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Our Christmas special this year stars Whizzo the Clown. Whizzo's not one of your big, flashy, Hollywood clowns who relies on clichés like "scripts" or "coherency." Whizzo's got huge, gross feet, a terrible catchphrase, and he's ready to fly some kids to the North Pole on his streamer-powered magic carpet. And yes, for this movie, that qualifies as a plot description.

After thirty seconds with Whizzo, you'll find yourself thinking, "Yeah, I can see where The Grinch was coming from." Or maybe, "You know, Mr. Potter had some good ideas..." In fact, it might just be the movie to turn your coulrophobia into pantophobia!

RiffTrax Christmas Circus also features a short about Christmas trees that have human faces and communicate psychically with houseplants before dying and going to tree heaven. It is by far the most normal, sane part of this Christmas special.

We're really sorry.

how many psychotic tree shorts could there possibly be out there in movie land? ??? :speechless:

So Christmas Trees have hipster mustaches?  And arent mimes mord known for funny antics and not camera mugging?

And, as a Kansas Citian.... I'm sorry.

Quote from: Trekker4747 on December 24, 2016, 04:37:42 PM
So Christmas Trees have hipster mustaches?  And arent mimes mord known for funny antics and not camera mugging?

And, as a Kansas Citian.... I'm sorry.

this would have been full Royals jokes pre-2014

Quote from: Trekker4747 on December 24, 2016, 04:37:42 PM
So Christmas Trees have hipster mustaches?  And arent mimes mord known for funny antics and not camera mugging?

And, as a Kansas Citian.... I'm sorry.

as a Kansas resident or kU fan/alum, you may need to apologize for Centron's work also

Whizzo very much inhabits the same spiritual universe as Balloon Land, the Ice Cream Bunny, and Ms. Velma from that Christmas special the Cinema Snob did. Great, awful stuff.

The mime trees, however, can go straight to hell.

I really lost it. This is the hardest I've laughed all year. I'm talking about parts of Whizzo. Really one their classics I think, but in Setting Up a Room kind of way.

Also, the French tree thing would have a been great just on it's own. With Whizzo, this may go down (I probably shouldn't use that verb and Whizzo in the same sentence, sorry) as one of my favorite Xmas specials ever and that includes the MST and CT cannon.

Quote from: pstokely on December 26, 2016, 04:20:20 PM

Quote from: Trekker4747 on December 24, 2016, 04:37:42 PM
So Christmas Trees have hipster mustaches?  And arent mimes mord known for funny antics and not camera mugging?

And, as a Kansas Citian.... I'm sorry.

as a Kansas resident or kU fan/alum, you may need to apologize for Centron's work also

Oh, and next you'll make me sorry for Carnival of Souls!

Well, I think Centron did fine* work!  But this Bozo bozo, sorry there's no accounting for it.

So Whizzo pretty much had no script, right?

Quote from: Pak-Man on December 28, 2016, 10:25:41 PM
So Whizzo pretty much had no script, right?

The beginning credits say Screen Story by Frank Wiziarde. So if there was a script of any kind, it was only five minutes of material.

Well, now we have that to worry about.

Whizzo's script was probably an outline of things to do and then improvising between them all.

There had to be "something" of a script given the girl's indifference/sadness towards the holiday prompting much of the "action" in the "plot."

Not in the script? The little girl dying of lung-cancer and everyone being indifferent about it.

Finally watched this one.  Some people are not good at whimsy.