Apparently the clip of DK escaping prision and immediately beating the shit out of Funky Kong is a super abridged parody of The Count of Monte Cristo. Now that I think about it, given the name "Donkey Kong TV" and the strange footage, I feel like a lot of these skits might be actual film parodies.
It kind of was like a lot of kids shows like dktv in france back then. These sketchs was between cartoons episodes. And during this show a lot of differents cartoons was diffused. In France during the 90’ every channel had this kind of show Where they diffused cartoon épisode and made sketch like this one between cartoons.
In regards to the zombie Kong skit, that type of crude humor wasn't off brand for Nintendo, at least at the time. For example: Wario Land 2 has Zombie Wario as a powerup, and his undead body falls apart if he falls down from too high of a height.
Hello! Frenchman here. DK TV has been enjoying a sort of resurgence because a famous French YTber has brought it back up in the past few years, so this is quite the timing for this video to release. It's got a very 90s French sense of humour, with the pastiches and the black comedy that was a lot more accepted for youth programmes back there. I didn't know the show (I was too young), but it's similar in tone to other programmes from the era. Yes, that's just how French public TV was. DKTV was broadcast on national TV, yes. I don't doubt, if I watched some of the show, I'd recognize pop culture references that have aged like milk. I guess I gotta translate that stuff now, woops (that Funky Kong joke about women at the wheel is also, somehow, a common stereotype and unfunny joke I've seen made a thousand times. that totally sounds sane and not bad at all for my country)
Interesting to know the "DK in a suit punching Funky" gif I saw floating around was an actual product and not just someone with a lot of time editing the DKC show.
The second bit Carlito talked about with Donkey Kong punching the shit out of Funky Kong is a parody of the Count of Monte Cristo! I don't remember all of the details but I read a simplified version of the story in French classes. If I remember correctly, the Count (don't know his actual name) is imprisoned for political treason, which he was falsely accused of. He then manages to break out of prison and become the Count of Monte Cristo, and get revenge on the people who wrongfully imprisoned him - which, I guess in this case was probably Funky Kong? I wish my French was good enough that I could translate these, but I can only understand bits and pieces. Maybe someday...
I'm so glad someone is finally covering this strange piece of DK Media! I've been fascinated by it ever since like last year or so, It's just so weird and interesting. I always felt bummed that it was too obscure, but now that you made this video... I see a bright future for the DKTV community going forward! Not only can we find never before seen DKTV episodes, but translations, and maybe even high quality versions of already existing footage!
This reminds me of my friend's parody of Saturday Night Live with Sonic characters. "Sonic Night Live." It's of the first five seasons. You know that "Sonic, Sonic" song you may've heard on the Web? ("It's Friday night on my new Wii") That's actually from a song from Season 2 of SNL, about Chevy Chase. It got parodied in 2008 to be about Sonic, and Danny found it and the rest is history.
Wow lots of stuff to say about all this: - DKC was really popular in France because it was one the first CG show ever there and the novelty alone made it remarkable, somewhat like ReBoot and Beast Wars for american audiences. CG puppets in general were huge in France being the hosts of several shows, maybe the most popular being Le Bigdil. Imagine having a cartoon character of the shiny post-Toy Story CG future talk to you in real time, this was jaw dropping. - For the DKTV stuff it's really in line with what all kid blocks were doing at the time: low budget improvised skits that the hosts had to pump up daily to retain attention of the viewers between the actual shows. Club Dorothee and Minikeum are the most famous there, and both of them and DKTV just aged like milk, not even in a corny way. I unironically loved that as a kid and it's the most cringe inducing thing you can play to torture me now. That was also reminiscent of the other popular method where they reused footage of the actual cartoons to do the skits with new lines by the real French voice actors (like Cartoon Cartoon and WB Kids in the US) except this time they had direct access to the mocap suit to make their own footage. I still have a lot of nostalgia for Ça Cartoon which was the Looney Tunes block and looked like Roger Rabbit for my young impressionable mind. - For the French jokes, the prison stuff is a parody of the Count of Monte-Christo but it's turned into a pun with Monte-Costaud (meaning "strong") and he just beat the crap out of the bad guy instead. The flashes show famous programs and show hosts from the same channel but I lack context. For the fake drink ad it might be a spoof of an actual commercial I'm not sure, but in the end it is another pun between Badoit and Bats-toi ("fight back") so that's why they're so aggressive. Also the Toy Story parody is literally called Knock-off Story so it is somewhat self-aware.
