Offer not valid in Lemuria

[sovay]

The first weekend in May, spatch and I day-tripped to the Coney Island Film Festival in order to catch the short film debut of Steve Havelka and Nat Strange's Pokey the Penguin (1998–), which I described at the time as "a five-minute delight of shyster shenanigans including an accidentally combination cathedral and DMV and an international offer cautioned to be void in Lemuria. It loses nothing and in fact gains an inventive layer of detail in the translation to traditional animation from all-caps MS Paint, e.g. a beet instead of a carrot for the nose of a fast-talking snowman who could outbooze W. C. Fields. Steal a seat if it comes to a film festival near you." Fortunately, it is now necessary only to steal a seat on the internet: The Animated Adventures of Pokey the Penguin Presents: The Lawyers' Lawyers (2025) is freely streaming and still a delight. Guaranteed even on mythical continents.

Comments

[a_reasonable_man]

Thanks for putting me on to Pokey's "shyster shenanigans"! The cathedral/DMV bit made me laugh.

[sovay]

Thanks for putting me on to Pokey's "shyster shenanigans"! The cathedral/DMV bit made me laugh.

You're welcome! "Confession or eye exam?"

[moon_custafer]

And the character is listed in the credits as “Skeptipotamus.”

[sovay]

And the character is listed in the credits as “Skeptipotamus.”

Yup!

[asakiyume]

Cool, will show this to the ninja girl, who is currently visiting in the flesh, yay!

[sovay]

Cool, will show this to the ninja girl, who is currently visiting in the flesh, yay!

Enjoy! (Hello, ninja girl!)