{"id":40855,"date":"2023-10-31T03:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40855"},"modified":"2023-10-28T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T20:46:22","slug":"the-paloni-show-halloween-special-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/the-paloni-show-halloween-special-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s too bad that we may never get a \u201cThe Paloni Show!\u201d series off the ground as it seems to currently be one of the many interesting pilots that never quite took off. Justin Roiland, Zach Hadel, creators of \u201cRick and Morty\u201d really opt for something completely bizarre and insane here, which is always a great thing. \u201cThe Paloni Show! Halloween Special\u201d not only introduces us to foul mouth kids Leroy, Reggie, and their sister Cheruce, but they set the stage for a Halloween anthology that\u2019s a lot of fun, even if it\u2019s ultimately a mixed bag of treats. Siblings Leroy, Reggie, and Cheruce Paloni are hosting a Halloween Special featuring various shorts. They are shooting for their own Hulu show after hosting this variety show from their suburban home.<\/p>\n

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Things spiral out of control though when they\u2019re forced to babysit their cousin Little Long Legs. They\u2019re also being pursued by slasher and serial killer Dana Carver, the knife wielding Dana Carvey mask wearing maniac. \u201cThe Paloni Show! Halloween Speicial!\u201d is an obvious wonderful ode to MTV\u2019s \u201cLiquid Television\u201d in where the producers enlist a slew of various animators and creators to offer up their own horror and Halloween based short segments. \u201cBanana Party\u201d from Daniel Cole centers on a guy who arrives embarrassed to a Halloween party dressed as a banana. Meeting another girl in a banana outfit, they both go to a party filled with various people also dressed as bananas. Or so he thinks. I saw the twist coming a mile away, but it\u2019s still a neat premise with a clever final scene. \u201cPlopsie And Friends\u201d from Sydney Heller, Olivia DeLaurentis\u2019, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is my favorite of the bunch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a twisted live action parody of kids shows where two costumed female hosts have to deal with their foul mouthed, deformed puppet. It\u2019s bizarre and nightmarish and I dug it. \u201cCamp Death Lake\u201d from Echo Kellum and Nate Caywood is a funny tale of a victim being stalked by a slasher named \u201cRubberface.\u201d During the pursuit, the victim gets a call about possibly being cancerous, and \u201cRubberface\u201d decides to nurture them to health. It, again, offers up a twist I basically saw coming a mile away, but it lands with a good chuckle, and sharp animation. \u201cThe Dreston\u201d from Brian Wysol is an okay animated short that features the last performance by the late Gilbert Gottfried. While the animation was good, the narrative made no sense. \u201cBet It Was Becca\u201d from Jaime Rodriguez is just a mind fuck of an animated short obviously inspired from Junji Ito.<\/p>\n

It centers on young Becca who is challenged to go apple bobbing in her Halloween party. And suffice it to say, she\u2019s more than up to the task. Along with the utter mind blowing animation, \u201cBet it was Becca\u201d ends on a very funny gag that wrapped things up nicely. \u201cMegahex, Devil\u2019s Night\u201d is based on Simon Hanselmann\u2019s \u201cMegahex\u201d comic book centering on Meg, Mogg, Werewolf Jones, and Owl, all of whom go trick or treating and end up victims of a murderous old man. It\u2019s a funny segment with some solid voice work. \u201cRightbehindyouton\u201dfrom Joel Haver\u2019s is a complete miss of absurdist comedy about a man who prohibits surprise parties and Halloween after being scared nearly to death during a surprise party. The humor is flat and the delivery of the final gag is dull. David Firth\u2019s \u201cSlaughter Cafe\u201d is very, twisted good social commentary based around \u201cClacky\u2019s Slaughter Caf\u00e9,\u201d a restaurant for the rich where they cannibalize poor people.<\/p>\n

The victims offer themselves up for money, or clout, and the patrons eat them with great zeal. The social commentary is volatile and I loved the message behind it. \u201cThe Creek Down the Street\u201d from Michael Cusack is another animated short that\u2019s obviously weird for the sake of being weird. It\u2019s a mundane conversation between two monsters talking about a date one had. They mention Halloween in the end. That\u2019s about all the connection it has. Myke Chilian and Jordan Harris\u2019\u00a0 \u201cShitty Beetlegeuse\u201d is a pretty funny spoof of \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d where a small monster convinces a man at a party to say the magic words to free him. It\u2019s incidentally a very offensive word. It\u2019s a short but sweet gag. Rafillo\u2019s \u201cThe Killer Bathtub\u201d is an okay short very much in the spirit of \u201cBet it was Becca\u201d where in the animation is more the attraction than the actual story.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Alien Halloween Claymation\u201d from Lee Hardcastle is another fine claymation short featuring a dad who has to save his baby daughter from aliens on Halloween. Again the animation is more the attraction than the story, but the final gag is worthwhile. \u201cSlashtronaut\u201d from Jacob Hair is an inexplicable slasher tale about three kids that discover an abandoned space shuttle. They\u2019re then systematically slaughtered by a mysterious astronaut who delights in cruel murders. It\u2019s weird, surreal horror short but it reminded me a lot of something out of \u201cHeavy Metal.\u201d Like most anthologies, \u201cThe Paloni Show! Halloween Special!\u201d has its fair share of misses and hits, but it\u2019s a fun Halloween special with a great bunch of characters I wish we could see more from.<\/p>\n

Streaming exclusively on Hulu.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s too bad that we may never get a \u201cThe Paloni Show!\u201d series off the ground as it seems to currently be one of the many interesting pilots that never quite took off. Justin Roiland, Zach Hadel, creators of \u201cRick and Morty\u201d really opt for something completely bizarre and insane here, which is always a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[99,103,259,441,477],"class_list":["post-40855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-tv-tomb","tag-animation","tag-anthology","tag-dark-comedy","tag-halloween","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40857,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855\/revisions\/40857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}