This is like joining a French server on Gmod with Donkey Kong assets being used for whatever TH-cam skit is being made in the process with sprinkled green screen effects added here and there. 😂 🇫🇷
DkC the show was impressive for its time since they were the first show on TV to use motion capture, a technology which would be used for movies like the polar express which looked photorealistic for its tim, so live action footage with motion capture looked fine in its time
6:46 Le droit à la parodie existe en france, donc du temps ce que tu fait est une parodie, et qu'en la voyant on voit que c'est une parodie, c'est autorisé. Et l'ayant droit ne peux rien dire. (Seulement pour la parodie.)
The 90s/early 2000s were such a weird era for Donkey Kong. At least, there is some all time classics like the DKC trilogy. The TV shows were strange to say the least
In fact, this show wasn't targeting children. The supposed audience was teenagers and young adults, kinda like MTV in the US (I think, I'm not american). Hence the weird psychedelic scenes and dark humor. It's funny to see that this thing seems obscure for people abroad, whereas in France it is one of the most famous teen shows of the 90s. The show was entirely animated by motion capture, which was almost unknown of at the time. Here's a video with some behind the scene footage : th-cam.com/video/7rcNu8rrLXg/w-d-xo.html
Yer right on the mocap part. The usage of mocap in animation goes as far back as 1994, when Sega AM2 used it to capture animation for Virtua Fighter 2, to really get the best and most realistic presentation for each character's moves. Namco started to use said technique with Soul Edge and Tekken 3 as well, by 1995 and 96, respectively. In animation for cartoons, I dunno. I know there was the poorly animated MK VHS cartoon that used badly mocapped 3D and for CG, Reboot came out in 1994, being the first fully CG cartoon to be full length and Toy Story revolutionized the form in 95. The first fully mocapped CG shows or cartoons are somn I have no memory of, but the DKC cartoon deserves a note for being one of the first of its kind
at 6:36 she says : in order to stop letting you get pushed around, drink some : ''Batoi''. And Donley kong is screaming '' ALLEZ'' wish in the context can be translated to '' GO ON !/ KEEP ON GOING / LET'S GOO! ''. Mad vid my man
Hi im french Dktv was a show on France 2. It was a show Where they diffuse cartoon and between cartoons you got these sketchs with dk. Every channel used to have this kind of show back then in france. The sketchs Where often parodies of pop cultures and fake ads
I'm not entirely unconvinced that everyone working on this show weren't on illicit substances at the time. I don't know which ones, maybe all of them, but just watching the clips alone gives me big "Everyone was fucking high as a kite" vibes! 😂
The outfit Donkey Kong is wearing throughout most of this footage looks eerily similar to what he wears in the Brentalfloss music video (you know, the one where Chunky is dead). _the French predicted what DK would wear in the future, confirmed_
I actually saw an episode of this many years ago when my family had a vacation in Paris. I thought it was so cool that france hade a DK show, so when I later found out about the DKC show I thought it looked simhilair and thought they were the same, but nope, DKTV. XD I recall the episode had a skit where Krusha was tagging along in a car ride, but they couldnt bring him out of the car fooooor reasoooons???? When they returned, the car had gotten so hot inside he was boiling red. I guess it was a jab at people leaving their dogs in the car without properly ventilating it.
It's crazy that compilation of this weird ass show I've known for awhile is now getting discovered. I certainly could translate it, I already mentally translate one of the first clip in that linked video where he deadass just say something like "i was inspired when I laid alone at night and thought about you ladies." No jokes As a French speaking guy tho,lots of them were fat phobic for some reasons.
I watched it as a child, I mostly suffered through the DK bits to get to the shows which were mostly dubbed US TV shows. I remember some of the songs as earworms and even AT the Time as a kid, I felt they were pretty Bad... But sometimes catchy.
