The Bluffers

It was a cartoon from Germany, not the Netherlands, but a good one indeed. I never found out what the big secret was by the way. It was fun! It was colorful!

The song kept roaming in your mind forever, but it wasn't all that bad. I recommend this show for kids who like to see what there fathers saw in there youth! For me it must have been 20 years ago, i don't remember for sure.

So enjoy this "oldie" and don't forget. Bluf once in a while! I hope you find out what the big secret in the basement is!

B L U F F E R S !

Yeah, I remember this; It was one of the first cartoons I ever watched and I simply loved it back then! Unfortunately I can't remember much of it, none of the names of the animals or anything about their personalities, I only remember that the bear was one of my favorites and that there was a pink mouse who hid herself under a Bluffoonia-Flag once to scare the antagonist whom I ever mixed up with Gargarmel (?) from the Smurfs and that there were two bunnies who sung songs but never got involved in any of the story lines. The intro was great, first narrating about the situation in Blafoonia (I thought back then that Blafoonia is a planet because the intro had something with stars and space in it) and then they sung the opening song. I loved this "save the earth"-cartoons from the 80's(at least they had a message, unlike modern cartoons like Digimon or Ranma 1/2) , but I often wonder if I'm the only one who learned from them. I demand a re-run!

I am born 1988 and I was real young when I first saw this wonderful cartoon. I had forgotten about it for many years until about 2001 or 2002, when my friend and I put on one of his old tapes in the VCR, it had the title U2, don't ask me or my friend why, and the first thing we saw was a fat owl who sat in a tree and talked about crashed cars, but it was first when I saw Clandestino's servant Silicone, the robot, my memory of the show came back and I shout: Oh, I watched this series when I was a kid. A beautiful story, right? About a year after that, I find a really cheap tape with The Bluffers on, I bought it and I search after all the films all the time, but I never founds anything!!! Please, mail, pulp_fiction48@hotmail.com if you knows a site which sales it. PLEASE!!!

IMO, this cartoon series from the Netherlands was one of the 1980s' best.

The basic plot is about a group of animals trying to save the last remaining forest in Bluffoonia from the country's gluttonous ruler, but the individual episodes have a lot more adventure, humor, and imagination than you'd expect. The character interplay is terrific, and each 15-minute episode has two well-written (i.e., not just for babies) musical numbers. Any age can enjoy this show, and anyone can learn a few things from it without feeling like they're being lectured.

To everyone who thinks that nothing better than Care Bears came out of the '80s, and to everyone who's tired of cartoons that are either too juvenile or too "educational," I highly recommend The Bluffers.