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wonder showzen rip off

Last post 10-23-2007, 8:27 PM by njfilmcore. 5 replies.
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  •  03-15-2007, 10:31 PM 1789

    wonder showzen rip off

    I've seen clips of that show on adult swim titled, " the Tim and Eric awesome show". I think those guys are biting wonder showzen nasty. I would love to find out if  the creators of WS were involved but I havnt heard anything. Doesn't that show look like a rip? I think so.

  •  03-21-2007, 9:39 AM 1793 in reply to 1789

    Re: wonder showzen rip off

    It's a little similar in the set-up I guess, but it's in no way a rip off. The only similarity really is the rapid fire skecth show theme. But the Tim & Eric show doesn't have too much cartoon stuff. Also, the Tim & Eric show is really fucking funny, probably my favorite thing on tv now that Wonder Showzen is no longer around.
  •  03-28-2007, 5:04 PM 1802 in reply to 1789

    Re: wonder showzen rip off

    i tend to agree with you. tim & eric are obviously less concerned with satirizing political, social & religious conventions than our boys of showzen were/are. as such the show wallows in itself with no real grounding of viewpoint to mangle, manipulate, emasculate and embalm as showzen.. it gets too arbitrarily weird with no intention to anchor the premises... with showzen i always felt like 'this is consciousness revolution rebelling abandoning outmoded linear consumerist fairy tales.. it was (to be crazy emphatic) the dawning of a new world order, complete with its own chaos creed (within the confine of socioconscious observation, there are endless ridiculous puzzles and social atrocities/ paradoxes to point out through an exxagerated medium of absurdity to send u a jump start jolt to everyones comatose mental scrotums.... give them sensation and remind them of the immense darkness that shades those with power in our society)... tim & eric holds no relevance beyond a sometimes hypnotic aesthetic quality of psychotic confusion with no metaphor back to a firm grounding in actually knowing about shit.... refusing to recognize anything but its own ruminous rump, its missing out on a whole world to digest and recapitulate in terrorist psychedelia frenzieeeee. showzen are conscious of the dogmatic dupes of previous paradigms' and use it as a compost pile fertilize furnace in which to cook up their response in all its limitless glory.

    hail showzen! accept no cleverly scheduled to pick up after showzen got dropped imitators! tim & eric are talented chaps but we need another couple rounds with the inner child guided by our lovable sub normal hump to understand "why we all here on earth, man"

  •  03-30-2007, 10:10 PM 1803 in reply to 1789

    Re: wonder showzen rip off

    I think they are definitely taking a page out of WS's book in terms of stretching the limits of absurdity and the sometimes rapid fire format. But they don't even attempt to recreate the brilliant subversion and nihilistic sardonicism (probably on purpose) that Vernon and John lace in every episode because that's not really Tim & Eric's style.  But they are creative in their own right.  If you've seen Tom Goes To the Mayor which was a previous show by T&E then you get a better feel for their type of humor.

    Personally, I think the show is extremely hit or miss, but it's still very different and creative.  I'm more happy just at the fact that shows like this are given a chance to survive in the murky sea of horrible mind-numbing shit that is American television.

    I'd love to see the PFFR guys do a collaboration with T&E in the future.







  •  04-13-2007, 9:43 PM 1821 in reply to 1803

    Re: wonder showzen rip off

    Tom Goes To The Mayor is (was) one of the best fucking shows on TV.  really, only wonder showzen bests it.  i havent seen the tim/eric show yet though, it looks... interesting...

  •  10-23-2007, 8:27 PM 1847 in reply to 1821

    Re: wonder showzen rip off

    time and eric is the best show around now that WS is off

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