The Idiot Box — Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Comedy • 30 min • 1 season, 7 episodes • ★ 6.6/10
Episode synopsis
Sketches include God's Mighty Anvil, a spoof of 50s science fiction movies called Damn These Eyes, Eddie The Flying Gimp, a spoof of cop shows called Lockjaw, Alex Winter as Dustin Hoffman in Rain Main 2: Electric Boogaloo and The Very Finest of Tonight's Idiot Box.
About The Idiot Box
The Idiot Box is an American sketch comedy television series created by Alex Winter, Tom Stern and Tim Burns, which ran on MTV from 1990-1991. After the success of Bill & Ted, MTV hired Winter, Stern, and Burns to develop a half-hour sketch comedy show for the network. As the channel was still strictly music-oriented at the time, The Idiot Box was mainly a showcase for popular music videos, but with a series of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies shown in between. Therefore, although an episode ran 30 minutes, there were only 7 to 11 minutes worth of sketches.