Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
Follies of the Madmen #527
From the "nephew" school of art. "My nephew draws good--we'll get him to do the ad."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 08, 2022 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Advertising, 1970s
Robert Mitchum Sings
Add Mitchum to our list of "singing actors who probably should have stuck to acting."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 26, 2022 -
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Category: Crime, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Music, 1950s, Alcohol, Cars
Harvey Comics Rock
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 21, 2022 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Comics, 1970s
Little Clowns of Happytown
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 06, 2021 -
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Category: Clowns, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Cartoons, 1980s
The King Kong Show (and Tom of T.H.U.M.B.)
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 08, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Cartoons, 1960s
My Mother The Car
The 1965 sitcom My Mother the Car ran for a single season on NBC. Its oddball premise involved "a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as an antique car, and she communicates with him through the car radio."Wikipedia notes, "Critics and adult viewers generally disliked the show, often savagely. In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed it to be the second-worst of all time, behind The Jerry Springer Show."
The Hackensack Record - Aug 17, 1986
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 26, 2021 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, 1960s
The Houndcats
A series so obscure (only 13 episodes) that not even Wikipedia knows of it.Their IMDB page reveals:
The Houndcats were five crack agents--leader Stutz, strongman Muscle Mutt, master of disguise Puddy Puss, electronics whiz Rhubarb and daredevil Dingdong--who received instructions of their latest mission via exploding tape-recordings and used their specialties to foil evil. If this sounds a bit like "Mission: Impossible", it's no coincidence. Sparkplug was the name of their car which took them to their assignments.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 24, 2021 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Cartoons, Cats, 1970s
Lucrecia Dalt
Let us know when you bail out!Article on the creator.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 02, 2021 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Avant Garde, South America
America Hurrah!
The recent obituary for the playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie brought my attention to his masterwork, America Hurrah. Two caveats:1) The players in these clips appear to be amateurs.
2) You are encountering the parts out of order and incomplete, and might have missed something important.
Nonetheless, after the first clip, let us know when you bail! But wait! Maybe you'll need the second segment to make up your mind.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 18, 2021 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Theater and Stage, 1960s
Out of Sight
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 03, 2021 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Spies and Intelligence Services, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers
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