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7.0TMDBLes Shadoks is an animated television series created by French cartoonist Jacques Rouxel that caused a sensation in France when it first aired from 1968 to 1974. The Shadoks were bird-like in appearance, characterized by their ruthlessness and stupidity, and inhabited a two-dimensional planet. Another set of creatures in the Shadok universe are the Gibis, who are the opposite of the Shadoks in that they are intelligent but vulnerable, also living on a two-dimensional planet. Rouxel claims that the term Shadok derives somewhat from Captain Haddock of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, and the Gibis are essentially GBs. The Shadoks were a significant literary, cultural, and philosophical phenomenon in France. Even today, the French occasionally use satirical comparisons to the Shadoks for policies and attitudes they consider absurd. The Shadoks were known for mottos such as: ⁕"Why do it the easy way when you can do it the hard way?" ⁕"When one tries continuously, one ends up succeeding. Thus, the more one fails, the greater the chance that it will work."
About the Series
- Creators
- Jacques Rouxel
