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Wonder Showzen - Season 1 (2005)

Vernon Chatman , John Lee , Vernon Chatman , John Lee  |  Unrated |  DVD
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  • Actors: Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy, Jim Cummings, Marty Grabstein
  • Directors: Vernon Chatman, John Lee
  • Writers: Vernon Chatman, John Lee
  • Producers: Amy Teuteberg, Campbell Smith, Dave Rath, Jesse Ignjatovic
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Paramount / MTV
  • DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000CSUNMK
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,887 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "Wonder Showzen - Season 1" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Special Features

  • Special Guest Commentaries by Gordon Lish, Dick Gregory, and others
  • Storytime with Flava Flav
  • Auditions and Outtakes
  • Sneek Peek Cartoon
  • Music Video
  • Bonus mini-poster
  • 8 episodes on 2 discs

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Variety show that spoofs childrens' programs using puppets, animation, and children.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately, this set has been edited., April 29, 2006
This review is from: Wonder Showzen - Season 1 (DVD)
In a culture where everything is ironic and everyone is trying to be shocking, it's difficult to find anything in entertainment that actually feels new and original. Wonder Showzen is one of those rare programs that has managed to push it's way past everything else and demand to be seen. The humor is refreshing and nothing is sacred or off limits. Some people may find some of the storylines and shorts to be highly offensive, but that is simply because they're not thinking about what the creators are really trying to say, and yes, the show is funny and entertaining, but there is some very deep social commentary being made in each episode.
Unfortunately, someone at Paramount Pictures (the company that is distributing the DVD) decided that some of the social commentary needed to be silenced for this DVD release. During the "Ocean" episode, there's a great animated short called "H.O.B.O. Opps". The short is about how America always fails to take care of their war veterans. And even though the veterans in the short are from the Vietnam war, their situation can be applied to how many of our current veterans from Iraq are coming home wounded and unable to pay their bills and medical bills thanks to our inadequette health care system. Two parts of this short have been cut from the DVD. First, the audio of one of the hobos urinating in public was removed, in the hopes that now the viewer wont be able to tell what this character is doing. And second, the end of the short was cut altogether. If you catch the rerun on MTV2, it ends with a young boy asking his mother "who that man was talking to" and she tells him to ignore the man. The camera then zooms in on a tear rolling down the boy's face that has a reflection of the American flag in it and the flag bursts into flames. This was the perfect way to end the short and it really drives the artist's message home, but it's gone from the DVD release, which is a shame. It amazes me how conservative people in this country who claim to be so patriotic, are always the first to try to censor or ban opinions, speech and art that differs with their beliefs.

So, I love Wonder Showzen and highly recommend it to everyone who loves cutting edge comedy laced with truth and social commentary. However, be aware that this set is edited so be sure to watch the show on MTV2 to get the full experience.

Easter Egg Instructions:
If you would rather hunt for these easter eggs on your own then STOP reading now, otherwise...

Press enter on your DVD remote at the following times...

Disc 1:
The THIRD Nobody Needs Me text in Birth
VERY beginning of first Tyler Time in Ocean
VERY beginning of second Tyler Time in Ocean
Beat Kids logo at the end of Beat Kids Song in Diversity
Beginning of Breaking News of Nature episode

Disc 2:
Beginning of Breaking News of Health episode
50 years later text on screen during first half of Patience
Kramdar text on screen during backwards portion of Patience
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187 of 225 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This Show is Too Awesome for Most to Understand!!!, March 29, 2006
This review is from: Wonder Showzen - Season 1 (DVD)
WONDER SHOWZEN - Season 1.
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This show is Genius... absolute genius! Wonder Showzen takes a dark, satirical look at what we are really teaching our children (?)
During the average episode it will have puppets interacting with children in sesame street style antics and of course going out on the street to ask people questions (The Clarence skit about Patience is priceless!), funny little cartoons (`Bible Brew... What would Jesus Brew?') , strange voice-overs old educational footage (Like the chicken dinner factory...) and my favorite segments with the children doing interviews... titled BEAT-KIDS (`Kids on the Street, Kids on the beat, Beat-Kids! Beat-Kids')

All in all, this is a priceless disc like nothing you have ever seen or could imagine trying to describe it is damn near impossible...
I lies somewhere between the witty satire of `The Daily Show' mixed with the raunch of `South-Park' and presented by kids that are too cool for Sesame Street. Just Freakin Awesome!!!

-If you like dark, twisted comedy and you don't check this out, you are less of a person.

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great show, great features, March 30, 2006
This review is from: Wonder Showzen - Season 1 (DVD)
I'm not going to talk too much about the show, but it's absolutely great with all sorts of hilarious moments, from the very short punch line sketches like the slaves song to Chauncey's dishonest actions to the cartoons like Segregation works because it has to and tradgedy farms milk.

The DVD has lots of extra features.
Disc 1:

Commentaries: The commentaries have very little to with the episodes.
Steven Hawking (Space): Obviously not him, but sounds like his electronic thing and says lots of weird things.
PFFR (Diversity): Just music by the band played throughout the episode.
Dick Gregory (Nature): He has some funny things to say but it is mostly political advice for young people. There is one section where he is censored to make a very scientific part of the commentary sound like he is saying lots of bad words.

Easter Eggs:
Not sure how to access them from the menu (if possible) but they are Titles 7-11 and easily accesible through Windows Media Player
7 - Chauncey and the Letter N sing a song about things that start with N.
8 - An extended scene with Tyler with the feather in the straw hut.
9 - An extenstion of Tyler doing the silly walk down the street.
10 - A kid interviewing in the studio some guy who is the "president" Very weird and funny.
11 - The producers talking to a kid about a jaguar. Also very weird and funny.

Disc 2:
Commentary:
Gordon Lish (Patience) - Sounds like he's having a conversation at a restaurant with the creators and they do their own little Patience repetition and a couple of other words that sound funny but I have no clue as to what they mean. Is played backwards during the second part of the episode and fast during the speed part.

Extras: The menu page has a kid (I think the one who does the air guitar during Slaves and might play a guitar in the series doing a "DVD extras" song.

Auditions and Outakes: Several minutes of interaction between the producers and the kids in the studio scenes, a couple of extras with Miss Amy, one where the kids are all skeletons and another where she arranges the dead baby thing with her husband, and Rufus Truthfist getting the teens to say something that a dirty mind can make very inappropriate.

Beat Kids Outakes: Has some extra scenes for the five best beat kids (the 4 with Trevor and the Petting Zoo). Some of the questions make absolutely no sense.

Clarence Outakes: Has some more funny Clarence things.

Promos: short little clips of season 1

PFFR Music video: has all the crazy animation like during Chauncey's trip on imagination.

Sneak peak of a second season cartoon: it's alright, about retarted people who are superheroes, don't do anything heroic and are still praised for their work

Storytime with Flava Flav: Probably the funniest thing on the whole set. Definitely not appropriate for Television.

Some previews for other MTV DVDs

Easter Eggs: Titles 14-16

14 - The kids teach you how to make a sandwich. With a variety of kid personalities.
15 - Clarence gets the old Asian guy from Patience to say some stupid things.
16 - A girl counts down from 100. Another patience tester.

For someone who taped all of the episodes on DVD thinking that this show would be cancelled like so many other good shows, just the extras make the price of this worth it.
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