Disco Beaver from Outer Space explained

Genre:Comedy
Fantasy
Horror
Director:Joshua White
Starring:Lynn Redgrave
Rodger Bumpass
Peter Elbling
Music:Alice Playten
Walter E. Sear
Country:United States
Language:English
Producer:Tony Hendra
Matty Simmons
Cinematography:Tony Foresta
Editor:Lenny Davidowitz
Runtime:51 minutes
Company:National Lampoon
Network:HBO

Disco Beaver from Outer Space is a 1979 American science fiction fantasy comedy television film. It is an early production by National Lampoon, and was made for HBO.

The short film is a collection of comedy sketches, contained within the main story which is centered on two characters: the protagonist, an extraterrestrial in the form of a human sized (and bipedal) beaver; and the antagonist, a gay vampire called "Dragula".Among the various side gags (which arise as the "viewer" channel-surfs) is a short concert by a stereotyped band of Irish singers called "The Spud Brothers" (potato-shaped puppets).

Tagline: National Lampoon's mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV.

Plot

The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals. At the film's climax, the vampire is frightened by the Beaver; in his delirium, he begins seeing double, thus seeing two images of the Beaver. He cries, "Split beaver!" and disintegrates.

Cast

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