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<p style="text-align: center; font-size:200%; font-family: Verdana">Welcome to the Oblongs Wiki!</p>
[[File:Oblongs.jpg|thumb|300px|From left to right: Bob, Pickles, Biff and Chip, Beth, Milo.]]
 
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<p style="text-align:center;">''"I hate people from now on."'' ''- Angus Oblong''</p>
   
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Welcome to The Oblongs Wiki! We are a collaborative community website for the short-lived adult animated series that anyone, including you, can edit. Click the edit button at the top of any page to get started!
 
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<p style="text-align:center;"><b>What is the Oblongs?</b></p>
==What the series is about:==
 
   
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<p style="text-align:center;">A short-lived American cartoon series running from April to November 2001, the Oblongs focuses on the antics of a family who live in a poor valley community known as "the Valley", and, as a result of pollution and radiation exposure, are all disabled or deformed. The pollution is the direct result of the lavish lifestyle of the rich community known as "The Hills", whose residents exploit and harm the valley residents with absolutely no regard for their safety or well-being.</p>
The series takes place in the fictional town of Hill Valley. The rich people live on top of a hill, while the less successful live in the valley. Toxic waste from the Hill is dumped into the Valley, causing the residents to develop abnormalities. The family from the Valley that this series focused on is the Oblongs.
 
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<p style="text-align:center;">The characters of this show are loosely based on the creator [[Angus Oblong]]'s picture book entitled [[Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children]]. </p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><b>Noted Social Commentary</b></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Many people see the series as a commentary on social stratification. While the residents of the Hills live in undeserved wealth and economically dominate those in the Valley, there is no rallying cry for wealth redistribution or fairer working conditions. In fact, the ever-cheerful and acquiescent [[Bob]] is the one who endorses obedience of the social hierarchy to his family.</p>
 
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Revision as of 00:17, 11 July 2013

Welcome to the Oblongs Wiki!

"I hate people from now on." - Angus Oblong

What is the Oblongs?

A short-lived American cartoon series running from April to November 2001, the Oblongs focuses on the antics of a family who live in a poor valley community known as "the Valley", and, as a result of pollution and radiation exposure, are all disabled or deformed. The pollution is the direct result of the lavish lifestyle of the rich community known as "The Hills", whose residents exploit and harm the valley residents with absolutely no regard for their safety or well-being.

The characters of this show are loosely based on the creator Angus Oblong's picture book entitled Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children


Noted Social Commentary

Many people see the series as a commentary on social stratification. While the residents of the Hills live in undeserved wealth and economically dominate those in the Valley, there is no rallying cry for wealth redistribution or fairer working conditions. In fact, the ever-cheerful and acquiescent Bob is the one who endorses obedience of the social hierarchy to his family.