The Weirdest Piece of Donkey Kong Media

I bring light to one of the most obscure and weirdest pieces of Donkey Kong Media known to man. DKTV. 🐒
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DKTV Footage: • DKTV Collection
Carlito Outro Music: • Carlito's Kong Kollege...
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Music Used:
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Welcome to Crocodile Isle (donkey kong country 2)
School House Harmony Theme (Donkey Kong Country 2)
Crazy Calypso (Donkey Kong Country 3)
Treetop Tumble (Donkey Kong Country 3)
Simian Segue (Donkey Kong Country)
Stilt Village (Donkey Kong Country 3)
Hot-Head Bop (Donkey Kong Country 2)
Forest Interlude (Donkey Kong Country 2)

[@FiredogOPO]

"Donkey Kong is my friend, and so are you, Carlito" - Shigeru Miyamoto, last night.

[@Vulpas]

Oh geez...

[@rastarainbow3944]

"Last night"? 🤨

[@matti.8465]

Apparently the clip of DK escaping prision and immediately beating the shit out of Funky Kong is a super abridged parody of The Count of Monte Cristo. Now that I think about it, given the name "Donkey Kong TV" and the strange footage, I feel like a lot of these skits might be actual film parodies.

[@quentindelrive4953]

It kind of was like a lot of kids shows like dktv in france back then. These sketchs was between cartoons episodes. And during this show a lot of differents cartoons was diffused. In France during the 90’ every channel had this kind of show Where they diffused cartoon épisode and made sketch like this one between cartoons.

[@IsaMariaUu]

In regards to the zombie Kong skit, that type of crude humor wasn't off brand for Nintendo, at least at the time. For example: Wario Land 2 has Zombie Wario as a powerup, and his undead body falls apart if he falls down from too high of a height.

[@moosesues8887]

Wario land 2 was the same time tho

[@peterofworlds8635]

How on earth have I went my whole life not knowing this existed…

[@thedarkflygon]

Hello! Frenchman here. DK TV has been enjoying a sort of resurgence because a famous French YTber has brought it back up in the past few years, so this is quite the timing for this video to release. It's got a very 90s French sense of humour, with the pastiches and the black comedy that was a lot more accepted for youth programmes back there. I didn't know the show (I was too young), but it's similar in tone to other programmes from the era. Yes, that's just how French public TV was. DKTV was broadcast on national TV, yes. I don't doubt, if I watched some of the show, I'd recognize pop culture references that have aged like milk. I guess I gotta translate that stuff now, woops (that Funky Kong joke about women at the wheel is also, somehow, a common stereotype and unfunny joke I've seen made a thousand times. that totally sounds sane and not bad at all for my country)

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

can you translate what there are saying

[@Vulpas]

Car accident statistics back Funky up, cope libs.

[@deityofcrystals]

Woman being bad drivers is a stereotype in literally every country

[@sammorin254]

I can help too I suppose lol. But I'm french-canadian, so you might just be the better fit for this.

[@pavret4663]

I can too but it's 6am in france so later

[@Lazyboy0337]

Interesting to know the "DK in a suit punching Funky" gif I saw floating around was an actual product and not just someone with a lot of time editing the DKC show.

[@trytotopthis3152]

No wonder K. Rool hates the kongs so much. He's probably seen how cursed this piece of Donkey Kong media is.

[@Wert-eo7sz]

Conkers Bad Fur Day came out in 2001, the year this series ended. They probably knew what the DKTV team was doing.

[@krysttelmarchan8064]

Also the Nintendo GameCube released in the same year that DKTV ended

[@Capuchin213]

I had a gif of DK punching Funky Kong saved on my school chromebook for years, never knowing where it was from.

[@thewizard2158]

The second bit Carlito talked about with Donkey Kong punching the shit out of Funky Kong is a parody of the Count of Monte Cristo! I don't remember all of the details but I read a simplified version of the story in French classes. If I remember correctly, the Count (don't know his actual name) is imprisoned for political treason, which he was falsely accused of. He then manages to break out of prison and become the Count of Monte Cristo, and get revenge on the people who wrongfully imprisoned him - which, I guess in this case was probably Funky Kong? I wish my French was good enough that I could translate these, but I can only understand bits and pieces. Maybe someday...

[@AnAverageGoblin]

Funky Kong Funky Cucked our boy Donkey Kong.

[@UltimaShadowX]

This reminds me a lot of the Koopas Kool Kartoons, but even more obscure.

