Se7en14 We all remember the days of Sesame street, watching and growing up with it. Learning new stuff stuff everyday from the show, teaching kids how to count, spell. It wasn't long before i saw wonder showzen. I caught it one night at a friends house, kinda pondered as to what that kind of "show" was doing on that late, until i started seeing the jokes and realizing that this wasn't just any kind of show. I had done some research on the show and i began to just fall in love it with it. This was the kind of show that wasn't afraid to do anything, and when i say anything, i mean ANYTHING!! come on where else would you see a kid dressed as Hitler walking around asking people questions, as to who's more offensive. Or the Jewish J and Arab 8 who fall in love, and showing them pornographically in sexual positions. It's everything like Souht Park but 10x more, this show crosses every line there is, and it does it remarkably. Each week the show has it's regular "puppets" like Chauncy, and the news caster who has almost like a thousand eyes, and of course Clarence, the puppet who annoys the hell out of anyone, and isn't afraid to do it, it gets so bad people actually attack him on the street.The Show has many memorable segments including Beat Kids, Clarence on the Street, D.O.G. O.B.G.Y.N., a regular cartoon and many many poor. The kids on this show are foul offensive and you sometimes wonder how the hell they got there in the first place! But this show never takes it self seriously, in fact if you take things way to seriously or a joke sometimes offend you steer clear of this show. Mainly this show pokes fun at religion, the government, people, Just about anything. I'd recommend Wonder Showzen to just about anyone looking for a fun comedy with some great laughs and all around Rotten Humour. This Show is definitely not for Children no matter how cute the box may look, keep your kids away from this. This is one show I love and will recommend a lot.Chekc it Out Sometime

hwajar Everyone else will say it sucks. Seriously, I haven't enjoyed a new show like this in quite some time. This show makes me believe in Teevee again. A scathing satire of children's educational teevee, the show simultaneously mocks and cherishes many childhood (and adult) ideals, like cooperation, imagination and diversity. I like a show that's not afraid to take risks, and I wish there were more shows that had as much heart and balls. PS-Anyone saying this show is mean-spirited is probably not paying attention. It is cynical, but cynical and mean-spirited aren't the same thing now, are they? Recommended only for people who don't suck a big one. Everyone else stay clear.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: MTV2; Genre: Parody, Satire, Comedy; Content Rating: TV-MA (for strong language, adult content, animated blood and violence, scatological humor and - what the hell - crazy puppet sex); Available: Uncensored DVD, MTV; Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4);Seasons Reviewed: 2 seasons Tucked a way on satellite-only MTV2 and trading in a Tom Green-style post-modern anti-comedy, "Wonder Showzen" is truly the hip show watched only by those in the know. So, I know exactly what I'm supposed to say about it. I know I'm supposed to point to all the reality shows, mindless sitcoms and procedural crime dramas on TV and call "Wonder Showzen" a brilliant work of originality. A piece of absurdist art. That there is nothing else on TV like it.Usually, with TV we are just happy if we see a show with some guts or that just doesn't embarrass us with stupidity. But "Wonder Showzen" is bad in a different way, a way that we aren't used to on TV. "Showzen" passes all these rudimentary tests and then fails spectacularly on the next level - I think it just doesn't achieve the lofty goal it sets for itself.The creators of this surrealistic nightmare of a puppet show, Vernon Chatman and John Lee (of the Brooklyn band PFFR), like its fans, would probably tell you that it is a satirical parody of the kid shows of yesteryear. Immersed deeply in a perfect recreation of every kid show we suffered through as children, the show's only saving grace is that everything it does is with an unblinking straight face. But what about kid shows is it satirizing? "Showzen" seems furious that children's shows exist and are pumping young minds with lies sanitizing the horrible state of the world. "Showzen" is going to correct the record.The kids show that is "Showzen" is hosted by Chauncey (Chatworth), a puppet rag of an indecipherable species (Chauncey as a stoned hippie gets my biggest laugh). A cast of other puppets (including Mother Nature having a sex change and piles of crap with eyeballs) and real kids (the subject of some heavily edited voice-overs to make them say the darndest things) join Chauncey. Lee