TV Funhouse was an absolutely insane (no exaggeration) TV show created by Robert Smigel, the rotten mind behind the Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons on Saturday Night Live and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. The show featured a cast of degenerate animal puppets (Anipals), actual live animals and Your Pal Doug, and a format similar to live action kids shows like Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers. Each week Doug struggled to get the animal cast to follow the format and theme of the show, but invariably the animals would sneak off to un-family friendly places like cock fights, whore houses, or Las Vegas. In the Christmas special the Anipals incapacitated Doug and made drugs from his spinal fluid — which for me pretty much summed up the insanity of the mid-late 1990s American cultural landscape in under 30 minutes.
The DVD is of the show will FINALLY be released on July 22nd. I recommend it. It’s a buy.
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Last week I was in Ohio on vacation for the Brood XIV cicada emergence (the last 17 cicada emergence until 2012). You can read about that on Cicada Mania.
On my way, I stopped at Cabela’s and snapped this shot of a bear fighting an eagle. It made me think of the Colbert Report, and America fighting Russia.
I live along the shore of New Jersey, so I was surprised to see the world’s largest horseshoe crab in the middle of Ohio (Blanchester to be specific).
Ohio has a lot of fast food restaurants — about 3 times the number that we have in New Jersey. One type of fast food Jersey does not have is chili served on spaghetti. I tried both restaurants that serve this meal: Gold Star and Skyline. While both restaurants had unusually attractive workers, I preferred Gold Star because it was spicier and less soupy. Ohio also has Circle K convenience stores, which is cool to see if you’re a fan of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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