Murun Buchstansungur
Posted Thu Nov 16 14:25:17 GMT 2000 by 'Unruly Butler'
Was a cartoon that was randomly inserted into the schedules in the early days of Channel 4. It was mildly surreal, and the artwork had that dingy, smoky quality that Peter Firmin pulled off more successfully in Ivor The Engine. It concerned the adventures of a little man who lived under the sink.
I've searched on the web and found a couple of production houses that have tapes of it, and a couple of fan sites, but none of them answer my question:
Was this intended for adults (although very juvenile) or children (though monumentally sad and unappealing)? WHAT WAS ITS PURPOSE.
This keeps me awake at night.
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Posted By 'Jon' on Thu Nov 16 14:28:28 GMT 2000:
You could ask the same of Pob. But I think the concept of "cartoons for adults" was a bit radical for 1982.
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Posted By 'Jake' on Thu Nov 16 15:50:30 GMT 2000:
Agreed, it was shite. And I too simply didn't get it. Probably German though, at a guess.
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Posted By 'Dan F' on Thu Nov 16 18:42:31 GMT 2000:
God! I remember that programme. He lived behind the skirting board didn't he.
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Posted By Mr Griffiths on Thu Nov 16 19:15:53 GMT 2000:
The voice-over was wonderful. Rather melancholy and beautifully underplayed.
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Posted By 'Mr Finger's fancy cream' on Fri Nov 17 13:09:53 GMT 2000:
Didn't have a full-size, rather foxy girlfriend? Very, very odd and scary. I think it was intended for adults. Just very disturbed ones.
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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Sat Nov 18 02:48:18 GMT 2000:
Definitely not German. That's what makes it even odder. What did the title mean? Am I missing something?
Anyone wanting to give themselves mid-80s nightmares should check out
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/tombstone/890/murun/murun.htm
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Posted By 'Phil' on Sat Nov 18 13:59:57 GMT 2000:
I remember this being on quite recently, sometime in the last four years or so, anyway. Very odd, but not that scary. Reminds me a bit of Magnus Carlson's "Robin" cartoons, or some Raymond Briggs-type weirdness.
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Posted By subbes on Sat Nov 18 18:48:15 GMT 2000:
The name is familiar. Very familiar. It was Raymond Briggs esque, yesno?
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Posted By 'Phil' on Sat Nov 18 20:28:32 GMT 2000:
Why yes. It had the kind of Fungus the Bogeyman style grimness about it. Very 1980's. Raymond Briggs also did that "One Windy Day", didn't he? About two old people surviving a nuclear holocaust. That was nasty.
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Posted By subbes on Sat Nov 18 20:42:31 GMT 2000:
It, er, was called When The Wind Blows, not One Windy Day.
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Posted By 'StupidPhil' on Sat Nov 18 20:51:20 GMT 2000:
>It, er, was called When The Wind Blows, not One Windy Day.
Doh! Brain not working. Sorry.
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Posted By Mr Griffiths on Sun Nov 19 00:09:12 GMT 2000:
I think Raymond Briggs did a book called "The Man" about a little man who lived at the end of someone's bed. Same sort of thing as MB, but not MB itself.
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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Sun Nov 19 01:29:08 GMT 2000:
Can we start a Raymond Briggs thread?
Did anyone else choke back a tear reading "Ethel and Ernest"?
Beautiful.
I remember him railing in an interview once that the most evil and patronising thing that any children's author could do was anthropomorphise objects. "Kids don't want bloody Barry the Bus," he said.
Then the Duchess of York bought out her wretched helicopter books and proved him right.
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Posted By Jase on Sun Nov 19 19:26:25 GMT 2000:
Why would anybody assume that that name was German? Do you people know *nothing* about European languages? If anything, it sounds Hungarian. Well?
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Posted By subbes on Sun Nov 19 20:02:14 GMT 2000:
We are stupid fools and need to be led.
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Posted By Jase on Mon Nov 20 01:09:59 GMT 2000:
Sorry. I'd just read c@t's bluster about Sky News and was a bit agitated. Please, continue....
[But it still isn't German]
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Posted By 'Stuart O' on Mon Nov 20 10:48:56 GMT 2000:
Your email address doesn't work.
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Posted By 'Clingfilm' on Mon Nov 20 16:17:05 GMT 2000:
The name 'Murun' is finnish.
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Posted By subbes on Mon Nov 20 18:27:04 GMT 2000:
>>It, er, was called When The Wind Blows, not One Windy Day.
>Doh! Brain not working. Sorry.
And they didn't actually survive, either. They died under a door.
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Posted By Jase on Mon Nov 20 20:05:30 GMT 2000:
A-ha!! Hungarian and Finnish are closely-related, so I wasn't far off. See??
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