Cliché meets modern – in what could only be described as the Smurfs meets Eric Andre - Spongebob meets Jackass, this campy, retroesque series pits toxic mushrooms against non-toxics in the wars between the meadows and the caves. The show incorporates modern dialogue with an echo of 50’s sitcoms. The group power plays are only downplayed by the inner battles of ego vs. idiocy within the characters and their idiosyncrasies.
Both hip and friendless, whether in the meadows or the caves, the inhabitants of Crapville grow from the finest dung in the deepest, darkest corners of dew and manure. Squaring off in proper allegory of good vs. evil (poisonous or not), the mushrooms inhabit a space of constant conflict and inner turmoil. Perpetually navel gazing, the good mushrooms spend their days reveling in 1st world quandaries of “what sucks and what doesn’t”. Meanwhile the evil “Toxics” lurk in dark caves and plot the inevitable overthrow of the entitled “non-toxics”.
Each mushroom takes on the name and personality of the species and origin of each type. Dialogue and parody of modern and retro pop-culture abound in each episode. The irreverent pace is dedicated to ‘tearing down the building blocks of decent and polite society.”
Paradigms are flipped to make light of existing cliches, while modern tropes litter the narratives. Examples: Large characters have high-pitched voices and vice versa. Toxics speak in a retro, ‘upper echelon’ vernacular, while the meadow dwellers quip with modern and more, hip lingo.