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Ugly Americans literalizes this theme through Mark Lilly, a social worker at the Department of Integration . Mark attempts to help monsters, demons, and zombies "assimilate" into a hyper-violent, bureaucratic version of New York City. Like David, who is trapped between his human self and a primal beast, Mark’s clients struggle to suppress their "baser instincts" to fit into a polite American society. The Satirical Mirror The Genius of An American Werewolf in London (1981)

While seemingly disparate, John Landis’s 1981 horror-comedy masterpiece and the Comedy Central animated series Ugly Americans (2010–2012) share a DNA of cultural dislocation and satirical "monster-out-of-water" tropes. Both works leverage the grotesque and the supernatural to highlight the absurdity of modern American identity and the struggle for integration into a foreign or chaotic society. Cultural Dislocation and the "Ugly American" An American Werewolf in AmericaUgly Americans :...

In An American Werewolf in London , American backpackers David and Jack are physically and culturally out of place in the moors of Yorkshire and later the urban sprawl of London. Their failure to heed local warnings—the classic "stay off the moors"—mirrors the oblivious nature of the "ugly American" archetype. Ugly Americans literalizes this theme through Mark Lilly,