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The Mighty Boosh
2004 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt
A British comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for popularising a style called "crimping"; short acappella songs which are present throughout all three series.
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As in surreal British sketch comedy? You'd like
- The Goon Show (it's this 1950s radio serial that inspired the Pythons... it's surprising how many tropes the Pythons borrowed from it)
- The Goodies
- The Kenny Everett Television Show
- Absolutely!
- The Mighty Boosh / Unnatural Acts / Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
- Vic Reeves' Big Night Out / The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer / Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer
- Big Train
- The League of Gentlemen
- On the Hour / The Day Today / Brass Eye
- Jam / Blue Jam
- The Armando Iannucci Shows
- Limmy's Show
Also, to throw in a US programme, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson was pretty good
> Can you recommend any other shows I might not be aware of?
Really, too many.
Other genius-level of strangeness? The Mighty Boosh (radio, TV, theater). - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZN1zyS7gY&list=PLflSnz9gSh-rXLnJt4HOjdeX-hq9swYC9 ; also live shows are on YT. The core are the TV series though.
Logical genius to the extreme, madness revealing? People Like Us, by John Morton (arguably the best thing ever made for the radio). - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZ4mBz5Qcc&list=PLJPeS4Ugqqnb0_xdrNE0B4WQx2uup5tNQ
In fact, there had been censorship of the Mighty Boosh episode with "the Spirit of Jazz".
I've been buying DVDs/Blu-Rays again.
In my case it's mainly because you can't trust the online streaming companies to preserve access to content, especially if it's older content that's no longer considered politically appropriate.
The watershed moment for me was when Netflix removed The Mighty Boosh over a small number of admittedly questionable scenes. There are other places I could stream it from, but some other content can be hard to find, even illegally. Other comedies have had scenes modified or episodes pulled.
As a side benefit, I concur with the observation that the quality of Blu-rays and even DVDs is typically better than the streamers. Lots of films are 4k Dolby vision on Blu-Ray but still only 1080p on Netflix/Prime. Apple TV tends to be better, but usually no cheaper than buying the disc.
All the stuff from before you were born is curated for you by society. It's pre-filtered, the cruft has been removed and for the first few years of your life you have no control over the filter.
Then, as agency is attained, you get increasing exposure to the great unfiltered, and you find hidden treasure and trash and you learn what you actually like and dislike - in preparation for the filter you apply to your own children - which helps to define you, to yourself.
Then you get a job, partner, mortgage / rent, kids, and, just the requirements to being able to afford all that goes with that, removes the time required for 'agency' and so you're locked in a fairly tight decade-era of culture for the rest of your life unless you actively choose otherwise; seeking out the alternative, following rabbit holes, opening yourself to the full spectrum of colour that is within surprisingly easy reach, following threads that your natural tendency for the easy path would be to drop.
Most of my favourite music that I listen to now is recent. My old favourites are from when I hadn't heard my new favourites. Some of my new favourites are contextual around life stages and activities I hadn't reached or participated in earlier.
I missed Mad Men, tried to start it a couple of years ago, realised it's 92 hour-long episodes, and worked out that I didn't have the enthusiasm for it after getting through a few episodes because the combination of my friend-base and entertainment value I was getting from it didn't add up to being worth 92 hours of my time.
Recently watched Berserk upon the recommendation of a work colleague. Worth it.
Squid game, worth it. For me anyway.
Live action Cowboy Bebop, enjoying it a couple of episodes in, will continue.
Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. But first, you gotta know yourself.
Listen to music you don't like to better calibrate what you do like. Watch the occasional blockbuster movie to help your appreciation for real film.
Can't see, hear, taste, or do it all, find your own channel but make sure to rub up against the edges regularly enough to determine if you need to change channels but didn't realise it yet.
Culture is about stories from which life lessons are learnt, and there are a lot more TV shows, movies, and songs than there are life lessons, so as long as you check those edges occasionally, you'll be pretty well covered.
The Wire destroyed and rebuilt my view of the world, and work, and government, and leadership and morality. The song King Kong as covered by Tom Waits recalibrated my musical brain (which was already uniquely calibrated by Mr. Bungle in the late 90's), The Mighty Boosh and Rick and Morty have been journeys into imagination like I never dreamed.
No. There's not too much culture.
I second the "Mighty Boosh". Cartoon Network's Adult Swim had edited versions, but you must watch the originals to experience the Boosh.
Also, Maurice from 'IT Crowd' is a reoccurring character on the Boosh. He is one of the shaman, Saboo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Mighty_Boosh#Saboo