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Every Super Nintendo Infogrames Game - SNESdrunk
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Alternate title: SNES PAL Region Games Never Released in North America, Part 2. Thanks to Erik for the request via Patreon.
[0:32] Asterix
[1:16] Asterix & Obelix
[1:58] Adventures of Tintin Tintin in Tibet
[2:39] Adventures of Tintin Prisoners of the Sun
[3:09] Lucky Luke
[3:49] The Smurfs
[4:29] The Smurfs: Travel the World
[5:08] Spirou
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Asterix is huge in europe. I had collected all the comics as a kid and watching the movies with family when they were on TV was always an event.
das stimmt, leider waren die verdammten Spiele alle Bockschwer und teilweise richtig unfair
Retro Joe spielt Asterix 1 hahhte ich mal durchgezockt. Asterix & Obelix nie geschafft. Besonders im Koop gibts Sprünge die einfach bock schwer sind.
ich find auch das der erste teil Fairer ist. Was an A+O so mies ist, ist die Reichweite der attacken. die geht ja nur ein paar Pixel über die eigene Hitbox hinaus und da die meisten gegner 2 Treffer benötigen um zu krepieren, ist es sehr schwer nicht selbst getroffen zu werden. Das ist im ersten Asterix nicht so dramatisch aber raubt mir bei A+O schon ziemlich den Spielspass
In Brazil also! Huge! At least during the 90-2000, my family adore (me included)
Oh yeah, in Brazil is well know.
That TinTin sprite as he walks to and from the screen is damn impressive on the SNES. I went to a french school growing up in Canada, and our school libraries had all those books in french. I liked TinTin the best. Smurfs had some good stories as well.
Same here, Ontario is a lovely province imo
Same! Grew with TinTin, Garfield and Adtérix & Obélix in our school library.
I like that cartoon series adventures of Tintin❤
Man, Infogrames really nailed the look of the source material for those games based on the comics. I'm an American and am one of the few who has read Tintin, Asterix & Obelix, and Lucky Luke, and I have to say that they did a better-than-expected job of translating the comics to games based on what I'm seeing.
Asterix is absolutely massive in France and very popular in the rest of Europe. Crazy that Americans are unfamiliar with it. Also, well done pronouncing Infogrames correctly.
Ghost81 its because the gap between cultures is vast! In the US the promotion of violence is in their culture as you can see from movies and superheroes(deadpool) on the other hand you have europe with smurfs and tin tin! Imagine them in the dc universe!
I first heard of Asterix in an ad a gaming magazine back in the early 90s. Just thought it was some random game. But it's never really been promoted or pushed here in the USA, at least not during my time.
comparing a new character like Deadpool to old characters like these isn't really fair - Little Nemo is a better comparison and that wasn't violent at all
It seems like it never got a whole lot of publicity over here. Not sure why! Maybe it just never got a fair chance.
Dominance of the behemoths of capitalist entertainment. Looking at you, Disney.
Asterix is very famous yeah, so much so that it even got an awesome arcade game developed by Konami that is very similar to their Simpsons and TMNT beat'em ups. You should definitely check that out, the sprite animation was insane for the time and the game overall is very fun and well done.
Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke are probably the most iconic comics from Europe. Tintin is the one that appeals to me most. The games look interesting on this list and i like how the graphics look in them.
Get ready to get your ass handed to you by some awful gameplay then. These games do look great, but "Infogrames" and "quality game" rarely appear in the same sentence.
I'm french Canadian and my childhood was more about Asterix and Lucky Luke than Spider-Man and Batman. We had the comics, we had the movies, but we still had the same consoles as the rest of NA, so we never had those games. I would have loved an Asterix game :O
I'm one of the rare Americans who did read Astérix; I had every comic written before the death of writer René Goscinny (the illustrator continued the comic afterwards but that's an inflection point in the kinds of adventures Astérix has) and my dad and I would read them to help me learn French. I have a lot of fond memories. One thing I do have a quibble about just watching these clips is that Obélix looks like he can get hurt! Of course, it makes sense to make your platformer hero vulnerable, but in the comics, he's famously invincible due to permanent effects from a magic potion accident. I think there could be a more story-driven version of their stories where the challenge isn't winning battles, but delivering items, finding people, and dealing with Obélix's occasional bull-headedness. I assume some of the later, more acclaimed games do this.
