Thugs on Film

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Thugs on Film was a Flash cartoon by Mondo Mini Shows that featured comical movie reviews.

The formst of the show featured two working-class British "thugs" named Cecil and Stubby who live in a warehouse (since they are petty criminals) and review movies. The reviews are usually laced with sexual innuendo by Stubby, a thin character who lives for stereotypical action movies. Cecil, on the other hand, is an overweight character who loves well-made movies, and horror flicks.

At the end they rated the movies on a scale of one to five "Rolexes" (actually fake ones they sold on a street corner.) Each episode ended with a short quiz about the show just seen.

In 2000, BBC America began airing the shorts between other programmes, but that practice soon ended.

Twice the show held a special parody of the Oscars called the "Tossers", in which they asked the home audience to vote on a series of awards such as "Best Evil Bastard" and "Best Teaser". At the second annual tossers, The award for "worst Movie of the Year" went to the ambitious category "Every Movie released in June, 2000 (except for Chicken Run.)" At the first ceremony Robert Downey, Jr. was also given the night's top honour of "The Peter O'Toole Lifetime Thug Achievement Award." Russell Crowe won the award the second award.

Production of the show was stopped in 2001, and is likely to have ended for good.

You can watch a few episodes at www.mondominishows.com All episodes are listed a www.ifilm.com, but any attempt to watch them is quickly thwarted. Here is a link where you can watch old episodes here: http://www.reel.com/dynamic/mondo/previous/thugs_on_film/previous.html