Richard Metzger is the current Boing Boing guest blogger.
PEOPLE OF AMERICA, LISTEN UP: From the fine folks who brought you “Tim and Eric Awesome Show -great job!,” “Superjail” and “Look Around You,” at long last, “The Mighty Boosh” have a berth at Adult Swim!!! Thrill to the psychedelic adventures of Vince Noir, “rockstar” –raised in a forest by Bryan Ferry, can talk to animals, a big Gary Numan freak– and Howard Moon, “generic-looking” unpublished novelist and delusional “intellectual.” The Boosh have landed in the US of A!!!!
It’s next to impossible to describe the riotous bubble gum confection of the audio-visual strangeness that is The Mighty Boosh, but, in brief, Howard and Vince, along with their friends Naboo the Enigma, mystical shaman and pot dealer, and Bolo the gorilla go on various surreal journeys. Along the way they meet meet killer kangaroos, violent hitchhikers, “mod wolves,” and a hermaphroditic “merman” (with a “mangina”). Many of the episodes erupt into bizarre and elaborate music videos with inventive dance choreography. If any of this is starting to sound like something you might enjoy, grab yourself some herbal “entertainment insurance” (if you know what I am talking about, and I think you do –The Boosh are God’s gift to stoners) and start watching The Mighty Boosh, Sunday nights on Adult Swim.
I have two favorite episodes: “The Priest and The Beast” (series 2, ep 2) where the boys go on a mystical journey to find “the New Sound”– a comedic “Holy Mountain” meets a Carlos Santana concept album from 1973 (If that statement makes no sense, don’t worry about it) and the series two closer (ep 6) “The Nightmare of Milky Joe,” of which, my wife Tara remarked “There is ‘Eraserhead’ and then beyond ‘Eraserhead’ there is but ‘Milky Joe.'” (Another friend said “These guys certainly carried that through to the end with the utmost conviction!” which is too true about this one, ’nuff said).