I'd seen clips of this before, but I thought it was just a commercial to advertise the DKC cartoon or something and never looked deeper into it, so this is making me feel insane LMAO
I think someone gave it too me when I was young for like 10 bucks on VHS (god damn) and I've never understood a word, so I ended up selling it on ebay and someone got it and since then I forgot about it until today.
I was a huge fan of the DK cartoon when I was a kid and if I were born later and found DKTV on youtube it would have traumatized me. its like a fucking fever dream
You say that Nintendo was probably unaware of all this, but I think Nintendo France already existed by the time. So they definitely knew that, at least in France.
I would kinda love to see the American cast of the DKC cartoon redub some of these skits (which I guess wouldn't be impossible since the recent Return to Krocodile Isle short brought back VAs from that show).
8:20 I could imagine Funky Kong says this to Peach and other females racers in Mario Kart Wii, Maybe that's why he wasn't in Mario Kart 7, 8, and 8 Deluxe until the DLC
As an aside, I've just noticed that Carlito's PFP is of One Piece, and I've just ignored that info and blocked it out the whole time lol, since the channel focuses so much on Nintendo
Apparently the clip of DK escaping prision and immediately beating the shit out of Funky Kong is a super abridged parody of The Count of Monte Cristo. Now that I think about it, given the name "Donkey Kong TV" and the strange footage, I feel like a lot of these skits might be actual film parodies.
It kind of was like a lot of kids shows like dktv in france back then. These sketchs was between cartoons episodes. And during this show a lot of differents cartoons was diffused. In France during the 90’ every channel had this kind of show Where they diffused cartoon épisode and made sketch like this one between cartoons.
"Donkey Kong is my friend, and so are you, Carlito" - Shigeru Miyamoto, last night.
Oh geez...
"Last night"? 🤨
In regards to the zombie Kong skit, that type of crude humor wasn't off brand for Nintendo, at least at the time. For example: Wario Land 2 has Zombie Wario as a powerup, and his undead body falls apart if he falls down from too high of a height.
Wario land 2 was the same time tho
Hello! Frenchman here.
DK TV has been enjoying a sort of resurgence because a famous French YTber has brought it back up in the past few years, so this is quite the timing for this video to release.
It's got a very 90s French sense of humour, with the pastiches and the black comedy that was a lot more accepted for youth programmes back there. I didn't know the show (I was too young), but it's similar in tone to other programmes from the era. Yes, that's just how French public TV was. DKTV was broadcast on national TV, yes.
I don't doubt, if I watched some of the show, I'd recognize pop culture references that have aged like milk.
I guess I gotta translate that stuff now, woops
(that Funky Kong joke about women at the wheel is also, somehow, a common stereotype and unfunny joke I've seen made a thousand times. that totally sounds sane and not bad at all for my country)
can you translate what there are saying
Car accident statistics back Funky up, cope libs.
Woman being bad drivers is a stereotype in literally every country
I can help too I suppose lol. But I'm french-canadian, so you might just be the better fit for this.
I can too but it's 6am in france so later
How on earth have I went my whole life not knowing this existed…
Interesting to know the "DK in a suit punching Funky" gif I saw floating around was an actual product and not just someone with a lot of time editing the DKC show.
The second bit Carlito talked about with Donkey Kong punching the shit out of Funky Kong is a parody of the Count of Monte Cristo! I don't remember all of the details but I read a simplified version of the story in French classes. If I remember correctly, the Count (don't know his actual name) is imprisoned for political treason, which he was falsely accused of. He then manages to break out of prison and become the Count of Monte Cristo, and get revenge on the people who wrongfully imprisoned him - which, I guess in this case was probably Funky Kong?
I wish my French was good enough that I could translate these, but I can only understand bits and pieces. Maybe someday...
Funky Kong Funky Cucked our boy Donkey Kong.
I had a gif of DK punching Funky Kong saved on my school chromebook for years, never knowing where it was from.
No wonder K. Rool hates the kongs so much. He's probably seen how cursed this piece of Donkey Kong media is.
Conkers Bad Fur Day came out in 2001, the year this series ended. They probably knew what the DKTV team was doing.
