It's like "OH! Mikey" but directed by Terry Gilliam.

don't know either reference D:

Okay, it's off to the youtubes for you for the first one (Japanese comedy show where endlessly smiling mannequins are used to re-enact some kind of alternate-reality happy family), and ... Srsly, Terry Gilliam?? The movie director and guy from Monty Python? Did "Brazil", "Time Bandits", "A Fish Called Wanda", "Twelve Monkeys", "The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen"??? :) :) :)

Specifically, Terry Gilliam seems to like a kind of anachronistic grimy future, kind of like some British stage production about the perils of industrialization.

scene monty pithon, brazil, and twelve monkeys. Thanks for the complement :3