is receiving, I cannot understand why Comedy Central continues to push this awful series. Drawn Together is by far the worse thing Comedy Central has ever released, and I'm including Lil' Bush and Freak Show. All Drawn Together really is is tasteless content combined with sickening levels of shock-value and obvious but still non-funny references to pop culture and the media. This show really had a ton of potential if only it was marketed properly, but alas, not every program of this kind is destined to live up to the standards that it should.

Show for a new generation

[bjorksjoga · 10/10 · 23 April 2006]

Since Buying the DVDs of the first season I have been watching them incessantly, cracking up every time. This is a show for a generation of open minded comedy lovers who aren't offended by a racist remark (racism exists, lets not hide from it, lets make fun of how ridiculous it truly is). The same for mocking a paraplegic, or the mentally handicapped (usually trying not to look is more obvious than looking, and acting like someone is invisible is more insulting than staring at a missing leg, or a wheelchair). Taking this show's humor with a grain of salt is all that is necessary to enjoy the kinds of jokes we keep to ourselves, that way "Drawn Together" keeps in line with shows like Family Guy and South Park.

Terribe, Terrible Cartoon

[michael_the_nermal · 2/10 · 10 June 2006]

"The Simpsons" spawned a wave of inferior imitators, few of which survived. "South Park" and "Family Guy" seem to have inspired a similar interest in the prolific production of adult cartoons. TNN, FOX, The Cartoon Channel and Comedy Central seem dead set on producing a wave of adult toons, very few of which are any good. This is no renaissance of cartooning, but a saturation period of mostly mediocre toons, with a few good ones splattered about. "Drawn Together" is one of those poorly done toons from "The Family Guy" generation of imitators.

This cartoon is dreadful. None of the characters are funny, none of the situations are funny. The parodies of stock cartoon characters (the Pokemon creature, the "Sleeping Beauty" Disney princess, Superman, and the anime or fantasy epic elf) are very badly rendered. I don't like the current trend in animation, where toons are poorly animated and resemble abstract shapes rather than real people or animals. Sure, it may be cheaper, but I ain't watching. Like "Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon," this toon thinks that amped-up gross out humor equals mature adult content. This assumption is both stupid and insulting. Swill like this is the reason I do not watch Comedy Central. They had better hold on to "The Daily Show" and "South Park" while they still can, or else they risk sinking to the bottom of the cable TV ratings barrel.

not your average viewing

[nobbytatoes · 26 September 2005]

When a group a cartoon character live in a house with video cameras everywhere, you know things are going to get crazy; and crazy it does. Drawn Together is a very sharp, tongue-in-cheek, parody show that isn't for the faint of heart viewer. This is gross, disgusting comedy, and i love every minute of it. It makes fun of other shows, but puts its own spin on it. You've seen a lot of the skits and jokes from somewhere else, but it seems so fresh and new in here. The writer ain't afraid to push the envelope to. When you see the episode about Clara's cursed genitals you'll understand.

All the characters are great and they spend time on them all. Ling-ling is just crazy, Clara is so flaky, foxy so independent, Captain Hero so naive, Spanky ham is the only one above thirty, Toot is one back-stabbing bitch, Wooldoor is there for laughs, and Xander is so gay but he's always trying to save his girlfriend.

This isn't for many people, but if it tickles your fancy than you wont be disappointed. A great disgusting comedy.

Hilarious show

[elonmusk-is_a_moron · 10/10 · 14 February 2022]

This is simply one of the funniest shows ever made. Extremely hilarious for the most part (Spanky was easily the worst character, but even he had his moments)

It should have lasted longer. But every single episode was gold.

We need more animated cartoons like this, focused in making people laugh rather than giving forced morals or dealing with trendy topics.

Don't be fooled or spooked by the provocative and utterly vulgar facade. Beneath it you will find only intelligent humor adressing society's conflicts and tensions.

[valterpravnik · 9/10 · 21 May 2021]

Now I am not going to claim that Drawn Together is primarely satire/political criticism disguised as a comedy to teach people morals because it's not.

At it's core it is clearly an entertainment show intended to give you endless laughs and that's about it.

But the beauty of this show lays in the way it does this by blatantly including and addressing racial, sexual, societal and hierarchical preconceptions, stigmas and taboos in a way that exposes the very hypocrisy and pointlessness within them.

This show is literally filled with cliche filled characters which have preconcieved routines and habits and the fun starts when they get forced to abandon their way of life and enter interaction with the other characters.

Or to cut the story short - If George Carlin would have made a cartoon, this would be it.

My favourite animated comedy, not for everyone though

[LoneWolfAndCub · 10/10 · 7 October 2006]

Drawn Together is one of the funniest (if not THE funniest) parodies I have ever seen. The script is incredibly funny and witty and the characters are the funniest take-offs ever. T here is Ling-Ling, the pikachu like creature who is always ignored and taken advantage of. Princess Clara is what you get when you blend all of Disney's princesses together. Captain Hero is a take off of a few superheroes, but he is extremely weird and quite lame. Foxxy Love is the "black chick" of the house, the only smart one. Toot (a 20's sex symbol) is a Betty Boop rip-off who is way past her time and overweight. Wooldor is a demented Spongebob/Ren & Stimpy type critter. Spanky Ham is a crude, internet flash. Xandir is a homosexual Link-esquire type character.

This show parodies almost everything from games, food, movies, music and TV shows. But there is plenty of sex jokes, nudity, racism, violence, gore, sadism, etc. For the easily offended, stay far away from this show. But for those looking for a crude laugh, I strongly recommend the best cartoon out now.

