Concept


We are in the room of a museum whose walls represent works relating to the most important and famous painters or sculptors in the history of art throughout the course of the series.
The protagonists are two adolescent boys, whose presence in the museum, far off from being interested in the works of art,  happened by chance or somehow unintentionally found themselves there. 
In addition to the two fifteen-year-old boys there is the museum curator, an elderly and frustrated man, very cultured in art but whose life alone has reserved a marginal place in the field. The relationship with the boys provokes lively gags that obviously point out the generational difference between the two cultural levels.  The curator's attempt to explain the art to them, with its polished and academic language, succeeds only in confirming the boys preconceived opinion, that he is a boring and disagreeable person.
Under a totally different light the characters that are entrusted with the task of giving the easy art version are introduced: they are represented as lice that inhabit the heads of the boys and the museum curator. The insects, graphically portrayed with animation techniques, present themselves as true art enthusiasts and connoisseurs of the depicted artists. Theirs is a youthful language, easily comprehensible by the targeted audience. The lice belong to a world parallel to the real one: this makes any interaction with the real characters impossible, yet does not stop them from making comments or expressing their opinions, supplying further breaking points that reach their climax with the representation of their end. Every episode ends relentlessly with the accidental death of some louse either because it was "scratched"  by a hand or crushed from a friendly slap in the head.

Given that the death description is of an ironic and paradoxical key, it is one of the most humorous parts in the considered objective and this moment will be one of the constants in the  format.

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