adventurous cable viewers 
were smacked across the head by an outrageous show that still hasn't been matched in the mainstream market: Wonder Showzen, a satirical and often extremely experimental two-season program done in the template of a puppet-filled kids' show that often fractures into another state of consciousness entirely. One of its creators, Vernon Chatman, has kept that spirit alive in his other projects since then like the indescribable 2009 anthology film Final Flesh, which is truly unique in the pantheon of SOV productions. Using a website called Porn for the People (essentially a hardcore version of W.A.V.E. Productions where customers can custom order any oddball video they want), he commissioned four segments revolving around the idea of households dealing with escalating radioactive insanity. Each one involves a couple and their daughter awakening from a dream and spouting non sequitur dialogue, often with hilarious and sometimes disturbing results along with recurring imagery involving food, nudity, and bathrooms. There's no way you'll ever forget it.
That's just for starters though as our next trio awakens in the afterlife (complete with brain spaghetti in a toilet, a 
fetish for dumping a jar of marinara sauce inside underwear, and messages from God), followed by two more segments with messages in spilled coins, a lesbian duel with smushed bananas and cherries, dialogue like "My beauty is a weapon, so that's why I must commit optical suicide"... and so it goes.
Obviously this is limited by the conditions of the original production, which was shot digitally and 
plays out at 1.33:1 before switching midway to windowboxed 1.78:1. (Keep the zoom button handy if you can for easier viewing.) The DTS-HD MA English 2.0 stereo track (with optional English SDH subtitles) sounds great with the sparse but effective electronic score getting a lot of multichannel activity throughout along with the occasional off-screen voice moving around. There's also an option to play it with a new alternate score by Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire, which plays a lot more throughout, has more tonal variety, and gives the whole thing more of a David Lynchian quality. Also included are an appropriately baffling video intro by On Cinema’s Gregg Turkington (2m35s), a "Lay and Love” music video by Bonnie “Prince” Billy directed by Vernon Chatman and John Lee (set in a very unusual moving van), a PFFR film festival commercial, the original trailer, and a funny reel of outtakes (8m43s) from the second segment showing how the actors really felt about that underwear sauce scene.