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Published: 2004-05-26 16:05:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 4357; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 20
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Yes, it's the clash between Dennis the Menace US and Dennis the Menace UK (whom I shall hereby refer to as Big Dennis and Little Dennis)! I apologise for any innacuracies I may have caused on Little Dennis, but I only own the film, so I used that for a reference.But yes! Take a good look, all of those who live in America, for this is the glory that is Dennis the Menace from our shores! He is verging of his teens (or seems to be anyway), has two friends nicknamed Curly and Pie-Face and regularly beats up the BeanoTown softy Walter and his two 'chums'. He doesn't always come out on top with his schemes of getting at Walter, but half the time he turns out victorious (and without a shoe-mark across his arse from his Dad).
And before you question the particular stance with "But Little Dennis would have pelted him with his Slingshot", Big Dennis is proficient with the Slingshot too, so they could end up have a good old shootout...
I always wanted to do a picture like this. Big Dennis would SO win. Little Dennis is only roughly six years old.
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I still think US Dennis is WAY better
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If Iβll be honest, I think the Dennis youβre talking about is the original Dennis the Menace from the last century. This centuryβs Dennis is more of a new Dennis, due to unneeded restriction tampering, but you know what I mean, right?
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I re-watched the US Dennis cartoon series recently, and I dunno, maybe it's just a sign that I'm getting older (35 now), but...it's not as funny as it used to be. I'm siding more and more with Mr Wilson against Dennis' antics.
People often say that the US Dennis is called a "menace" because he causes trouble and mayhem by accident; but looking back on it again, I realise this doesn't seem quite true. I mean sure, he isn't doing it deliberately most of the time (except when he's actively trying to stop crooks/enemy spies/monsters etc in a few stories), but it's not just an "accidental push of a button" type-thing either.
Case in point: Dennis and pals get to go to a car manufacturing plant. The plant ends up basically destroyed by the end of the episode.
If you assume that Dennis causes chaos by accident, then maybe he'd accidentally knock into a control panel and mess everything up, yeah? No.
He sees a great big control panel full of buttons with a huge screen above it showing schematics of a car, and assumes it's a videogame. IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAR MANUFACTURING PLANT. Like, what the actual hell Dennis? So he starts "playing" the "game" by messing with all the controls on the panel, and completely screws up the plant until the whole building essentially crashes down around his ears. Despite being repeatedly told to stop messing with the controls by all the adults present. Then he has the cheek to suggest their factory wasn't very well built if it came down that easily (cue canned laughter). That's definitely NOT an accident. It's not quite deliberate destruction either though (barely).
Mostly, it's just out-and-out FARCICAL STUPIDITY. He's not actively trying to cause trouble, sure, but he's very nearly 100% oblivious to the fact that basically everything he does causes trouble, often resulting in massive property damage, physical injury, both, or worse. A 5yo Dennis would have to be a complete moron not to realise that the factory collapsed because he screwed with the controls. Sure, you can play the age card, he's only 5Β½yo, he doesn't understand the consequences of what he's done. WELL HE SHOULD BE MADE TO. I'm sorry, but if I were Henry Mitchell, I'd give him a damn good hiding and make sure he's completely aware of the destruction he causes. And if I were George Wilson, I'm very sorry but I'd be reporting the Mitchell family to social services. The cartoons never show any comeback on any of the chaos - no massive fines/bills for damage, no real disciplining of Dennis, not even trying to talk to him to make him understand that he caused huge damage with his "playing".
The amount of multi-million dollar projects that Dennis Mitchell destroys during the episodes of his cartoon series is just ridiculous, and then he just laughs it off as an accident or "well that wasn't very well built was it?" or whatever. I cringed my way through most of the episodes when I watched it again last year, that even a kid as young as Dennis could be that unaware of what he has directly caused to happen on such a frequent basis.
Like I said, it's mostly blatant stupidity, that's Dennis Mitchell's real power - being too stupid to understand that his actions have extremely serious, often dangerous consequences for everybody around him. He's just too stupid most of the time to realise the danger he's in, or the damage he's causing. And I hope for his sake that he and Gina end up together as they grow up, as she seems to be about the only one mature enough to keep him from accidentally killing himself one day.
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I notice how the Americans on here draw their version of Dennis The Menace and are having fun just drawing different art and the UK people on here are always making it a contest about whose is better. I'm curious as to why the UK people are making it a contest?
