Vernon Chatman and John Lee, the creators of MTV2′s Wonder Showzen, told Radar Online that the show has about a 90 percent chance of getting cancelled. Whether that’s due to ratings or creative direction or someone at MTV realizing it was insane to let the show air in the first place (insanely brilliant!) is unclear.
Never heard of Showzen? It’s a satirical kids’ show about sex, violence, racism, animal blood, and other topics that prompt the disclaimer "If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian." Check out such Wonder bits as What Is Love, Clarence Goes to Harlem, or Who Did You Exploit Today? for more information and for the joy of seeing a five-year-old girl outsmart Wall Street types.
Chatman and Lee had generally good things to say about their network earlier this year in a Q&A with EW’s Josh Wolk, but Chatman told Radar the show doesn’t fit into MTV2′s "worldview, which is no worldview. It just doesn’t fit anywhere. It needs some attention." So where can it find that attention? Do you like Wonder Showzen enough to watch it in real time, or do its rapid-fire sketch sequences mean the show might have been better-suited for DVD in the first place? (Arrgh!) And when will reality programming stop taking over the universe?
Answer in 50 words. Go. (Or just join me in whispering "Tyyyyyyyler" to people at random for the rest of the day.)
There’s a drinking game somewhere in Wonder Showzen, I’m just trying to figure it out. I’ll get back you.
Tyyyyyyler
“Wonder Showzen” RULES! “Wonder Showzen” HURTS. “Wonder Showzen” surely causes or cures cancer. “Wonder Showzen” is, as I’ve stated elsewhere (okay, okay–just on my MySpace page), “LSD disguised as candy. Delicious, bloody candy.”
Just eat it. Mmmmmm.
Reminds me of Adult Swim’s “Moral Orel”
I’ll order the season pass tonight!
it was too brilliant to last
thank u 4 the belly laughs
Don’t forget horse apples, david cross, Zach Galifianakis, and todd barry making fun of southerners; priceless
How did I not know about this show before??? This is hilarious.
many a night i’ve wasted on wondershowzen, under the wonderful influence of mary jane…the two go together like ranch dressing and chewties!
Darn, I liked that show!
imagination- imagination-iiiimaginaaaation!! imagination… Damn!! I luv that show please please don’t cancel it. Tyler rocks!! Tyyyyyler. Oh, Jeremy, I second that.
Not a shocker that eMpTy-V would cancel it’s only creative series. Wonder Showzen’s problem, as far as eMpTy-V is concerned, is that it features no shallow idiots from Beverly Hills who get upset that their lavish birthday gifts aren’t nice enough, no jackass 20 somethings who argue with pure ignorance about world issues, no rehashed ideas or videos, and doesn’t feature any celebrities making ignoramus statements about tuna being a bird.
That makes the show the anti-eMpTy-V show. It could find some life on a network with some cojones like G4, Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim or Spike.
A damn shame too. eMpTy-V once stood for some pretty radical changes and later for some biting satire. Now it stands for psuedo sassy gameshows and “reality” programming.
Couldn’t Comedy Central find a good place for this?
I agree with EP. If you want to watch just music, then Watch “The Tube”. If you have Brooklyn Cablevision then it is on the CW digital television channel 184.
But MTV has become unoriginal and unimagintive. Earth to the creative staff of Viacom: stop taking sleeping pills and show some real interesting stuff, and play better music videos! Wonder Shozen was a really funny program, and hopefully it will be moved to Comedy Central.
Easily the funniest/most disturbing show on MTV2. I will forever remember the following exchange from “Beat Kids”
Trevor (speaking to an elderly man at the race track): I bet I can do an impression of you.
Old Man: I bet you can’t.
T:Yes, I can.
OM: I don’t think so, remember I’m older than you.
T: But, I can do it.
OM: Fine lets hear it.
T: Gamble, Gamble, Gamble, Die.
Nice going, MTV: once again you screw up decent programming for the sake of ?
Comedy Central: save the day!
WONDER SHOWZEN is sick, deranged, twisted, awful, televised depravity.
It is also painfully hilarious, creative and subversive.
It is one of my favorite programs, and if MTV2 takes it off the air, and no network will pick up the slack, I think Chauncey, Clarence, Him and the gang should invade the MTV studios, hunt down the guilty parties, and deepfry ‘em like the #2!!!
Since I don’t have MTV2, I couldn’t watch this show as much as I liked, but the little they aired on MTV was awesome and purely brilliant. And MTV might cancel this show for…what? ‘Reality shows’ about whiny upper class white kids complaining about the most petty stuff (i.e. Laguna Beach, The Hills, Sweet 16, Tiara Girls…hell, half the newtork)? Ugh…the only decent MTV show after Jack@ss was True Life, but I’d give that up for more Wonder Showzen.
Please move this show to Comedy Central. It would be a perfect counter to South Park. Lord knows that network needs another hit show after Chapelle Show cancelled (Drawn Together is just stupid).