Do you recognise this line? If you do, you already are familiar with the awesome-ness that is Foamy the Squirrel. If you're not, you've been missing out, and that really should be corrected. Foamy the Squirrel is the main character in a web cartoon called Neurotically Yours, created by Jonathan Mathers of Ill Will Press.
To really get the feel of what makes Foamy so awesome, you really should just watch one of the episodes. This one, for example, "Zip Codes", is one of my favourites. (WARNING: Foamy is NSFW. It's also NSFPODS (Not Safe For People Of Delicate Sensibilities). There is swearing, sexual references, and a truckload of inappropriate content in these cartoons. If you can't handle that, don't watch. Seriously.)
Foamy is known for his many, many rants on multiple subjects. All of these, particularly the brilliant early rants, can be found on his YouTube channel. There are far too many good ones to post them all here, so I'll leave you with one more that is among my favourites.
Not everything in the world of Foamy is great. I will admit that one of the long-running story arcs, that of Germaine, the human Foamy lives with, was very much out of my taste. A number of episodes over the course of this story arc (in which Germaine becomes a whore so she can afford to continue living in New York) have background animations that were distracting and, in my opinion, not really necessary. There are some episodes that are also quite strange, and seem more like filler material to get to the good, funny episodes. I do love the few musical episodes ("Squirrel Songs"), in which Foamy sings while Germaine plays the guitar in hopes of raising money for various causes, such as the Church of Foamy.
The most interesting thing I find is that Foamy has recently undergone a "reboot". The art style has been changed to be more consistent. The creator has also decided to combine the characters of all his web cartoons (which can also be found on the Ill Will Press site) into a single series, and enable them to all live in the same world. So far I'm liking it, but we'll have to see where it leads.
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