Sunday, February 20, 2005
Strindberg and Helium: Depressive playwright and ecstatic balloon sidekick
August Strindberg was a 19th Century depressive Swedish playwright who now stars in a series of convulsively funny Flash movies called Strindberg and Helium. In Strindberg and Helium, Strindberg has a little pink floaty balloon chum called Helium, who wheedles out happy messages. The plot goes like this: Strindberg sits somewhere and repeats gloomy, dull lines from his miserable plays. Helium floats around his head and repeats his phrases in a happy little voice, "Miiiiserrrry!" This is a lot funnier than it sounds.
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(Thanks, Ben!)
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