The Bluffers - Things that go Bluff in the Night 1/3

[christprp]

man i miss the bluffers

[SlyDragoon16]

Thanks for uploading this episode. Its very much appreciated. Lemme know if you upload any more.

[Meanmanmartin2007]

I managed to find a Bluffers video in a charity shop the other day. It has this episode and one other.

[AidanLunn]

@Meanmanmartin2007 I think many people out there would be thankful if you uploaded the other episode :)

[Meanmanmartin2007]

@AidanLunn I'll try and do it at some point when my exams are over and I've sorted my hard drive out

[poopybooyah]

Happy Halloween Bluffers

[rachel1982able]

oh my god it really does exist!!!!

[19benhead]

I used to watch this show when I was younger.

[poopybooyah]

@19benhead you mean on vhs?

[AidanLunn]

@poopybooyah I think he/she means on TV.

It was a regular staple of Sunday mornings in Summertime on Channel 4 here in Britain. In the early 1990s.

[IIIHeffaIII]

Thank you so much for this mate! I love The Bluffers. The Swedish voices are the best though.

[MachineGun28]

I never realised how bad the lip sync is! I only ever watched the English version and don't remember it being this wrong! lol

[Cobblepot27]

I've only ever seen two episodes of this on a VHS when I was a kid, but I used to love the opening and used to wonder about the characters that appeared in the credits but not in the episodes. The English lip synch is surprisingly good for a show from the netherlands.

I don't remember there being musical numbers, but apparently they had them in every episode. It's great getting a new perspective on this.

[TobiasAmaranthh]

My boy!

[AidanLunn]

@TobiasAmaranthh Stop talking such crap.

[poopybooyah]

@TobiasAmaranthh was that a grim reapers in silhouette? at 5:54

[CarChases88]

God I used to watch this years ago. Sharpy is my favourite character.

[AndersTMNT]

I don't know why this isn't a Internet Meme yet,It's perfect for Youtube Poops.

[TServo2049]

It's Dutch, but the animation production was done in San Francisco and Seoul (with the titles animated in Nashville).

Also, the show was created by expatriate American Gene Deitch, who lived (and still lives) in Prague. The English voices were done by Deitch himself, his old friend Allen Swift in New York, series writer Richard Felgate, and if the credits are right, two Dutch people.

The English dialogue was planned and written as part of the original production, it wasn't a later dub.

[DiarrheaMusketeer]

Thanks for posting this! Brings back so many memories as a kid,

[swallowedwholeup]

Mah boi!!

[waffleapocalypse]

This is awesome! takes me back! takes me back to the early nineties! I was 12 then! thanks soooooooooooooo much for posting this !!!!

[bluebird787]

This takes me back to 1989. I was 12 years old then.

[ternb]

Best cartoon ever !!!

[AidanLunn]

Even though I liked this, accidentally found an episode on an old Betamax tape and decided to upload here, I'm afraiid I can't agree. The English version had actors who had voices that clearly didn't "suit" the look of the characters (if you know what I mean).

[KlonoaKawaiiDesu]

really? i watched part of a Bluffers episode in Swedish, and the voices sounded just like the voices from the English version. I don't get it. @.@

[AidanLunn]

well that is just my own opinion.

[KlonoaKawaiiDesu]

wow, its very interesting to see the channel 4 commercials. but how does youtube show PAL videos here in the states? cause we use NTSC here in the US. @.@ anyways, thanks for showing us a cool cartoon.

BTW, im confused. Retrojunks says that The Bluffers is German, but Wikipedia and other sites say that it's Dutch. can anyone tell me which country it was made in. if it was made in germany, was it east or west at the time?

[AidanLunn]

It's converted to digital, it doesn't matter. The original recording (on BETAMAX!) was onbviously on analogue, where PAL, NTSC etc does matter. But digital is digital, it's (apparently) all the same so the only issues are in file conversion, which can be done at the drop of a hat nowadays.

For the second issue, it's better asking Mike Jupp himself, as he animated. What confuses me is that most of the production team are American, yet this is supposedly created on mainland Europe.

[Nuuskamuikkunen77]

do you got more episode of this cool cartoon

[AidanLunn]

I do have one more episode but it's on a Betamax tape that is so damaged my machine (a Sanyo VTC5150) will only show a very jumpy b/w picture with no sound.

It's that particular tape, as it plays the 600+ other betamax tapes fine.

I;m very short on spare time at the moment, but I'm sure there'll be some other episodes of The Bluffers in that Betamax stack!

[AidanLunn]

edit: 300+ betamax tapes - typing error!!!

[AidanLunn]

Nope. That's actually taken from another video on youtube.