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Psycho-Wave
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
USA
1112 Posts |
 Posted - March 26 2008 : 4:13:56 PM
 
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I've seen some pretty seriously painful shit. I've seen Humanoids from the Deep. I've seen Deadly Daphne's Revenge. I've seen The Ring Two. I've seen the first 20 or so minutes of Death Wish 2. I've seen Birth of a Nation. I've even seen Cannibal Holocaust. But NOTHING....could prepare me for THIS.
I speak of Animal Kwackers (a better title would be Night of the Living Dead High School Sports Mascots), an old 1970's era British "children's show" that was an obvious ripoff of The Banana Splits. I've heard several people refer to the Splits as "creepy". My dear friends, you've seen NOTHING.
It starts off innocently enough, with a nice animated intro....but at around 1:22 on the Youtube video, the screaming starts. I'll link to both parts...but I warn you, getting skullfucked by The Incredible Hulk is kinder to your eyes than subjecting them to this abomination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvG5HVUhdM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNk4fFn9FQ0&feature-related
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My LiveJournal page!
Narrator: Back in his secret HQ, our hero has one final, desperate idea.
Earthworm Jim: I know, we'll get help from... the audience! I'll get super powers if you all just believe! (to audience) Believe and clap really hard! (waits silently for a moment, then turns to Peter) Well, are they clapping?
Peter Puppy: Uh, a few of them. Most of them are just changing the channel. |
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itsmenotyou
Commander
USA
135 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 4:33:19 PM
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I keep expecting an owl to start going down on a frog. It makes everything stupid about the show absolutely beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDFvLqRcg38
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JCDenton
Commander
Canada
172 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 4:49:10 PM
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| The name "Animal Kwackers" is enough to tell me this is going to be some kinda bizzare LSD trip |
Eat, Drink, and be Merry, for Tomorrow, we Die. |
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Olaf the Lofty
Commander
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 6:15:13 PM
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| I know I watched this as a child, as I can remember part of the titles (though not how badly animated they were) and song. The rest of it, though, I don't remember. You can read (very little) more about this curious effort here. |
God save the Queen and God help Princess Anne |
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Tarantino4ever
Sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania
USA
291 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 6:21:33 PM
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Whatever the creators of this show were on when they came up with this, I want some!
By the way, am I the only one who noticed that their delivery of "Rory, Rory, tell us a story!" makes it sound like something they'd chant right before engaging in ritualistic human sacrifice? |
"Mother****er got blood all over my best clown suit!" |
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Bruce Campbell
Singin' in Korean
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Kavak
Loyal Worshipper of the Golden Rat
USA
852 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 6:39:14 PM
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| Giant...blue...rodent...thing... yeap, LSD's a wonderful thing. Why do you think it started off with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"? |
Star Tract: The Last Generation! Chick: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Proselytize. Its continuing mission: to convert strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations and scare or confuse them into believing what we do, to blindly believe whatever we’re told. |
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Psycho-Wave
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 6:41:45 PM
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Death Wish 2? Birth of a Nation?
Both are pretty horrifying, but nowhere near as scary as a poorly made, big headed blue zombie lion with dead eyes, buck teeth and a floppy, way too long lower jaw. |
My LiveJournal page!
Narrator: Back in his secret HQ, our hero has one final, desperate idea.
Earthworm Jim: I know, we'll get help from... the audience! I'll get super powers if you all just believe! (to audience) Believe and clap really hard! (waits silently for a moment, then turns to Peter) Well, are they clapping?
Peter Puppy: Uh, a few of them. Most of them are just changing the channel. |
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Zorak1001
All Up in Your House with Disease
USA
486 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 6:54:54 PM
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Whatever the creators of this show were on when they came up with this, I want some!
They were on an american television, watching the Banana Splits. Seriously, as cheap and crappy as THAT was, this is like the Banana Splits with no budget at all. Those have GOT to be the most hideous costumes I've ever seen; Rory appears to be constructed entirely of dryer-lint.
The only advantage, they couldn't afford to pay anyone to write and perform songs for them, so they had to use actual rock songs. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was certainly an appropriate choice!
But then after all the weird ass psychedelic opening, we get gentle story telling in a soothing cultured voice, instead of the 'Splits overdose of Whackiness. It's like Ren & Stimpy presenting a perfectly straight version of the Velveteen Rabbit. |
"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself"-It Conquered the World |
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Tarantino4ever
Sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania
USA
291 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 7:26:13 PM
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| quote : Originally posted by Zorak1001quote : Originally posted by Tarantino4ever
Whatever the creators of this show were on when they came up with this, I want some!
