steve.oedekerk.com (1997 TV Movie) User Reviews

I remember it being funny

[Bombill · 8/10 · 21 January 2009]

I can't remember much of the show, but a few parts really stuck with me because they made me laugh so hard. I'm impressed that Mr. Oedenkirk writes material so strange that I can remember anything that aired only once so long ago.

Bits I remember fondly: A man is paranoid that he's being followed around town, and you'd think he'd be able to spot his stalker, but the stalker is a very nimble jumbo jet.

A movie director is in an interview discussing his new romantic comedy, which he is sure will be a box office blockbuster. His interviewer is concerned that he is right for all of the wrong reasons. After all, the title of the new movie is 'Jurassic Park' and it doesn't have anything to do with dinosaurs.

A skeleton (with eyeballs) is doing stand-up comedy. "Who likes impressions? Here's Mel Gibson in Ransom: (screaming)'Give me back my son!' (laughter) And this is Mel Gibson in Braveheart: (screaming louder) 'We want freeeedoooom! (laughter) Yeah, yeah, so the ultimate Mel Gibson impression: (louder than ever) ' My son wants his freeeeeeeeeedoooooooooooom!'" God, the look on the skeleton's face was priceless.

Man, now I wanna see it again, but how can I? Sad face.

A Celebration of Insanity!!!

[TheMarvelousM · 10/10 · 7 August 2015]

I am surprised this special isn't released on Home Video or on TV. This is a crazy, surreal, and insane explanation on what the internet was. The jokes were very funny, very random (in a good way), and the colors were beautiful. This is one special that you can not forget once you've seen it!

Steve.Oedekerk.Com (or The O Show) is one of the best, if not the best thing director Steve Oedekerk has done. What is sad that is an undeservedly forgotten film. It needs to be seen everywhere. What else is shocking is that even after 18 years, the Internet is just like what this makes it out to be. Nonsensical Anarchy. Which is a very good thing.

I like the fish

[shawshankboy · 10/10 · 15 February 2000]

The one reason that I purchased this video is for one of the skits in the show called Features on Film, I think its the most hilariously twisted skit I have ever seen. I don't think that I have ever laughed harder after hearing the foreign film maker pronounce his name to the host. The rest of the O Show is very funny also and I recommend it. If you liked Jim Carrey movies then you will like this Steve Oedekerk special. They are also friends by the way.

Needs to be seen to be believed

[Neonfinity · 4 December 2022]

This is a truly friggin' bizarre piece of TV (which I don't often watch these days, to be fair). You can only help but wonder what someone might've been thinking as they saw this special unfurl live right before their eyes in 1997. To it's credit, the Computer Effects truly create some psychedelia and slapstick, helped in no small part by being some of the earliest Motion Capture presented in the medium of television. I'm very glad someone on YouTube preserved it since it sounds like a thing I'd probably lose a night of sleep over if it were just sitting in the website dedicated to lost media.

It's really bad.

[bullsheet-39533 · 1/10 · 2 August 2019]

Fun Fact: if you have ever seen the "Ring" film series, you would know about the "pass the tape along mythos". That's basically what Chris Cornell did to Chester Bennington with this movie. It's so bad, Paul Walker chose to wrap a Porsche around a tree rather than finish the film. It's so bad. The CIA offers it as a choice for terrorists between watching it or being waterboarded. Most went for waterboarding and it's now illegal.

OMG what did I just watch?

[chbenton · 9/10 · 21 June 2020]

My wife and I were recently married. Sitting in our home in Southern California one night and "this" came one. I honestly don't believe we were stoned, but we watched the whole thing.

Certainly one of the most hilarious skits was the seafood skit... in fact we still drop that into conversation from time to time...

I think this was one of those events that you're pretty certain a program director must have lost a bet or something and HAD to put it on. There is no way it SHOULD have been aired. But it did. It's not quite Orsen Well's War of the Worlds broadcast, it's not quite the moon landing... but you'll never forget you saw it.

I'm not sure why anyone would rate this...its more of an experience than something you would actually assign stars to. But we watched it, have laughed about it and through I should memorialize that moment with a review all these years later.

Thanks Steve?

Tons of talent... but very few laughs

[VinnieRattolle · 8 February 2007]

I saw this special when it aired on NBC a decade ago (it's only airing?) and I remember sitting stone-faced wondering why I was watching it. I thought I'd give it another chance, since I now know who Oedekerk is and I like some of his work. Memory didn't lie on this one, and a decade later I sat through it stone-faced again.

Most of the skits are absolutely moronic. There's lots of unfunny jokes about babies (in space!), skits with a skeleton, and the increasingly obnoxious "Glass Booth Guy" series (a gas station worker who taunts the late night customers), as well as some lame stand-up. A good portion of the special features CG characters who may have looked alright 10 years ago, but they're very dated today. One of the only things that mildly amused me was the closing song, "Things You Never Hear People Say." Thomas F. Wilson also gave me a couple of giggles from his awkward reactions in a skit where he was interviewing an insane film director (played, of course, by Oedekerk). Other laughs were few and far between.

There's no question that there were a lot of talented people involved with this special, but it seems like most of their talent was wasted. Perhaps I'm being harsh and am not in the right frame of mind to enjoy it (I think I'd need a loaded bong), but for me this "special" wasn't.