[@LonelyGamer4]

(K)oopa's (K)ool (K)artoons 😳

[@koopamarketableplushie]

@@LonelyGamer4 *ahem* (K)ing (K)oopas (K)ool (K)artoons

[@Michafrar]

Yo ultima, small world! I grew up with this cartoon, early 3d fascinated me and it was surreal seeing a fav vg character on TV

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

This reminds me of my friend's parody of Saturday Night Live with Sonic characters. "Sonic Night Live." It's of the first five seasons. You know that "Sonic, Sonic" song you may've heard on the Web? ("It's Friday night on my new Wii") That's actually from a song from Season 2 of SNL, about Chevy Chase. It got parodied in 2008 to be about Sonic, and Danny found it and the rest is history.

[@Quinhala11]

Yeah it also reminds me of the kkk

[@Psycamore]

5:46 I'm guessing that's a parody of The Count of Monte Cristo

[@chompythebeast]

Which does indeed involve the main character training in a dingy prison before escaping and seeking revenge

[@theeducatedfool]

This show has creepypasta energy

[@MarkiplierMeatMuncher8]

I'm so glad someone is finally covering this strange piece of DK Media! I've been fascinated by it ever since like last year or so, It's just so weird and interesting. I always felt bummed that it was too obscure, but now that you made this video... I see a bright future for the DKTV community going forward! Not only can we find never before seen DKTV episodes, but translations, and maybe even high quality versions of already existing footage!

[@WaddleMoogle]

Wow lots of stuff to say about all this: - DKC was really popular in France because it was one the first CG show ever there and the novelty alone made it remarkable, somewhat like ReBoot and Beast Wars for american audiences. CG puppets in general were huge in France being the hosts of several shows, maybe the most popular being Le Bigdil. Imagine having a cartoon character of the shiny post-Toy Story CG future talk to you in real time, this was jaw dropping. - For the DKTV stuff it's really in line with what all kid blocks were doing at the time: low budget improvised skits that the hosts had to pump up daily to retain attention of the viewers between the actual shows. Club Dorothee and Minikeum are the most famous there, and both of them and DKTV just aged like milk, not even in a corny way. I unironically loved that as a kid and it's the most cringe inducing thing you can play to torture me now. That was also reminiscent of the other popular method where they reused footage of the actual cartoons to do the skits with new lines by the real French voice actors (like Cartoon Cartoon and WB Kids in the US) except this time they had direct access to the mocap suit to make their own footage. I still have a lot of nostalgia for Ça Cartoon which was the Looney Tunes block and looked like Roger Rabbit for my young impressionable mind. - For the French jokes, the prison stuff is a parody of the Count of Monte-Christo but it's turned into a pun with Monte-Costaud (meaning "strong") and he just beat the crap out of the bad guy instead. The flashes show famous programs and show hosts from the same channel but I lack context. For the fake drink ad it might be a spoof of an actual commercial I'm not sure, but in the end it is another pun between Badoit and Bats-toi ("fight back") so that's why they're so aggressive. Also the Toy Story parody is literally called Knock-off Story so it is somewhat self-aware.

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

i could ask my cousins from canada who can also speak french to understand what they are there saying

[@apollojusticefanboy]

So interesting to learn about this show. I do hope that they can uncover more of this show and recover more lost media.

[@HandheldGamer1991]

The fact that i didnt know this just shows that the world is still full of secrets and wonder

[@JC20XX]

With more being generated each day

[@nickolasperazzo8254]

Sexist and funky kong, i never tought i would hear both words on the same sentence

[@Taentarctic]

Lorsque DK à dit "Salut les Kongs! Et bienvenue sur DKTV!" je l'ai ressenti.

[@Taentarctic]

6:46 Le droit à la parodie existe en france, donc du temps ce que tu fait est une parodie, et qu'en la voyant on voit que c'est une parodie, c'est autorisé. Et l'ayant droit ne peux rien dire. (Seulement pour la parodie.)

[@Dragzilla66]

This is like joining a French server on Gmod with Donkey Kong assets being used for whatever KZbin skit is being made in the process with sprinkled green screen effects added here and there. 😂 🇫🇷

[@plateo_3234]

In fact, this show wasn't targeting children. The supposed audience was teenagers and young adults, kinda like MTV in the US (I think, I'm not american). Hence the weird psychedelic scenes and dark humor. It's funny to see that this thing seems obscure for people abroad, whereas in France it is one of the most famous teen shows of the 90s. The show was entirely animated by motion capture, which was almost unknown of at the time. Here's a video with some behind the scene footage : kzbin.info/www/bejne/baPGf6hup9d_jsk

[@angelriverasantana7755]

Yer right on the mocap part. The usage of mocap in animation goes as far back as 1994, when Sega AM2 used it to capture animation for Virtua Fighter 2, to really get the best and most realistic presentation for each character's moves. Namco started to use said technique with Soul Edge and Tekken 3 as well, by 1995 and 96, respectively. In animation for cartoons, I dunno. I know there was the poorly animated MK VHS cartoon that used badly mocapped 3D and for CG, Reboot came out in 1994, being the first fully CG cartoon to be full length and Toy Story revolutionized the form in 95. The first fully mocapped CG shows or cartoons are somn I have no memory of, but the DKC cartoon deserves a note for being one of the first of its kind