Also the Nintendo GameCube released in the same year that DKTV ended
I'm so glad someone is finally covering this strange piece of DK Media! I've been fascinated by it ever since like last year or so, It's just so weird and interesting. I always felt bummed that it was too obscure, but now that you made this video... I see a bright future for the DKTV community going forward!
Not only can we find never before seen DKTV episodes, but translations, and maybe even high quality versions of already existing footage!
This reminds me a lot of the Koopas Kool Kartoons, but even more obscure.
(K)oopa's (K)ool (K)artoons 😳
@@LonelyGamer4 *ahem* (K)ing (K)oopas (K)ool (K)artoons
Yo ultima, small world!
I grew up with this cartoon, early 3d fascinated me and it was surreal seeing a fav vg character on TV
This reminds me of my friend's parody of Saturday Night Live with Sonic characters. "Sonic Night Live." It's of the first five seasons. You know that "Sonic, Sonic" song you may've heard on the Web? ("It's Friday night on my new Wii") That's actually from a song from Season 2 of SNL, about Chevy Chase. It got parodied in 2008 to be about Sonic, and Danny found it and the rest is history.
Yeah it also reminds me of the kkk
Wow lots of stuff to say about all this:
- DKC was really popular in France because it was one the first CG show ever there and the novelty alone made it remarkable, somewhat like ReBoot and Beast Wars for american audiences. CG puppets in general were huge in France being the hosts of several shows, maybe the most popular being Le Bigdil. Imagine having a cartoon character of the shiny post-Toy Story CG future talk to you in real time, this was jaw dropping.
- For the DKTV stuff it's really in line with what all kid blocks were doing at the time: low budget improvised skits that the hosts had to pump up daily to retain attention of the viewers between the actual shows. Club Dorothee and Minikeum are the most famous there, and both of them and DKTV just aged like milk, not even in a corny way. I unironically loved that as a kid and it's the most cringe inducing thing you can play to torture me now. That was also reminiscent of the other popular method where they reused footage of the actual cartoons to do the skits with new lines by the real French voice actors (like Cartoon Cartoon and WB Kids in the US) except this time they had direct access to the mocap suit to make their own footage. I still have a lot of nostalgia for Ça Cartoon which was the Looney Tunes block and looked like Roger Rabbit for my young impressionable mind.
- For the French jokes, the prison stuff is a parody of the Count of Monte-Christo but it's turned into a pun with Monte-Costaud (meaning "strong") and he just beat the crap out of the bad guy instead. The flashes show famous programs and show hosts from the same channel but I lack context. For the fake drink ad it might be a spoof of an actual commercial I'm not sure, but in the end it is another pun between Badoit and Bats-toi ("fight back") so that's why they're so aggressive. Also the Toy Story parody is literally called Knock-off Story so it is somewhat self-aware.
So interesting to learn about this show. I do hope that they can uncover more of this show and recover more lost media.
This is like joining a French server on Gmod with Donkey Kong assets being used for whatever TH-cam skit is being made in the process with sprinkled green screen effects added here and there. 😂 🇫🇷
The fact that i didnt know this just shows that the world is still full of secrets and wonder
With more being generated each day
5:46 I'm guessing that's a parody of The Count of Monte Cristo
Which does indeed involve the main character training in a dingy prison before escaping and seeking revenge
Now I want to learn french just to watch DKTV a certified french masterpiece
DkC the show was impressive for its time since they were the first show on TV to use motion capture, a technology which would be used for movies like the polar express which looked photorealistic for its tim, so live action footage with motion capture looked fine in its time
Except that every character was dancing like weird Al the whole time
This show has creepypasta energy
Sexist and funky kong, i never tought i would hear both words on the same sentence
Lorsque DK à dit "Salut les Kongs! Et bienvenue sur DKTV!" je l'ai ressenti.
6:46 Le droit à la parodie existe en france, donc du temps ce que tu fait est une parodie, et qu'en la voyant on voit que c'est une parodie, c'est autorisé. Et l'ayant droit ne peux rien dire. (Seulement pour la parodie.)
I always wounder where that gif of Donket Kong punching Funkey Kong came from.
