Khyber's TV Show

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Khyber's TV Show was perhaps the initiator of a turn-of-the-millennium trend in Flarlandian television comedy: absurdist comedy series satirizing television in weird ways and fashions. Running for twenty episodes on Channel 14 and with reruns on Channel A, the series ran between September 1999 and June 2000.

Premise[edit | edit source]

According to Khyber Waterman, who pitched the idea in 1998:

"Imagine if a merman like me made something that was a mix between Monty Python's Flying Circus, recently repeated by the FBC, one of my works for the corporation: Inside Khyber Waterman and an outlandish fever dream, the end result is Khyber's TV Show."

The format consists of fixed and sometimes one-off segments involving Khyber Waterman, but most of the segments had nothing to do with him.

Recurring segments[edit | edit source]

  • Well, hello there, viewer: Sort of an equivalent to the "It's" man from Monty Python's Flying Circus, preceding the series' theme song.
  • And now for something completely different: The popular Monty Python phrase appeared over a menu of upcoming features in the episode (one real, two fake). An example from the series' penultimate episode: Next: Telekhybies; After: second closedown; Next Week: outdated travelogue.
  • Telekhybies: Parody of the Nashlandian television series Teletubbies set in the hills of West Walman. The sketch is a basic parody of some of the elements of the series: their catchphrase (here Uh-Oh!), obsession with unknown things and even "real life" segments depicting children doing outlandish things.

Episodes[edit | edit source]

  • 9: The Christmas Special (December 23, 1999)
  • 10: Apocalype Night (December 31, 1999)

Broadcast as part of Millennium Night of Despair, at 9pm. Khyber Waterman prepares for what seems to be the end of civilization, or is it?

Controversies[edit | edit source]