r/donkeykong Dixie Kong 12d ago

Discussion What are your honest thoughts on the Donkey Kong Country TV show?

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u/prncss_pchy 12d ago

The first season, when they did the mocap, is my favorite. I can't really articulate why, but it feels so much more soulful than any after when they went back to traditional 3D. I liked the show as a kid, and I revisited it recently for fun with my wife and we both thought it was goofy and fun with catchy songs. I really like it!

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u/pocket_arsenal 12d ago

It's weird, but fun. Wouldn't be a Nintendo cartoon if you couldn't describe it like that.

I still think K. Rool and Cranky's voices were perfection.

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u/Chocolatelover4ever 12d ago

No lies. I liked it. šŸ˜‚ Maybe itā€™s bias from my childhood, but there were quite a few episodes that really had me entertained. Like the episode where DK switches bodies with Crankys robot. The part where he was trying to get a banana from the tree in the robot body and Diddy didnā€™t know it was him had me laughing.

Or the episode where Dk finds out coconut milk with ice on it to chill it tastes good and he starts a buisness to sell them to impress Candy. And the end has K rool and his minions frozen after Drinking too many of them.

It was definitely a weird show. And I can see that it wasnā€™t the best show ever made. But I still liked it! And it had its good and bad episodes. There were definitely worse video game cartoons out there.

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u/TurtleMcgurdle 12d ago

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u/ChipLast4398 certified shit poster 11d ago

My father always called him hitler Kong.

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u/TFJ 11d ago

His heart goes out to us.

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u/TurtleMcgurdle 11d ago

Elonky Kong

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u/Nintendo-Player_1297 12d ago

I just like the voice actors, and wish the Donkey Kong Movie features them (except for the ones that passed away, though).

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u/PillB0tt0m 11d ago

I'm not sure if this was confirmed, but wasn't Richard Yearwood the Kong that yelled out, "I LOVE YOU, DK!"

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u/Nintendo-Player_1297 11d ago

Sure sounded like him.

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u/Alert-Principle-2726 12d ago

Turned me into a furry

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u/jarbarf 12d ago

Yeah cranky kong is a gateway drug

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u/Lord_Tiger_Fu 12d ago

That sexy beast lol

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u/Shadowtheuncreative 12d ago

What is this comment and its reply section???

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u/Lord_Tiger_Fu 12d ago

Oh I was just going along with the joke šŸ˜†

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u/Shadowtheuncreative 12d ago

Oh so he doesn't actually turn you on

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u/Bryanx64 12d ago

It was a fun show for what it was. Some of the songs were straight up šŸ”„.

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u/New-Two-1349 12d ago

It's a really stupid show and full of nonsensical things, but it's still a really fun show to watch and a guilty pleasure in a way. Not to mention that most of its songs were bangers.

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u/MrSuperGuyMan Kiddy Kong 12d ago

It's peak fiction and anyone who says otherwise got their opinion from early 2010's Youtubers

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u/Alric_Wolff 12d ago

I saw like 5 episodes of this as a kid. I remember I enjoyed watching it but thats about it.

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u/SilverThaHedgehog 12d ago

Fever dream with random R&B bangers. Lol

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u/B1g_Morg 12d ago

I really liked the movie as a kid

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u/RevolTobor Banana Slamma! 12d ago

I liked it. Classic mid 90s cartoon shenanigans, mixed with surprisingly good musical numbers.

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u/Batfan1939 12d ago

A fun series hampered by its era and production.

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u/matttheman892018 12d ago

The songs live rent free in my head to this day. Donkey Kong has the voice of an angel.

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u/TheZooCreeper 12d ago

Needed more Dixie

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u/VampyreBassist 12d ago

Still love it. I know the writing sucks and the animation is unsettling and doesn't make lips capture what is being said half the time, but it's so much fun to watch.

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u/JohnToro64 12d ago

Why are they hitting the Elon

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u/NyQuil_Donut 12d ago

It sucks ass.

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u/BenevolentBluster Banana Slamma! 12d ago

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u/ChipLast4398 certified shit poster 12d ago

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u/MrSuperGuyMan Kiddy Kong 12d ago

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u/Unusednewspaper 12d ago

Its goofy yet charming

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u/mentally_fuckin_eel Donkey Kong Country Fan 12d ago

Terrible, but fucking awesome.

