8/26/2023 0 Comments Tv funhouse ambiguously gay duo![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this being a semi-sequel to “Narrator that Ruined Christmas”, some of the jokes may have been a little too obvious (“Dumbfuckistan”), or mean-spirited (Moby & Gay Jokes), or Preachy (The ending, pretty much). Practically everybody has made fun of them at some point from “That 70s Show” to Aflac commercials, to the very network that airs them, and yes…even Other sketch shows. Rankin-Bass is, was, and will always be low-hanging fruit when it comes to parody. BLUE STATE CHRISTMAS () – Speaking of which Liberals getting upset that the person they wanted to be president isn’t going to be despite mounting evidence that the person who was elected did a lot of bad things and STILL gets in anyway…………Some things NEVER change, but at least Smigel knew how to take things in stride.Of course, all that Apocalypse stuff never wound up happening when this aired but as the old saying goes, “There’s a First time for Everything”…Right? This isn’t even particularly “Funny”, but I wanted to include this one because of the effort Smigel’s team put in over the apocalyptic imagery-some of which is downright disturbing-all while the cast of “Friends” go about their day (which actually reminds me just how Banal “Friends” truly was). MILLENIUM FUN WITH REAL AUDIO () – One note before we go further, there will be a Number of entries that will neither have Video or a Transcript (or a decent screen shot in this case) to back me up so for the most part, you’re gonna have to take my word for it…especially on this first one, which I admit might be a bit of a stretch it’s not “Christmas”, or even “New Years” per se–even though the mania of the Millennium is on full display here.In the meantime, we’ve got some stockings to stuff… Also, because there was actually a very small amount of “Holiday” related Smigeltoons over the years, I’m also going to include a few items that have “New Year/Year in Review” connotations as well. So for this list, we are only going to count down from 8 to 3 this time and please look up the entries from and to find out more about my top picks. (For the Record, I’d place “Narrator that Ruined Christmas” at #1 and “Charlie Brown 2002” at #2). Yes, it’s still a countdown list but because I have already mentioned two Very Great classics back in July, I don’t really want to go through the redundancy of talking about them again. With that said, This list is gonna be structured a little differently. Smigel’s Christmas cartoons arguably have the most effort compared to the other ones-partly because (as you’ll see) many of them tap in to a certain sense of Nostalgia essentially taking something well established from long ago and giving it a “Modern” Twist-and this is despite the fact that there were only a few of these made that were “Holiday” specific. And while discussion of all the other ones is something to talk about another day, today we are zeroing in specifically on the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”. Counting the 2011 Live Action AGD short film, a total of 102 “TV Funhouse” shorts were produced for SNL (to say nothing of the Comedy Central spinoff of the same name). The short on the Carvey series wound up repeating on the 1996 Season Premiere of SNL-and to those who never got a chance to see it on Carvey’s show, it was a hit right out of the box. It was here where we met for the first time, the unquestionable “Mascots” of these shorts-Walt Disney had Mickey Mouse, Warner Bros had Bugs Bunny, Max Fleisher had Betty Boop……………Robert Smigel had Ace & Gary, AKA… Unofficially, “(Saturday) TV Funhouse” began as a segment on the short lived “Dana Carvey Show” in 1996. Don Pardo credited these shorts as “A Cartoon by Robert Smigel”, I personally like to call them “Smigeltoons”, but officially, these cartoons became known as… From 1996 to roughly 2008, Smigel & several others put together a series of cartoons to plug in somewhere in the middle of an episode. Somewhere in between his head writing for “Late Night” and the moment “Triumph the insult comic Dog” wound up taking on a life of its own, Smigel never truly “Left” SNL. Smigel ( among other talented people) soon turned Conan O’Brien into a household name-partly because of the success Smigel found with a Dog hand puppet. He then took his talents over to a fledgling late night TV show on NBC where a Tall, lanky Redhead with Virtually No on-air experience needed all the help he could get. The guy who came on to SNL’s Writing staff in 1985, wrote a number of things that made the doomed Season 11 worth watching, then used that momentum to become one of the single most important off-screen figures of SNL’s “Silver Age” (The 2 years in the 90s when he was a featured player was icing on the cake). ![]()
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