But this SNES game does look great and all these Infogrames games seem to have an animation style that recalls classic animation styles while being fast enough and readable enough for gameplay. The Lucky Luke walk cycle in particular is so fun to look at.
Tin Tin was pretty popular in the US during this time. Had a show on Nickelodeon and a series of books that I remember. Surprised the game never came out here.
Thanks for the review, SNES drunk, greetings from Germany. :)
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Wow, these are all gorgeous! I like how clean it all is, I'm not a huge fan of some of the noisier styles with random colors everywhere. Gimme stuff like this, where it's bold and clear. The animations are really impressive too, from the clips you showed it seems they cared a lot about placing them strategically for impact. The art team did a fantastic job.
I'm glad the internet has let us ignore some of the boundaries things had in the past so we can enjoy culture and entertainment from all over the world. I discovered a couple of these comics as an adult. I like Tin Tin quite a bit. Asterix would have been more fun to me as a kid, but it has surprising depth. I should check out the others now.
The soundtrack in Asterix & Obelix is sublime. Loved the game as a kid, still have the cart^^
AGREE ^^ I play that soundtrack alot to this very day
Have you ever listened to other stuff by the same composer as well ? He made awesome tunes for GameBoy, especially Obelix which is totally different from the SNES version.
You can see Inforames put lot of love in their games and tried to represent the licenses as better as they could.
However these games are BRUTAL, only play these games if you are fan of those licenses (mostly french)
I'm so glad I found this channel. Growing up I had a SNES and my brother had a Sega. I love watching your videos and seeing all the obscure and great games for the SNES. Makes me wish I had one or a computer to play on an emulator.
"It's ok, I guess." - The Smurfs as a franchise summed up
I love the Smurfs
Great gameplay
The first boss *Xilebo* in Yoshis Island (SMW2) is a reference on Obelix.
it has a completely different name in the English version though
I really like the music in Asterix & Obelix. It caught my attention when I was checking out a whole bunch of semi-random SNES soundtracks once!
Wow, you'd never heard of Asterix!!
I'm from the USA as well, and I have not heard of it.
The first time I've heard of Asterix and Obelix was in their PC/PS1 and PC/PS2 games.
Yeah, I'm afraid Asterix is pretty obscure in the USA, even though a few of his games did come out here. I don't think I would have heard of him if I were not a retro gamer!
It was pretty popular in Canada cause of the Francophone population here but I think it was shown on PBS in the U.S. and the Simpsons referenced it once as well.
Im also 40 years old so it might be an age thing.
I only learned about it because they showed the film Asterix at the Olympic Games in my high school French class a few years back. I also discovered the Gaston comics because a few of those were in the back of the classroom.
I´m happy for us South Americans, we get the best from both Europe and the USA: Marvel and DC but also we watched Asterix & Obelix and The Adventures of Tin Tin, and also lots of Animes, so kids who grew up in the 90´s had tons of options to read, watch, play and generally enjoy ourselves
It's funny that I'm french, that I'm looking for a french video on best infogrammes games, a french studio, but the only video I found was in english. The games was not even released in USA 😂.
Anyway thank you great video 🙏
On the side note Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Spirou, The Smurfs,... all those characters are from european comic books (belgian & french). They're pretty big in Europe especially Tintin and Asterix.
Il y a la vidéo d'OldSchooIsBeautiful qui parle des bons jeux Infogrames, mais ça n'est que des jeux sortis sur micro-ordinateur donc peu accessibles.
Je recommande les versions GameBoy(Color) et GameGear des jeux présentés ici qui sont excellentes, bien moins frustrantes que les versions 16-bit et avec une OST superbe.
Hey Drunk, I've watched all of your past postings and try to keep current. I first subbed when you had 10K subscribers.. so I'm very excited to see you crack the 70K mark!
Thanks for watching Jake
Hey man I really like your videos. Keep up the good work.
Asterix & Obelix has a NTSC hack to make it play in 60fps, if you're interested in that.
