Disco Beaver from Outer Space
GenreComedy
Fantasy
Horror
Written byPeter Elbling
Jeff Greenfield
Directed byJoshua White
StarringLynn Redgrave
Rodger Bumpass
Peter Elbling
Music byAlice Playten
Walter E. Sear
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersTony Hendra
Matty Simmons
CinematographyTony Foresta
EditorLenny Davidowitz
Running time51 minutes
Production companyNational Lampoon
Original release
NetworkHBO
Release
  • February 23, 1979 (1979-02-23)

Disco Beaver from Outer Space is an early production by National Lampoon, made for HBO in 1979.

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.

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