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The simple geometric shapes that make up the characters (the frogs are just triangles with eyes) make animation far swifter. It is littered with pop-cultural references: Apocalypse Now, Donkey Kong and the Cure to name just three.
Indeed, affection for the song was such that a bunch of metallers even formed a band around it – recording a blistering cover version and naming themselves Slay Duggee as a result.Most people get that he’s adopted, but I’m pleased we are posing that question, even if we don’t explicitly answer it on the show,” he says. Happy sets his sights on a very questionable looking puddle that he is determined to splash in, much to the horror of Duggee and the other Squirrels - and the tiny citizens of Midgetropolis who live inside it! People have said to me: ‘It’s clearly a show written for adults that kids also enjoy,’ which is not the case.
Its songs have been played on Newsnight, fans include Orbital – and the show’s storylines ask the big questions about art and life.
Each seven-minute episode involves a bunch of animal children (a crocodile, octopus, hippo etc, all confusingly referred to as “squirrels”) spending time with Duggee, a kind of canine scout leader who heads up Squirrel Club.