Also, the GBC game simply titled "Obelix" is pretty decent, and has a fantastic soundtrack (Check Asterix NES OST too).
All hail Joe McAlby!
I swear I saw the Asterix games as a kid in Canada. I definitely read some of the comics, because my elementary school french teacher had tons of compilation books and we would read them in class all the time. Pretty sure she was a fan. Tintin, too. I think Tintin was my favourite part of French class. When I saw the cartoon on TV as a kid, I got super excited, and I'd watch it every Saturday (3PM EST on CTV in the 90s). I'd even give up playing video games to watch. It would've been cool to play a game about him as a kid. Not sure if the experience would hold up today for me, but I might give it a try anyways.
Love your videos because you show me SNES games Ive never heard of that I want to play.
I live in the US and had several Asterix and Obelix graphic novels as a kid. And most of the Tintin books as well!
Me being a Bavarian was glad to have my country mentioned in your video. But i have to correct you on that one: Asterix is actually in Switzerland. Remember, there was also the bank level. Swiss culture though ist quite similair to Bavarian culture, so no worries. And Lucky Luke and Asterix were both texted by René Goscinny. Love your videos Dude!
I loved playing through Lucky Luke in my childhood years. I also used to play Asterix and Obelix a lot as well.
I’m definitely going to have a good rest of my day now!! Thanks SNES Drunk
Both Asterix games and the Smurfs game were my childhood.
So many good memories of playing Asterix & Obelix coop with a friend.
That's really interesting, I've actually seen the characters of Asterix around a lot in my day to day life but I've never known who they were or what they were from haha!
The most bizarre thing about Spirou is that while there is a password system, there's only ONE password at about halfway through, from what I recall.
Asterix is big in Europe, not much here in North America though. I was a fan as a kid, though. I found all the Asterix & Obelix graphic novels in the children's section of my local small town library here in Canada as a kid. I'm pretty sure I was the only one who checked them out and I checked them out *so many times* - along with Tintin.
the first asterix game i played like insane when i was young, since i had no other game except the mario compilation and that went old rather quick back then ... so i really love it and the 2nd is hard as balls - thx for the recommendations
I really appreciate what you do SNES drunk. I grew up with a genesis, and I loved RPGs. I had no idea how many awesome games, let alone RPGs , were on the SNES. Anyway, thanks for everything man! Cheers!
Cheers
It's always cool to learn about games that never came out in North America!
Tintin And Asterix ar also huge on Brasil, there was even a few library and exibists, also a 50 year aniversary special feature in a about 3 states....
Great video, I remember the colecovision had a smurf game and it was fun.
Dude Asterix et Obelix are huge in Europe (originally from France) since 40 plus years ago, I think more than Tin Tin tho. Nice vid as usual.
Tintin was created in the 30s. It's REALLY old.
Good old Tin Tin! My favorite show as a young lad! It was on Nickelodeon here in the states back in the mid 90s.
Astrix and Obelisk is one of the games i kept renting.. cause my dad couldnt find it in the shops but i LOVED the game, it was very difficult but i did beat it as a kid, the music is very memorable too.
Asterisk lol
I thought it was just a video game until I took a French class in high school
Even their comics are deeper than ours--Roman occupation of Gaul???!!!!
Not only that, Asterix has a lot of albums that make some sort of socio-political commentary at some point. The best example of this (since the whole thing is focused mainly in the social political commentary) is the album called "Obelix and Co." which is about how the romans, tired of getting their ass kicked by Asterix and his neighbours, decide to introduce capitalism as a way of getting them to focus on something else (making money instead of beating the shit out of the romans). The roman in charge of introducing capitalism into the main characters town is a caricature of Jacques Chiraq, who was the french prime minister at the time.
Actually, Jacques Chirac wasn't prime minister yet at the time, only the mayor of Paris :)
That's not completely fair. Stan Lee tried address current issues in current times.
@@tximinoman That album is also a satire of France's political landscape of the time. The bad guy of this album is based on Jacques Chirac when he was young
Thanks!
Interesting that these very widespread games (at least in France) were never released in the USA.
One thing that wasn't mentioned is that most of these games were as mercilessly die and retry as they were good looking. In a large part due to the floaty controls.
