Let's dive into Belgium! For more information of what this blog is about, please check out the tag "Introduction". I'll explain it all there. For more information about the series and to read about me going into unnecessary depth into Studio 100, please check out the tag "information".
... But before that; Yes, hi! - I apparently sometimes post here still despite my 2018 hyperfixation of Studio 100 being rather cooled off nowadays. It still comes back from time to time. I swear, when you’ve been hyperfixating on something hard enough it never truly leaves you, it just sleeps until you feed it again!
Anyways!
I remember when I watched their Sneeuwwitje musical for the first time back in 2018 and the incredible idea that got stuck with me that Thyssen’s role as Aime acted very similarly to the original Aimé. Remember?
Still with me? Good!
I was re-watching the musical this summer (or, actually, I was listening to the songs and just saw all the scenes with Aimé in them because the rest of the musical is shockingly boring - There, I said it!) and it just hit me, suddenly; The queen calls him struisvogel (ostrich) at one point to mock him:
... And as I was doing a fanart as a quick warmup one day- ;
- I realised that he is indeed covered in feathers! (Don’t ask me how I’ve missed that before, I must’ve been blinded by his expressive beautiful eyes or something-) This opened up a new revolutionary idea in my head (wow that sounded way more serious than it actually is); What if the character of Aimé is just modeled after a butler bird, similar to Zazu from the Lion King?
But!! If that is the case!
... Does that mean that Aimé - the actor - is acting in a birdlike manner in many of his roles?
One of my favourites. It’s just about Samson learning to play piano and how important is it to rehears and practice. But the music is inspired by old classical music and I just love it! There’s a catchy melody in it that I really enjoy.
After the main three NachtWacht characters, Smal was the next one I wanted to try and make a moodboard for. So much so that I decided to make it before I try doing Wilko’s.
Smal is a fantastic character. I usually really dislike the typical girly-girl characters, the ones with attitude and makeup/clothes obsession (like Rarity in MLP for example, I loathe her...) but Smal is different, somehow. I like the fact that she’s so full of herself that she literally doesn’t care who loves her and who doesn’t, as long as she keeps hearing how pretty she is, she’s happy.
I love these Kabouter characters, they’re really child friendly with extreme personalities. Like, Smal doesn’t get angry, she gets super pissed and really mad. She doesn’t get jealous, she turns almost green with jealousy. But she’s also sweet when she needs to be and knows how to use her good looks and love interests to do some good.
The first Christmas themed gifset. Well it is only six months until Christmas after all!
This isn’t their best Christmas song, but it is still filled with that warm fuzzy Christmas feeling like all of them. It’s sweet, it’s warm, it has snow and red clothes, a Christmas tree, presents.
Also that red shirt Gert wears looks comfy as hell. I want it!
I made a rant post a while back about Jabaloe, the “worst show by Studio 100″ as I called it. Is there anything good in it? Well...
There is a character called Twinkly (yes, his name is fucking Twinkly) played by Danny Houtkooper (who I’ve never heard of before) and his character trait is that he’s gay. That’s it. Not openly gay, of course, he doesn’t flirt with anyone or so (that would be a step far too much for our dear Studio 100) but just look at him. Everything, from his clothes, to his hair, to the way he acts and his personality. He’s gay.
But here’s the thing; he’s not annoyingly gay. Many gay characters when being used as a joke are so over the top. They scream, they behave like bitches or sluts, are so gay-girly and all about clothes and just god awful annoying. Also, they’re loud. Twinkly is none of this. He’s calm (probably the calmest character in the whole show), pretty quiet and grounded. He’s lovely, kind and just want to be happy and knows he looks good. I’d love to compare him to Alberto from Samson & Gert (who also is a totally-gay-but-we-never-say-he’s-gay-but-yeah-he’s-obviously-gay character) who at times is very loud and over the top. Compared to Alberto, Twinkly is SO calm and tame.
When he’s in a scene, even the laughing track feels appropriate. God this character is WAY too good for this show...
Another great thing about this show is the fact that Sven de Ridder is in it, and his character, Jack the Sheriff, is totally okay so he’s fun to watch. Sven looks like he’s really doing this for the paycheck and because for the fun of it, he’s rarely over the top and is pretty fun at times too. Also from what I know, Peter and Sven are pretty good friends IRL, so their scenes together are pretty fun and Peter isn’t as cringy or annoying when there’s only the two of them or they’re playing against each other.
Also I find it hilarious that Sven is playing the sheriff when he’s like a head shorter than anyone else in the show. That was probably their plan all along and it’s adorable.
These two are seriously the only thing I really, really enjoy about the show. I’d love to take them, drag them out of the whole cowboy-business and put them in a good show instead. The main character Joe is also okay, but he’s that bland sort of main character that is a bit TOO bland. I don’t care about him at all and the only thing I know about him (still) is that he sort of has a crush on the girl, and she sort of have a crush on him, but they never establish it or confirm it? So vague...
Twinkly is amazing though. Oh why is he in this awful show...? Scrap that, WHY IS ANY OF THESE AMAZING ACTORS IN THIS AWFUL SHOW!???
I’m not as happy with this as the Keelin one, but it’s something. I couldn’t mix the colours of the actual gif because it kept freezing and getting corrupt. One day I’ll make a pure red Vlad moodboard ~
Also I gave him a yellow eye in the board even though this one is more focused on his normal form than his vampire form. OH WELL!
Also I JUST realised they serve fucking cactus milk in this show, WHAT IS IT with this studio and milk ???? Is Jabalou actually Kabouter Plop on acid and in an alternate universe where everything is cowboys and western themed ???
