As Tangleweed prepares to reenter the studio and work on our next magnum opus, I’d like to take a few moments to celebrate one of the great tales of family dysfunction and studio misery. Murry Wilson, father of Carl, Dennis, and Brian, was captured on tape running a Beach Boys session into the ground. After helping to sabotage a series of takes of ‘Help Me Rhonda’, Murry attempts to belittle Brian by uttering the now infamous line, “I’m a genius too”. Brian gently reminds his dad that, prior to a fatherly beating, he could hear out of his right ear.

Murry was a fine human being. Apparently he used to like to torment Brian by pulling out his glass eye and forcing him to look in the empty socket.

So it is with great pleasure that I present this series of web cartoons. They’re not new, but, if you haven’t seen them, you’re in for a treat. The voice talent includes several Mr. Show alumns: Paul F. Thompkins, Tom Kenney, and Jill Talley. Tom Kenney is revered in my household for his work as the voice of Sponge Bob.