This is really funny. Don’t read my notes until you’ve watched and had a good laugh.

The first episode of Puffincat got featured on the front page YouTube a couple days ago, and I became instantly obsessed with it, and everything else originating from Diet of Worms, an Irish improvisation group I’d never heard of previously, and would never have if they hadn’t made a cartoon and gained astounding visibility.

I’m a strong believer in the achievement of a desired aesthetic, and I don’t care what that aesthetic is — I always judge the success art by whether or not it has achieved its own evident goal. If the goal is not evident, or the goal is evident but not achieved, I judge art to be less successful.

The goal of Puffincat is evident and achieved. If Puffincat were any “better” it’d be worse. In fact, as the series progresses to the fourth episode, and the handling of the production becomes more honed, the product declines. It hits it’s stride at episode two, where the cheesy post-production image degradation effects are ditched, but the remaining elements are still as crude as before.

File this with Sifle & Olly, Bevis and Butthead, and other more well-known shows that succeeded by setting their sights low and running further than anyone anticipated.

I love a good cartoon, but I adore a good bad cartoon.