What the fuck is on KLRU right now?

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » December 21st, 2008, 6:37 pm

I'll tell you...

HEIDI 4 PAWS: A FURRY TALE

HEIDI 4 PAWS is a re-telling of the children's classic story of HEIDI, but with a difference: dogs play all of the characters. In the tradition of BABE and CHARLOTTE'S WEB, this movie uses animals as actors. Filmed in HD, all sixteen dogs are mouth articulated using computer-generated images. The dogs are in costume, with wigs, hats, and in many cases eyeglasses and even shoes. They are voiced by talented and well-known actors such as Angela Lansbury who portrays Grandmamma Sesehund, Stephen Rea as the kindly Doctor, Julian Sands at Peter the Goat herder, and Steve Guttenberg as Sebastian the butler.

This is the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

What the fuck?

beardedlamb · Post by **beardedlamb** » December 21st, 2008, 6:47 pm

+3 points for spelling guttenberg correctly.

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » December 21st, 2008, 9:28 pm

beardedlamb wrote:+3 points for spelling guttenberg correctly.

He's the guy who made the bible, right?

Munga · Post by **Munga** » December 21st, 2008, 10:03 pm

kbadr wrote:What the fuck?

Yup, I think that about sums it up.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » December 22nd, 2008, 1:19 am

BLECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zach · Post by **Zach** » December 22nd, 2008, 2:49 am

God, I know.

Steve Guttenburg DOES NOT have the range to play the voice of a butler! This is not acceptable.

On the plus side though, I just love computer generated mouth articulation. My personal favorite is babies that talk like high powered business executives, but dogs and cats with scrappy personalities are almost as good. I was really surprised that this had not already become a staple of public television. Glad to see they finally rectified this gap in their programming.

valetoile · Post by **valetoile** » December 22nd, 2008, 8:44 am

I think it lacks the charming simplicity of "Wishbone"

apiaryist · Post by **apiaryist** » December 22nd, 2008, 10:28 am

I thought it WAS Wishbone when I kept flipping through the channels. I assumed it was some kind of marathon, you know, for the kids.

KathyRose · Post by **KathyRose** » December 22nd, 2008, 10:44 am

I thought it was sad when edutainment reared its pumpkin head - how can we make learning (you know - math, science, history ...) entertaining enough to hold the diminishing attention spans of students?

Have young people now become so simple-minded that we need to make the most basic of human interest stories - the fairy tales - "more interesting"?

What's next? Will Sir Robin Goodfellow and an upstart pack of four-legged improvisers dominate the Austin improv scene? What does this trend foretell for the adult entertainment industry?

On the up side, thousands of homeless pets may soon become valuable assets in the burgeoning animaltainment industry.

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » December 22nd, 2008, 11:27 am

When I saw "A Furry Tale" I thought it WAS adult entertainment. I thought KLRU had crossed over into bizarre fetishes involving a lot of mascot costumes.

starkserious · Post by **starkserious** » December 29th, 2008, 2:26 pm

someone should contact the SPCA about these poor pets.

apiaryist · Post by **apiaryist** » December 30th, 2008, 10:15 am

Ok...There was an opera about the invention of the atomic bomb on KLRU last night. It was amazing. I turned it on as one of the scientists was singing about setting the atmosphere on fire. Over and over again.

I think it was this:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/ ... px?id=5614

shando · Post by **shando** » December 30th, 2008, 12:14 pm

Yeah, John Adams's Doctor Atomic--same guy who wrote the opera Nixon in China. I watched some of that last night as well.

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What the fuck is on KLRU right now?

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