I'll take a break from political stuff for a minute to talk about a show that my roommate introduced me to when we were in college. Sifl and Olly is a mish mash of skits most of which were done with crudely made sock puppets. The people behind it clearly have very little budget and are playing most of the music on their own. I can say this was confidence because the songs sound like they were made on a $150 Casio keyboard from Wal-Mart.
While there are multiple seasons, the various episodes are in no way connected to the others so this is part of what made sliding into this show so easy. It didn't matter if you had ever seen an episode before because the various characters changed so frequently.
It was on MTV during that time of MTV's transitioning from being a music channel to having almost nothing to do with music anymore.
You can get a glimpse into how silly this show was in this clip about "Llama school" that is really about nothing but is such a catchy silly song that here we are 20 years later and if i talk to my old roommate, who now has kids, about llama school we can immediately break into song about it... His kids think we are being serious but then one day we showed them the clips and they laughed and laughed.
While most of the characters were not recurring, "Chester" was one of the most beloved puppets and he got regular spots on the episodes.
Most of the songs and skits don't even sound as though they were rehearsed at all and perhaps a lot of the dialogue was ad-libbed. It's hard to tell. It was a show that we looked forward to every week when it would come on late at night. I think it probably helped if you smoked weed a bit... because that really enhanced the humor in our minds.
The show was wildly popular in '97 and '98 but then I guess the appeal wore off because it was cancelled before the turn of the millennium. I think it may have had a lot to do with the fact that the show was quite juvenile and would only appeal to a very small demographic. It was not appropriate for kids and it was also far too silly for most adults. I loved it.
Hahah, actually never saw it. Being Canadian was more into Much Music back when I was mainstream. Nowadays I don't listen to mainstream music (not that they play any now, of course).
You sound like you might enjoy a book I co-wrote. Coincidentally, it was written around those years (mid 90s). It was meant to be futuristic, like 5 years in the future, so 1999. It was about the turn of the millenium and everything we thought might be coming. How society would continue to get more ridiculous and dumbed down. It was full of bathroom humour, naughty sexual perversions, surprisingly clever writing, and outlandish situations never before or since imagined. We believed the future would be bizarre. Took a little longer for our vision to come true, but the present is looking quite a bit like our Cartoon Bomb world.
I'm recently in touch with the co-author again, and he's game for getting it edited up and formatted for the blockchain. I'll let you know if/when I start posting chapters, in case you might want to have a chuckle :)
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so the book was called "Cartoon Bomb" ? If so, i'd like to check it out
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yeah, i watched this show a bit back in the day but I think you were trying to indicate that the fan base might have been a group of people who were part of the "green movement" at the time. All the people I know that were really into this show were part of that group anyway.
It is silly and funny though, and I have to admire the fact that these guys with a shoestring budget were able to get on board with MTV, who were kind of in their prime at the time in the late 90's
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i think at the time i was only watching this show and maybe a bit of "Singled Out" in order to look at Jenny McCarthy or Carmen Electra :)
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