Don't Feed the Humans, on Mondo Media and Youtube, is a 5-minute long webseries created by Jeff Shorkey. It is set in an alien zoo, where a disparate group of abductees is forced to live together in a "human habitat." Sort of like Big Brother with anal probes:
Jack, the central character, the voice of reason.
From left to right:
A Roman gladiator
Jack
A 1950s housewife
A professor of gender studies
A 1920s silent movie star
A redneck
The Girl
Episodes involve zookeeper Horf's misunderstandings of human culture and his attempts to increase patronage with tie-in merchandising, "human mating day," and so on. There are also escape attempts, flashbacks to life before abduction, and some hetero-romantic entanglements.
The animation is cut-out, like South Park, with few changes of position or perspective, but the characters are pleasant, with a surprising amount of depth for animated paper dolls.
Almost everyone has past or present heterosexual interests, but the professor of gender studies is a lesbian, and there is extensive male bonding, even an occasional hint of homoerotic activity. For instance, when Horf invites the aliens to his house for dinner, the redneck bonds with his teenage son, and the two go off to the bedroom together, ostensibly to get high.
Plus we get to see a lot of Jack.
Definitely worth an hour-long youtube binge.
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