[@7HatimF16]

Now I want to learn french just to watch DKTV a certified french masterpiece

[@quentindelrive4953]

Hi im french Dktv was a show on France 2. It was a show Where they diffuse cartoon and between cartoons you got these sketchs with dk. Every channel used to have this kind of show back then in france. The sketchs Where often parodies of pop cultures and fake ads

[@masonkeller1755]

The French Kong Secrets have been unveiled

[@tjh6678]

Carlito & TheMentok really out here keeping the DK fans (like me) well fed while learning outsiders a thing or two bout the franchise. Respect.

[@visionairetimer]

The 90s/early 2000s were such a weird era for Donkey Kong. At least, there is some all time classics like the DKC trilogy. The TV shows were strange to say the least

[@jerdan1745]

I always wounder where that gif of Donket Kong punching Funkey Kong came from. Now I know it's a lawyer ad.

[@JagoShogun]

The youtube poops of france. Someone had the assets, and went ham with their version of SFM lmao.

[@ManUnderTheDumpster]

This is one of my favorite videos ever

[@riceeatr4205]

6:07 i believe this skit is a retelling of the count of monte cristo but dk?

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

I'm not entirely unconvinced that everyone working on this show weren't on illicit substances at the time. I don't know which ones, maybe all of them, but just watching the clips alone gives me big "Everyone was fucking high as a kite" vibes! 😂

[@goodoldfella6291]

The fact that Nintendo didn't copy striked this video yet, means they have no clue about this shows existence

[@hedgehogstatus69]

I’m convinced these plots originated from dreams the writers had of the characters. I can’t imagine any other reason why the show is so damn random.

[@mintyaquagreen1675]

I'll shower you with coconut cream pies! That Donkey Kong!

[@kaptainskurvysblender2892]

I would like to personally thank you for reminding the world that this exists

[@kat_lynx]

>Cursed Donkey Kong cartoon Did you mean, the greatest experience ever bestowed onto apekind and mankind alike? Fuck them crocodiles, tho.

[@ChrisandSimon]

SMG4 needs to hear about this

[@Saysikern68]

As a french Donkey Kong fan, I never heard of this show before and maybe it was a good thing

[@kanbeikurodasamurai7]

And people wonder why Nintendo is so strict with it's IPs...

[@FoxMan_FF]

The outfit Donkey Kong is wearing throughout most of this footage looks eerily similar to what he wears in the Brentalfloss music video (you know, the one where Chunky is dead). _the French predicted what DK would wear in the future, confirmed_

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

Sonic Night Live owes alot to this.

[@PaBien]

You say that Nintendo was probably unaware of all this, but I think Nintendo France already existed by the time. So they definitely knew that, at least in France.

[@martritz]

yet another Carlito banger

[@HistorioJutra]

This is one of the few times in my life that being a bilingual Canadian finally pays off lmao

[@LLEF_Blank]

It's crazy that compilation of this weird ass show I've known for awhile is now getting discovered. I certainly could translate it, I already mentally translate one of the first clip in that linked video where he deadass just say something like "i was inspired when I laid alone at night and thought about you ladies." No jokes As a French speaking guy tho,lots of them were fat phobic for some reasons.

[@goldenguy7470]

I think someone gave it too me when I was young for like 10 bucks on VHS (god damn) and I've never understood a word, so I ended up selling it on ebay and someone got it and since then I forgot about it until today.

[@FenrirWerewolfe]

It's not a Carlito video if it doesn't "but it get worse" at some point

[@chibirist]

Aww man, carlito out with a new video. You know it's gonna be good.

[@claymationnation5221]

I've already had a DKTV nightmare and the video has been up for 2 days.

[@JarethR]

Something similar to this obscurity that I woule LOVE to see you cover is "King Koopas Kool Kartoons". Also has some lost media attached to it.

[@damobags]

I watched it as a child, I mostly suffered through the DK bits to get to the shows which were mostly dubbed US TV shows. I remember some of the songs as earworms and even AT the Time as a kid, I felt they were pretty Bad... But sometimes catchy.

[@TheNobleShade]

Summoning Uncle Al

[@rogersstinson4019]

2:46-2:52 And MapPat says that Mario’s a psychopath.

[@JoeyYamitaro]

5:53 ayye kouji kabuto from Mazinger Z and Grendaizer

[@felipedaviws31limaaraujo99]

"Dk is love Dk is life" - Charles darwin

[@felixharper523]

at 6:36 she says : in order to stop letting you get pushed around, drink some : ''Batoi''. And Donley kong is screaming '' ALLEZ'' wish in the context can be translated to '' GO ON !/ KEEP ON GOING / LET'S GOO! ''. Mad vid my man

[@cabbusses]

Some of this stuff sounds almost as out there as those Lilly Franky Satellaview magazines.

