Disco Beaver from Outer Space

Disco Beaver from Outer Space
Genre	Comedy Fantasy Horror
Written by	Peter Elbling Jeff Greenfield
Directed by	Joshua White
Starring	Lynn Redgrave Rodger Bumpass Peter Elbling
Music by	Alice Playten Walter E. Sear
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Tony Hendra Matty Simmons
Cinematography	Tony Foresta
Editor	Lenny Davidowitz
Running time	51 minutes
Production company	National Lampoon
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	February 23, 1979 (1979-02-23)

Disco Beaver from Outer Space is a 1979 American science fiction fantasy comedy television film. It is an early production by National Lampoon, and was made for HBO.

The short film is a collection of comedy sketches, contained within the main story which is centered on two characters: the protagonist, an extraterrestrial in the form of a human sized (and bipedal) beaver; and the antagonist, a gay vampire called "Dragula". Among the various side gags (which arise as the "viewer" channel-surfs) is a short concert by a stereotyped band of Irish singers called "The Spud Brothers" (potato-shaped puppets).

Tagline: National Lampoon's mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV.

Plot

The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals. At the film's climax, the vampire is frightened by the Beaver; in his delirium, he begins seeing double, thus seeing two images of the Beaver. He cries, "Split beaver!" and disintegrates.

Cast

• Lynn Redgrave - Dr. Van Helsing
• Rodger Bumpass
• Peter Elbling - Dragula, Queen of Darkness
• Gilbert Gottfried - Construction Worker
• James Widdoes - Construction Worker
• Alice Playten
• Lee Wilkof
• Michael Simmons
• Sarah Durkee

See also

• List of National Lampoon films

External links

• Disco Beaver from Outer Space at IMDb