Wholphin: The liger of the sea
Peter Carlson, the magazine critic for the Washington Post, has used his latest column to review the newest publication (sort of) turned out by the McSweeney’s/Believer folks. Wholphin, which takes its name from a creature that is half-whale, half-dolphin, is a magazine on DVD. The first issue is being delivered in the March issue of The Believer and features a six-year-old short documentary on Al Gore directed by Spike Jones. The most promising Wholphin features involves foreign sitcoms – an underexploited source of comedy gold. “[W]e choose something called Tatli Hayat, which turns out to be a Turkish sitcom with English subtitles. It’s about a doofus businessman and his zany-but-lovable wife and their madcap friends and antic antics,” writes Carlson. “If you like the first version of the Turkish sitcom, you can watch five other versions of the same episode, each with alternative subtitles that change the plot. In one version, the characters spend an absurd amount of time discussing the American TV show Gilmore Girls.”
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