[@LennyWhatever2]

DKTV walked so Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job could run

[@lovelandisle]

I'd seen clips of this before, but I thought it was just a commercial to advertise the DKC cartoon or something and never looked deeper into it, so this is making me feel insane LMAO

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

As an aside, I've just noticed that Carlito's PFP is of One Piece, and I've just ignored that info and blocked it out the whole time lol, since the channel focuses so much on Nintendo

[@AnAverageGoblin]

if it helps, there was a One Piece game with nintendo themed costumes for the Straw Hats.

[@Belicure]

So that’s where that gif of him punching funky is from

[@LucaMVideos]

Media lab had an obsession of playing donkey king country

[@JavanicRailfan]

8:20 I could imagine Funky Kong says this to Peach and other females racers in Mario Kart Wii, Maybe that's why he wasn't in Mario Kart 7, 8, and 8 Deluxe until the DLC

[@ash_sunday]

hell yea, more Carlito Kongtent

[@shronkeydonkey]

This is like the most 3:00am shit I’ve ever watched and I whole heartedly just everything for this

[@AnAverageGoblin]

I was a huge fan of the DK cartoon when I was a kid and if I were born later and found DKTV on youtube it would have traumatized me. its like a fucking fever dream

[@rukifellth2]

I actually saw an episode of this many years ago when my family had a vacation in Paris. I thought it was so cool that france hade a DK show, so when I later found out about the DKC show I thought it looked simhilair and thought they were the same, but nope, DKTV. XD I recall the episode had a skit where Krusha was tagging along in a car ride, but they couldnt bring him out of the car fooooor reasoooons???? When they returned, the car had gotten so hot inside he was boiling red. I guess it was a jab at people leaving their dogs in the car without properly ventilating it.

[@deadmeme739]

Peak just dropped

[@Issachar-northern-kingdom]

the weirdest thing I've seen was the map inside the first cabin of pirate panic (DKC2)

[@connorbeith3232]

I would kinda love to see the American cast of the DKC cartoon redub some of these skits (which I guess wouldn't be impossible since the recent Return to Krocodile Isle short brought back VAs from that show).

[@bl4ckm4mba1]

I actually remembered watching 1 episode of DK cartoon and being excited cuz of my fave game Dk64 then leaving soo disappointed.

[@NoahRJitil]

How does it feel being a leading authority on the subject of Donkey Kong

[@mombijombo]

I even heard about a Donkey Kong Puppet Show

[@redonyx9281]

I knew about the cartoon but this ? Thanks man 👀

[@jamiequigley9833]

AHH yes another fine addition to my mario lore collection

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

I'd say that someone should make a KZbin Poop out of this show, but this show is already a KZbin Poop.

[@fromourbasementgaming6472]

man, I hope we can find more footage and get some translations, this is so bizarre but interesting.

[@sootyquill]

funky kong would never be sexist...

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

best youtuber ever

[@scrubbytheslime7703]

More people need to see this!

[@walkerwilliams-rigsofrodst3316]

This has the same energy of bad VRChat skits because of the nonsensical flow and motion capturing lmao. I love it, hope more gets found.

[@andrewnagavelli1215]

fragment switch is so crazy

[@basedostrich]

Based Funky

[@aa_battery7]

Babe, new Carlito video dropped

[@kartanashimisaky6140]

I have to ask all the French people I know about this

[@Pooky1991]

I never knew this exist and I watched the regular cartoon all the time as a kid.

[@reploiddasher2000]

Topping the DKC Cartoon is quite something. But if anyone could do it, why not the same Animation Team going all out >v

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of The Weirdest Piece of Donkey Kong Media momentum 100

[@asheski]

such a fire and amazing video!

[@Sturben-qn7ph]

DK planet Tv the only Tv I watch these days

[@tootsie_]

new carlito movie dropped

[@vgkghjgfvhjjvf]

Hey! thank you so much for covering this!

[@voilentblues]

Of course KZbin wouldn’t notify me of your content I was curious what happen smh

[@toastywooper8263]

Oh hell yea more dk

[@nicklancellotti4204]

How long have you been editing? And do you get paid for freelance?

[@Megster_3000]

DKTV was only broadcasted on the tnt channel 2 "France 2". i know that cause im french :3

[@AlexandruCatrina-bk6jg]

3:30 6:43 well i hope disney won't sue them 5:01 Michael jackson's thriller be like

[@Lymington214]

Once we get this translated we need to get Uncle Al to dub it

[@splargyt]

Babe wake up, Carlito posted a new Donkey Kong video