
Subversive, irreverence for Y-fronts, ear-trumpet, and those who can’t remember.
Skidmarks
On The Universe...
The quest for the Grail of Perpetual Indulgence.
By Brendon Kennedy
‘Skidmarks on The Universe,’ (SMOTU) has been compared to ‘The Mighty Boosh,’ Mike Mignola’s ‘The Amazing Screw-on Head,’ and ‘The Drag Queen Who Swallowed her Own Face,’ all viewed simultaneously through the bloodshot eyes of an Amazonian pigmy on a bent ayahuasca journey, stirred, shaken, partially masticated before he was fixed to his own blow dart and farted through the cheeks of the God of Unmentionableness. ...but no one loves a label wearing smarty pants!
The only TV series ever written in the flavour of double-choc absurd. SMOTU lives somewhere in the ‘Spew Age Cosmos’ of ‘The Skidmarked Universe’ and traces the destinies of a bunch of fringe-dwelling Gods and Omniscients in hot pursuit of the hairy armpit of their own bent mythologies.
‘...a celebration of surreal... the relentless pursuit of mindlessness.’
NY Times didn’t say that.
‘...the best comedy series ever written.’
Jerry Seinfeld would never say that.
Style: Cosmic, lateral, archetypal, universal, fast, irreverent, timeless, surreal, anarchic comedy with lashings of tude... SMOTU is set inside the world of a twisted graphic novel. Combining live action, animation and hand puppets if necessary, SMOTU plumbs the stylistic S-bend from street graffiti, transcendental and tattoo art, to Salvador Dali on a bad mustache day.
Characters: Bizarre amalgams of bits, the eight major characters include a narrator, with the occasional ancillary character.
Plot & Structure: In the world of SMOTU, anything can, and usually does happen. Each episode generally explores a central theme, sometimes referencing a pear-shaped myth or legend, but needs no excuse to justify it’s bootless absurdity.
Format: Each episode is as long as it needs to be and looks like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
To sample ‘Skidmarks On The Universe,’ simply scratch and sniff the directions on the arse-end of this outline.
Or... if you're a broadcaster who would have said 'YES' to 'The Adams Family', 'Monty Python,' 'The Goon Show', 'Kath and Kim,' 'The Mighty Boosh,' or any of the other cult hits that almost never saw the light of day but for someone with a thimble full of vision...
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