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The wonder that is Wonder Showzen

by Adam Finley, posted Jun 20th 2005 12:47PM

Either I've been spending too much time alone in my room, or I'm dead, but somehow I've completely missed Wonder Showzen, a show which borrows aesthetically from Sesame Street, but with a lot more heroin use and puppet sex. While its satire can sometimes seem a bit tired, it's done in a unique and manic way. Children are often utilized as on-the-street interviewers of unsuspecting adults in a segment simply called "Beat Kids." It's not a show you want to examine too closely, but when it works, you'll need a team of janitors to clean up your splattered brains after your head explodes from laughing so hard. And besides, it does the TV Funhouse thing better than TV Funhouse ever did. The show airs on MTV2.

 

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ken52787

Kerry, they did that. They call it "MTV Hits"

June 20 2005 at 9:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matthew Smith

Damn...great to see someone finally picked this up. The "pilot" has been around for at least 4 years, and was initially known as "Kids Show"; developed for USA Networks, of all places. Good stuff.

June 20 2005 at 2:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kerry

Wait a second, so now MTV2 is airing shows that are not music video-related, nor even music-related? so, what, now they'll bring out MTV3 and say "this time, we really mean it, this network will air all videos, all the time?"

June 20 2005 at 1:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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