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The Transylvania Television Real Meanin' of Halloween Special Show
USA 2010
produced by Gordon Smuder, Michael J. Heagle, Troy Antoine LaFaye, Clarke Stone, Jennifer Menken (executive) for The Puppet Forge, Transylvania Television Workshop
directed by Michael J. Heagle
starring the voices of Gordon Smuder, Charles Hubbell, Laszlo Nemesi, Jeff Neppl, Michael J. Heagle, Troy Antoine LaFaye, Renee Werbowski, Brian Kelly, Michael Huyck, Amber Greenlee, Sara Marie, Marianne Mettes, Jennifer Menken, Matthew Gallagher
written by Matthew Gallagher, Michael J. Heagle, Jim Hibbler, Damian Johnson, music by John Mapes, DJ Sothoth, International Espionage, The Mutant Boys, David Last, creature fabricated by Gordon Smuder, Crist Ballas, Liz Hara, visual effects by Michael J. Heagle
TV-series, puppets Transylvania Television
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's Halloween, and even though this seems to be the perfect holiday
for the all-monster crew of Transylvania Television, the head honcho of
the outfit, vampiric Count LeShoc (voiced by Charles Hubbell) won't allow
his crew to celebrate this event - not that any of them would give a shit
what he might order, suggest or imply even. But the Count's hatred for
Halloween is deeply rooted, as every Halloween, he finds himself (in his
coffin) in the lost luggage department of some airport or other, and this
Halloween it's Denver - where he happens upon a female mummy who's stuck
there since 1973 ... Meanwhile, Dwayne Frankenstein, the Frankenstein
monster of the outfit, goes to the roof to lure the Pumpkin Prince of
Halloween to the place, with so-so results. And Batfink (Laszlo Nemesi)
and the place's resident Yeti Furry J. Ackermonster do go down to the
dungeons of Transylvania Television to find out the true meaning of
Halloween ... with surprising results. At the Halloween party meanwhile,
it's finally found out who hides behind Halloween's
own Michael
Myer's mask that's supposed to be a William Shatner mask - and
it is ... well, you might have guessed from the intro to this ;) Now
this is fun! Sure, when you compare it to other puppet shows/movies, it's
not as ingenious as The Muppets (in their best days of
course) nor as extreme as Meet the
Feebles, but what it is is good and intentionally silly fun,
playing with characters that despite being based on clichées just don't
get old, carried by a likeably macabre and at times racy kind of humour,
and the bunch of simplistic yet effective puppets one has come to expect
from the series. Lots of fun, really!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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