Disco Beaver from Outer Space
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Director Joshua White Duration Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Country USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1978 Screenplay Peter Elbling, Jeff Greenfield, Harry Shearer, John Weidman, Ted Mann Cast (Dr. Van Helsing), , Peter Elbling , , , Similar movies This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disco beaver from outer space
Disco Beaver from Outer Space is an early production by National Lampoon, made for TV (specifically, HBO) in 1978.
Contents
The short film is a collection of comedy sketches, contained within the main story which is centered on two characters: the protagonist, an extraterrestrial in the form of a human sized (and bi-pedal) beaver; and the antagonist, a gay vampire called "Dragula" instead of "Dracula." Among the various side gags (which arise as the "viewer" channel-surfs) is a short concert by a stereotyped band of Irish singers called "The Spud Brothers" (potato-shaped puppets).
Tagline: National Lampoon's mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV.
Plot
The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals. At the film's climax, the vampire is frightened by the Beaver; in his delirium, he begins seeing double, thus seeing two images of the Beaver. He cries, "Split beaver!" and disintegrates.
Cast
References
Disco Beaver from Outer Space WikipediaDisco Beaver from Outer Space IMDb Disco Beaver from Outer Space themoviedb.org