Les Shadoks
Overview
Les Shadoks is an animated television series created by French cartoonist Jacques Rouxel which caused a sensation in France when it was first broadcast in 1968-1974.
The Shadoks were bird-like in appearance, were characterised by ruthlessness and stupidity and inhabited a two dimensional planet.
Another set of creatures in the Shadok canon are the Gibis, who are the opposite to the Shadoks in that they are intelligent but vulnerable and also inhabit a two-dimensional planet.
Rouxel claims that the term Shadok obtains some derivation 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 with the Shadoks for policies and attitudes that they consider absurd. The Shadoks were noted 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."
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
S01E03 Episode 3
S01E04 Episode 4
S01E05 Episode 5
S01E06 Episode 6
S01E07 Episode 7
S01E08 Episode 8
S01E09 Episode 9
S01E10 Episode 10
S01E11 Episode 11
S01E12 Episode 12
S01E13 Episode 13
S01E14 Episode 14
S01E15 Episode 15
S01E16 Episode 16
S01E17 Episode 17
S01E18 Episode 18
S01E19 Episode 19
S01E20 Episode 20
S01E21 Episode 21
S01E22 Episode 22
S01E23 Episode 23
S01E24 Episode 24
S01E25 Episode 25
S01E26 Episode 26
S01E27 Episode 27
S01E28 Episode 28
S01E29 Episode 29
S01E30 Episode 30
S01E31 Episode 31
S01E32 Episode 32
S01E33 Episode 33
S01E34 Episode 34
S01E35 Episode 35
S01E36 Episode 36
S01E37 Episode 37
S01E38 Episode 38
S01E39 Episode 39
S01E40 Episode 40
S01E41 Episode 41
S01E42 Episode 42
S01E43 Episode 43
S01E44 Episode 44
S01E45 Episode 45
S01E46 Episode 46
S01E47 Episode 47
S01E48 Episode 48
S01E49 Episode 49
S01E50 Episode 50
S01E51 Episode 51
S01E52 Episode 52
Cast
Claude Piéplu
Narrator (voice)
