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TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring skit on NBC's Saturday Night Live
featuring cartoons created by longtime SNL writer Robert Smigel, as well as a short-lived spinoff series that ran on Comedy Central. The spinoff series was somewhat of a twisted Pee-Wee's Playhouse-style kiddie show, hosted by Doug Dale and his "Anipals" puppet animal friends. Every episode had a different theme to it (i.e. "Hawaiian Day" or "Astronaut Day") and saw the Anipals usually getting into some sort of trouble, not wanting to do whatever their happy-go-lucky host had in mind for the day. In between the host segments, they would show either parodies of 1950s educational films or cartoons most frequently drawn in the flat, low-budget style of Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the 1970s and 80s. TV Funhouse frequently satirizes public figures and corporations.

One of the cartoons for Saturday Night Live entitled Titey poked fun at the rewriting of history that some have accused Disney of doing. The skit imagined a Disney version of Titanic
including Napoleon and Anne Frank as characters, and has the anthromorphized ship succeed in fighting off the iceberg instead of sinking. Another poke at Disney, Bambi
2002, imagined a sequel in which Bambi's mother turns up alive, and the title character fights Taliban-styled terrorists in the forest before performing a rap music number.

The 'Fun With Real Audio' segments are another frequent feature in TV Funhouse cartoons shown on SNL. These take recordings of actual events like presidential debates and celebrity interviews, re-arrange them for comedic effect, and set the sound against the backdrop of outrageous cartoons.

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Most of the disturbing cartoon segments are taken from SNL, the audience remains audible.

Some of the more popular cartoon segments:

The X Presidents - Former US Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
, and George H. W. Bush as crime fighting superheros, granted superpowers by a 'hurricane powered dose of radiation' received at a celebrity golf tournament. Despite his status as a former president, Bill Clinton
is not a member (though he occasionally does appear in the cartoons), and the deceased Richard Nixon has appeared once, while the deceased Reagan still is a member.

The Ambiguously Gay Duo - Vaguely effeminate superheros Ace and Gary. All the shorts were re-written from The Dana Carvey Show. Voice acting remains the same.

The New Adventures of Mr. T
(A parody of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon called The Adventures of Mr. T) - The aforementioned former A-Team star, desperate to find work and aggressively auditioning for parts in classical theatre, and in a tampon commercial.

The Baby, the Immigrant, and the Guy On Mushrooms (aired in 2000). To these three characters, everything is always exciting and new. The skits generally involved the characters "ooh"ing and "aah"ing while in the midst of dangerous situations.

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Episode guide for the Comedy Central series

1- 1 101 6 Dec 00 Western Day

1- 2 102 13 Dec 00 Hawaiian Day

1- 3 103 20 Dec 00 Christmas Episode

1- 4 104 27 Dec 00 Mexicans Day

1- 5 106 3 Jan 01 New Year's Resolutions

1- 6 105 10 Jan 01 Safari Day

1- 7 108 17 Jan 01 Astronaut Day

1- 8 107 24 Jan 01 Chinese New Year's Day

Category:Comedy_Central_shows Category:Saturday Night Live sketches

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Episode guide for the Comedy Central series

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