Turn On The Randomness

 

While tooling around with my video editing software of choice (Filmora 15), I accidentally made a strange, late 1960s sketch show stranger. It's not the full episode, but a preview of what kind of video art I'm going to put on this blog (if and when I can find the time for it).

If you want to know more about Turn-On and its place/reputation in American television history, read the Wikipedia article here. If you want to see it for yourself, here are the only three episodes in existence (actually, only one episode aired on television in 1969. The other two weren't released until decades later, when YouTube and the Paley Media Center would show people this buried treasure).

As always, these episodes come from a different time and may contain content that's considered offensive by 21st century standards, but will be shown anyway because you can't erase history and it's important to see that some things don't change.

Episode One:

Episode Two (was supposed to air in 1969, but was shelved after people complained about the first episode):

Episode Three (this one is more of a compilation of unused bits and an incomplete third episode, but, considering how random and disjointed the show is, can you really tell?):

Snow White -- Generation A.I.: Rank and 'Phile

 As mentioned in the blog mission statement, the remix of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 edition. As far as the A.I. is concerned, the 2025 live-action version doesn't exist) has been reformatted as a collection of shorts that will come together as a full version once the right takes are chosen and compiled for maximum hilarity and a fresh spin on a project I did that's nearly 20 years old (soon, it will be old enough to drink, which is the deadline I'm more or less aiming for for the full new version of Snow White Remix, if, God help me, the 20 year anniversary falls behind schedule).

This is one of many clips from said project. I had five ideas for how I would re-edit the scene of the Seven Dwarfs finding out that Snow White is the alleged monster in their house with everyone but Grumpy relieved and a little enamored with the fact that this pretty girl is in their bed (yeah, it sounds racier than intended, but the intentions are pure in this. Just because most of society has their minds in the gutter 24/7 doesn't mean it applies to everything ever made) and I'm still trying to pick a good one. I know the last one where Grumpy's misogynist rant is re-imagined as rhetoric from FOX News is the one to definitely use, but intercutting Sneezy's and Bashful's lines about how pretty Snow White is as she's sleeping with the scene of Ernest Brognine and the other Junior Campers rowing down a creepy swamp while "Dueling Banjos" plays (from the season five Simpsons episode, "Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood") is a joke that I tried to make on the old Snow White Remix back when my video editing software of choice was Pinnacle 8, but Pinnacle 8 was trash and I couldn't make it work, and now I can make it work thanks to time and better options.

Know that whichever scene I pick, it will be on the final cut and it will be amazing.

New Kid on the Mock (Moore, Moore, Moore)

The Hollywood 3000 is planning a full-on reformatting where every post is a video flexing my skills in regular and AI-generated video editing (because YouTube might shut me down if I uploaded there). This week, it's something simple: I took clips from the UK panel show, Mock the Week (which originally ran from 2005 to 2022, but is back after a four-year hiatus and a channel hop from BBC to TLC UK. Thanks to YouTube and torrent downloading, I'm able to see it, same way as I do Saturday Night Live UK) and tried my hand at connecting and finding patterns in one of the comedian panelists to create a story or some kind of joke chain filled with callbacks and brick jokes the likes of which haven't been seen since Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, its bizarre-for-its-time-but-very-much-like-today's-ADHD-fueled-entertainment spinoff Turn-On, and Robot Chicken (if that show is still on). This time around, it's Glenn Moore, who eerily looks like a young, male version of my female career counselor from when I moved out to California for Job Corps (not the Kentucky one) and whose humor has stuck with me (not in the way Noel Fielding's does [which also includes a massive crush that blows over occasionally, but will never blow out and looking back at my childhood and realizing that the creative weirdo in me will never die and that there's someone out there who's more-or-less in the same boat as I am, but more successful], but I am a fan of the humor that seems to go from dark to scatological to weird to wordplay at the same pace a pinball does after you pull back the plunger and let go. Plus, there's the running joke of Glenn Moore insulting Rhys James and vice versa). 

There will be more (or is that "Moore") in the series, if time allows (which it will), but that's probably going to be after I finally get Snow White 2k26 (now retitled Snow White: Generation A.I.) off the ground (or if I do a few installments, take a break, broadcast this as filler, and go back to the main project).

Rated 15 for crude humor (sexual, scatological, and some politically incorrect), strong language (including wordplay on curse words), and references to violence and upsetting themes. 

All copyright goes to its original owners and channels. I am not affiliated with anyone involved with them and am doing this for artistic and parodic reasons.

Orphaned...With Stepfamily (My Cinderella/Married...With Children Mash-Up)

The Hollywood 3000 Snow White is currently on hiatus for retooling due to our devs experimenting with new models and a possible change in formatting.

In the meantime, we have a test clip from one of our new models that mashes Disney's 1950 adaptation of Cinderella with FOX's 1987 raunchy, dysfunctional family sitcom, Married...With Children, starring Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal.