The Funnt File Anthology

Rating:
Summary: American "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Review: This is a really amusing series of tapes for the most part written by Mark Wolverton, author of "The Science of Superman." The hapless Dirwood Funnt captains an interstellar garbage scow on adventures on the planet Barbatus, planet of bearded men, and gets caught between the warring Space Brains and Winarians. Dirwood is really funny and the dopey supporting characters are hysterical.

Rating:
Summary: American "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Review: This is a really amusing series of tapes for the most part written by Mark Wolverton, author of "The Science of Superman." The hapless Dirwood Funnt captains an interstellar garbage scow on adventures on the planet Barbatus, planet of bearded men, and gets caught between the warring Space Brains and Winarians. Dirwood is really funny and the dopey supporting characters are hysterical.

Rating:
Summary: Something a bit different
Review: Well, I wondered when I'd come across this series again. I met the producer and some of the actors at a party at BaltiCon a few years ago. They were really interested in the SF community's input and I think they even redid one of the shows based on what we told them. It was at BaltiCon that I picked up this cassette box set. Since the CD box set has the exact same episodes my review holds for that product as well.

This series is a lot of fun. It's refreshing because it's not a gag-a-minute type show like Red Dwarf or Hitchhiker's Guide. It depends more on characters and situations for its humor and likes to lampoon some "sci-fi" clichés. More Sharyn McCrumb than Douglas Adams.

Good points: premise, sound effects, choice of stories. Bad points: some characters need to be more 3-dimensional.

Rating:
Summary: Something a bit different
Review: Well, I wondered when I'd come across this series again. I met the producer and some of the actors at a party at BaltiCon a few years ago. They were really interested in the SF community's input and I think they even redid one of the shows based on what we told them. It was at BaltiCon that I picked up this cassette box set. Since the CD box set has the exact same episodes my review holds for that product as well.

This series is a lot of fun. It's refreshing because it's not a gag-a-minute type show like Red Dwarf or Hitchhiker's Guide. It depends more on characters and situations for its humor and likes to lampoon some "sci-fi" clichés. More Sharyn McCrumb than Douglas Adams.

Good points: premise, sound effects, choice of stories. Bad points: some characters need to be more 3-dimensional.