One of the most popular, and successful animations, that Netflix has ever released is for sure “Disenchantment “.
Let’s find out more about it!
- Disenchantment is an American adult fantasy animated sitcom.
- It was created by Matt Groening for Netflix.
- The series is Groening’s first production to appear exclusively on a streaming service.
- He previously created The Simpsons and Futurama for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
- Set in the medieval fantasy kingdom of Dreamland, the series follows the story of Bean, a rebellious and alcoholic princess, her naive elf companion Elfo, and her destructive “personal demon” Luci.
- Disenchantment stars the voices of Abbi Jacobson, Eric Andre, Nat Faxon, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Matt Berry, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Lucy Montgomery, and Billy West.
- The first ten episodes were released on August 17, 2018.
- The next ten were released on September 20, 2019.
- In October 2018, Netflix renewed the series for an additional 20 episodes.
- The first ten of these were released on January 15, 2021.
- One recurring background gag in Disenchantment is The Plague Patrol – a team of serfs tasked with searching the streets of Dreamland for plague-ridden corpses and delivering them to the nearest pit for safe burning. The whole concept seems to be a nod to a classic scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, where a character called The Dead Collector works a similar route job, like a medieval mailman tasked with delivering a more unpleasant cargo.
- Cursed gifts at weddings and births are a common trope in mythology and fairy tales, with the witch’s curse in Sleeping Beauty being perhaps the most famous.
- There are many similarities -random ones- with… Game of Thrones. Fir example, isually, Disenchantment‘s main protagonist, Princess Tiabeanie (aka Bean) seems to be based on Daenerys Targaryen from A Game Of Thrones, as both heroines have pure white hair and favor blue clothing.
- Unlike the other Groening cartoons, all of the human characters in this series have five fingers on their hands.
- The mythical creatures, such as Elfo, have only four, and the demon and Bean’s stepmother have three fingers.
- Matt Groening stated that he drew Elfo with sideburns so he would not be mistaken for a child.
- Elfo is based on the first character Matt Groening drew after he had established his signature character style for drawing faces.
- During the opening credits of every episode, it shows different scenes of what is to come within that episode.
- Prince Merkimer’s crown has the same symbols of Jughead Jones from Archie comics.
- Luci’s design is inspired by the minions of Hades from the animated Disney short The Goddess of Spring from 1934.
- The character Elfo shares the same red shirt and blue shorts combination as Matt Groening’s other creation, Bart Simpson.
- Additionally, Fry from Futurama wears a red jacket and blue pants.
- This is the first original animated series created by Matt Groening in twenty years.
- On January 15, 2016, it was announced that Groening is in talks with Netflix to develop a new animated series. Netflix is considering giving the series a two-season order, totalling 20 episodes.
- The box that contains Luci resembles the puzzle box (the Lament Configuration) from the Hellraiser movies.
- Disenchantment reunites Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding, who also costarred in IT Crowd.
- Noel Fielding, Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher all appear on cult UK comedy show The Mighty Boosh, which was co-written by Fielding.
- This will be the third animated series by Matt Groening, the other two being The Simpsons (1989) and Futurama (1999).
- Luci is short for Lucifer.
- This will be the first TV series by Matt Groening for a streaming services network.
Cmorty says
Wow you were really stretching to fill the 30 there ahah