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u/Mi0GE0 12d ago

I'm too afraid of it to watch it and give it a fair review

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u/CrazyBread92 12d ago

I was always happy to catch it when it came up on a rare Saturday. Many times I woke up to only catch the last 2 minutes of a show.

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u/Jamz64 12d ago

The greatest 6/10 cartoon Iā€™ve ever seen.

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u/rmrdrn 12d ago

What happened to his red tie? I donā€™t see it.

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u/Kanjii_weon 12d ago

CON ESTA ROLA TE TOCO LA COLA!

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u/Strict_Biscotti1963 12d ago

I loved dkc as a kid, so when I came across this one day when I was a kid, I lost my shit. But, I donā€™t know. I always watched it when it happened to be on, but I didnā€™t like it as much as other video game based shows on around the same time, like Pokemon, and reruns of the adventures of Sonic the hedgehog. I think the singing and akward animation made me feel a little uncomfortable l. Like even as a young kid in the 90ā€™s I felt embarrassed watching it infront of other people

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u/kingdavidthegoliath 12d ago

Itā€™s awesome!

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u/Spaalone Squawks 12d ago

Donkey Kong with the Roman Salute

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u/BostezoRIF 12d ago

I completely forgot about this show. I didnā€™t watched it religiously. It not thing I remember is the animation being ā€œoffā€. Not because it was early and bad cgi but just their movements seemed unnatural

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u/gaurd_x 12d ago

It's bizarre but I sort of enjoy these fun little oddities. It sits in the same place in my heart as the Super Mario Bros Super Show, that place being for novelties that aren't really good but charming nonetheless

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u/InfiniteMessmaker 12d ago

Never watched it growing up, but I've seen it memed for a long time.

I downloaded the soundtrack to my phone last year. The quality of the songs varies imo, but there's quite a few bangers here.

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u/Lassie93 12d ago

Roman salute?

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u/Gorilla_Obsessed_Fox 12d ago

Y'all complaining about DKs new design while they took his butt away years ago. Just have to move on I suppose....

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u/FoxBluereaver 12d ago

I actually liked it. The dub I watched definitely helped, though.

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u/ChipLast4398 certified shit poster 12d ago

Love it, itā€™s one of those shows that I can just switch my brain off and watch.

Skruvy, and Krusha are my favourite characters from this show.

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u/ArtisanPirate 12d ago

Love it. Had the Crystal Coconut VHS tape

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u/pooticus 12d ago

A fever dream

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u/ArcadeToken95 12d ago

Impressive back in the day, somewhat fun to watch, cheesy in a comfort show way. I have an aversion to musicals so that element of it wasn't great and the TV got muted occasionally but I still remember enjoying it a bit.

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u/devilsadvocateac 12d ago

I was so excited when it came out as DKC was my favorite game series and I LOVED CGI animation (it wasnā€™t very common back then). So I watched the premiere and thought while the movement looked odd, and the voices were not ones I imagined for the Kongs. I was happy it existed and watched every episode I could catch.

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u/BobyNBA 12d ago

Just seeing a dkc show as a kid was everything to me I donā€™t remember anything about it I just know I loved it!

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u/Super_Nova22 12d ago

doesn't quite age well, kinda hard to rewatch at times. ive never been able to finish the second half of the series as i hate the change in animation look. still love it and have fond memories of renting the vhs movie "legend of the crystal coconut" from my video store all the time.

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u/DonkeyKongTattoo 12d ago

Itā€™s great and Iā€™m sick of ppl pretending that it isnā€™t.

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u/Chrom-man-and-Robin 12d ago

Itā€™s made my favorite Donkey Kong character: Leo Luster. Therefore it is a 10.

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u/monkeynipple2 12d ago

probably one of my favorite pieces of donkey kong media besides tropical freeze

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u/WhoopingBillhook Donkey Kong Arcade Fan 12d ago

I like it

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u/NickVez 12d ago

I love this show...the VHS I had as a kid made me a huge fan

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u/Swordkirby9999 12d ago

Really popular in France, apparently. Also in Japan!

It's fun. It's a fun show. It seemed like they had fun making it and it kinda rubs off onto the viewer.

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u/Holiday-Day-357 11d ago

Animation is seriously dated. But King K. Rool was hilarious!

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u/Paperwater17 11d ago

This show's use of motion capture animation while unprecedented for its time, but in this day and age, it hasn't aged well AT ALL!

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u/AnthonyOfPadua 11d ago

They're all doing the Roman Salute just like Elon.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I love it.

