“12 Oz. Mouse” [Maiellaro, 2005] Season 2 [Sep.-Dec. 2006] [TV-14/TV-MA]

This absurd, extraordinarily humorless, preeningly crudely and bizarrely animated miniature-series is supposed to have an underlying plot of some sort-- and indeed glimpses thereof are proffered in occasional cryptic lines of dialogue-- so I’d think that the idea is that the entirety of the “plot” is left to the individual viewer’s imagination. To begin on the topic of its absurdity, characters include the main one (a mouse), a pink bespectacled square, a shark, a blue, peanut-shaped police officer, and in episode “Meat Warrior”, some eye-shaped ambulatory beings (who provide one of the few soupçons of humor in the show: when one eye hits another with the butt of his gun, the victim eye says “Ow! Right in the eye.” That would have been terminated by an exclamation point, but this show’s dialogue-ic delivery is ever so doggedly deadpan in nature. The real problem here is that since the plot is obfuscated most of the time, it cannot provide the minimal amount of enjoyment that has to make up for the relative absence of dialogue-ic humor-only exacerbated by its aforementioned deadpan delivery. Upped a notch owing to the occasional incidence(s) of humor. Grade: C