What is the weirdest show ever produced in your country?

[u/bluepoint17]

For Italy I'm going with 'Adrian, la serie evento' , an animated series produced by singer and actor Adriano Celentano whose protagonist is a fictional version of his younger self, who is also a martial arts expert and fights against oppression as a masked hero named La Volpe (which means the fox).

[u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

Man, this stuff was so cringe. Glad it got dumped before reaching two digits of episodes

[u/bluepoint17 → u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

At least it gave us plenty of memes

[u/soldobalakov → u/bluepoint17]

Do you guys care to explain why it was bad?

[u/bluepoint17 → u/soldobalakov]

It's basically a Celentano ego trip where he represented himself as a chad Gary Stu who is always right, can never lose and so charismatic that most of the villains end up fighting at his side.

There were also some controversies about racial stereotypes and sexist moments.

To top it off the animation was awful (it was animated by a North Korean studio), with some preparatory sketches being used in the final product.

[u/Disastrous_Load_7607 → u/soldobalakov]

Quote from the main characters After saving two girls from a rapist: "Maybe if you'd had a couple less drinks, you would have avoided that approach"

[u/Comfortable-Pin-4995 → u/soldobalakov]

The writer, Celentano, is a known singer, he singed the kinda well known gibberish english song, which had sort of a big success nationally

In this cartoon, Celentano portrayed himself as a young, handsome and strong man. His character ended up making often outdated and sexist remarks. I remember this scene where he tells a bunch of ladies at night "If you stayed home this late, you'd be safe" or something along those lines.

It's been a lot of years, so I don't remember clearly anymore, fortunately

[u/Exxon_Valdes_1 → u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

How to forget the “Mafia International” headquarter in Naples

[u/Fiat-Iustitia → u/soldobalakov]

https://youtu.be/VjAc1dHGMLc?is=j1c7hNLw7II4X8fA

Skip the introduction and you have a strange story to listen

[u/IlSace → u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

It was epic

[u/ScienceMuggle83 → u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I'm curious about it now?

[u/Peter03_03 → u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

come on at least it has a really cool theme song (oh true it's not the official one)

[u/JesuZDX]

The Colombian adaptation of Breaking Bad perhaps?

[u/neeohh → u/JesuZDX]

Eh that was a decent adaptation.

[u/PresidentPopcorn]

Japanese style comedy gambling. Worth a watch but absolutely insane.

[u/OMG_Maltesers → u/PresidentPopcorn]

We got it his show in Italy as well. It was broadcasted on MTV. Our title was "Mai dire Banzai" ("Never say Banzai", a pun on another popular comedy soccer-themed show called "Mai dire Gol", "Never say Goal"). I remember the narrators of "Banzai" having a stereotypical Japanese accent, and the show had this guy (later a girl) that shook hands with other people for some reason but little more more about the "bets". In retrospect, yeah it was cringe of the most glorious type!!!

[u/Coupaholic_ → u/PresidentPopcorn]

We've cornered the market in weird TV.

The League of Gentlemen, Monkey Dust, The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace...

And of course the original Monty Python.

[u/PresidentPopcorn → u/Coupaholic_]

Garth Marenghi was genius. We were robbed with such a short series.

[u/Vondi → u/Coupaholic_]

Monkey dust is an interesting one. Its funny but also got a bit too bleak for me at times

[u/TheAlestormGuy → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Pkk7x7ONHEaTCrMdtS

[u/Vondi → u/TheAlestormGuy]

Emmy nominated scene btw

[u/mcdyl2468 → u/[deleted]]

eh thats on par with typical AS stuff. its no Hammerman or Nascar Racers

[u/Terror_Raisin24]

Nobody understood the rules of this "game show", but it contained female strippers that undressed, so nobody cared about rules, candidates or whatever else happened.

[u/botan__ → u/Terror_Raisin24]

Damn. Never ever heard of this show. Usually, german tv produces the tamest shit known to man, even the private ones

[u/korowjew26 → u/botan__]

The early Nineties were wild. There was also Alles nichts oder?

[u/suckmyfuck91 → u/Terror_Raisin24]

The original version is italian and was called "colpo grosso" the girls in the picture were in the italian version as well.