Tintin was pretty popular in Canada. Used to have to watch it in French Class in Elementary School.
I’m from India, and Asterix and Tintin were a significant part of my childhood media consumption.
Im a huge fan of yours drunk... well sort of. but I love what you're doing. My PC broke a few months back and I been too lazy and busy to get it fix so I been binging my gaming habits by playing old console games on my iconia tab and your show has got me hooked. i pretty much watch you every day and even b4 bed most the time. Great work bud! keep up the good shizz
Thanks for watching
When I learned French I learned about all this Infograms stuff watching Joueur du Grenier: the French AVGN.
Another thing to add on all of these physical game carts, is that none of them will play in a RetroBit RetroDuoPortable or an NTSC SNES system with the modded Game Genie trick. All Infogrames releases are the only ones that will not play and haven’t found anywhere online mentioning this or a way around it, aside from getting a Super Famicom system, obviously
I got most of the infogrames games and I remember liking them as a kid beside never playing through one of them. But the artstyle alone drawed me in and i think thats the main appeal.
That's some high fidelity, innovative stuff.
I remember seeing the Asterix game at a rental store, always wondered what it was like.
Damn the graphics from the Tintin games
I own asterix and obelix and spirou, both games very enjoyable on snes. I'm planning to buy a snes again to play in the near future. Both have huge nostalgic vibe for me.
These are all French/Belgian comics. Asterix is French; Lucky, Luke, Smurfs and Tintin are Belgian and Spirou was designed by a French artist, but became popular under a Belgian artist. More recent examples of Franco-Belgian comics are XIII (also turned into a game), Thorgal and Blake & Mortimer (although somewhat older).
I didn’t realize Thorgal was one of those; I picked up a book of it at a used bookstore once. I guess I should have realized from the dimensions; tall and wide pages with lots of panels
dang bro. you've played all these games? ive new to your channel, already seen many of your videos and you know alot about the games you mention in videos.. i like your channel by the way. many games i never even heard of that look great.
i loved these as a kid
The first Smurfs was really hard as a young kid, but when speaking to people everyone genuinely seemed to enjoy it. The mix of platforming with puzzles was great. The second one is terrible the kinda game you get tired off, after dying randoms for the 250th time. And as mentioned in the video until today I don't understand why the sprites look that bad especially in comparison with the previous one. Even with the password system, the clunky controls were really off-putting.
It's crazy how we have our own comics in Europe. Tin Tin, Lucky Luck, Astrix are huge Europe and part of the youth of Boomers, Gen X and Millenials, Spirou is not as big, but still most people would the character. But in all fairness, not a lot of people really played those games.
Thanks a lot for the video, this was great. I was actually looking up if there was a video with Smurfs and then you popped up! It's fantastic how you really have covered such an immense library of games.
Tintin au tibet is one of if not tge hardest game I ever played.. I once bribed a mate for completing it to receive a sum of money.. he struggled alot, but eventually gave up
One earlier Infogrames game based on a Franco-Belgian comic series is "North and South", based on "Tuniques Bleues". Cinebook has published a few albums in the last ten years, but when the game was released, the original series was virtually unknown in North America (except for Quebec). I guess the American Civil War theme was general enough to work even without any prior knowledge of the original series. (Also, the game seems fairly original and well-balanced to work on its own, from what I can make out.)
Both the comics and the cartoons as well as their respective movies were HUGE in Latin America as well. Tin Tin was Indiana Jones and Uncharted before they were even planned. The comics were pretty clever as well. As a matter of a fact both Asterix & Tin Tin comics and cartoons were incredibly clever and witty, full of social commentary and stuff you didn't expect from their mediums. In Latin America we played these games in those bootleg 5-in-1 carts. Asterix' games were basically a given in any of these carts for it's small sized ROM. We played them at 60 Hz... They were freaking impossible to beat. The Lucky Luke game is legitimately good. So is the comic and media. It's hard for me to picture USA not even knowing about these comics, they were huge everywhere else in the world and they've been here for more than half a century almost.
The asterix games on the master system are all good and the arcade asterix beat em up was brilliant. I’d love to see u review that as it’s never mentioned on TH-cam. I assume it wasn’t released in America.
