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''The Fuccons'', known in Japan as ''Oh! Mikey'' (オー! マイキー ''Ō! Maikī''), is a series of Japanese comedy sketches created by Yoshimasa Ishibashi featuring a family of Americans ("The Fuccons") living in metropolitan Japan. The series is notable in that all of the characters are played by mannequins with perpetually frozen facial expressions, like the mannequins in the French photographer Bernard Faucon's pictures. The sketches first aired on the Japanese late night variety show ''Vermilion Pleasure Night'', later moving to their own late Saturday night time slot. The collected sketches are also available on DVD, with the American ADV Films release being retitled ''The Fuccons'' and including English dubbed versions of the episodes in addition to the Japanese-language originals. As of December 2008, ADV has released a complete collection of the series, called "The Fuccons: The Whole Fuccon Show", (previously available as three volumes of ''The Fuccons'' plus a "Volume 0" sampler), as well as three volumes of the original ''Vermillion Pleasure Night'' (which includes additional ''Oh! Mikey'' segments), one of which includes the feature-length "best of" film, ''The Color of Life'' in which the Fuccons appear. ''The Fuccons'' aired in the US on the G4 network as part of ''G4's Late Night Peepshow'' which was broadcast every Monday night at 12:30am. The show also aired on Anime Network in the US. While the American DVD release claims that ''Oh! Mikey'' is so popular in Japan that Fuccons-themed restaurants have been opened across the country, this was later revealed to be untrue. ==Overview== ''Oh! Mikey'' revolves around the titular Mikey, a young American boy who lives in Japan with his parents James and Barbara Fuccon, James having been recently transferred to Japan. He attends the American School. Episodes run the gamut from the silly to the surreal, sometimes ending with a joke and sometimes not. Episodes invariably end with the characters laughing hysterically, even if the episode ends on a serious note. Occasionally the series diverts from following the Fuccons and instead focuses on a destitute Japanese family, the Kawakitas; these episodes, unlike most of the others in the series, are generally serious in tone. Each sketch runs for around 2 and a half minutes long for a total of 162 episodes. 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「The Fuccons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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