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''Everything You Know Is Wrong'' is the 8th comedy album by the Firesign Theatre released in October 1974 on Columbia Records. ==Detailed track information and commentary== Like the group's other albums, ''Everything You Know Is Wrong'' is made up of a series of surreal skits that make satiric comments on contemporary culture. This album addresses and parodies pseudoscientific beliefs of the mid-1970s. The skits are connected to, or occurring in, "Nude Age Enterprises", the recording studio inside the trailer home of "Happy" Harry Cox in the fictional town of Hellmouth, California. Cox (played by Phil Austin) records seminars and assorted reports, similar to books by such authors as Erich von Däniken, which he calls his "mind-breaking records", to promote the "New Age" and other counterculture beliefs ("Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs invented the vacation! Men and women are the same sex! Our forefathers took drugs! Your brain is not the boss! Yes! That's right! Everything you know is wrong!"). Other notable characters include: *Sheriff Luger Axehandle — (David Ossman) Heater County, California law enforcement officer and witness to an apparent extraterrestrial sighting. *Lem Ashhauler — (Philip Proctor) Editor of the Hellmouth Heater-Democrat newspaper, who presents an archival report of an extraterrestrial visitor in Curio, Arizona in 1897. *Nino Savant, the Mind-Boggler (Philip Proctor) — A parody of Uri Geller, the psychic spoon-bender. *Daredemon Reebus Cannibis —(Austin) A parody of daredevil Evel Knievel. *Don Brouhaha — A Native American shaman with a knowledge of natural psychoactive drugs — a parody of Carlos Castaneda's character Don Juan Matus, a shaman. *Gary the Seeker — (Peter Bergman) A well-meaning if annoying member of a group of New Age experimentalists who travel on what Gary describes as "The Heavenly Bus". *Doctor Firesign — Presented in a cameo appearance, selling "Don Brouhaha's Inca Hell-Oil Tonic" and "Chief Dead Saint Knockout's Pyramid Pushover Paste" in his medicine show. Cox plays a wire recording containing part of an adventure in which Dr. Firesign encounters Don Brouhaha. *Art Wholeflaffer — (David Ossman) Caretaker and groundskeeper at the trailer park where Harry Cox lives. *Buzz and Bunny Crumbhunger — (Bergman and Proctor, respectively) A married couple who recorded their abduction, murder and resurrection by extraterrestrials on their home movie camera (They narrate the footage on a seemingly normal travelogue TV show). *Bob Hind (Austin), the host of the travel show, "The Golden Hind," on which Buzz and Bunny discuss their abduction. *Pat Hat —(Bergman) A parody of sportscaster Howard Cosell *Harold Hiphugger and Ray Hamberger (pronounced "ham-bur-ZHER") —(Ossman and Proctor, respectively) The "Where It's Happy" television news team of Channel Six, "The Hot One for the High Desert". Their style of reporting news largely by talking between themselves, rather than directly to the audience, parodies the Happy talk television news format which came into fashion about this time, as well as emulating the comedy team Bob and Ray. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everything You Know Is Wrong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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