The Fuccons/ Oh! Mikey

Overview

The Fuccons, known in Japan as Oh! Mikey, is a series of Japanese comedy sketches created by Yoshimasa Ishibashi featuring a family of Americans living in metropolitan Japan. The series is notable in that all of the characters are played by mannequins with perpetually frozen facial expressions, like the mannequins in the French photographer Bernard Faucon's pictures. The sketches first aired on the Japanese late night variety show Vermilion Pleasure Night, later moving to their own late Saturday night time slot. The collected sketches are also available on DVD, with the American ADV Films release being retitled The Fuccons and including English dubbed versions of the episodes in addition to the Japanese-language originals. As of December 2008, ADV has released a complete collection of the series, called "The Fuccons: The Whole Fuccon Show", as well as three volumes of the original Vermillion Pleasure Night, one of which includes the feature-length "best of" film, The Color of Life in which the Fuccons appear. The Fuccons currently airs in the US on the G4 network as part of G4's Late Night Peepshow which is broadcast every Monday night at 12:30am.