Awesome series MTV Sketch Comedy Series, which Alex Winter did before being scared

In October 1993, the comedy film “Alexei Winner” and “Tom Stern” opened virtually no fanfare. Created for a budget of $ 12 million, it earned a scanty $ 29,000 at the box office before slipping into the deepest unknown slits seemingly forever. Fortunately, the film was again opened by the enterprising weirdos on VHS, and its cult began to grow. By the end of the 2000 -ry “frightened” was saved, regularly speaking in the northern film. These days, this is a deeply favorite about as wide audience as it will attract. It will never be primarily; It’s too wild and weird for that. And frankly, thank you to the Lord.

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“Confused” is a former children’s star named Ricky Kugan (winter), which accepts a profitable financial transaction for promoting environmentally dangerous fertilizers in the Central American nation Santa Flan. Being there, he, his friend Ernie (Michael Stoyanov) and a bitter Protestant named Julie (Megan Ward) reveal a show-erection that carried Carnival, Elia S. Skuggnoted Weardo Randy Quaid). It turns out that Skuggs uses the aforementioned fertilizers to mutate the curious guests so that it can include them in their show. Makeup in “frightened” amazes any measure, showing at least 13 different “creatures” of characters. Winter becomes a fragmented boy of the beast, the left side turned into Graham.

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The “embarrassed” did not come anywhere. Those who looked at MTV in the early 1990s could see what he was going. The origin of the film can be seen in an incomprehensible, angry, aggressively violent sketchy comedy show that “Winter and Stern” were created, and directors wrote in 1991. The show has many of the same acting participants as “frightened” and even moved at least one common character. This show also held a similarly confused sense of humor. Only the most adventurous among us can remember the series: MTV “The Idiot Box”.

Winter, of course SCI-FI Slacker Comedy “Great Bill and Ted Adventure” In 1989, which gave him, Stern, and a mutual friend, nicknamed Tim Burns, a “idiot” at MTV. The “Idiot -Skrynka” was not the first sketching comedy show MTV, but it was pretty close. However, it was the most amazing network that joined the station’s tendency to deconstructive anarchy.

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There was no unification for the “idiotic box” except the murder of the comedy, sometimes literally. Alex Winter appeared on the camera to present each episode, and he is often attacked and/or killed in the middle of his entry. In the first episode of the show it is seen in the trunk of the car, smiling and promising the night of the crazy comedy, as the trio gangsters repeatedly applied it. Another entry into Winter has a bomb tied to his head, the style of “saw”, unable to remove it before the timer goes out.

Then the series will cut to one of its ordinary sketches. Was “Eddie The Flying G*MP”, which was not as good or heroic as people thought. There was a “Hugins Family”, a 1950 -year sit, in which the heroes had horrific hidden personal problems: from alcoholism to the murder of pets. The “Battle of the bands” was a physical quarrel between the pop band, like Wilson Philipp, and a fake group of cruel people called the Bo-Yakh tribe. Like all sketching comedy shows, some bits were fun and others fell. Some also got old a little bad.

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Then each episode will be led by Votar, the CGI chalk, which would describe the program you just looked at the computer. The “Idiot -Skrynka” ran for 30 minutes, but half of this, on the mandate of MTV, filled with music clips. Given the video and commercials, each episode was only about 10 minutes of original material.

The “Idiot -Skrynka” lasted only six episodes, perhaps too intense for the MTV audience. On the Internet you can find assembly of all the original materials “idiot”, but it certainly should not have been the main. It would be necessary to edit comedic bits back to the music video block to really jibe in step. Winter appeared on the current -show in 1991 promote the show and he quietly said he should be cruel and chaotic, of course In the tradition of “Flying Circus” Montsi Python and cartoons Bunne Bunny.

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Although the “Idiot -Skrynka” has failed, it is fortunate, with another project that winter, Stern and Burns have previously refused. It seems like the experimental band The Butthole Surfers once scored a trio to make a movie horror based on monsters for a project that never gathered. On the occasion of MTV with “The Idiot Box”, however, winter/strict/bers redorated the movie “Butthole Surfers” as a comedy that eventually wrote a movie called “The Muttering Mutant”. They posted the movie on the Fox 20th Century, and the company’s company Joe Roth loved a strange project and offered it a $ 12 million budget.

As too often, the Fox changed the regime, while the “disgusting mutant freak” was in production, and the new head of the studio hated it. The budget was reduced and the title was changed to “frightened”. When the movie has experienced poorly (and, indeed, no wonder), Fox lowered his presence, releasing it only on two screens across the country. Thus, the film earns only $ 29,000 during its original run.

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Surprisingly, despite the fact that the “idiotic box” was short -lived, and “frightened” was a failure, their quick editing and anarchic spirit affected the MTV House style. This is one of the least popular MTV shows, and yet it can be one of the most important stations. Rocking stone Even called it one of the best in all times.