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Maybe itβs because our boy, Dennis, and his dog, Gnasher, are true menaces when it comes to cheekiness and pulling pranks. Furthermore, heβs more popular than βLittle Dennisβ, as heβs Beanoβs iconic character.
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Bravo HoratioGiovanni! Couldn't have put it better myself!
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Not fact. Opinion.
Yes, UK Dennis is meaner and outright more of a menace, but that's where US Dennis' ineguinity comes in and the "underdog" cliche ALWAYS triumpths.
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teach that goodie goodie a lesson big dennis!
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When I saw this, I couldn't stop laughing. It's great to see the clash of two cultures!.. and Menaces.
They are both equally great in the UK and USA, because of their identifiable personalities, looks and actions in the comics. 
*Resists urge to say "UK Dennis ftw"*
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Well U.K. Dennis blows. What am I to say?
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What are you supposed to say?
'Hail U.K. Dennis.'
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That's not gonna happen buddy.
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How little you know.
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I do know that American Dennis rules.
Sorry but I can't behind some bratty English kid.
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Atleast the U.K. Dennis ahs the guts to actually come up and beat the snot out of the U.S. Dennis.All the U.S. Dennis has is a slingshot!D<
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Like I said, I have no interest in bratty kids. U.S. Dennis is extremely likable whose mischief is based on innocence.
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haha no offense but we have no interest in annoying little twats
feel free to enjoy your dennis though
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The one that's famous the world over?
Sure I and any other people will enjoy my Dennis.
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well...jonas brothers are just as famous, and they're not exactly good or not annoying, so your point kind of falls flat :/
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You could've mentioned any animated or comic strip characters, why the Jonas Brothers? Did I slip something in about music?
Your analogy fell flat.
Listen, just to end this. British Dennis is horrible and deserves the black hole of mediocrity that he's in. There's a reason as to why he's not known outside the U.K.
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no im sorry, my analogy still works, fame doesn't constitute quality. and i'm also sorry you're a bitter angry person thats taking a funny debate so seriously.
but its alright love, you can have the last word if it will prevent you from having a heartattack, bit im not going to take up this lovely artist's wall anymore
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"no im sorry, my analogy still works, fame doesn't constitute quality."
Actually, it DOES. It makes the character more well-known and more likely to have back up. Yours just has the UK, whereas ours is backed the world over.
And really, you could say that both Dennis' seem similar to Peanuts, because initially the future Peanuts gang were originally micheif-making brats (ala UK Dennis), but when the TV specials and series began to air, they were toned down and became tame (ala US Dennis). In fact, even the UK Dennis himself became as tame as his US counterpart recently, so I'd say that US Dennis--due to new regulations--won.
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You brought up the Jonas Brothers and I'm talking about a 70 year old comic strip character...no, your analogy sucked. Sorry but it did.
And yes my love when I encounter stupidity I tend to get a bit bitter. Don't apologize for it, because I won't.
And yes please take your irrelevant analogies and passive aggressive quips someplace else.
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He may be bratty,but has da musclez.
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Alright man, to each his own.
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Wow. That takes me back to the early '90s, when Dennis was built like a fairly burly teenager (before they cute-ified him to looking about 8 years old, there was a time when he could easily have been drawn to be looking about 15...)
I can really believe this scene would take place, actually - if Dennis found out that there was another character of the same name existing in the States (regardless of the fact that US Dennis the Menace - who incidentally in the UK is known simply as "Dennis" - has an equal right to the name/title), he'd jump on the next plane to the States and track down his US equivalent to beat him up. He really would.
And given the size advantage over US Dennis, a massive arsenal of weaponry (of which UK Dennis' "catty" as he's referred to his slingshot, is only one item), along with the ever vicious pet Gnasher, I'd say UK Dennis would easily come out on top in this fight.
So it's just as well that he doesn't know he has an American counterpart, isn't it?
One thing...I once read somewhere that Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx are meant to be cousins, but I can't remember where now (it was years ago); can anyone say if that's true?
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Don't talk shit about American Dennis. He may be younger, but he's got the spirit.
Our Dennis isn't really a menace, just a troublemaker, but he could out-smart Big Dennis any day of the week.
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You'd be very surprised my friend. Try some research.
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