Modern Toss (TV series)
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| Modern Toss | |
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 The title screen of Modern Toss |
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| Genre | Comedy/Animation |
| Creator(s) | Jon Link Mick Bunnage |
| Starring | Simon Roberts Fiona Terry Christopher Rowe Camilla Corbett Yvonne Tansley |
| Voices of | Ralph Brown Mackenzie Crook Anthony Davis Simon Greenhall Paul Kaye Lee Kern Doon Mackichan David Schaal Lucy Scott |
| Theme music composer | Dominic Nunns |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 (including Pilot episode) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Jane Harrison |
| Executive producer(s) | Alan Marke Jim Reid |
| Running time | 22 min. approx |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Channel 4 |
| Original run | July 11 2006 – August 15 2006 |
| Links | |
| Official website | |
Modern Toss is a partly-animated British comedy programme based on characters from Modern Toss, a profanity-ridden series of cartoon booklets. It is written by Mick Bunnage and John Link, who write for their company "*hitflap".
A second series is to be broadcast in late summer 2007 along with the release of the DVD of the first series[1].
[edit] Characters
The following recurring cartoons appear regularly in the programme:
- Gnat Burglar: a giant gnat which sucks the entire contents out of things and injects it into other things.
- Underground Wolf Gobbler: a giant semi-human monster that pops up out of the ground and eats things.
- Peace & Quiet: a man who seeks peace and quiet in his garden, but is plagued by noise from neighbours and others nearby.
- Barney: a man who periodically turns into a red Incredible Hulk-like monster at the mention of Alan Titchmarsh, and causes destruction in a mad rage, followed by embarrassment at what he has done.
- Illegal Alphabet: a large number of human-sized letters that congregate in a field to form rude words (including bizarre portmanteaus such as "pipecock"); they are then ambushed by police. These scenes end with a Radio 4-style voiceover announcing e.g. "That was Illegal Alphabet in 'illegal piss meeting' followed by 'unauthorised shitcasket'".
- Sneezeman: a little man with a huge nose who usually hurts himself and destroys property when he sneezes.
- Seawalker: this has only appeared once so far in the television series - a man with very long legs walks out of the sea onto the beach, whereupon his legs are severed by people playing frisbee.
