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Moonlighters, or The Fall of the Mooninites

No, this has nothing to do with whatever Aqua Teen Hunger Force is called today. It's just a whimsical reference. "Moonlighters" sounds like a Simple Minds album track from 1987, but it's actually a harrowing animated epic about the fall of a great civilization. I say "epic", it is by modern PIF standards, coming in at an astonishing four and a half minutes (long enough that they have to keep flashing the words "THIS IS A PUBLIC INFORMATION FILM" onscreen in case some slackjawed yokel comes across it halfway through and breaks his mind trying to figure out just what on Earth it could all mean). Anyway, this differs from its Fire Kills stablemate Frances the Firefly (which incidentally also predates "Fire Kills") in a number of ways. For one thing, it's longer at 265 seconds than Frances, no slouch herself, ever will be again. (There is a 4 minute version of Frances, but unlike this it's not regularly put in rotation anymore) It also has a different narrator - Alexei Sayle, adopting his usual faintly unsettling "kiddy voice", where Frances' immolationscapades were described by the great Richard Briers at his most avuncular. For another, this is about lighters, where Frances was tempted by good old-fashioned matches. Presumably COI, or the agency they subcontracted, couldn't think of a way to warn kids against matches and lighters simultaneously and with equal resonance. Secondly, this is grimmer on several levels. Frances was tempted by an evil son of a bitch, whereas Ignignokt here is simply really, really stupid. Frances' city is damaged, but not irreparable, closer to London in 1666 than anything else. Whereas here, the actions of Moon Boy actually result in the wholesale destruction of an entire way of life, forcing the Moon creatures to regress back to nigh-medieval standards to preserve their civilization. Frances was at least partly innocent victim; she was punished, but the true perpetrator was known to be that little cockroach bastard, and he's the one who feels the wrath. Here, Err is clearly entirely to blame for his own catastrophic imbecility, and is shunned by his entire species, including his entire family, with the exception of his innocent little sister, who probably doesn't understand the full scale of her brother's cretinism, and to whom, each and every day, he sobs his penitence and attempts to warn her - and through her, the entire moon - against such a disaster happening again. So it's not a particularly jolly story, but then PIFs aren't meant to be. Also, kids, FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T PLAY WITH LIGHTERS OR MATCHES, YOU'LL KILL US ALL, YOU'LL DESTROY THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE OH SWEET JESUS DON'T DO IT FOR GOD'S SAKE NOOOO