Mary Shelly Meets Michael Jackson

Dino Stamatopoulos, the creator of the very intriguing often times blasphemous always funny "Morel Orel" is back w/ Mary Shelly's Frankenhole. In the premier, Victor Frankenstien and his long suffering/long living assistant Dr. Polodori have made a time portal which the dead are brought thru it and reanimated. Using the classic phrase, "He's alive! Alive... again.", on his 1st time out, who does Victor Frankenstein decide to bring back to life... Michael Jackson. Apparently, youngest son "Blanket" brought Dad's cryo-frozen body to Victor's lab.

Once alive, the very curious, Michael becomes intrigued by it and Victor, himself. He finds the process of being reanimated "all very interesting" & uses that word as often as Johnny Rotten used the word "boring" in Sid & Nancy. However, he finds Blanket... all wet. MJ feels horribly disappointed in his now 38 year old successful son who (as he says virtually non-stop chatterbox mode) "rocks the stock market 24/7 5 days a week, then T.G.I.F. Long Island Ice Teas on steroids", all the while sporting the atypical trendy hipster fashion (tight fashionably designed t-shirt w/ ripped jeans, Vans, a slick back ponytail for his trademark long, never-been-cut hair, a soul patch, a small beard lining his jaw, piercings, tattoos, 1 saying "Dad", the other a star on his neck and not 1 but 2 ferrets... the second ferret also has a neck-tat. Why is he disappointed? Because according to his logic, he did everything wrong in the child's infancy like shielding the child's face dangling him over a balcony & giving him his older brother's name & kooky nickname to boot in order to make him more interesting & eccentric just like dear old dad, when he came into his adulthood. But the experiment failed. Blanket is just like all of the almost 40-something hippy trendsetters who suffer from perpetual teenaged angst & arrested development. He became a total douche.

You're made to feel sorry for both MJ & Blanket, because to MJ his youngest is an utter bore, & like son like father, like father, like son, Blanket just wants his dad to love him... just like his own father wanted his grandfather to do in real life.

Then instead of taking sage advice & changing his personality, Blanket opts for the quick fix-- a Jackson FINALLY acquires the Elephant Man's Bones & has the bones spliced w/ MJ in Victor's DNA splicer. Does the father/son lovefest work? No. In fact, he hates Blanket even more. Instead of bonding w/ Adult Baby Blanket, MJ bonds with Victor, who has father/son issues of his own. From there MJ makes a starling confession that he actually hated children because deep down they were boring, but when he was w/ them it made him seem more interesting. Wow. Go fig.

The most off putting part of this whole episode was the little girly girl voice that was used for MJ provided by Britta Phillips. @ 1st, I was very offended by the choice of having a female do his voice... & yet it became, well... interesting. After Victor sees "Elephant Jackson" (to which not surprisingly EJ approves), he says, "You're a curious little bugger, aren't you?" you couldn't help falling in love w/ him thanks to Phillip's voice, not to mention that cute little giggle (which he did have in real life). All of this makes EMMJ (Elephant Man Michael Jackson) endear the oddball scientist to him, leaving his son a very "Wet Blanket" indeed. To find out more watch the rest in repeats.

How do I, a lover of MJ & animation feel about the 1st real animated spoof after his death. A great big, "Meh." & a "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" MJ would love a spoof about himself, even if it was about his own demise, BUT, to bring his kids into the picture? NO! MJ loved his little "Blanket of Love" (the true origin of the nickname) & he would love whatever path his son choose to walk down preppy stock-rocker or poseur punk hipster. On top of all that Dino & AS had the AUDACITY to air this 3 days after the 1st anniversary of his death. (Even MORE IRONIC is since the real MJ died about 12 or 13 weeks before his 51st birthday, the repeat of this "monstrosity" will also air the weekend of what would have been his 52nd birthday.) I said it before & I'll say it again, "Smooth (Criminal) Move, Ex-Lax." & The final large nail in the golden coffin: they end it w/ a bump in loving memory of Joseph "John Merrick" (The Elephant Man). I guess that was suppose to be an in joke meaning MJ, but it was still wack. If your going to be that disrespectful & at least try to do something decent in the end. I give Dino & the gang praise for making some beautiful crafted puppets, but THIS... this was just wrong. For once, I am truly like 1 of MJ's songs off his last studio album: "Speechless".

MJ Down The Frankenhole Part 1


MJ Down The Frankenhole Part 2