Hi, fellow anime lovers! So if you have five minutes and enjoy absurdist comedy (and honestly, isn’t this true of all of us?), check out Working Buddies. Ostensibly a kids’ show, it’s grown on me as I’ve sporadically watched it with my little boy (who loves it).
I mean, who doesn’t like an existential koala spouting philosophical profundities?
Or a clever parody of The Ring, called The Mortar?
My favorite moment so far, though, has got to be when the characters try to hang up an anime poster:
At this point, I blinked and said,”Hey, a donkey, a chicken, a cat, and a dog standing on each others’ backs? That totally looks like the story of the Musicians of Bremen.”
Then this popped up:
It’s funny on the surface as a simple sight gag, and it’s even funnier if you know the subtle references. (How many Japanese actually know this story? I have no idea if they’re likely to get the reference at all.)
Working Buddies: Its alternate title could be There are worse ways to spend three minutes of your life.