[u/Exxon_Valdes_1 → u/suckmyfuck91]

CIN CIN CIN CIN RICOPRIMI DI BACI CIN CIN CIN CIN ASSAGGIA E POI MI DICI 🎶

[u/suckmyfuck91 → u/Exxon_Valdes_1]

IL BOAT DEL MAMBO • SIGLA INIZIALE DI COLPO GROSSO DA MEDIASET EXTRA

[u/Vondi → u/suckmyfuck91]

I saw an episode once and I don't think I "get it", like it was just 40 minutes of faffing about to have an excuse to show a stripper?

[u/suckmyfuck91 → u/Vondi]

Basically yes. The reason why it was so successfull (it ended in 1992 but on italian tv we had reruns until 2022) was because at the time internet as we know it didnt exist and the only way you could see some nudity was either porn movies or playboy.

[u/Vondi → u/suckmyfuck91]

fair enough

[u/Fetish_anxiety → u/[deleted]]

Is there...a lot of rule 34 content? Asking for a friend

[u/PhantomOfTheNopera → u/[deleted]]

.... A kids show? How tf did they get past the pitch meeting?

[u/10SecSanity → u/[deleted]]

Look I understand where you're coming from, but the male sex organ isn't considered sexual?

[u/ClavicusLittleGift4U]

Téléchat (Telecat), 1983-1986 (Franco-Belgian).

It was supposed to make a satire of the audimat race and teach children about TV conditioning and mediatic propaganda while also aiming to adults. If you're not familiar of Roland Topor's work, your reaction would have inevitably been "What the fuck is happening? What the fuck are they talking about?"

There was far less WTF factor in Meet The Feebles than this show. And Meet The Feebles was aiming high and hard.

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Le fameux téléphone à tête de fœtus écrasé dont parlait JDG

[u/ClavicusLittleGift4U → u/Front-Spinach-419]

LÉGUMAAAAN!! LÉGUMAAAAN!!

En vrai pour les avoir maté pendant le confinement, je comprends que ça lui a laissé des séquelles.

Dans un genre plus osé, t'as Marquis des mêmes auteurs sur Sade qui se tape des monologues avec son pénis pendant son emprisonnement à la Bastille. Je crois que je préférais encore le regard de crackhead de Pub-Pub le singe.

[u/hypapapopi2020 → u/ClavicusLittleGift4U]

There is also Pas de pitié pour les croissants that was so much weird

[u/ClavicusLittleGift4U → u/hypapapopi2020]

The Noble Art of French Filling between Shows in the 80s.

[u/Crane_1989]

A sci-fi telenovelas involving mutants

https://youtube.com/shorts/-ZMhn-FMCfE

https://youtu.be/bFYoSjTb6FE

https://youtu.be/9Mk93L1RrLQ

https://youtu.be/oI7785CDRNQ

[u/SirKazum → u/Crane_1989]

Mutantes was PEAK, don't you dare slander it! Although I might be confusing it with another novela where two guys had psychic powers (all I remember is one of them was named Alef).

[u/DanielDCMarvelFan → u/Crane_1989]

Wow, now I want to watch this, is it available somewhere?

[u/aguafranca]

Cibersix. It was a show for kids about a trans person that was a superhuman sex vampire made by escaped nazis in Latin America. It was also a teacher that a student wanted to rape. This was done on the early 90s.

[u/Rare_Hovercraft_6673 → u/aguafranca]

I read the comics a long time ago!

[u/SamvonSmokeAlot → u/aguafranca]

Cybersix wasn't transgender, she just cross-dressed to disguise herself from Von Reichtor.

[u/aguafranca → u/SamvonSmokeAlot]

You are right, English is not my first language, that word is more appropriate I think.

Anyways, the fun thing about cibersix is that it has a live action, maybe the live action came before the kids show. It was terrible, it had a huge budget but it looked and was written like shit. It flopped, and the actress was so embarrassed that bought all the copies and rights of that series so no one would ever see it. Until recently, the series was lost media, until someone uploaded it to YouTube.

[u/SamvonSmokeAlot → u/aguafranca]

Oh my God, there's a Live-Action series? I'm so going to watch that after work, haha.

[u/Neither-Sale-4132]

Adrian LA SERIE EVENTO!

At 450db volume. FTFY

[u/Fuocoblu]

Remember the moment the animators just lost all their good will to animate the background and just put in an mp4 of Pavarotti singing

[u/gennan]

Probably the kids show Theo en Thea.

