About 5 years ago, I got a DVD called "Gimme Gimme Octopus". It contains 90+ minutes of 150 second episode after 150 second episode of a bizarre Japanese children's show. What sold me on buying this? Check out this first sentence from the site where I purchased the DVD:
The most accurate summary of this late 60's Japanese kids show we have read states: "An octopus and a peanut are in love with the same walrus."
I was sold.
And now, through the power of my interneting skillz, I can A) give you a taste of the GGO experience, and B) try to find the deeper meaning in the show, in life, in the human being, in the peanut, etc....
Here's your brain on drugs, Episode 1:
A critical analysis:
The octopus and the peanut walk to the jail, talk some trash to the warden, chase him around, and then lock him up. The octopus takes the warden's holster, nightstick and HAT OF POLICE AUTHORITY, while the peanut takes the gun. They talk some more trash to the imprisoned warden, then headoff with their stolen goods. The peanut tries and fails to get his gun to work, so the octopus whacks him in the head and takes the gun. The peanut is PISSED. The octopus waves for the peanut to follow him, and being the trusty sidekick, he does so.
They appear to go to a restaurant, where some sort of lizard is the owner, and a pink walrus is the waitress. The octopus holds up the joint! The hot pink walrus is totally turned on by the macho walrus. The octopus shoots the gun in the air, and the lizard owner runs. The walrus embraces the octopus, and it appears that LOVE IS IN THE AIR. The octopus, wanting to do some interspecies loving, clonks the peanut in the head with the gun, leaving the nut so concussed that he walks into a tree, thus sustaining further cranial damage. He talks some trash to the octopus, who while struting by with his walrus in his arm, clonks the peanut once again in the head.
From out of nowhere, a ghost appears, which totally freaks out the octopus. The peanut, clearly agitated by his brain damage as well as the sight of the ghost, comes over to explain to the walrus exactly what's going on. The octopus hides like a coward, waiting until the ghost vanishes to come out of hiding. When he comes out, he sees the peanut and the walrus walking together, laughing, and hooking arms. JEALOUSY ENSUES~! The walrus, upon seeing the octopus, goes right back to him (slut!), so the peanut clonks the octopus on the head with an unidenitifed stick of some kind. The head blow is so severe, that the octopus comes to, and he's back at the prison, standing in front of the jailed warden, but without his holster, his nightstick, his gun, etc. The peanut, now dressed in the warden's stolen goods, struts in with his walrus woman. They taunt their relationship in front of a very confused, sad emasculated octopus. SCENE.
Moral: Bitchez love bastardz, and boyz (peanutz? octopii? octopizi?) will end their friendships in an effort to get some walruz azz. Also, concussionz are bad.
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