On Pompel and Pilt
On Open Salon today, there’s an amazing story about a terrifying Norwegian kids’ show called Pompel and Pilt:
Pictures cannot fully express the diabolical psychedelia of this sinister black-and-white puppet show. Apart from the eerie theme music, which foreshadowed the stranger works of Tom Waits, there was the absurd dialogue. In general, the show appeared to have been written by some Samuel Beckett fan on acid. Even the titles of the five episodes seemed to suggest the futility of human existence:
1. The Repair Men Are Coming
2. The Repair Men Are Coming Back
3. The Repair Men Are Coming And Coming
4. The Repair Men Are Coming Again
5. The Repair Men Are Coming Back Again
Here’s a sample. It’s in Norwegian, so I don’t understand a second of it. Still, it looks pretty genius.
