'Peanuts' Gone Wrong

摘要

In december of 1995, Brian graden, then a Fox TV exec with a taste for edgy material, wanted to send out a video holiday card. He remembered a demented fable called "The Spirit of Christinas" animated with construction paper and sick jokes by two broke twen-tysomethings in his stable of eccentric talent. He paid them to do an upgraded version of the twisted little 'toon—in which Santa Ckus and Jesus kung-fu fight each other while foulmouthed youngsters cheer them on—and sent tapes all over Hollywood. George Clooney got one and made copies for 150 of his close personal Mends. Bootlegs spread to New York, Silicon Valley, the Internet. The band Tool showed "Spirit" between sets. The absence of credits on the video only added to its underground mystique.