Now I know it's a lawyer ad.
The 90s/early 2000s were such a weird era for Donkey Kong. At least, there is some all time classics like the DKC trilogy. The TV shows were strange to say the least
i could ask my cousins from canada who can also speak french to understand what they are there saying
Carlito & TheMentok really out here keeping the DK fans (like me) well fed while learning outsiders a thing or two bout the franchise.
Respect.
The French Kong Secrets have been unveiled
In fact, this show wasn't targeting children. The supposed audience was teenagers and young adults, kinda like MTV in the US (I think, I'm not american). Hence the weird psychedelic scenes and dark humor.
It's funny to see that this thing seems obscure for people abroad, whereas in France it is one of the most famous teen shows of the 90s.
The show was entirely animated by motion capture, which was almost unknown of at the time. Here's a video with some behind the scene footage : th-cam.com/video/7rcNu8rrLXg/w-d-xo.html
Yer right on the mocap part. The usage of mocap in animation goes as far back as 1994, when Sega AM2 used it to capture animation for Virtua Fighter 2, to really get the best and most realistic presentation for each character's moves. Namco started to use said technique with Soul Edge and Tekken 3 as well, by 1995 and 96, respectively.
In animation for cartoons, I dunno. I know there was the poorly animated MK VHS cartoon that used badly mocapped 3D and for CG, Reboot came out in 1994, being the first fully CG cartoon to be full length and Toy Story revolutionized the form in 95. The first fully mocapped CG shows or cartoons are somn I have no memory of, but the DKC cartoon deserves a note for being one of the first of its kind
at 6:36 she says : in order to stop letting you get pushed around, drink some : ''Batoi''. And Donley kong is screaming '' ALLEZ'' wish in the context can be translated to '' GO ON !/ KEEP ON GOING / LET'S GOO! ''. Mad vid my man
Hi im french
Dktv was a show on France 2. It was a show Where they diffuse cartoon and between cartoons you got these sketchs with dk. Every channel used to have this kind of show back then in france. The sketchs Where often parodies of pop cultures and fake ads
Something similar to this obscurity that I woule LOVE to see you cover is "King Koopas Kool Kartoons". Also has some lost media attached to it.
I would like to personally thank you for reminding the world that this exists
I'm not entirely unconvinced that everyone working on this show weren't on illicit substances at the time. I don't know which ones, maybe all of them, but just watching the clips alone gives me big "Everyone was fucking high as a kite" vibes! 😂
I know a guy who dubs my videos to Spanish but he can do any language. How do I send him over to you and you or someone you know can talk with him?
The youtube poops of france. Someone had the assets, and went ham with their version of SFM lmao.
I’m convinced these plots originated from dreams the writers had of the characters. I can’t imagine any other reason why the show is so damn random.
The fact that Nintendo didn't copy striked this video yet, means they have no clue about this shows existence
I'll shower you with coconut cream pies! That Donkey Kong!
This is one of my favorite videos ever
Donkey Kong punching Funky Kong lives in my head rent free
This is like the most 3:00am shit I’ve ever watched and I whole heartedly just everything for this
The outfit Donkey Kong is wearing throughout most of this footage looks eerily similar to what he wears in the Brentalfloss music video (you know, the one where Chunky is dead).
_the French predicted what DK would wear in the future, confirmed_
Aww man, carlito out with a new video. You know it's gonna be good.
Sonic Night Live owes alot to this.
As a french Donkey Kong fan, I never heard of this show before and maybe it was a good thing
I've already had a DKTV nightmare and the video has been up for 2 days.
yet another Carlito banger
I actually saw an episode of this many years ago when my family had a vacation in Paris.
I thought it was so cool that france hade a DK show, so when I later found out about the DKC show I thought it looked simhilair and thought they were the same, but nope, DKTV. XD
I recall the episode had a skit where Krusha was tagging along in a car ride, but they couldnt bring him out of the car fooooor reasoooons????
When they returned, the car had gotten so hot inside he was boiling red.
I guess it was a jab at people leaving their dogs in the car without properly ventilating it.
