Controversial Viewpoint Inside

by **Dancing Mustard** on Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:27 pm

Right then, I think that the Mighty Boosh is a load of shite. Yeah, you heard me... I went there.

Basically, it's just two ugly geezers yelling random crap at each other with occasional tuneless 'musical' interludes; in other words, it ain't funny. Now I know a whole load of people out there think it's "teh bestest ting eva, aight", but I think that they're all wrong, and most of them probably have to wear bibs at mealtimes.

Hang on, I feel the urge to write a Mighty Boosh episode myself, hang on a second while I channel the spirit of old Mr Fielding:

"Woo, I'm old Fred. Hi there me old mucker, would you get the submarine out of the attic. Look at me, I'm a wizard, but I'm doing the washing up. Grinky dinky boggyly boo, whip up a batter with a marmalade fish! Gargle maple syrup but don't forget the heating bill, all you need is love. Ping pong is a game but only on mars!! Mind out for my pancreas. Gribble bibble. I'm old Fred. Arrrr, ye art. Thou. Oooooooold Fred. Blinkle. Bleb. Eat more broccolli, it's a superfood... tonight."

See, I could do it all night... and it'd still be shit. Just like every episode of the Mighty Boosh.

In conclusion: Mighty Boosh = Mega Bullshit, and all those responsible ought to be dragged out into the street and shot. Who agrees with me, and who needs to have their right to vote revoked on grounds of mental incapacity?

by **jiminski** on Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:54 pm

ahh brother Mustard!

well arguing against your taste in comedy is much like telling someone who hates cheese that they do in fact like cheese. That, contrary to their personal belief that they do not, they actually love it and find it delicious.

Yes! I hate Cheese, you've got me!.. It is the despicable dried shit of an albino mallard; accidentally fashioned from petrified milk which was left standing in the ancient hair-ridden, food-bowl of a mange encrusted kitten! I genuinely despise it ... but do I!?

Yes.

So, although I like it a lot, humour (much like cheese) is entirely subjective and I understand your distaste. It is one of those trendy shows, lapped up by the pompous, brainless, middle-class twits who jump on fads like door mice on so many miniature, raffia canoes!
It is blindly and lavishly adored by the same set who dressed up as nuns and perceived an intrinsic irony in journeying en masse to the sound of music! they are idolised as kitsch pastiche; sublime in it's camp irreverence and mockney hyperbole!

But .. i don't give a f*ck about all that.. i think it is very funny. The episode with Milky Joe borders on genius, toying with cultural reference and acute observation within the background of the utterly surreal.

did i mention i hated cheese!?

by **hecter** on Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:59 pm

My only experience with Mighty Boosh was The Crack Fox on youtube, which I really quite enjoyed.

by **cena-rules** on Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:06 pm

*kisses DM's feet*

I agree totally

by **The1exile** on Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:03 pm

I will admit to have found it funny on one or two rare occasions, but I was always rather inebriated to the point that I laugh at a lot of things.

by **Snorri1234** on Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:30 am

I have never watched an entire episode of it in my life, and I see no reason to start now.

by **InkL0sed** on Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:28 pm

Never heard of it.

by **pancakemix** on Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:28 pm

InkL0sed wrote:Never heard of it.

by **DAZMCFC** on Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:40 pm

Snorri1234 wrote:I have never watched an entire episode of it in my life, and I see no reason to start now.

same as above. i did think that Noel Fielding was rather amusing on Nevermind the Buzzcocks.

by **salvadevinemasse** on Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:03 pm

are we talking about the muppets?

by **jiminski** on Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:17 am

salvadevinemasse wrote:are we talking about the muppets?

yeas, give us your opinion so we may continue.

by **heavycola** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:04 am

I agree, although I am told I may have been unlucky in the episodes I watched. But yeah, it isn't funny. Which, you might think, is a pretty serious shortcoming in a comedy. Apparently this is not the case.

by **jiminski** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:47 am

Humour is not stationary. go and watch something you used to find funny in the 1980's, that will prove it! (Christ i think i used to laugh at the Cosby show)

It depends on mood, company, peer group, epoch .. loads of stuff!
And if it is a bit 'different' in its character, it depends largely on whether you want to like it or not.

by **Backglass** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:13 am

I still do not understand the expression "Pile of Wank".

To "Wank" is to masturbate I have been told...yet "A pile of Masturbation" makes about as much sense as a "Heap of Sneeze".

by **jiminski** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:25 am

Backglass wrote:I still do not understand the expression "Pile of Wank".

To "Wank" is to masturbate I have been told...yet "A pile of Masturbation" makes about as much sense as a "Heap of Sneeze".

and to call someone a fucking idiot makes more sense?

Expletive is as much about sound as it is about literal context.

But taking your 'Heap of Sneeze' comparison .. we would imagine this to be 'collection of snot', i would say.

Using the same logic; 'a pile of wank' would be 'a lump of useless, discarded sperm!'

Seems fairly reasonable and makes more literal sense than most.

by **koop** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:28 am

i've thought the boosh is for weirdos trying too hard to be cool from day 1 myself. rispect to mustard

by **jiminski** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:34 am

koop wrote:i've thought the boosh is for weirdos trying too hard to be cool from day 1 myself. rispect to mustard

hello mate,

yeah well that is the point i was making.. peoples resistance to it is not so much their not finding it funny instinctively, it is about rebelling against the 'scene' which has adopted it. In a way not liking it because we are told to like it... Too cool for cool!

It becomes humourless by association... that's fine, we do it with all art forms. I knew a Music boffin who hated Mozart.. under closer examination it was because of his populist appeal and had nothing to do with the content of his art.

Taste is contrived in our likes as much as our dislikes. They all go towards the measuring of who we wish to be perceived as.

For me, I took it as it is ..I did not watch it when it first came out . i found it funny just because i found it funny.
I am too old to play the fashion game... shit i can even listen to Take That without feeling violent now!

by **koop** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:38 am

personally i've never given it a chance lol, it just looked too weird for me from the start

by **jiminski** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:46 am

koop wrote:personally i've never given it a chance lol, it just looked too weird for me from the start

heh, well that's up to you mate... I refused to watch the Simpsons for 5 years because it was almost a prerequisite of cultural reference... and to a lesser degree, because it was American and as our Britishness became a mulch of ironic Americanisms (till now even the irony is all but lost.) I felt the need to crate a little island of Liberal, stiff-upper-lipped purity ; ) ( i was a precocious teen)

by **jonesthecurl** on Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:15 am

I was even snobbier about the SImpsons - when it was on Sky and the Sun kept pluggin it (cos they're owned by the same guy), I not only couldn't see it, I positively didn't want to.
It's good though, innit?

As for this Boosh business, never seen it, never encountered the name while channel-hopping.