They were on an american television, watching the Banana Splits.
Never mind, then. |
"Mother****er got blood all over my best clown suit!" |
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Disillusion Ed
Tempus Fugit
USA
803 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 7:41:10 PM
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I remember this being on TV on Sunday morning at, like 6 AM. (Before Mr. Magoo and Drawing From Nature with Captain Bob Cottle.)
In any case, that's pretty messed up.
I like the masks though. A little less of that 70's era Emo-rock would be fine with me. Ugh. |
The clock in San Dimas is always ticking. |
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graboid-king
Captain
USA
265 Posts |
Posted - March 26 2008 : 7:56:57 PM
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To me nothing beats the never aired Christmas episode of "The Rainbow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJxAs2aazU |
Oh No, My Brains-Hans Moleman
The Only Time We Don't Have is the Time We Don't Make |
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Tarantino4ever
Sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania
USA
291 Posts |
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Nick
Let's have sex
United Kingdom
2202 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2008 : 02:12:57 AM
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| I'm old enough to remember Animal Crackers when it first aired...and it began a process in my life that has eventually ended up with me being on The Agony Booth. |
http://www.rhubba.com ; the comedy sketch show on the internet. |
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AcidQueen
Lt. Commander
USA
74 Posts |
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Nick
Let's have sex
United Kingdom
2202 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2008 : 09:36:10 AM
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| The truth about THAT episode of Rainbow. It wasn't a Christmas episode, it was in fact a test session where they were (to coin a technical term) blocking the scenes for a normal episode. The cast and crew just wanted to have a bit of fun before having to go into "kiddie entertainment mode" but somebody decided that the whole thing should be preserved for posterity...and a good thing they did too. |
http://www.rhubba.com ; the comedy sketch show on the internet. |
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Fish Eye no Miko
I'm a peace-time Mandalorian
USA
304 Posts |
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Edtopia
Lt. Commander
USA
91 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2008 : 11:22:20 AM
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Man, that Animal Kwackers thing is so bizarre. The lolling eyes, gaping jaws and very tight pants are unnerving.
I wonder if they ever explain why the tiger (Boots?) wears an eye patch. Perhaps they could only afford one creepy, staring, lolling eye.
I like how there is a "devised by" entry in the credits. Maybe it's just a British thing, but that seems like an awfully sinister verb to me. |
"Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons." |
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N N W
Captain
274 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2008 : 1:47:39 PM
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"Animal Kwackers" was a bit before my time (although my parents still lived in Britain when it originally aired (mid-1970s I think?), they were still a young, carefree, childless married couple), but I have seen a few clips (including one on one of those endless list shows Channel 5 loved to trot out, this one about 100 moments/series in British television history that are perhaps best forgotten), enough to know that were I a member of its original target audience, I'd probably have stayed far, far away. I have a soft spot for "The Banana Splits", tacky and cheap though parts of it may be (nowhere near as cheap as some of the tat William Hanna and Joe Barbera were churning out ten years later, though), and as the summary on TV Cream puts it, this is a feeble attempt to ape it (no pun intended) where none was really needed (why not just watch the original?). I didn't remember the costumes being quite that ratty and terrifying, though - should have kept them in animated form, even if the opening and closing credits do have a bit of a low budget look to them.
As for the infamous "twanger" sketch from "Rainbow", I was introduced to that clip several years ago - perhaps unsurprisingly, I know several people who grew up in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s (some of my cousins, for example), when "Rainbow" was at its peak, who claim that they actually remember seeing that sketch as part of a normal episode. (No. No, you don't.) Although I suppose it puts all of the scatological schoolyard poems and songs (usually sung to a verse of the admittedly rather catchy "Rainbow" theme tune) mocking the cast in general and the unfortunate Geoffrey Hayes in particular into perspective.... |
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Trurl
Lt. Commander
96 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2008 : 2:37:52 PM
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| That is FUCKED up. The really trippy part is that those guys are really miming the parts dead on. They are actual players. Wonder who?? |
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Ridureyu
Smog Monster
USA
1672 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2008 : 3:15:17 PM
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| I'm sorry, but nothing that the US has produced can ever match the pure evil and horror on display here. It's time to exterminate the British Isles. |
Sucks to your numerology! |
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