The Fuccons: Meet the Fuccons Vol. 0
The Fucconsbegan as a series of comic sketches on the Japanese TV programVermillion Pleasure Night: A family of Americans, James and Barbara and their son Mikey, move to Japan "to live as Japanese." The brief skits consist of still photographs of window store dummies in Kennedy-era outfits juxtaposed with over-the-top vocal performances and lots of forced laughter. The humor is labored and inane; the dummies--obviously a Japanese take on Caucasians--recall the American cartoons of the 1930s that trafficked in ethnic stereotypes. Graduate students in sociology may someday write theses about whatThe Fucconsreveals about Japanese attitudes towards Americans; connoisseurs of outré cultural phenomena may revel in the series' we're-so-dumb-we're-hip charms. Wiser viewers will dismissThe Fucconsas the pointless waste of time that it is. (Unrated, suitable for ages 12 and older: mild profanity, risqué humor)--Charles Solomon