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[bironic]

OH AND. deelaundry and I were watching TiVo'd episodes of Robot Chicken a while back, and this snippet of brilliance turned up. It's The Wrath of Khan as an Italian opera. Let me repeat: The Wrath of Khan as an Italian opera. Love! Vengeance! Destruction! Tragedy! Eels in the ear! Spock as a tenor! All in a minute and a half. They found someone who can write music and a bunch of someones who can sing, and it's actually really good.

Le Wrath di Khan

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[theonlymeyouget.livejournal.com]

You gotta love Robot Chicken...

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Even more after this clip.

[penknife.livejournal.com]

That is ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE. :-)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes! I mean, even aside from the silliness (my ear! it's not supposed to get eels in it!), it's high quality and an eerily appropriate format for the personal tragedies of the movie.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

THAT MAY BE THE MOST WONDERFUL THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. I would happily watch the full two-act version, if the composer wanted to write it.

(My father has always maintained that George Lucas should have set all the dialog of the Star Wars movies to John Williams' music. Auf Deutsch, natürlich. If you let him go on long enough, he will start singing Luke, ich bin dein Vater to Wagner's curse leitmotif.)

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

OH GOD THAT WAS AWESOME. I COULD BARELY TELL THAT KIRK FROM THE REAL THING!

KHAN!!!!!

...Robot Chicken? I mean, I've heard of it, but I know nothing about it XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

HIII

Utterly nerdy and often dirty claymation-with-action-figures, by Seth Green and someone else! Made of awesome. Except when it falls utterly flat. But the awesome compensates.

I think you can watch some here? http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/indexpage.html#video

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

It won't let me see :(

Never mind, that's interesting - I always had the mental image that it was, you know, kiddie animation. About a Robot Chicken. Hey, it sounds perfectly plausible! Like Futurama, only with poultry.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Alas, was afraid it might do that. If you want, some random Chicken links off YouTube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn3QDHdIkgI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDHskF-DCnc

...not going to say how long I just poked around YouTube and didn't find any better ones.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

LOL, cool, thanks. Not a Star Wars fan, really, but very amusing and not AT ALL what I thought this show was about. Will investigate further!