The In-Sect - tv

I hope you are as fascinated by modern Asian popculture as I am these days. I’ve seen the modern Indian superhero-movie Krrish recently and I liked it.
Bollywood has outgrown cheesy and camp ripoffs of Western movies for a long time now but this is exactly where Krrish was nurtured. (Yes, action scenes and CG-FX are not state of the art in ‘Krrish’ – but who cares for those. I like singing and dancing in a superhero movie! A polka-dancing Hugh Jackman would have changed ‘Wolverine’ into a modern classic.)

So enjoy the movie-clip above and dance merrily with the Indian superman (no, not that one) and… ...Spiderwoman?
After that you may even buy Krrish here or check out other Indian superheoes like Jumbu, Bantul, Raaka or Gupi-Bagha.
Or watch 338 Shaktimaan TV-shows for free here.

If you liked this post, you may like the following articles on In-Sect, too: Superman is a Dick, Levent Çakir is Superman. And Batman., The 10 Lamest Superheroes and Superpup. Have fun!

Imagine you are dead and stroll through your neighbourhood with your buddies. Does the fact that your body is rotting change yourself into a mass of meat without any rights?
Can kids just beat the crap out of you only because you want to devour their brains? Is this humane?

But to be honest: I think this is not a cute prank played on little children. I think this dirty trick has a sadistic dimension and nobody has the right just to scare children this way just for a laugh.
I really do not like this clip – but maybe you do?

This is one of the many pilots that never aired. “Gay Robot” was based on a comedy bit on an album by Adam Sandler and was made into a pilot in 2005. Nick Swardson (Writer of the pilot and the voice of Gay Robot) statet that a cartoon version is in the works, but nothing happened yet, so I guess this version is cancelled too.
Here’s the full pilot (borrowed from Gay Robot’s MySpace page...)

Recently I found out that “The Flintstones” is still running on the same spot at the same time as it did 20 years ago. Fascinated by the fact that this rough drawn, badly animated show still is understood by the audience. And I realized that “The Simpsons” is just a modern version of “The Flintstones”. Homer and Fred could be brothers.
And Ralph Kramden (The Honeymooners), Al Bundy (Married With Children), Dan Connor (Roseanne) and Tim Taylor (Home Improvement) are part of that gene pool too. Why are fathers in comedy shows always lazy, big-mouthed, unadept, mendacious and dim-witted? What about a little variety?
I’m not saying there aren’t comedies with different scenarios – but when family life is the focus of the show the secret of success is a blundering dad. Since 50 years!

Far away, in a time when creationists still dwelled with their dinosaur friends down under a stone in the Bible Belt, Lancelot Link, the Secret Chimp set out to free the world from the evil plans of CHUMP (Criminal Headquarter for Underworld Master Plans). His tv show “Lancelot Link” was a very cheap spoof of the James Bond universe and I really can’t remember why I ever thought it was funny. It showcases several chimpanzees chewing bubble gum overdubbed by daffy human voices and – ...err… – that’s it. The first season was accompanied by cartoons and songs from Link’s band, “The Evolution Revolution”, starring Link on guitar, Mata Hairy on tambourine and Blackie on the drums.
Watch an episode: Surfing Spy, listen to the Evolution Revolution or get mesmerized by Mata’s Dance of the Seven Veils.

Clicking my way through YouTube yesterday I found a clip from a famous tv show called “This is Your Life” from 1954.

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Something about that show made me very sad and depressed. Laurel and Hardy is the best and most famous comedy double act in the history of cinema. They’ve influenced comedy so sustainable I dare to say: Without this duo there’d be no Jim Carrey, Shrek, Jack Black or almost any other modern comedian.
They were REALLY surprised about the invitation – Stan Laurel was actually angry about this stunt. “Oliver and I were always planning to do something on TV. But we never dreamed that we would make our television debut on an unrehearsed network program. I was damned if I was going to put on a free show for them!”. Stan was 64 and Oliver 62 years old and they were working as a duo for 27 years when Ralph Edwards dumbfounded them. This is their only television appearance in America and the audible gasp at the start of the show is due to the fact that the audience was unaware they were still alive.

Laurel and Hardy in 1956
Oliver was already suffering under his bad heart’s condition at that time and began to lose weight. Two years later he had lost more than 100 pounds, but several strokes took him down nevertheless and he died on August 7, 1957. Stan was not able to attend his funeral and he never performed again. Instead he spend his days answering every fan letter personally. About 1962 a new generation of comedians – Jerry Lewis and Dick Cavett, to name two – re-discovered the work of these slapstick superstars. Stan died in 1965 in Santa Monica. The artwork above is from Sebastian Krüger.