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Dave The Barbarian

Dave The Barbarian

Sat. May 26, Seven – 10:30pm

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Remember the eighties sword n’ sorcery flick CONAN THE BARBARIAN, in which Arnold Schwarzennegar ran around in a prehistoric kingdom wearing only a loincloth, sword and a whole lot of baby oil as he chopped off heads, limbs and unmentionables, wooed maidens, befriended sorcerers, and fought gigantic snakes? Well, the former barbarian-turned Governor of California may have traded in hacking up enormous boa constrictors to hacking up legislation that would allow gay marriage in the Eureka! state, but I’m sure that if he caught wind of the animated antics of his spiritual successor, Dave the Barbarian, he’d cut a few off the animator’s heads for old time’s sake. Dave, you see, is a very different type of barbarian. He’s shy, retiring, civilized and interested more in interior decorating than decorating the walls of villains’ castles with their bodily fluids (‘I thought a barbarian was a librarian who cut hair on weekends!’). And although he has a princess to save, a magic sword, a brave stallion to ride and an evil warlord to overthrow, the princess doesn’t like him; his magic sword Lula is hyper-politically correct (Dave: ‘Lula, blast that thing!’ Lula: ‘What, and get a stern reprimand from the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Dragons?’); his back-sassing talking horse also serves as the cartoon’s highly biased narrator; and his and his evil nemesis is…a cute little talking pig (‘I’m the master of all evil! The MASTER of ALL EVIL! I can’t help it if I have an adorably curly tail!’)

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