Zukyutchi's House of Love

If you're familiar with Zukyutchi's House of Love, it was this romantic comedy cartoon that was animated by Big Green Productions and aired on the Big Green Channel. It focused on Zukyutchi (whose name was in the title) who lives in a multicolored, crazy looking house. His antics often caused romantic problems with others. If he messed up a relationship, he was put up "for blame". He would then try fixing the problem, but it goes haywire until the end.

On July 25, 2009, I was watching an episode of Shape Life (The Invasion...For What?/It's Sad to Say Goodbye) in such sorrow (the second half was sorrowful indeed). After the credits, a "What's Next?" bumper appeared. When the wheel stopped on Zukyutchi's House of Love, the announcer said "I'll be back." instead of "ZUKYUN! ZUKYUTCHI'S HOUSE OF LOVE IS NEXT! FOR! SURE!" I don't know how that happened, but it made me feel curious. Why did he talk without emotion, and why wasn't he loud as usual?

After a commercial for Bop It, it was that time the episode would come on. The "Now" bumper was on, except that it had abruptly cut off before the usual announcement. At that point, the Zukyutchi's House of Love theme song came on. My niece ran into the room and started dancing and singing along. After the theme song, the opening line had him saying "I couldn't think of an interesting line to say for this one." I didn't know why his expression looked very sorrowful, but I was (without a doubt) sorrowful for him as much as he was for me.

The episode name was "BDYEUWJSUSHWUSUHDHXJSHWUDNCJSHH". It had looked like the title was made by an employee who DIDN'T know how to come up with something. The episode started on Zukyutchi laying, his stomach placed on his couch and his hands sinking down into it. His face looked sad, and instead of him getting up and saying "What another Zukitty-Zukitty-Zukyun day for a nice Zukitty-Zukoffee!" ("zukoffee" was his term for "coffee"), he said "Hello. I don't know why I'm through this, but I've had enough of starting relationships. I always get them going through nuts and bolts, with them being rusty."

A tear had come out of his eye and rolled down his cheek. "I can't just go around making people say 'Z-U-K! Y-U-N!' Gee." He was already sniffling when he sang that little song. His body already started shaking in shock with his face looking sweaty, his eyes tearing up, and his ears shaking in shock, too. He had already started crying when he said, "I guess there's nothing left for me to dooooohohohohohohohoooooo.....buuhuhut.....this!" My niece was already crying and walked out of the room.

He got out of his couch, walked upstairs to his room, and had begun looking like he was about to get himself involved in a dangerous situation and sacrifice his life. He said "Sacrifice is not good. I hope I don't-" He sat in his Electro-Yun (a metal chair) and had leaned his head when he didn't know he had pressed the "DO NOT PRESS" button with it. It was on the armrest for some reason. The machine jerked to life, punching Zukyutchi's head with a boxing glove to prop him up to a position that was like how someone would normally sit and sending volts of electricity throughout his body. A time card appeared, saying "1 Sorrowful Minute Later..."

He already looked like I was going to immediately hit "POWER" on my TV. There was no sister episode after it, as he was already melted to ashes. It had already gone to the credits, with sorrowful music. After that, I turned off my TV and found that Tom Winstey (Zukyutchi's voice actor) had felt sorrowful for a week when the episode was made.

I got the urge to sit back and think about everything that had happened. Why was the scene at the end there? And why did he behave like this? I was crying for a few minutes and had decided to spend my spare time in my bedroom doing what I had thought was best to do.

UPDATE: January 14, 2017

When I went for a walk in Tom Winstey's neighborhood, I noticed there was a huge sign showing Zukyutchi getting electrocuted in the same way it happened in the episode.

I decided to place a letter in his mailbox before walking to his neighbor's house. He was a man, about 42 years old. He had known about the episode's existence and told me this.

"I don't know how this was made, but I believe Tom did the animation all by itself, while using music from 'Blaming Supreme' and 'Tummy Problems'. He also used sound effects from the HollywoodEdge and Tamagotchi anime libraries.

Anyways, Tom was depressed for a full week and was sad at the studios. This was a week where he only did animation and storyboards. All of the other employees thought he was acting weird.

He is trying to overcome this, but he still feels sad and the depression may have resulted in him putting up that huge sign near his house."

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