Girlfriday: How could you possibly not laugh while chanting in monotone, “Girls-girls”? They’re hysterical. But the straight face is what makes it so utterly hysterical. Javabeans: I loved that they included the NGs in the back, showing how hard it was for the boys to keep a straight face. Girlfriday: Okay, that bit had me rolling on the floor. Like how the trio is serious and the prince is this flighty guy with a love of all things Hallyu - which is banned on planet Vampirutus, by the way - so when princey is dancing around to a Girls Girls song, they have to intone like a Greek chorus, with the grimmest faces ever, “Girls-girls. Javabeans: What makes it hysterical is how seriously they say it. So they have to keep saying that over and over every time they address one of them. So the prince is Papa, and then, get this, the king is… Papapa! Hahahaha. Usually pronounced, “Ma-maaaaaaa.” Do you love how in this planet, the word for royalty is…drumroll… “Papa”? So in Korean, the word for “your highness” is “mama,” which you’ll know if you’ve seen any sageuks. And her husband the king is super short and dorky too. The queen was like, I dunno HOW you stand being around such ugly boys. Meaning, the body is as tall as their head stacked eight times.) (Note that the Korean media loves to praise certain celebs for their perfect body-to-head proportions, like Jung Kyeo-woon and Kim Sa-rang… who are eight-to-one. Here, the standard of beauty is the dark-skinned prince - with his “short and stocky limbs” and “perfect five-to-one” body proportions! Pfffffffffft. Javabeans: I died laughing when they described the three bodyguards as ugly, with their pale faces and grossly tall bodies. And in this world they’re considered to be the subpar ones in terms of looks. So he’s the average-looking vampire prince, and his three friends/lackeys/underlings serving him are the gorgeous movie-vampire types. So you swap out pretty-boy hottie Noh Min-woo for older, shorter, tanner Lee Jung, right? And what do you do? Hang a lantern, of course.
Now, this is a case where the writing totally worked with the recasting of the vampire prince. They’ve managed to tamp down their instinct to drink blood from living people, and now subsist on bottled blood. Javabeans: So the premise: Vampires live on a planet called (what else?) Vampirutus. Vampidol is so shoestring that it’s endearing. Because anywhere in the middle is just half-assed. Girlfriday: I think you have to be at either end of the spectrum - Vampire Prosecutor, or Vampire Idol - in terms of production budget. It’s funny, because here I’m thinking, “Wow, so Vampire Idol took all of You’re Here’s money.” Javabeans: Really? I thought the outer-space and vampire planet effects were pretty good - but maybe it’s because I just watched MBN’s other daily sitcom, You’re Here (cubed), and that show has the production budget of a kindergarten play. Girlfriday: It might have cost about 2 cents to make, but that adds to the camp factor by about 1000%. And by amazing I mean completely and utterly ridiculous, but 100% entertaining. In fact, it’s pretty much just as hilariously random as I was hoping it would be. And based on the first few installments that premiered this week on cable channel MBN, I think I can safely say: It doesn’t suck. 84 DecemDecemVampire Idol: Episodes 1-3 by javabeansĪnother new show! We’ve been keeping an eye on Vampire Idol, eager to see if the reality would prove to be as wacky and fun as it sounded.
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