or a parody of horror? The show is billed as a parody of horror anthologies, and they can't even maintain the premise for 5 episodes?
shareHey it's Tim and Eric, if you're expecting them to "maintain the premise" for even one episode you don't know them very well. Besides, most of the episodes kept the horror premise... sort of. Who cares? The show's great.
shareI don't see Bedtime Stories as straight forward horror. The name suggests that each episode is a nightmare and i think that holds up. This show works with the theme because it is a nightmare of a sitcom. When you look at a genre as tired and tried as the sitcom, there are so many in existence and so many still being created with even more that never even made it on television.
Bathroom Boys works as a Bedtime Story because it explores the idiocy of sitcoms and the horror of a terrible idea being flehed out and turned into the *beep* pilot we see in the episode. It also proves that you can make a sitcom about almost literally anything. The formula is so open but that doesn't mean every option should be tried until its driven into the ground like it is today.
I think you have a point. Probably one the best replies to any post that I have seen in my last 26 yrs of being on the internet. Do you happen to have a newsletter that I could subscribe to? It would be an honor to get your take on a wide variety of topics.
I feel like the story was absolutely a great horror story in the same distinct directorial style as say the USA's very own, Aaron Hitchcock or William Schlumptstien of the classic German Gridenhooutzen. I think there is obviously some of their own flavor tossed in there but you have to admit the scene in the Sugar store was pretty intense.
If you want send your moms over and I'll explain stuff to her.