The Stuff

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.