The Red and the Blue (Il Rosso e il Blu) was a 1976 Italian stop motion animated television series for children. It has two clay animated characters, antagonistic shapeshifters, one colored red, the other blue. It is by Misseri Studios.
The show sets the two characters in an undifferentiated white plane in which they interact. They are able to assume various forms at will, thanks to the endless morphing possibilities of clay animation. Living together, these two antithetical characters create irresistible gags based on everyday life in a unique, artistic abstract style.
This show has examples of:
- Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The Show.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Two blocks of clay. The Red is big and passionate; he like driving fast cars, eating... enjoying all the pleasures of life. The Blue is small, smart and cunning, and he's there just to bother the Red.
- Speaking Simlish: The title characters speak in a Pingu-toned nonsense language.
- Stop Motion Animation: The clay cartoon is done in stop-motion.
