Wonder Showzen (2005–2007)
10/10
One of a kind.
29 May 2017
Watch this if you like offbeat, "offensive", existential, absurd humor. It truly is an achievement how every episode can have so many layers and provide non-stop entertainment. It's an assault on everything that anyone holds "sacred" and it's brilliant!

It's baffling how 12 years ago this show aired on MTV, especially if you consider that MTV in 2017 is more conservative(not in the traditional American sense but more in the preachy, self-righteous, social justice sense with the stuff they churn out to "protect" the people they consider "vulnerable" while condemning specific groups of people). This show holds nothing back and presents everyone and everything under the same light. There is a segment about the police in one episode that says everything there is to say about the subject through children voice overs that would cause riots if it was aired today. There is another episode that has a character named Middle America (who gets thrown a watermelon with black-face if you pay attention) and a segment with hillbillies presented as complete idiots. Anyway, my point is that everything is fair game for this show and that's the way more shows should be.

The show presents very realistic, "dark", controversial subjects in an absurd, creative way that sometimes borders on unintelligible. Heed the warning at the start of the show and stay away if you're easily offended.

I'm not even American but I don't like the way everything seems to become more P.C. as years go by, since it makes it difficult to find entertainment that pushes the envelope and, more importantly, is apolitical and "nihilistic" in a sense.

I'd love for this show to air again, just to witness the massive triggering of the masses.
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