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments. Konami’s Asterix is well worth checking out.
The captions replaced Obelix with Ah Bullocks...which Obelix would say a lot if it was in his vocabulary. Love it.
I've never seen any of these games. In my area, I think its gotten to where you only find the same games in shops where ever you go.
That's like every game store I go in same games different place, nothing cool like these games you never see
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Yah, being adaptations of little known Belgian and french comics in USA, the distributors didn't see any viable market for NTSC versions for most of them. I don't think games like "Tintin au Tibet" ever hit the American shores. You don't miss much tbh. While the Infogrammes of the old days counted amazing graphic designers, they gave zero toss about gameplay and level-design ergonomics, making most of these licence games as frustratingly difficult as a Vietnam war mission near Hanoi. Go try Spirou for instance; I challenge you to finish it without sobbing at least once.
I'm pretty sure that's the case in all areas. But I still look anyway, because there's always that 5% chance that I'll find a good game at a reasonable price.
I loved Asterix and Obelix as a child. Unfortunately the games were just so extremely difficult. (for a child). But also the other Infogrames games were great. (but also very hard)
they are still hard as balls as an adult. Especially asterix and obelix.. never made it past level
Besonders weit habe ich es auch nicht geschafft. Konnte auch keines der Spiele durchspielen.
Even with action replay (infinite lives), i could never beat asterix & obelix -.-
Asterix and Obelix and the Tin-Tin games are both ridiculously pretty for SNES games.
Omg! Adventures of Tin-tin!
There are actually quite a few Asterix games that are surprisingly good, one of which was an arcade beat-em-up from Konami
great channel
That Asterix & Obelix music. Always lovely to hear.
Gotta say, I prefer the GB counterparts to pretty much all of these. Though there is nothing particular great about them either.
Yes, Asterix is huge Worldwide (but usa)
All of these games are well known in Europe and especially in France to be terribly difficult. It’s a nightmare of frustration. It’s so hard as an adult and very often you weren’t able to pass the first level as a kid.
I remember watching an Asterix animated movie ages and ages ago when my family got a free preview of HBO, back when Group W was the main cable provider. I found it a bit weird because it wasn't part of any Looney Toons or Hanna-Barbara cartoons we were watched back then.
Damn that first Smurfs game is pretty hard!
yeah that game gets just ridiculous after the first couple of levels.
I used to love reading Asterix comics. The ones I used to read were in large format unlike regular comics. Not sure if it was the same in other countries. The Tin Tin game looks amazing. I've always wondered how PAL games run on NTSC consoles. I read somewhere the games run too fast.
Because european "comics" (or just "albums", really) are bigger than their american counterparts. I remember reading an interview of an european comics-distributor who said it was hard to get Americans to buy their stuff because CBS couldn't fit the albums in their rack.
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Which is why manga, which are closer to mass market paperbacks in size, have absolutely swarmed us recently.
@@austinreed7343 I would also imagine being primarily in black and white (including tones) makes manga much easier/cheaper to print than the lush colors in most European comics I’ve seen
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Heck, US comics tend to vary in terms of lushness, but it’s been on the downtrend recently for example. Fumetti in particular often use real photos.
@@austinreed7343 I can't believe I forgot about the photo fumetti. I think the only one of those I've seen looked like Mortal Kombat, lol
The Smurf’s doesn’t look bad, but that bubble part oh lord..
I really miss those games from Infogrames they were the kings of european Comic Games
Oh, come on ... that's like saying "Ocean was the king of movie games." or "Acclaim was the king of WWF games." just because they grabbed the licences first, but most of the games are still bad.
Wow didn't know there was a sequel to Asterix that's coop. Just bought a copy for 6€ :3
As a kid growing up in the US I did know of Asterix & Obelix from the Sunday paper. They did have a comic strip with them in it. Not sure if that’s still current or not though...
A bit of trivia for you Drunk. With game accessories one can play PAL games on a NTSC SNES however Lucky Luke is one of the few that it won’t work. I have tried. It’s self aware. -.-
You must be the first person on earth who says the first Smurfs game is better than the second one.