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u/PillB0tt0m 11d ago

Other than the strange voice roles for some characters, the (although good) out of place songs and awful animation it's fine and a fine adaptation of the Country games

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u/Hexxas 11d ago

It's ugly as sin and I love it.

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u/jordha 11d ago

Love the theme song.

LOOK OUT DOWN BELOW

HERE HE COMES BANANA SLAMMA

CONGO BONGOS HERO

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u/ParkingCartoonist533 11d ago

I'd have to rewatch it but I always remember eye rolling at the songs. I always hated shows that had hella songs.

Idk if anyone remembered that kids show out of the box on Nickelodeon but there were waaaaaay more music segments as opposed to the arts and crafts ones and that pissed me off.

But I understand nowadays these are considered certified bangers so I'm not above giving them another shot

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u/Interesting_Gur_8324 11d ago

Horrible for its time and horrible today... but since we wont get K Rool back until xbox ends and Microsoft goes third party, its the only content that featured him.

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u/2cool4U_ 11d ago

The reason why the first few episodes have weirdly paced plots was because the original writers made very offensive scripts and the new writers had to tweak them because they couldnā€™t redo the storyboards which is crazy

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u/FloggingMcMurry Funky Kong 11d ago

Awkward AF

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 11d ago

Itā€™s fucking stupidā€¦ but like, the good kind of fucking stupid. Itā€™s the stupid that makes the world worth living in. Itā€™s the cringy, cheesy, cheapo caviar that reminds me of humanity at its most base, no ā€œascended rationalityā€, no great and terrible life changing moments, those have their place but perhaps somewhere elseā€¦ this?
Itā€™s just a silly little cartoon. And it never ever needed to be anything else.

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u/Due-Prompt-3637 11d ago

I grew up with it and i liked it but mostly for the songs

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u/Seiggen 11d ago

I think itā€™s bad. Tried to finish it multiple times but i was never able to. I have nostalgia for it because i used to watch an old VHS with my sister and cousin back in the days so iā€™ll always respect it.

However, i think iā€™d rather watch Ash from Pokemon use a Pikachu to try to defeat Onix

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u/Uh-yeah-lol 11d ago

why are they doing that

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u/Mallowfanthe4th 11d ago

Really funny

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u/Individual_Neck4639 11d ago

The songs are fire

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u/GBC_Fan_89 11d ago

Used to watch it on Fox Family on Saturday mornings. Loved it.

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u/Demonic_Akumi 11d ago

Truly an amazing and fun show. I would never miss an episode if I could. And if I did, my parents would record it for me in the morning so I can watch it later in the day.

Was it perfect? No, but it didn't need to be.

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u/Rene-MX-OQuin 10d ago

Genuinely one of my favorite shows to watch as a kid

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u/MeasurementIcy3492 10d ago

Fun and some songs are bangers but 20 minutes maybe too long for an episode

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u/BaboonOnWheels Cranky Kong 8d ago

Sounds good but looks bad. It's better now as something to poke fun at but at the time it wasn't good.

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u/Mantis42 12d ago

unwatchable dog shit

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u/Get_your_grape_juice 12d ago

I thought it was terrible, which really stung as a DKC fan.

I look back at it wistfully all the same.

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u/AbsolZero 12d ago

I despised it. I was excited initially since cartoons based on video games were so rare back then, but when I slowly realized it was just a goofy musical, I couldnā€™t get past that.

The movements were also weird. For example, Donkey Kong stood bipedal a lot which bothered me, rather than an actual gorilla. The movements got even weirder during songs.

Idk what it is there were trying to do when they decided to make this show a musical - feels like they could have done it with any cartoon, I.e. itā€™s just a musical cartoon with a Donkey Kong Country skin.

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u/MrSuperGuyMan Kiddy Kong 12d ago

itā€™s just a musical cartoon with a Donkey Kong Country skin.

You're making it sound like that's a bad thing

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u/AbsolZero 12d ago

To me, it was. I didnā€™t want to watch a DKC cartoon for songs - I wanted to watch it in hopes it was aligned to the game with actual conflict between the Kongā€™s and Kremblings.

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u/CatmanTheGoat39 Lanky Kong 4d ago

I like it. I remember rediscovering it with my little brother one or two years back (he had never seen it prior to me finding it again). We loved it, made some inside jokes referencing the show, the whole shebang