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The Passion of the Mouse

Jesse Walker | June 29, 2007, 10:53pm

Farfour, RIP:farfour
Hamas TV has axed a Mickey Mouse lookalike who made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters.

The station broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring the character named Farfour.

In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land....

"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter.
Or maybe it wasn't his land that was the problem:
Station officials said Farfour was taken off the air to make room for new programmes.
Farfour: the first known instance of a rodent killed because he had lousy ratings.
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Comments to "The Passion of the Mouse":

Aresen | June 29, 2007, 11:12pm | #

Farfour: the first known instance of a rodent killed because he had lousy ratings.

OTOH, there have been quite a few White Elephants killed for lousy ratings.

edna | June 29, 2007, 11:44pm | #

this is seriously great performance art.

Paul | June 29, 2007, 11:55pm | #

In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land....

Mmmno, this is about the New London Development Corporation.

Underdog | June 30, 2007, 12:10am | #

Before this, Farfour practically complained in a skit that the Jews ate my homework when he explained that to the teacher that the reason he was cheating on a test was because the Jews burned his house down.

Btw... the flash video of the Jews ate my homework scene, from the further adventures of Farfur the Terror Mouse, is included in this hyperlink: Jews ate my homework video

The Wine Commonsewer® | June 30, 2007, 12:11am | #

In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land....

Two kinnda Jews, dam Jews and got dam Jews, obviously, this guy was a got dam Jew.

M | June 30, 2007, 12:18am | #

- Everyone knows the Jews sank the Titanic.
- I thought it was an iceberg!
- Iceberg, Goldberg, what's the difference?

Daze | June 30, 2007, 12:21am | #

Oh my god, they killed Farfour!

You bastards!

Lamar | June 30, 2007, 12:27am | #

"In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land...."

I hate it when those Jews try to buy things. Their money is the devil, and so is the prosperity that their money could bring. Damn prosperity. Death to America!!!

M | June 30, 2007, 12:43am | #

Hitler is haranguing a mass rally in Berlin about the Germany's woes, and after he reaches the climax of his list, he shrieks "And who is responsible for all our troubles?" expecting the rest of the crowd to shout, "The Jews!"

As they do indeed roar, "The Jews, the Jews!" a little Jew in the front row chimes in with them, but when the crowd has hushed, he adds, "And the bicycle riders!"

Hitler looks up, astonished. "Why the bicycle riders?" he asks.

"Why the Jews?" shrugs the Jew.

* * *

I got tons of 'em!

smartass sob | June 30, 2007, 3:59am | #

this is seriously great performance art.

Farfour, shmarfour - I prefer Mr. Bill.

crimethink | June 30, 2007, 8:33am | #

Farfour: the first known instance of a rodent killed because he had lousy ratings.

Uh, I think a more likely explanation is that Disney threatened to take them to court. The Palestinians may think the Israeli Army is ruthless, but that's because they've never contended with Big Mickey.

Robert | June 30, 2007, 9:51am | #

I was hoping for a Donald Duck clone standing over the mouse with a smoking gun.

lunchstealer | June 30, 2007, 10:33am | #

Hey, did anybody else notice the wicked widow's peak on that mouse? It's like Bram Stoker's Mickey Mouse.

<lugosi>Listen to them. Children of the jihad. What music they make.</lugosi>

J sub D | June 30, 2007, 10:47am | #

This is all Zionist propoganda! Everyone knows that Islam (a religion of peace) would never condone violence because of someones religion.

D.A. Ridgely | June 30, 2007, 11:27am | #

Rumor has it having Bob beaten to death by Jews was considered for the final episode of "Newhart" but was rejected because there's no way the audience would buy Larry, Darryl and Darryl being Jewish. Just sayin', is all.

Jeffersonian | June 30, 2007, 11:52am | #

Just think how much better the last episode of Seinfeld would have been if Kramer had bludgeoned Jerry to death in a fit of anti-Zionist righteousness, putting Eliane in a niqab and George in a 3X suicide belt.

I'm missing my calling...I'm clearly cut out for a Palestinian script writer

M | June 30, 2007, 12:00pm | #

Test Pattern

Jack | June 30, 2007, 12:10pm | #

Why didn't they have a Michael Eisner impersonator beat him to death? It would have been more accurate *and* it still would have featured a Jewish person killing him.

crimethink | June 30, 2007, 1:00pm | #

Jeffersonian,

I was actually wondering if they'd have Babu, the Pakistani restauranteur who got deported because of Jerry, come back to America and kill him.

Shelby | June 30, 2007, 1:12pm | #

Funny and mock-worthy as this all is, it's even more sad and depressing. At first I thought Jesse was going all Onion with the killing-of-Farfour bit, but no. This is so incredibly vile -- and, I suppose, a good reminder of why Hamas delenda est. Ugh.

D.A. Ridgely | June 30, 2007, 1:13pm | #

Hmmm... So what if Palestinians wrote the final episodes of some classic TV shows?

Family Television Council | June 30, 2007, 1:18pm | #

Congress ought to hold hearings on this, 'cause it's like, violent content and stuff.

M | June 30, 2007, 1:40pm | #

Clicking on the picture above now opens an article that begins:
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act...
...which, images of detonated mice on my brain, I misread as Extermination Act.

Jim Walsh | June 30, 2007, 4:39pm | #

Farfour: the first known instance of a rodent killed because he had lousy ratings.

...yet that godawful Jim Belushi sitcom keeps getting renewed every year...

BakedPenguin | June 30, 2007, 5:56pm | #

...yet that godawful Jim Belushi sitcom keeps getting renewed every year...

Don't lose hope, JW. The Belushis were originally from Albania, which means their family was Muslim. So there's still a chance he could be beaten to death by a Jew. Just ask DA Ridgely.

Larry Hastings | June 30, 2007, 7:34pm | #

Excellent "Network" reference!

Jeffersonian | June 30, 2007, 8:56pm | #

I was actually wondering if they'd have Babu, the Pakistani restauranteur who got deported because of Jerry, come back to America and kill him.
This is why producers exist. Writer!!

James Kabala | June 30, 2007, 9:20pm | #

Considering their Christian first names (John and James), I doubt if the Belushis were Muslim. Perhaps a remote ancestor was, but there is actually a decent-sized Christian minority in Albania, some Catholic (like Mother Teresa), more commonly Orthodox.

rufus | July 1, 2007, 11:33am | #

It must be sad for the children though. I remember how devastated I was when Bambi's mother was killed by those Jewish hunters, or how I cried when Old Yeller got shot by those Jewish frontiersmen. Not to mention how terrified I was when I saw Jaws and Robert Shaw got eaten by that Jewish shark.

Underdog | July 1, 2007, 1:16pm | #

IMHO this is the best "Hit and Run" I've ever been in.

"There's no need to fear; Underzog is here!"

Greg | July 1, 2007, 4:32pm | #

Tex Avery's Screwy, or Screwball, Squirrel's death alluded to in the 1946, short "Lonesome Lenny". Screwy is given the task of keeping a hound dog named Lenny company, but the problem with Lenny is he tends to crush his companions to death with his bare hands, a la Lenny in "Of Mice and Men". The final line of the short is Lenny turning to camera and shrugging: "I had a little friend once, but he don't move no more."

Friggin' awesome.

Underdog | July 1, 2007, 5:43pm | #

"Tex Avery's Screwy, or Screwball, Squirrel's death alluded to in the 1946, short "Lonesome Lenny". Screwy...."

They should've released "Redhot Riding Hood" to tv. :(

Ed | July 2, 2007, 11:49am | #

Comcast is too expensive; I'll get my laughs from HitnRun from now on...