The Day My Butt Went Psycho is an animated adaptation of a novel by Andy Griffiths. That's Griffiths with an S at the end, so if you thought Matlock wrote a book about talking asses, then you're dead wrong. It originally aired in Australia, and debuted on Teletoon in Canada in June of 2014. The general plot to the cartoon is that long ago, people's butts left the bodies of their human hosts, and rebelled, starting some major war. Eventually man and butt met with an uneasy peace between the two, and they live in harmony. However, there are still some evil asses, so the world still needs the next great butt fighter.
Enter our protagonist Zack Freeman, regular cool dude, and biggest fan of the "B Team", the greatest group of butt fighters ever. We also meet his butt named Deuce, a somewhat annoying cool dude butt who is really stupid, and has a tendency to spazz out at the sight of anything clean. Who, together with their friend Eleanor, daughter of the leader of the B team, put a stop to evil butts, and for the most part, just go on goofy, random adventures.
So, yeah, the concept of the cartoon is definitely out there. Talking asses. A war between man and posterior. And a world where man and butt live together. Of course the major questions you want to ask about a show like this are never really explained, such as how people sit, or the more pressing question of how one takes a dump. But considering this is a kids cartoon, you won't ever get an answer to that. However, I think that if the show used this concept much better, focused a lot more on the war between man and butt, and had much better writing, it could really make this concept work.
The cartoon is done in flash, and isn't the most amazing looking, but still has some decent designs, and in comparison to the last cartoon I reviewed (Teenage Fairytale Dropouts), it definitely looks a lot better. You never see the back end of the butts, which makes sense for a kids cartoon. When the show does do fight scenes, they have this nice stylized look with everything being a single color. And I do like the character designs for the most part.
However, I do think there are plenty of problems with this cartoon that keep it from being something amazing. First off, while the show brings up this interesting lore about butt fighters, and a war between man and butt, most episodes of the series just fall under the stock "two awesome dudes having wacky adventures" shtick that was done far better with the likes of Adventure Time and Regular Show. The show also tries to use a bit too much close up gross out humor, which always feels out of place when its done. And yes, I know I'm saying that gross out humor in a cartoon with talking asses is out of place.
In the end, The Day My Butt Went Psycho turned out to surprise me with a show that was better than I expected. However, I feel that the idea within could have been saved with better writing, more focus on the whole man vs butt story instead of just randomness, and far less dependency on gross out humor. That said, I do like the show's look, and even some of the characters. I don't know how perfectly it's adapted from the book, but if it is, then it's doing an okay enough job. It's not going to please most cartoon fans, and it's definitely geared more towards 8-year old boys with its constant butt jokes, but I've seen far worse attempts at this kind of show, so that's another point in this cartoon's favor. I say that The Day My Butt Went Psycho is not tooncrap worthy, and is an okay at best cartoon.