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September 16, 2006

Wacky Mexican Television Revisited


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Playing Jenga® on Muévete

This is a Saturday morning show called Muévete. It's for kids, mostly.

It reminds me of the children's programming in Brazil as represented on The Simpsons. They have scantily-clad hosts that bounce around, banda ensembles, and perky songs about not smoking cigarettes complete with a dance line, again, scantily-clad.


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Playing Jenga® on Muévete

The audience seems like a big party, with everyone dancing around and singing. They hold up big signs that talk about how they love the hosts of the show and young girls (scantily-clad) blow kisses to the camera.. At one point, they bring out a special guest, usually someone slightly famous from Mexican TV, and...what else? They play Jenga®!


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Playing Jenga® on Muévete

The band plays this trippy abstract "tension" jam, like when the protagonist is walking through a dark house and you know the murderer is waiting for him in there somewhere. But because the Jenga® game can go on and on and on, it's like the house is the château de Versailles and the inevitable victim is practicing walking meditation.


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Playing Jenga® on Muévete

Given that it's a couple of people playing Jenga® for half an hour on tv, it cracks us up that they run a title at the bottom of the screen that reads: ¡El momento más tenso de televisión!

Posted by crispy at September 16, 2006 11:05 AM

Comments

Wow. I thought Amerikan TV sucked.

Posted by: Mark Allen at September 16, 2006 10:35 PM

i think yu guys were just watching a Jenga™©® commercial!
tha's all. :)

Posted by: brett at September 17, 2006 11:35 AM

Are you getting kickbacks from the Milton Bradley®?

[crispy says: No, I'm just terrified having a lawsuit brought against me by the Corporate World Government®.]

Posted by: akira at September 18, 2006 03:57 PM