Sunday, April 3, 2011

Code Monkeys

I'm not going to say Code Monkeys is the greatest show ever, but the short-lived show it holds it's own as a ballsy attempt by G4 to make some original programming.


The show was created by Adam de la Peña, writer for Crank Yankers and Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as creator of Minoriteam. If you don't know what any of those are... it doesn't matter.


The show revolves around Dave and Jerry, two programmers at the video game company GameaVision in the 1980's. The cartoon is, appropriately, made of pixilated characters much like those you would see in video games of the time. All manner of crazy things happen in the company, like a visit to a nazi camp, creation of the E.T. video game, and simply searching for the best weed in the world.


As the show revolves around video games, it features an astounding amount of video game references, both old and new. Any game fan should at least watch an episode or two, just to give it a shot. It is filled with a good amount of toilet humor, but there are quite a number of witty retorts to balance it out.


BTW All the movies and shows I preview on this blog (unless explicitly stated otherwise) are available on Netflix's instant stream. I'm also not limited to netflix reviews (I plan to talk about lots of medias) but that's what I've had on the mind recently! K bye!

43 comments:

  1. Hm, I have Netflix so I'll have to check this out. Thanks!

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  2. code monkeys, i will certainly check it !

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  3. Will check it out.

    My favorite show of all time is by far scrubs (;

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  4. Sounds like a good thing to give a try

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  5. I loved that show, last game related thing on G4...why did it get cancelled ; _;

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  6. Sounds original, have to check it out soon!

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  7. That show was amazing. Sad day when it went off

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  8. I think ill take a look at that. sounds cool.

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  9. Haven't heard of this one before, but since i'm a programmer i'll definitely take a look

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  10. toilet humour + video games? yeah i think its my kind of show! haha

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  11. sounds pretty good, i'll have to check it out
    +followed

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  12. never watched it much, however i did enjoy the theme that was written by Joco

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  13. Oh mah gawd. Definitely gonna go and check this out now! :)

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  14. I never got into this show. It looked too hip for me.

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  16. i like your blog. keep up the good work

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  17. I may give this show a shot. Good Stuff.

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  18. Sounds like a cool concept, will check it out.

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  19. Thanks for sharing, it sounds cool I might check it out sometime.

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  20. interesting blog. i like to watch tv shows so i found it as a great source of new titles (; i hope that there are polish subs to this (:

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  21. Sounds fucking great, keep it up

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  22. Looking for it now.

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  23. Ever since I got Netflix, it's been nonstop watching of awesome shows. Thanks for the suggestion!

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  24. Sounds pretty dang sweet dude!

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  25. Thats look and sounds crazy but I like it , I like it much:D

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  26. Man I miss that show... too bad it went out early just like all the great short lived shows. Like arrested development, freaks and geeks etc

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  27. I need to watch an episode, used to love watching Crank Yankers!

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  28. Your work on this blog is great! keep it up!

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  29. Would like to check it out, but I don't get Netflix. :/

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  30. I loved the fact that Joco wrote the theme, good show, good stuff.

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