Mondo Beyondo

clyde's picture

I found a few episodes. Right now I'm trying to understand my own attraction to novelty and distortion (two terms that I am currently finding useful). This show and Ripley's Believe It or Not! are great case-studies for my inquiry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZLc_OQiyg&list=PLDDD5345AF62DF08A&index=6

everythingstaken's picture

Wow, Amazing

My former puppeteering teacher showed me the segment in the landfill in relation to using found objects as puppets. It's cool to finally see the rest of the segments. I feel like there's some weird relation to this a lot of the games on here along with Ripley's Believe It or Not. Especially with Mondo Beyondo, I just like how corny and obvious some of the stuff is but how dedicated they are to doing it makes it really entertaining and endearing. The part where they are putting all the cake ingredients on each other's heads is really great.

clyde's picture

I love that you had a

I love that you had a puppeteering-teacher.
Follow-through does seem to be an essential part of the appeal. Watching the internal logic taken beyond what we initially conceptualize as arbitrary has an appeal of perspective-enlargement to it. I feel my world getting bigger when my mind feels like it is catching subtle hints of corroboration within a pile of confusing actions or mundanity
My favorite part of the *Eating iin America* segment is the intro and the exit, but it wouldn't have had much weight if not for the main-performance.
The Kipper Kids are really neat to me. I watched an interview where one of the members was talking about how the concept of "ritual" was a big inspiration for them. I always think they look like mating birds.
The street-drummer at the beginning bored me for the most part. I have this feeling of "I've seen this before", but some of the execution piques my sensibilities; the symbolic avoidance and appearances of the marching-band was odd and thought provoking for me. The context of their military-history mixed well with this parkouring industrial-native.
I also really liked the woman who puts on all those clothes. There's a great example of how the absurdity of follow-through can feel subversive.

Don't ever be afraid of your funny voice

The yes/no people part was my favorite. "wait, STOMP ripped this guy off, i mean, doh" this was stomp before stomp. It felt very similar to the second segment, where like there's a jump cut instead of a finish. instead of finishing whatever melody, they'd jump to the next. kind of liked that, cept in the dance studio routine where the tape cuts off before they are able to orchestrate their next routine. I think everyone wanted to know what they were gonna pull off. I find both these segments related in a sort of music category before it gets thrown off later. I was kind of confused with what I was watching until la la la human steps brought it all back in. There was some other stuff that I don't particularly comprehend as an isolated incident, like if i saw it by itself, but as a compilation everything fits nice and snug. I have to say while I was thrown off by the lack of musical direction in the Welcome to America segment, it might've been the best part of the whole thing because it might relate to me most.

The first time I watched it all the way through I thought there was some sort of deep message with Mondo being the herring that throws the meaning off with her commentary. Maybe I read too many books with red gills on the cover, I still think there is somewhere in there is an important message that home box office was trying to convey.

oh wow!

thank you!

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