Of course TH-cam wouldn’t notify me of your content I was curious what happen smh
DKTV walked so Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job could run
How long have you been editing? And do you get paid for freelance?
6:07 i believe this skit is a retelling of the count of monte cristo but dk?
SMG4 needs to hear about this
And people wonder why Nintendo is so strict with it's IPs...
It's crazy that compilation of this weird ass show I've known for awhile is now getting discovered. I certainly could translate it, I already mentally translate one of the first clip in that linked video where he deadass just say something like "i was inspired when I laid alone at night and thought about you ladies." No jokes
As a French speaking guy tho,lots of them were fat phobic for some reasons.
This is one of the few times in my life that being a bilingual Canadian finally pays off lmao
I watched it as a child, I mostly suffered through the DK bits to get to the shows which were mostly dubbed US TV shows. I remember some of the songs as earworms and even AT the Time as a kid, I felt they were pretty Bad... But sometimes catchy.
funky kong would never be sexist...
5:53 ayye kouji kabuto from Mazinger Z and Grendaizer
It's not a Carlito video if it doesn't "but it get worse" at some point
I'd seen clips of this before, but I thought it was just a commercial to advertise the DKC cartoon or something and never looked deeper into it, so this is making me feel insane LMAO
This has the same energy of bad VRChat skits because of the nonsensical flow and motion capturing lmao. I love it, hope more gets found.
I knew about the cartoon but this ? Thanks man 👀
I think someone gave it too me when I was young for like 10 bucks on VHS (god damn) and I've never understood a word, so I ended up selling it on ebay and someone got it and since then I forgot about it until today.
I actually remembered watching 1 episode of DK cartoon and being excited cuz of my fave game Dk64 then leaving soo disappointed.
I was a huge fan of the DK cartoon when I was a kid and if I were born later and found DKTV on youtube it would have traumatized me. its like a fucking fever dream
You say that Nintendo was probably unaware of all this, but I think Nintendo France already existed by the time. So they definitely knew that, at least in France.
hell yea, more Carlito Kongtent
I would kinda love to see the American cast of the DKC cartoon redub some of these skits (which I guess wouldn't be impossible since the recent Return to Krocodile Isle short brought back VAs from that show).
Summoning Uncle Al
>Cursed Donkey Kong cartoon
Did you mean, the greatest experience ever bestowed onto apekind and mankind alike?
Fuck them crocodiles, tho.
man, I hope we can find more footage and get some translations, this is so bizarre but interesting.
Media lab had an obsession of playing donkey king country
Hey! thank you so much for covering this!
How does it feel being a leading authority on the subject of Donkey Kong
8:20 I could imagine Funky Kong says this to Peach and other females racers in Mario Kart Wii, Maybe that's why he wasn't in Mario Kart 7, 8, and 8 Deluxe until the DLC
AHH yes another fine addition to my mario lore collection
Some of this stuff sounds almost as out there as those Lilly Franky Satellaview magazines.
2:46-2:52 And MapPat says that Mario’s a psychopath.
the weirdest thing I've seen was the map inside the first cabin of pirate panic (DKC2)
So that’s where that gif of him punching funky is from
I'd say that someone should make a TH-cam Poop out of this show, but this show is already a TH-cam Poop.
"Dk is love
Dk is life"
- Charles darwin
you should do a donkey kong games tier list
Babe, new Carlito video dropped
More people need to see this!
such a fire and amazing video!
I even heard about a Donkey Kong Puppet Show
Babe wake up, Carlito posted a new Donkey Kong video
fragment switch is so crazy
Peak just dropped
best youtuber ever
Topping the DKC Cartoon is quite something. But if anyone could do it, why not the same Animation Team going all out >v
As an aside, I've just noticed that Carlito's PFP is of One Piece, and I've just ignored that info and blocked it out the whole time lol, since the channel focuses so much on Nintendo
if it helps, there was a One Piece game with nintendo themed costumes for the Straw Hats.
I never knew this exist and I watched the regular cartoon all the time as a kid.
DK planet Tv the only Tv I watch these days
Dktv my childhood ❤
Lore of The Weirdest Piece of Donkey Kong Media momentum 100
new carlito movie dropped
this a banger vid carlito