Jonah, Servo and others in “Carnival Magic”

Oh, More Carnival Magic? No!

Servo

Oh yeah, Elvin Feltner produced a whole ton of Carnival Magic sequels, though when More Carnival Magic finally came out, it was titled 2 Magic 2 Carnival.

Huge hit, but nothing compared to the conclusion of the original trilogy, Carnival Magic 3: Return of the Girl in the Car.

Servo

Then Elvin Feltner kind of lost his way with the prequels. Alex was played by a CGI monkey instead of a real chimp.

And nobody really wanted to know the story of how Markov met Alex, and how Stoney and Bud got their hats.

Servo

They were really scraping the bottom of the barrel with that David spin-off movie when he went back home to save his dad's PR company from a hostile takeover by a bigger, eviler PR company.

Oh yeah, the whole Carnival Magic shared cinematic universe. At that point, the whole Carnival Magic movies were just 90-minute advertisements for the Carnival Magic toy lines.

Servo

But just when you thought the carnival magic was gone, they reboot the series with Carnival Magic Begins and remind America why it fell in love with talking chimps and greasy carnies in the first place.

I had no idea there were so many of these movies.

Servo

Elvin Feltner asked America a simple question: why couldn't you turn a trailer park into a movie studio?

And the answer was, people only want to spend so much time smack-dab in the path of a dangerous tornado lane.

Servo

True, but there's still something inspiring about it. A man who said, "If I want to make a movie, I don't need big stars, or a lot of money, or talent, or taste, or a sense of basic human decency."

"All I need is some trailers, an unsupervised primate, and a bunch of unemployed, locally salvaged almost actors."

Okay, now I think you're just being sarcastic.

Servo

Unfortunately, Trailer Park Productions' other movies weren't nearly as successful.

They tried a couple of disaster movies- Tornado, and The Night the Septic Tank Gave Out.

Servo

And of course the romantic comedies Van Rockers, and Marriage Bed Above the Driver's Seat.

I kind of liked the action movies he did: Maximum Towage.

Servo

Oh, and don't forget his sci-fi epic Cosmic Winnebago of the Fourth Dimension.

Guys, were any of these movies real?

Servo

Of course not, Jonah!

I don't even think Carnival Magic was real, and we just watched it!

That's a good point. Did we really just watch a movie just now?