The Bluffers

TV Series
1986–1987
25m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

144

YOUR RATING

Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Musical Sci-Fi

A group of animal friends inhabits the last forest in the barren land of Bluffoonia, but now Clandestino, Bluffoonia's tyrant obsessed with machinery and industry, plans to exploit their hom... Read allA group of animal friends inhabits the last forest in the barren land of Bluffoonia, but now Clandestino, Bluffoonia's tyrant obsessed with machinery and industry, plans to exploit their home as well.A group of animal friends inhabits the last forest in the barren land of Bluffoonia, but now Clandestino, Bluffoonia's tyrant obsessed with machinery and industry, plans to exploit their home as well.

Creators
- Gene Deitch
- Frank Fehmers
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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

144

YOUR RATING

Creators
- Gene Deitch
- Frank Fehmers
Stars

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3 years before the cartoon first premiered on television, there was a pilot for The Bluffers titled The Duffers. However, in the pilot, it wasn't animation. All the characters were puppets. In the pilot, the main characters weren't called Bluffers and were called Duffers. In the pilot, Zip wasn't blue. Zok was light blue. There was a character in the pilot who wasn't in the cartoon called Hairy Harry and was a gorilla. Clandestino wasn't a human and was a troll with untidy ginger hair, purple skin and big yellow eyes. Clandestino's robot butler Sillycone and his watchdog Sillycone weren't in the pilot.

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A cartoon treasure from the Eighties.

IMO, this cartoon series from the Netherlands was one of the 1980s' best.

The basic plot is about a group of animals trying to save the last remaining forest in Bluffoonia from the country's gluttonous ruler, but the individual episodes have a lot more adventure, humor, and imagination than you'd expect. The character interplay is terrific, and each 15-minute episode has two well-written (i.e., not just for babies) musical numbers. Any age can enjoy this show, and anyone can learn a few things from it without feeling like they're being lectured.

To everyone who thinks that nothing better than Care Bears came out of the '80s, and to everyone who's tired of cartoons that are either too juvenile or too "educational," I highly recommend The Bluffers.