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Posted: 23-03-2006 04:02 Post subject: The Mighty Boosh

www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/mightyboosh/

www.imdb.com/title/tt0416394/

I watched a few episodes when it started but couldn't really be bothered with it - struck me as trying a little too hard to be weird for weirdness sake. I caught a few of the most recent series on BBC2 - very weird and Fortean (I sw the one where they dressed as goths and had to get the Necronomicon from a granny and the one where they travelled to Naboo's home). While I enjoyed them I'm unsure if I found them that funny and was pondering treating them as a surreal soap opera. I will also own up to possible not having given this series enough time in the past.

[edit: Just checking through the BBC site and there have been less episodes than I recall. There is also a complete DVD out which isn't bad:

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000CQK070/revenantmagaz-21

I'm still unsure. Then again reading the episode guide makes them sound great. Wink

I might try and get Booshed up with some repeats.]

Any fans/haters?

Posted: 23-03-2006 09:29 Post subject:

I watched a couple of episodes from the first series. I thought it was quite funny at the time. The episode I remember most was a weird Dr Moreau parody with the two characters finding the creatures in the mad doctor's/vet's [?] rooms. The 'monsters' costumes were nothing short of an infant school play - all foam, neon paint and nylon 'teddy bear' fur. I think that's what I liked about it IIRC.

Posted: 23-03-2006 09:50 Post subject:

Saw a couple on BBC recently. To start with, I thought it pretty imbecilic, but after a while, I was engrossed - totally drawn in to the Boosh universe. The episode where they are cast away on a desert island because Vince has given the ship's captain a "mullet" haircut in his sleep was hilarious. The coconut-girlfriend rivalry which resulted was inspired lunacy of the highest level.

All in all, ideal late-night cult viewing.

But still stupid.

Posted: 23-03-2006 11:15 Post subject:

Milky Joe & Old Gregg are perhaps two of the most terrifying characters ever seen on British television Shocked

The second series got a fair bit of stick from some quarters but I feel it made more use of the visual medium than the first (TV) series and was a natural and satisfying progression for something which started on the radio - some people particularly hated the Moon, but I loved him and I also have a fond spot for both the Hitcher and Tony Harrison... Very Happy

Posted: 23-03-2006 11:16 Post subject:

Yes, I only started watching it recently and I like it - but I'm not sure why. It does have it's very funny moments, and it does have it's own particular world in which everything is set (which they then mess around with). The production values seem pretty high, so obviously the BBC think it's worth investing in. I think my favourite episode of the last series was the one where they're two Mexican rock guitarists going on a vigil in a desert somewhere.

Blimey, even describing it makes it sound completely daft...

Anyway, it's still alot funnier than 'Hyperdrive' Wink

Posted: 23-03-2006 11:17 Post subject:

Oh, I'd forgotten about Rudi & Spider - I'd give anything for a copy of Bongo Ahoy... Wink

Posted: 23-03-2006 11:53 Post subject:

Very clever stuff.

Production values? Harked backed to the good old days of the first two Doctors, as far as I could see. And that's not to put it down, either! Laughing

Posted: 23-03-2006 12:45 Post subject:

It's like The Goodies, but with swearing.

Posted: 23-03-2006 12:49 Post subject: different folks, different strokes

Watched most of season 1 and 2, giving it a fair chance. But ultimately felt somewhat disappointed by it, I think. I don't think I ever so much as feigned slight amusement whilst in the company of others. I don't think it humoured me at all.

The weirdness I think is contrived and forced, so I've not been that much a fan of it. I'm all for cheap production values, and they certainly find their home on Mighty Boosh, they work because aesthetically I didn't find that they were that unpleasing. Sort of cool. but the show itself, as a whole, was trying too hard to be weird ... to be cool.

Sort of akin to the mad diatribe of someone who's never had drugs telling you all about their first trip. It's that naivety that lets it done.

Posted: 23-03-2006 13:27 Post subject:

Hmmm, I caught an episode of it where they were trying to woo a panda. I found that really funny. But then I saw the second season and it wasn't really that good. That Rudi & Spider thing was quite boring. But the Milky Joe episode was really cool and surreal.

I also noticed the two main characters appeared in a show called The Trial of Salvador Dali, which seemed to be a bit of an odd biography about him.

Posted: 23-03-2006 13:42 Post subject:

I saw the Old Gregg episode, visually some of it was really beautiful, some bits were funny, quite a few weren't.

Posted: 23-03-2006 14:15 Post subject:

Posted: 23-03-2006 17:58 Post subject: Might Boosh

Loved the first series, liked the second series. Both had inspired moments.

Went to see them live with my 16 year old son, and both loved it. Like a pantomime for the Stump F**cking generation.

Must go, my copy of Cheekbone has just been delivered; by Ninjas!

Posted: 23-03-2006 20:05 Post subject:

Listened to the radio show, it drove me up the wall after about ten minutes. Watched the TV show, it drove me up the wall in about five minutes. Oh well.

Posted: 23-03-2006 20:31 Post subject:

Love it