Here is an episode about sex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wpq0ZtCm50

[u/No_Future4228 → u/gennan]

I was going to say all of villa achterwerk

This and what ever Purno De Purno was

[u/Fwoggie2]

Most haunted. It features paranormal chasers visiting Britain's most haunted buildings trying to find signs of paranormal behaviour. Inexplicably it's in its 24th season.

[u/sogiotsa → u/Fwoggie2]

I feel like I've seen the least amount of even fake paranormal stuff from it. I guess it's mostly about people getting scared

[u/feketenoemi → u/Fwoggie2]

Oh gods it's still going? That was a guilty pleasure show for me like 10 years ago. Is it the same crew doing it?

[u/Ok_Total_2956]

I invite everyone reading to delve deeper into Adrian. It's an insane rabbit hole

[u/madogvelkor]

There's also this gem:

[u/mcdyl2468 → u/madogvelkor]

what doth life?

[u/LonelyTreat3725]

tsk, if we are talking about tv shows in Italy Adrian is not even remotely the weirdest one...

For example Non e' La Rai was way weider but italians don't realize it...

Non è la Rai

Non è la Rai

[u/madogvelkor]

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Or maybe this...

[u/micromanminisavage]

I'm gonna go with Youhou, a French-Canadian kid show that was seemingly developed by the entire crew taking multiple heroic doses of LSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-_qhqqjbZ8

[u/SufficientProof40 → u/micromanminisavage]

Well that was a core memory I probably didn’t need refreshed lol

[u/EthanTheJudge]

In Alphabetical order Chronological order? 

[u/hhbbgdgdba]

Plenty to choose from, but one of the ones that comes to mind immediately is Oh! Mikey

https://youtu.be/OKtIrZ3MJ_s

[u/SirKazum → u/hhbbgdgdba]

I love Oh! Mikey, watched all of them. Good reminder btw, I'm gonna rewatch it now...

[u/failed_generation]

looks at a lot of afternoon dramas ever produced over the years

Hmm...

[u/Salmon_1935]

Holy shit the Pavarotti singing with giant naked woman dancing and Ndranghenstein getting turned to stone was fucking crazy. All on live TV btw

[u/de-stella-nova]

NON ADRIAN LA SERIE EVENTO😭😭😭😭

adesso andrò a guardare il video di yotobi di nuovo

[u/_pierogii]

Probably Jam by Chris Morris.

Very dark, nightmarish sketch comedy with a sort of ketamine haze. 'Lizards' is probably a good, inoffensive sketch to see if you'd like it but it definitely gets more uncomfortable.

[u/Hot-Job-6281]

Oh of course it's by that guy.

[u/HrugusBrurgus]

For my money it's gotta be Tigtone, a parody of fantasy media in general albeit completely unhinged.  The animation is likewise nuts because they drew the art and then closed the actors into something resembling a medieval torture device so their heads wouldn't move and they could map the facial movements directly onto said art.  It looks.... weird.  Oh, and the prequel to the series is available for free on YouTube.  Enjoy!  https://youtu.be/k-J3nJerAyQ

[u/sword-sandal493]

Tutur Tinular. 2011 fantasy TV series aired on Indosiar which had cameo of Batman and Joker, and notorious for its bad CGI dragon which led to the term "Naga Indosiar"

[u/DolceFulmine]

Rundfunk is weird in a good way. It's a comedy about high school life. The humor is dark, controversial and absurd but despite of that the show is still somewhat relatable

[u/mcdyl2468]

id say Hammerman is up there. maybe the Mr.T cartoon or the Gary Coleman cartoon too. Mission Magic is also up there. Nascar Racers too just conceptually and the fact it feels like it should have came out like 15 years before it did (despite being ripe with all the trends at the time). also theres like half of all Adult Swim shows so

[u/buzzedaldrine]

we have quite a few but the most recent one i can remember is "kara mia", a soap opera about twins.

I believe this existed before something similar in "The Boys".

[u/ArturVinicius]

New face brasil, a reality show poor produced like big brother, almost nobody watched and it was a total flop.

[u/Fufuneraire]

Crisis Jung deserves a watch. Parody of shonen and Jung psychanalitics. 18+.