Though a bit polished compared to the game, this is still an awe-inspiring show, mixing old techniques with new technology and offering animation-craft fans plenty of eye candy and references to rival an MCU film. Of course, the big draw of The Cuphead Show is its animation, and luckily the cartoon delivers on that front. Take, for instance, an episode devoted to Cuphead and Mugman having to care for a baby bottle that was dropped on their doorstep, before realizing the baby is a maniac who loves to cause them pain and destruction, that plays just like the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Baby Herman, but with fewer lewd jokes. Exaggerated facial expressions, slapstick humor, and surreal characters make this more of an Animaniacs-like cartoon, one with one foot in the present and one firmly in the past. Sure, there is some era-appropriate macabre imagery - you can't really escape it when the main villain is the Devil himself - but the humor and comedic timing of the animated series is much more modern. On that note, though The Cuphead Show has the aesthetics of a depression-era cartoon, rest assured that it’s not all gloom and doom. Though there isn’t much serialization, and therefore not much of a need or an incentive to binge the show in one sitting, the fun scenarios and the believable and memorable banter between the brothers make it quite easy to keep watching the next episode. The only exception is a two-parter episode that follows the one overarching story of the season: Cuphead accidentally owing his soul to the Devil (you read that right, the Devil is an actual character here, and he is hysterical). The episodes are completely standalone, focusing on short, wacky misadventures that Cuphead and Mugman get into while procrastinating from their chores around the house. Comprising 12 episodes of around 11 minutes each, The Cuphead Show is a bit of an anomaly in today's streaming animation landscape.
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