Some of the people get into it and play along, and others just sort of act clueless while the callers berate them. We also get to see the people on the receiving end of the calls, and their likely reactions. There are seven main crank callers Special Ed ( Jim Florentine), Bobby Fletcher ( Jim Florentine), Chip Douglas ( Fred Armisen), Hadassah ( Sarah Silverman), Niles Standish ( Tony Barbieri), Spoonie Luv ( Tracy Morgan) and Gladys ( Wanda Sykes), each of whom have their own puppet. There isn't any contextual information on the DVD as to how these episodes were made, but it seems as though the voice actors made and recorded these crank calls, and then the puppet studios did the puppet performances after the fact. So now we have "Crank Yankers" bringing the art and science of the crank call into the 21st century - with puppets.
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After the Tube Bar came The Jerky Boys, who brought this sort of mischief from recordings to the big screen, appearing in a movie in 1995. Some of "The Simpsons" gags - and Moe's reactions - are lifted directly from the Tube Bar CD. The Tube bar recordings are available on CD, and were clearly the influence for Bart and Lisa Simpson's calls to Moe's Tavern on "The Simpsons" (1989-Present). In the late 1970's, the famed Tube Bar recordings were made in New York, in which two guys endlessly harassed a bar owner named Red until he became homicidally annoyed. Poke around online you'll be able to find recordings of his vintage hijinx.
The phony phone call genre has a long history that began with Jerry Lewis of all people.
Most of the segments have to do with phony phone calls. There is blood, puke and genitalia on display. They feature a cast of puppets who are frequently seen in situations that would not be appropriate for, say, Jim Henson studios. This DVD contains a selection of shorts which aired on Comedy Central between 20.
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