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Okay so remember this clip that was circulating the internet up to like 2-3 years ago called "kids show" which was like sesame street except with such as horses taking a shit and clowns vomiting on birthday cakes and the like? YES. it was awesome.
So through a stroke of huge luck because I don't have cable I happened to be at a friend's house who has MTV2 the other day and there was this show on called "Wonder Showzen" and it turns out that kids show clip was a pilot, and and I guess MTV2 finally decided to pick up the series (maybe they have these things planned out long ahead of time and they were like "hey by the year 2005 we will be able to get away with showing this on television so hold on") so now I have to figure out how I'm going to watch this show religiously and not have to get cable.
It's sort've like half captain kangaroo and half Concrete TV. yeah that's rad isn't it

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The best part is when they involve actual kids like there's this kid interviewing some adult and as the adult goes into a long involved answer to the kid's question the child is holding up a little sign to the camera saying "MORON". If I'm remembering right.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The disturbing:funny ratio of this show is about 8:1. I still don't know what to think about the episode that ends with them eating God.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM. I saw that clip last night. I would have loved this stuff in high school, though. I thought MTV2 was created so they could actually show videos? Now all it is is programs too weird for MTV1, and ten shows featuring the guys from Jackass.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't know what to think about the episode that ends with them eating God.

I MUST SEE THIS NOW.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

YES.
This show is way better than videos. I want a channel made entirely of shows like this.

― Dan I., Monday, 21 March 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder what kind of legal documents those kid actor's parents had to sign?

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Some days you eat God. Some days God eats you.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/613/

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

DELICIOUS MURDER

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Oh man, I got the first seven episodes of this on bit.torrent, and I think this might be the greatest television show ever.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

The puppet performing a sex change operation ON HIMSELF made me nauseous. The numbers / letters Arab / Jew gangwar / manlove (w/ the smelly hippy puppet) was more my speed. Puppet humping = awesome.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

The slaves! (Built the pyramids...Built America!) song in the number/ letter gang war episode was great. I am fond of the songs and Clarence, not so fond of the random blood in toilet/man chewing on own hand stuff. That said: CHOOTIES

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh! And when S and N had mad raunchy puppet sex, and N gave birth to a lowercase i, so their family portrait spells out SiN = awesome!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Must get this finally. Shall seek for it this weekend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

so is this on tonight or what? I tuned in to MTV last Friday at 10 and 11 and was met with the usual reality show bullshit.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

has anyone seen the Patience episode? omg. it's really a test of patience. for about 10 minutes straight, they have that blue puppet interupting a guy trying to say "remember kids, you've got to have patience". finally they say, "we're sorry for wasting your time for the past 15 minutes. we're going to give you back those 15 minutes of your life by playing the entire episode backwards." and they do it! i was so grateful i had tivo so i could fastforward through it.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

IT WAS LIKE NEU! 2

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I loved how the cartoon Japanese man aged though!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

"PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee..........."

that was great.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

so is this on tonight or what? I tuned in to MTV last Friday at 10 and 11 and was met with the usual reality show bullshit.

-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), May 13th, 2005 11:51 AM. (later)

I think it's on at 9:30 EST. And it's on MTV2, not MTV.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I know its an MTV2 production - but it DID get aired on MTV more than once at some point, because that's where I saw it. Whether or not that was part of regular programming or just a "preview" or something, I don't know...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 May 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

i set my tivo to record all new episodes of it and it looks like they only have three episodes on air for a while, "Space", "Ocean" and something else.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh, well, I don't have MTV. I just know that new episodes are on MTV2 at 9:30 Eastern on Fridays.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Space and Ocean are both good.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

OH MY GOD. THIS IS BEYOND.

9:30 cannot come soon enough.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

One of my favorite things about Wonder Showzen is that when the blue puppet is bugging people, the people get pissed at the PUPPET and yell at the PUPPET and try to hit the PUPPET and not the person whose hand the puppet is on.
I thought this was supposed to be a new one, though. It's not.

― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

the 'patience' episode was the season finale.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh, damn.

― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I know this was a repeat, but it was new to me. And goddamn was it great.