performs street-interviewer Clarence with a voice so adorable it lets him get away with saying just about anything.Why do I feel like I've seen all this before? Comedy Central has based countless series over the years on taking the template of a children's show and juxtaposing it with something adult, bloody or blasphemous and letting the hilarity ensue. "Showzen" is another drained exercise in the concept that this juxtaposition is just inherently funny. It most recalls Robert Smigel's short-lived children's show parody "TV Funhouse" (as well as Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog) only less focused, not nearly as clever as it thinks it is and not a fraction as funny. This is your chance to see what "Funhouse" would look like running around on a violent cocaine high. Funny. Not Funny.What it lacks in skill, it makes up for with balls. "Funhouse" found laughs in racial and scatological jokes. "Showzen" finds them in race, vulgarity and angry left-wing middle-school-age anti-war, anti-capitalist politics. What is the show really saying about slaves, American imperialism, God, the meat industry? Nothing really. It is just a subversive re-affirmation of what an angry viewer already believes. Which takes me to its biggest crime: how derivative it becomes, repeating the same jabs on the same targets over and over.The show desperately wants to be controversial, but Nazism, plantation slavery, mushroom clouds, the meat industry and "He Haw"? The show's targets aren't just stationary, they are decomposing. As a result, its desire to be a dead-on retro parody and a contemporary social satire crash into each other. It cycles between making sharp jabs, taking back those jabs and straight-up lecturing us. After the DVD comes out, the show lectures us about pirating DVDs. Season 2 goes off, almost entirely, on a rant voicing the liberal fear that Middle America (literally, a puppet shaped like a red state - get it) and "He Haw" watching hillbillies are trying to take over the world.It might sound like I'm contradicting myself. How can the show be unoriginal, gutsy, irrelevant and iconoclastic all at the same time? To understand that is to understand that there is a fundamental disconnect going on between TV and the public - the traditional TV viewers it wants to offend and every other TV show out there pushing the same buttons also trying to offend them. Yes, its true, the "He Haw" crowd that still exists would surely get up in arms over a blasphemously amusing bit called "God's Biggest Boners" or God killing himself with a pistol over loosing a game of rock, paper, scissors. However, when you look at it in the context with the rest of TV – as I am - none of this is that revolutionary. Some time in the last decade all this became TV normality. The difference between them and "Wonder Showzen" is passion. To say that "Showzen" is angry would be the understatement of the year.So, forgive me if I roll my eyes at this show's pre-teen level rebellion against authority. This is normally the type of twisted enterprise that I like, but "Wonder Showzen" is more a dull, crass, mean-spirited, nearly unwatchable and socially irrelevant exercise that delights in torturing its audience for 22 minutes to make unoriginal points. It is like being hurled around in a cyclone of dementia, anarchy, pedophilia and puppet sex."Wonder Showzen" has gotten being awful down to a science, but there will always be an audience for this and if you are going to watch an angry, cheap, mean-spirited, pure ideological spit-wad show, this is the one to watch.* ½ / 4

Xthe_dark_princeX This show is amazing, its one of just a few shows on TV that pushes the envelope to the point of breaking every episode. whoever doesn't like this show, quite obviously, is not a very open minded person. What I am saying is that one must look past the silly and sometimes grotesque humor for the stabs at modern politics, which are usually true. See all these things and see them in the light/humorous way they are presented. SQUEEGIE YOUR 3RD EYE AND THEN WATCH IT. If wonder showzen is one of the shows you really like, i definitely suggest watching Family Guy or American Dad. Like Wonder Showzen, they take a light-hearted look at political situations (mostly democratic or independent views), and general daily-life problems in a household of terminal uniqueness. If i were to suggest a movie to see it would have to either Donnie Darko, or Fight Club. Both offer very intriguing ways of looking at the world and the people in it. Donnie Darko for example follows more the path of quantum physics and theoretical occurrences. While Fight Club takes the Chaos theory to an interesting visual/metaphorical view-point. Both are set in modern times, at least within the last 10-20 years, and both are extremely well done.