The second one makes everything right that the first one failed at. It seems like they 100% listened to the critics.
I'm mostly familiar with Asterix thanks to the 1999 and 2002 movies which I watched when I was little, they were hilarious! I always knew about the comics but I just never got around to reading them... Oh yeah, there's also this massively impressive 3D platformer for the GBA starring Asterix and Obelix which I played a little bit of, the game ain't great to actually play, but it sure made my jaw drop!
The first two live-movies are the only ones worth watching. So good call! Though now, you should watch the cartoon movies ;-) (1994 and prior only)
If they're as good and funny as the first two live-action movies, then count me in!
As a kid growing up in Quebec, i had all these Books (in original french, of couse)
Interestingly, there was an Asterix game released on the Genesis in North America, Asterix and the Great Rescue. The controls were a touch loose, but it was pretty fun... And challenging
They also considered releasing the first SNES title over there.
Asterix !! I still have my copy for the SNES
Hey, I'm suprised you never heard of Asterix (& Obelix). Didn't know its Europe only. Lucky Luke indeed looks interesting and is one of the games always wanted play, but never got my hands on it. Thanks to emulation, its no problem today. :-)
Roflmao. Seriously, it seems you were surprised by how well liked these franchises are. Fun fact: Spirou/Robbedoes was also a magazine (comics and editorial) released in Belgium and France, with export to the Netherlands. I have to agree though, most of these games are pretty meh, but Asterix & Obelix is pretty fun. The first game DOESN'T really adhere to the source material. Fun fact #2: At the time, Asterix & Cleopatra was a record holder among comics in length and effort spent on it. It did parody the Elizabeth Taylor movie Cleopatra as well. Thanks though for putting up this vid. One last little note: Infogrames also made Pop-Up, one of the most basic, yet entertaining puzzle games on the GB.
If it comes off that way, it's more because I'm surprised at myself for having been sheltered enough to never have heard of some of them
Pop-Up aka Cool Ball is based on an older computer game.
There was also a Tintin/Kuifje magazine (French and Dutch versions).
Lucky Luke is definetely the best of them all. As a child I loved that game. The comics are also better than Asterix imo
We had a couple of cartoon movies of Asterix.
The graphics on these games look damn good!
That was the one thing Infogrames was very good at!
Asterix is well known in Brazil too.
Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly - given our history - both Tintin and Asterix are huge in parts of India.
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I've been to the Asterix theme park in Paris haha
Asterix is essential learning for anyone taking French in Ontario, and most likely Quebec. Used to love that shit, despite not knowing half the words. Asterix and Tintin for the win!
Wouldn't learning French in Quebec be like learning Spanish in Mexico?
Speaking of Asterix, one Game Boy game you didn't mention has an insane use of parallax scrolling. Probably one of the most visually impressive games on the Game Boy. The gameplay ain't bad, either. Not great, but good.
And it's even more impressive if you consider that the developers (New Frontier/Bit Managers) had to deal with only 128kb of cartridge memory. Isidro Gilabert was a programming genius.
Please do Nascar Games next! Especially Kyle Petty No Fear Racing!
Great video. Another game you could have included, which isn't too generic: Super Dany
That wasn't an Infogrames game
SNES drunk Yeah I realised my mistake a few seconds after posting that lol
Tintin in Tibet was the hardest game I've ever experienced. It was not good.
I know this is an old comment, but for real! Tintin in Tibet was a nightmare of difficulty as a kid, and it's an exercise in frustration as an adult. SNESDrunk calling it "okay" is so generous it's making me question all his game recommendations. Does he spam emulator savestates? Is his "okay" my "physically painful"? What the hell.
It's interesting to see someone from "overseas" giving these games some attention. Granted, I would recommend them all (except the smurfs games), but I think wie europeans are just so attached to the source material and played these games as kids, that we are kinda biased. This might sound weird, but I used to prefer these to the Disney or even Mario games.
Lucky Luke is pronounced Looky Luke. The cartoons are all great. and I particularly like the spin off cartoon Les Dalton which is about the main bad guys who Lucky Luke puts in jail at the end of each of his cartoons, showing them while they are in jail trying to escape. It gets really surreal.