New Kids is a Dutch comedy sketch show about a group of anti-social youths from Maaskantje, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. It was created by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil.
The show was first shown on Flabber.nl, a Dutch blog, as a succession to De Pulpshow, which aired in 2001. Later, it was picked up by 101 TV and Comedy Central. It was named New Kids on the Block for the first two seasons.
The show became highly popular in both the Netherlands and Germany and spawned two full-length movies, New Kids Turbo and New Kids Nitro.
Most of the locations shot in New Kids are filmed in the nearby village Den Dungen.
The main characters habitually use the word 'kut' (Dutch for cunt), usually at the end of a sentence.
Overview
The series follows the misadventures of a group of young men, who live in the small village of Maaskantje in North Brabant. Maaskantje's distinctly rustic and pleasant appearance as a traditional village is juxtaposed by the actions of the group, who are antisocial and indulge in the 'Gabber' culture. They drink excessively, eat junkfood and ride noisily around the village in a garish Opel Manta. Just about every sentence they speak is mindlessly punctuated by the expletive 'kut' ('cunt', it should be noted that in Dutch this word doesn't carry the same severity as it does in American English, although it is nevertheless considered rude). Although most of the characters work, none of them appear particularly adept in their jobs.
Visually, the group displays a terrible understanding of fashion-sense and have dated hairstyles.
Despite their antisocial and immature mentality, the group rarely exhibits any serious malicious intent in their actions; much of the humor in the series is derived from the absurdity of the characters' lack of intelligence or even common sense.
A particularly distinct feature of the main characters is the presence of a heavy, somewhat exaggerated Brabantian dialect, which is especially noticeable in the characters' pronunciation of 'jongen' (dude, guy). In the German synchronisation the actors voice themselves with a heavy Dutch accent.
Main characters
References
External links
- New Kids on IMDb
