Weasel Nerd

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Today I will be discussing The Wind Of The Willows movie made in 1983 which was entirely claymation. The film was made by CosGrove Hall productions and was directed by Mark Hall with the animation director being Chris Taylor.  The story follows the same plot as any the Wind of the Willows adaption however the weasels had a bit more of a role within the story. The movie was successful and it even won a BAFTA award and an international Emmy award. The success of the movie even brought on a TV series that lasted from 1984 to 1988 that had 5 seasons and 52 episodes. 

Now time for the main part of this blog, The weasels. There is a gang of weasels however only two have been revealed to have names. The Chief Weasel is named Bill, and his main henchmen is named Bert. 

Chief weasel is voiced by David Jason who also voiced Toad in this series. He is constantly threatening his gang to do what he wants, his main threat is skinning them. However he is shown to care about his gang in episode "Unlikely allies” where he asks his gang to be referred to as family. Chief weasel's name was revealed to be Bill in episode “The Rescue” after a young shrew refers to chief weasel as Uncle Bill. Chief Weasel is even mentioned to have a brother also named Bert in the episode “Toad in motion”

Bert is voiced by Brian Trueman. He is Chief Weasel's main henchman and seems to always be the one who is hurt by Chief the most. Bert has an iconic catchphrase which he says in every episode which is him saying “Very Nice; Very Nice!” however he also says “Not very nice; Not very nice!” Bert’s name was also revealed in “The Rescue” by the young shrew. He even teaches the young shrew how to make a bunny from a handkerchief. 

Now time for a special mention of a weasel that I adore in this tv series who isn't named or a main character. However for the sake of this short introduction of him I'll refer to him as Charlie. In episode “Fancy Dress” Mr. Toad has invited everyone to a costume party and the weasels have a plan to all be burglars except Chief Weasel who is going as an officer.  However Bert was yelling at Charlie because Charlie wanted to go as the fairy on a christmas tree even though charlie made the wand for it, chief even yelled at charlie. However at the party its revealed that the Chief allowed Charlie to be the Fairy. 

Smart-ass has glasses to help him see stuff that's a but far away from him or even to head him read. He never wears them no matter how much he needs them. (This headcanon has been said before but i love it do much, as someone with glasses for the same reason)

Stupid has a pet clown fish he won at a carnival that he cherishes and talks to it everyday and cleans its tank clean at all times. He has to defend it from Psycho or Psycho will eat bubbles

Psycho owns every horror movie CD and has them organized on a shelf by release date. He's favorite movies are saint maud, the shining, midsommar, and the blair witch project. He also owns every horror book and still organizes them by release date

Wheezy visits a lot of art gallery's for the calming silence, he always likes to learn about the symbolism behind each art piece

Greasy has a ton of photos of women covering his walls in his room and even card board cut outs of women he likes. One example, Elvira mistress of the dark.

Smart-ass likes to watch opera when he's bored and has way to much time on his hands, even though he can't take his brothers because he knows they'll cause chaos.

Stupid has a huge collection of baseball cards, and he even owns some that are worth a ton of money. He refuses to sell them despite Smart-ass saying they should.

Smart-ass: "There so valuable, lets sell them!"

Stupid: "No way! Im not collecting them to sell..im collecting them because they're simple and beautiful and because they make me happy! WHY ARE YOU SO MONEY HUNGRY!"

Psycho has a ton of skulls that seem a bit too realistic..but there's no way he has a collect of real human, animal and toon skulls...right???

Wheezy always prefers to smoke alone in the dark but poor wheezy wishes it was dark but it's never really dark in LA.. (TV girl reference)

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