MTV, you've made up for the loss of Sifl N Olly, finally.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

i just got the series on torrent...
CRYING with laughter at the first episode
i screamed with joy like a little girl at the butcher shop scene, "you ain't nothin meat. you ain't nothin, daddy!"

i wish i'd waited until AFTER my exmas to download this, i don't think i can stop watching it

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Sunday, 15 May 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS PILLS

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 20 May 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

haha g e o f f that's become a running gag between my brother and I over the last couple months.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Also in the episode where the Beat Kids features a little girl on Wall Street harassing the rich people; at the end she wiggles her thumb and goes "Chang Chang!", and now my brother does that constantly.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

http://pffr.net/

They put their little url on the side of a boat on tonight's show. THey're in with Birdman records and Paperrad people. haha.

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Sunday, 22 May 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

MTV, you've made up for the loss of Sifl N Olly, finally.

See, I downloaded an episode finally, and it was fairly funny but I didn't like it the same way I didn't like the one episode of Sifl & Olly that I downloaded: It seemed really lazy. In a bad way. There was some funny stuff but it felt really cheap. (Not production quality, just the thought behind it.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 22 May 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

NOW I WILL FINALLY SEE THIS THING

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Eh. One or two laffs.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 July 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

I just watched this for the first time. I think I'm in love.

Kids on the beat! Kids on the beat BEAT KIDS!

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 16 July 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

DVD packaging is high-larious!

"Warning: Rat feces may contain trace elements of peanuts"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

commentary trax from DICK GREGORY and GORDON LISH

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

i just watched all the episodes, tomorrow, the special features

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 30 March 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

chang chang!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I must get this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 March 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

SLAVES!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

wow does gordon lish really do a commentary track? i definitely need to buy this.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 31 March 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

media hit

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 31 March 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

omg this dick gregory commentary is awesome!!!! totally Richard Pryor 2006 (without the impressions maybe)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

not overrated at all. nothing like kids say the darndest things either.

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

"so you'd let millions of people suffer for one stupid pony?"
best EVAH.

― something less threatening (heywood), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

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The Patience episode is the best one, I think - the whole "here's an entire episode in 5 minutes" at the end = genius.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6302/thatsracist3ed.gif

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Shakey, you mean Gregory sounds DEAD?!"

haha no I mean he goes on the kind of rant Pryor would have if he was still alive and active in his old age - great little (occasionally bitter) anecodtes, good natured proselytizing ("fear and God do not occupy the same space" - okey!) etc. Its great.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

i've wanted to the see the show for so long and this thread reminded me, so last nite i watched a ton of it on youtube and it is the silliness that i thought it would be. count me in. those dudes must be mr.show fans. and if they made a point of having david cross on, then i guess it's not much of a guess that they were. i can definitely see a lil' hitler character on mr.show.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I want to meet the parents of these children.

I think I want kids just so I can have them act on this show.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

i just ordered the box set. you people weren't wrong about chappelle, arrested devleopment or the aqua teen hunger force, so i'm expecting GOOD THINGS...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 20 April 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the last part of the last episode was some of the craziest shit they've done so far.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Monday, 8 May 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4193/toby9sq.jpg

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 8 May 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Lordy yes, it's a Children's Programme"

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

tonight's episode: well, i wasn't expecting that.

also, that was will oldham as the preacher, wasn't it?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 13 May 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit: check out the creators' back credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154074/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497563/ (slightly less impressive)

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 13 May 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

i give those links for "now it all makes sense" reasons

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 13 May 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

this show is so upsetting.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe that you hate the last days of disco. clerks i can see. lots of people probably hate it. i liked it, but then i was a clerk for many years, so it spoke to me on that level. and i thought it was funny too. but the last days of disco is great.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 14 May 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

it's okay, but it's stillman's worst film by quite a bit.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 14 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

i honestly don't remember enough about LDD to articulate why i disliked it so much!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

This is their real webpage:

http://www.pffr.net/

― JW (ex machina), Sunday, 14 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

finally saw two of the new ones - omg "Aunt Flo" cartoon!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

This is their real webpage:

That little pink guy isn't safe for work.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Aside from a lot of gore, cartoon and real, I love this show, just having seen this last night... this is what happens when a show fuses sugar syrup concentrate, surrealism, and shock value. Not to hip on the latter, but I can deal with the former two attributes.

I haven't seen the Patience episode, but I have seen the eating God episode. That was amazing.

The most LOLtastic thing I've seen is:

[whisper]

tyyyyllller

[/whisper]

"the most attractive perfect kid"

"I'm good. Really good. I follow ALL the rules. *smile*"

― DOQQUN (donut), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

the Patience episode is maybe the best one in terms of structural WE ARE FUCKING WITH YOU genius. But some of the other episodes have better gags and sequences....

