Robert Smigel creates these weird parody cartoons that often make it onto SNL (i.e. the ambiguosly day duo - a mock up of old Super Friends cartoons, in which the super hero and sidekick are, well, “ambiguosly gay”).
This, you likely know of.
But do you remember this completely demented kiddie show that appeared for a time on comedy central? It included such cartoons, but it was primarily a sort of fucked up Blue’s Clues, with a human host and his “anipals” (puppet animals). I recall an episode where they get wasted in Vegas, and another where the animals volunteer to be test subjects in a lab. At the time, my friends were aghast (and wildly happy) that this sort of thing could appear on TV.
They used to have more/longer ones, but it looks like it’s coming out on DVD in a few weeks, so the content is pretty limited now.
I remember liking the show a lot, but all I can specifically remember is Triumph hanging out with Robert Goulet and the snake that always barfed up garbage in the shape of things.
I seem to remember watching the antics of the Anipals late at night when I was loaded. I remember puppet cat having sex with a rabbit (a real rabbit, who seemed pretty oblivious). The cat, in a sexual frenzy, coughs up a hairball on the rabbit’s back, and says “I always wanted to do that! God, I hate myself.”
Did I dream that?
Okay, after checking out the link, I see that I didn’t dream that scene. Jesus, I’m buying that DVD.
When I saw this thread I thought it was the one I used to watch as a kid. There was a british show where there was a presenter with a funky mullet! (Pat Sharp) and kids could battle it out in a ball pit style game. There were twins who were Pats assistants. I remember the cheesy theme song like it was yesterday
" funhouse its a whole lotta fun, prizes to be won,
It’s a real crazy show where anything will go.
Fun House, it’s a quiz, it’s a race, a real wacky place.
Use your body and your brain, if you wanna play the game, Funhouse!" shakes head in disgust at knowing all the words
I remember it. The things that specifically stuck with me were Triumph lamenting because he was stuck inside a poodle he had sex with, Robert Goulet cutting off someone’s thumbs, and the turtle flushing himself down the toilet as his method of transportation.
The greatest one ever was the Christmas episode- especially the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon when they use the Wayback Machine to revisit, not THEIR first Christmas but THE First Christmas!
I loved TV Funhouse. Delighted to learn there will be a DVD soon. Brilliant television that was way over the heads of the average Comedy Central viewer. The good stuff always gets yanked too soon.