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Please Enjoy Electric Television’s “Freeway to Hell”

May 13, 2020

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Several years ago, some real cinema magic got blended with some incredibly clever humor in Cocktails & Dreams. It featured Chris Fairbanks squeezing his way, pretty seamlessly, into various scenes of Cocktail and it was pretty damn great.

Just today, the same folks behind Cocktail & Dreams, released their latest work Freeway to Hell, which is their longest and most ambitious piece yet and part of their Electric Television anthology series. The visit to an alternative cinematic universe is bewitching and sure do have fun messing around in said universe “telling a new story out of recycled parts”.

Please watch and enjoy the comedy pastiche of Freeway to Hell and we’re pretty sure you’ll be transported to some other reality that’s free of a pandemic and only troubled by a B-movie version of the Hell’s Angels.

This “Freeway to Hell” Trailer Means There’s More Rotoscoping Goodness Coming from Electric Television

September 13, 2018

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Electric Television, the good folks that used rotoscoping to make fun short films that punch up Cocktail and Dragnet into Cocktails & Dreams and Green Boy, will very soon being bring you another piece entitled Freeway to Hell. In a way, it’s like the next evolution of making fun of movies going from MST3K to actually being in the movie to satirize it.

This time, they’ll be hilariously cutting themselves into those specific types of 60s films that attempted to demonize subcultures like bike gangs, but seeming very cheesy while doing so. Get a taste of Freeway to Hell here. The full short will be coming soon!

Watch a Parody of “Cocktail” with Chris Fairbanks In It

March 31, 2015

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Yeah, Cocktail is much better and makes more sense like this.

Mr. Show writer Mike Upchurch has been deftly parodying various movies and TV shows by putting actors and dialogue that aren’t in either, but somehow make sense and make the overall finished product better.

He’s done Dragnet.

Now, as a proof-of-concept for what he’s calling Electric Television, he has a parody of the movie Cocktail with the great Chris Fairbanks in it a la all those newsreel clips that Forrest Gump was somehow in.

Enjoy.