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the best Beat Kids was when the kid went to the butcher shop. The guy who ran the butcher shop, or the actor thereof, was PERFECT. Also, the scene where the kid drinks the residual cow blood off the white styrofoam tray was brilliant if completely fucking gross. I'm sure they used diluted kool-aid for the prop, but it looked incredibly real... then again...

It's that "then again" that's the key to the show. How many of the blocked faces that Clarence has confronted are actual real people filmed for the show, or are they actors/actresses pretending to be irrate people on the street? You never know.

― DOQQUN (donut), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

That little pink guy isn't safe for work.

But he's SO CUTE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

the Patience episode is maybe the best one in terms of structural WE ARE FUCKING WITH YOU genius.

The structural aspect is my very favorite thing about the show, which is why the "patience" episode is my favorite. The gags themselves are never quite as good as the unpredictable shock cut "did I really just see that?" result of the delivery. There's just a great sense of pacing and control to the show that I see as more cinematic than most anything else on television.

― theodore (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

horse apples is kinda wack

― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

who all did they get for the little musical bit? i saw John Oates, Rick Springfield, Devendra, and was that Corin Turcker?

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

horse apples is kinda wack

For what it was, which was horrible, patently offensive television clearly meant to irritate viewers, I think it worked perfectly. A friend of mine and I watched it in shock and disbelief, and that's what they want.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

was that Corin Turcker?

however it's spelled? yes i think it was.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

oops, r u. oh well.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

swap the r & u, rather

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

this show provides an odd contrast to Robot Chicken

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

I was just watching JFK and realized that there's a clip in opening credits of wonder showzen of John F. Kennedy, Jr. at his dad's funeral. a perfectly wonder-showsian moment of childhood and the american nightmare intersecting.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

What a startling conclusion to the season finale

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 20 May 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Patience episode was show on english tv last night and was indeed a thing of twisted joy.

but favourite(?) thing of the episodes i've seen was the small boy dressed as Hitler. "I beat you in '45. You want a rematch? C'mon then."

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i've seen around 5 episodes. patience is great. the last episode was crap, it's based on the useless "you think we suck at this, well you try it!" argument. horse apples is funny for a few minutes then very annoying, and I agree it's intentional.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

little kid dressed as hitler + creepy twins = prussian blue

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

i thought parts of the last episode were great, though much of the humor was in the music cues.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

PATIENCE.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Patience is on TMF right now in the UK and it's just got to the good bit.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.toymania.com/334archives/clash/calibos.jpg http://www.toymania.com/334archives/clash/calibos_carded.jpg

Lord Kromdar aka Calibos Was anyone wondering where the demon looking dude is from in almost every episode? Yes? Well OK WE'LL TELL YOU CALM THE HELL DOWN. It's Calibos, the Lord of the Marsh.
Here is an old toy with his likeness. If you have this in your collection, please start praying the gay away.

(from wonder-showzen.com)

The subliminal Calibos shit is genius. The best was where someone hit Clarence and the screen froze for a second with Calibos inside Clarence's pupils.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Monday, 19 June 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

MIND FUDGED

― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 12 November 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

How is Season 2?

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2g9RGtt7V0

― am0n, Friday, 11 February 2011 23:10 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

*eats toilet rice* Kids, don't be like me!

― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Sunday, 26 January 2014 21:14 (twelve years ago)

this is so very great. pffr <3

― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Sunday, 26 January 2014 21:14 (twelve years ago)

six years pass...

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/6/9/21284446/wonder-showzen-mtv-anniversary-oral-history-clarence-beat-kids

Chatman: After the show got picked up, we wanted a few more main puppets, so we could have more story lines and have a little team of characters. We found this guy who’d made puppets for Sesame Street. He had a big shock of white hair and this crazy workshop down in the Lower East Side, and he did really good work. But after 35 years of glue inhalation, his brain was gone. He got mad about a shade of color we wanted for a puppet and threw us out of the studio.
We discovered the world of puppet people is really weird. They were so offended that we were not professionally trained: “Who are going to be your puppeteers?” And we were like, “We’re going to do it ourselves. Don’t you just open your hand?”

― DJI, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:58 (five years ago)

I've been hoping someone would do this

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:01 (five years ago)

MTV would be like, “I don’t think your show can say that a police officer’s gun tastes like candy.”

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:25 (five years ago)

LOL

― DJI, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:37 (five years ago)

Might be time for a rewatch. God I wish they'd done that "W" stunt.

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:43 (five years ago)

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