"The Uncle Devil Show" is a quick buffer tale commenting on parents who consider themselves attentive to their child's needs and time. The father purchased his son a PBS children's show on video which seems to feature a soft-spoken, kid-friendly host. However, as the parents go about their morning activities, with little serious attention to what the show is telling their kid and the bizarre magic tricks taught to him, there's reason to worry...the punchline is how oblivious the parents are to what is going on around and to them. The dog with multiple eyes, the father with a lizard head and the mom with a wolf head, a toy dinosaur grown to life and walking outside the home, and roaches crawling from the coffee table vase; the child video from hell isn't exactly Sesame Street! Murphy Dunne is amusing as the innocent looking host who offers possibly insidious tricks for impressionable kids to use against others and warmly speaks to them in a vocal tenor that gains their trust.
