Danger 5

The ridiculousness of this show is on a whole other level. This show looks and feels as though it was shot in the 70s. There's nazi dinosaurs, power ranger style mech robots, corrupt police dogs, mind control crystals and the lost city of atlantis. At one point they shoot someone through the telephone. All of the special effects are done with dolls or miniatures and make to look as intentionally corny as possible. The entire premise of the show revolves around killing Hitler, something they fail to do constantly and make mediocre accomplishments, usually foiling hitlers current hare brained plans while he escapes unscathed to plot again.

The humor in this show centers not so much around punchlines or jokes but the sheer absurdity of what is going on. At one point Hitler goes into hiding in a high school and danger 5 has to go undercover, 21 jump street style. Somehow every character who dies lives conveniently long enough to describe their perfect drink to the bartender dude in detail so he can make it to honor their memory. Ilsa speaks exclusively in Russian which makes no difference to the fact that everyone seems to understand her and respond in English as if she was speaking the same language. And every episode ends in one of those bond-esque cocktail parties, until the episode when they start doing cocaine and then its basically a cracked out version of their usual cocktail parties. Everything is so, like, groovy man.

Australia's Danger 5 is strangely funny. The special effects are right out of The Thunder Birds and cheesy, and are meant to be. The jokes are corny, funny, and rely on a lot of sight gags. Needless to say Hitlers talking dog is a bad puppet character that is really hilarious and the episode with Nazi Dinosaurs (who were armed) had me laughing so hard I couldn't get my breath. Even things in the background are funny. The "Danger 5" are spies of International makeup. A lot of language is actual French & German so the show is subtitled and even this is funny.

Danger 5 is Thunder Birds meets Allo, Allo, with a large dose of Team America World Police, bad scripting thrown in for good measure. I watched this Australian TV import with my wife, who has no sense of humor, and even she thought the show was entertaining. I'll leave it at that !

If you aren't watching this series you have to ask yourself, why do I even have eyes? Because if you aren't using them to watch this then you are doing it wrong. Natzis(sp), dinosaurs, babes, guns, puppets, international intrigue, it has it all.

In all seriousness it is a loving send-up of a dozen different genre's and eras that on paper looks like it would be a disaster but by some miracle it is amazing. The cast is totally committed to the insane plot while never winking at the camera. The writing is totally beside the point since the story is only exists to serve the various set pieces. Worth watching alone because it isn't anything like what you've seen before.

My best friend and i found this on Netflix... we did not expect what was about to happen. From the first episode on we were laughing out loud to the point of tears. I do not remember ever having seen anything this amazing in my life. I've shown it to several friends since then, and re-watched the first season multiple times and it keeps getting better every. single. time. Very similar in tone to Monty Python and the Mighty Boosh. I admit, season 2 is not nearly as hilarious as the first, bit it is still amazing and ball-shatteringly funny. Also Ilsa is literally the hottest thing, ever. 10/10: would watch on a desert island for the rest of my life.

Season 1 of Danger 5 may be the most perfectly executed comedy show in TV history. The minds that came up with this concept are genius's. The outrageous black humour is just enough without being being too offensive. Ilsa speaks Russian but everyone can understand her. Hitler and the rest of his henchmen are portrayed as cartoon baddies. Danger 5's boss is an Eagle. When featured characters die they always give a drink recipe. I have watched each episode dozens of times, it never gets old. I wish I could say the same for season 2. The edge they had in Season 1 was rounded off to an absurd degree. It was almost like the Best Boy on the first season became the director but didn't understand what made the first season so good.