Maniac Mansion

"Maniac Mansion" is one of the goofiest TV shows I've ever seen. The plot is insane, the characters are insane and the show simply defies description...though I'll try.

A nice mad scientist (Joe Flaherty) lives with his family in a house built atop a weird meteorite. The scientist apparently turned his four year-old into a 275 pound man with a receding hairline as well as his uncle into a human fly who buzzes about in the episodes and talks. The wife and three kids and aunt (the human fly's wife) all live with him and the show is surreal to say the least....with plots coming from out of left field. For example, the very first episode is the 10th Anniversary Episode...and they have some flashback scenes to early episodes that never actually occurred!

My only complaint about the show is that sometimes the plots look more like it was designed as a kids show (sort of like "Eerie, Indiana") and the humor can be a bit juvenile. I like the strange...but episodes involving the kids acting like kids don't excite me all that much. Well worth seeing...and nothing...I repeat...nothing else is like it on TV.