5/5.

Not bad, not great

[thisismynewe-mail · 5/10 · 3 June 2006]

Drawn together is obviously inspired by cartoons like Family Guy and South Park, it blatantly rips them off every now and then and fails to be as funny as either. However, despite it's slightly annoying and repetitive humour, there are a few good laughs in every episode... even if the toilet humour sometime gets irritating. It's slightly self-degrading nature in the second series (although clichéd) is pretty funny and I like 'Ling Ling', the Pikachu parody, but all in all this isn't really as good as it could be. Give it a watch, but don't expect anything great: with all the great animation shows to have come out of America in the last decade or so this is something of a disappointment.

Revolutionary for its time

[raymenlegends · 10/10 · 31 July 2022]

Honestly I love this show. It's really up there with the greats. Now you defiantly couldn't make the kind of jokes nowadays not even south park could do that, but this is back when we could accept jokes for what they were, funny or not. If you haven't I highly recommend watching it, but it's not for kids though I will say that.

Awful with not a single redeeming quality

[chriscipollini · 1/10 · 22 September 2006]

This is a terrible show. The humor if you can call it that is disgusting, the characters, not at all likable, and it feels the need to push the envelope for no reason. The concept is that you have a bunch of animated characters from a Betty Boop spoof to a Disney princess wannabe and a zelda type character living in a house in a type of "Surreal Life" atmosphere. There's really not much in the way of plot. Just barfing, sexual jokes, and general gross out humor too lewd for Ren and Stimpy. The thing that separates this show from South Park is that SP has brilliant story lines and decent writing to fall back on. It dosen't need to rely on despicable humor and filth to be edgy and funny. This show fails in every sense of the word in my book.

Laugh Out Loud Funny - Ignore the Bad Reviews

[mikeanto · 2 December 2004]

This show is easily one of the funniest shows on television right now. Spanky Ham (Adam Carolla's character) is a friggin' riot - they all are. Even the unlikable characters (Wil-douche) are good as you know they are there for one of the other more likable characters' evil interests.

It is also, like The Simpsons, the kind of show that rewards one for paying attention. (Maybe you missed the Glory Hole, Spanky Ham's uttering of "Bukkake?, etc.)

Yeah, it's crass, vulgar, mean-spirited - but it's FUNNY! If this kind of humor isn't your cup of tea go to the Shrek board or something.

very funny and not for the shy

[cucu-ciprian · 10/10 · 18 May 2006]

This is definitely one of the best shows I've seen so far.

It makes me laugh even thinking about it. It's very ironical and in someways puts some social issues into the lives of the characters, without being too serious about it. It's also very entertaining and you never know what to expect next.

You should know that it's full of sex - related scenes or jokes and it sometimes even makes fun of religion. If you are into singing carols and holding hands with your girl / boy friend all day long, you would probably find it hard to digest.

On the other hand, if you like Southpark - it's definitely a good show for you.

Ultra-brutal but so so wonderful!!!!

[GiraffeDoor · 9/10 · 1 June 2019]

Drawn Together is..WONDERFUL!!!!!!

It's sort of what Family Guy would become in time but many years earlier.

It is BRUTAL!!! It is to modern family Guy how modern Family Guy is to the Simpsons. It is hard hitting for its own sake.

I won't say it's postmodern the way FG and Big Mouth is, it's simply very intertextual but it's so much fun. It pulls no punches, it references and parodies everything and hits you with stuff you didn't realise you found funny.

It annoys me the Simpsons won't be put out of its misery but this only had 3 seasons.

One of my favourites

[futurama-62435 · 10/10 · 19 October 2019]

I love this show so much! my favourite character is Clara

What a piece of crap

[sebabella · 2/10 · 6 October 2007]

I don't hate this show because is disgusting and crude, I mean South Park and Beavis and Butt-head are pretty amazing, but no, I hate because they forget to make jokes. The idea is good, make fun of cartoon characters, like the Disney princess, for example, and reality shows(which suck). But instead of that, they just cram in as many fart jokes as they can in an episode, wow, this makes the king of comedy crap, Family Guy, look o.k. I mean wow, talk about boring, the plots are so uninteresting. Again I don't hate this show because it makes no sense, cause I knooowww its a cartoon, but I mean its seriously unfunny. They keep going for the shock laugh or the "Oh my God! they showed that on TV??!?! i guess i hafta laugh..." But I guess I cant blame Comedy Central, its the sh*t people want to see now...

why the f*ck is comedy central planning on canceling this show

[poopdoggdeadfreak2005 · 10/10 · 31 December 2006]

honestly this show is f*King great on the same level as south park....i read where they thought it was too dirty but that's a load of bullish*t if i ever heard any my god the crap they play on there is a of the same level maybe not as obscene but still the point is that comedy central is an adult station f*ck people who think this should be canceled simply because their f*King kids happened to witness some of it it's their f*King fault for letting them see it so if comedy central wants to cancel this show then F*CK you comedy central!!!!! I swear it just figures that something this great could ever stay on the air since apparently morons in this country only prefer reality crap with no effort or cleverness put behind it it was definitely inevitable soon they'll cancel south park cause its the best d*Mn show there is these days and soon any worthy television will disperse and never exist again because every station and every frigging idiot working for these companies doesn't want to do their d*Mn jobs they simply bring in no talent losers and expect America to eat it up and here's the sad they f*king do i know i misspelled f**king but these idiots want let me cuss when i'm so d*Mn ticked off but i don't care don't cancel the show and whoever agrees please respond.