DumbLand

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox television DumbLand is an adult-animated web series created and voiced by director David Lynch and was commissioned by gaming and entertainment website, Shockwave.com, in 2000. After the dot-com bubble burst, the episodes were eventually released on the Internet through Lynch's website, and were released as a DVD on March 28, 2006. The total running time of all eight shorts combined is approximately a half-hour.

The series details the daily routines of a dull-witted white trash man. The man lives in a house along with his frazzled wife and squeaky-voiced child, both of whom are nameless as is the man in the shows. Lynch's website, however, identifies the male character by the name Randy and the child by the name Sparky. The wife is not named.

The style of the series is intentionally crude both in terms of presentation and content, with limited animation.

Production

Each three-minute episode took Lynch ten days to make. The soundtrack was created at his home using a computer and he drew the animation with a mouse.

List of episodes

The final episode "Ants" parodies Lynch's attempts at being a music producer in the early 1990s by featuring a singer who resembles Julee Cruise and music similar to that of long-time collaborator Angelo Badalamenti (both of whom Lynch worked with on the soundtrack to Twin Peaks as well as the concert film Industrial Symphony No. 1).

Reception

The presentation of the series on the Criterion Channel called it "the angriest cartoon in the world".

Screenings

The series was screened as part of a Lynch retrospective in Lisbon in 2007.

See also

• The Angriest Dog in the World, a comic strip by Lynch

External links

• DumbLand at The City Of Absurdity
• Dumbland-Doc by Agnieszka Jurek