The Horny Cartoon They Didn’t Want You to See
Imagine if Tarzan got blackout drunk, fucked a Salvador Dalí painting, and woke up in a French cartoon. That’s Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle—an X-rated fever dream of a film that defies category, taste, and common decency. Naturally, we love it.
Cooked up by Belgian madman Picha and co-written by John B. Vassal, Tarzoon is less a parody and more a full-on jungle gangbang of every upright American value you’ve ever been spoon-fed. Our hero swings through a world of lumpy boobs, penis-shaped missiles, and castration jokes like it’s Saturday morning—but for degenerates.
What makes this glorious mess even weirder? A dubbed version hit the States in 1979 featuring voices from SNL and SCTV royalty: John Belushi, Bill Murray, Joe Flaherty, and the rest of the comedy mafia moonlighting on what might be the filthiest gig of their careers. Picture Belushi as a shrieking jungle prince talking dick jokes in a loincloth, and you’re halfway there.
The animation is grotesque in that wonderful Euro-trash way—bulging, melting, absurd. The jokes are rapid-fire, juvenile, and proudly offensive. It’s not subtle. It’s not pretty. It’s not even really coherent. But that’s the point: Tarzoon is the cinematic equivalent of a dirty doodle in the back of a 7th grader’s math book come to life—with a French accent and a hard-on.
No one knew what to do with it. Too X-rated for kids, too weird for boomers, and too perverse for the mainstream, it slipped through the cracks like a used condom behind the couch. But real ones know: this is a cult treasure. And it deserves a filthy pedestal right here on SCREW.
Why? Because this network isn’t for people who clutch pearls—we prefer to throw them. Tarzoon is loud, lewd, and 100% unfiltered. Just how we like it. Tune in and witness the jungle swing both ways.
—P.