It’s like LazyTown and their apples I mean good God
Let me introduce; Jabaloe. Wanna know why it’s so bad? Please keep reading:
I’ve never seen this show before and didn’t know it existed until today, and by God, I hate it. It can be the worst thing Studio 100 ever has produced... It’s not funny (and the laughing track is making everything even more unfunny), the characters are annoying and everybody is an extreme stereotype except for the sheriff and the main character Joe. Also, I’ve never been more annoyed by both Walter Baele and Peter Thyssen in my LIFE (and I LOVE Peter otherwise!!)
I saw a whole episode and I almost couldn’t stand it. Then I decided that I had to watch at least some more to get a full view of it, and I swear it became worse and worse with each episode... The very clear stereotypes are set in like five minutes and after that they’re just cringy, especially Walter and Peter, God I can’t stress that enough how much I wish they’d go away in every scene they’re in.
Walter is playing Joe’s mother, Moe Jabaloe, a woman. Harr de harr, very funny; A man in a dress with ugly makeup doing a girly voice. “Hilarious”. Yes it’s old humour that doesn’t fly today but usually I can take it with older shows or even newer shows that doesn’t know better or are doing it in a good way... But, this show was made in 2012. Fucking 2 0 1 2 ??? Add the fact that among the six characters in the show, only one of them is a female played by a female. ONE, and she’s pretty much only there to be a sex appeal give the men a woman to fight over, since she barely has any character traits of her own and often I forget she’s in a scene at all. Belgium showing their incredible uninterest for gender equality again...
Peter is playing a stupid cowboy. A hillbilly. An idiot. He’s doing it so over the top that I cringe every scene he’s in. It all makes me go “oh, dear, no, WHY did you say yes to this role...??? You can do SO MUCH better!? Who hurt you this way??”
The episodes are boring at best... And incredibly annoying at worst. They are often dumb, with no repercussions for anything. Especially since all the characters are grown up, it feels very weird. Like one episode (the first one I watched) was about the Sheriff (Sven de Ridder <3) fooling everybody that he was brave by making Peter (the idiot) pretend that he’s a thief. They of course discover how it really is (because this plot is older than buttered toast) and tricks him back by having two other characters dress up as the same thief. They tease him a bit, making him scared, then show that it’s only them and... That’s it. He says “aw you got me” and they tease him some more and it’s just ends.
It’s just so braindead... And I’ve been seeing a LOT of Studio 100 shows by now. Even Big & Betsy (which we will talk about another day) is so much more entertaining because of the lovely characters and the more interesting episodes (and also, no fucking laughing track). If Jabaloe is targeted towards older kids than Big & Betsy, then the episodes are far too dumb and the show is far too boring. If it’s targeted towards the same age as Big & Betsy, then what’s with the, at times, sexual humour?
This makes me so confused... I don’t recommend this show, at all, and this isn’t the first post I make about the show because I have so much more to talk about. There are a few positive things about the show too, it’s not the worst thing ever (just really bad). But I’ll talk more about that in the next post...
I thought she was so incredibly beautiful in this short, short clip from Ad Inferos, and it gave me inspiration to do a moodboard. I will absolutely do more in the future, both of her and the rest of the gang (as well as other Studio 100 characters) because this was so fun to do!
Technically, this isn’t a Samson & Gert song, but more of a Studio 100 generally song and music video. But I’m gonna gif this anyway so shhh!
This one is lovely. In 2016 Studio 100 celebrated 20 years as active, so of course they milked this as much as they could and made songs for this occasion.
In this particular song they’re celebrating all their biggest successes and most recent things (as well as their most active brands). This includes:
Samson & Gert (1989)
Kabouter Plop (1997)
Piet Piraat (2001)
K3 (2000′s)
Bumba (2004)
Mega Mindy (2006)
Het Huis Anubis (2006)
Maya de Bij (2008)
Amika (2008)
Wickie de Viking (2008)
ROX (2011)
Prinsessia (2014)
Ghost Rockers (2014)
Nachtwacht (2015)
Lolly Lolbroek (2015)
Flin en Flo (2015)
Heidi (2015)
In other words; Pretty much every show they made which made enough money and still was/is popular when they made this music video.
The song is ridiculously catchy. The first time I heard it I had to re-listen to it at least five times because it was stuck in my head! Also, for everyone growing up with these shows I’m sure this whole music video is a fantastic nostalgia trip (and for people like me it’s an interesting look into how many successful shows they actually have made).
The song pretty much go “we’re having a party, it’s fun, dance with us!” as well as counting all the shows present in the refrain. Sing along!
This is probably their most “childish” song. It’s great, however, if you want to learn how different animal sounds are in Flemish, because that’s all the song is. “Pigs sound like this, cats sounds like this, cows are dancing in a circle and now we clap and stamp on the ground and whistle!”
In a way it’s a very cute song, even if it’s childish and extremely pointless. It’s also often very cute when they do it live in the Christmas shows, one year had the ballet kids dressed up as different animals roaming around the stage. So cute!
This is one of their best songs. Not only because it’s so early 2000′s that I’m getting younger just listening to it (it even has that robot-voice-thingy 2 and a half minutes into the song!!) but because it’s just so catchy and happy. It makes me so full of energy!
Actually, the song is very good but what’s REALLY amazing is listening to this one live. Like the Christmas shows. Here you can hear them perform it live, and it’s just magic. Everything from the background, the live orchestra, the effects which makes it seem like Gert really is flying, the way he pronounces the words with even more power when it’s live. Yes, the song may be good recorded but when it’s live it’s just magical.
They’re basically singing about how amazing skateboards are (I told you it was early 2000′s!), and how they want to fly away since every other way of transport either is boring or dangerous. I’d argue that skateboarding in the air is a thousand times dangerous than travelling by boat, but hey that’s me.
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