INNER TOOB: AS SEEN ON TV: TARZAN

Saturday, March 10, 2012

AS SEEN ON TV: TARZAN

For this Saturday edition of the Video Weekend, we're featuring a Neil Innes character in the "ASOTV" showcase for no other reason than we want to. And because I found a good video in the Skitlandia version of the WNU.

Plus it's been one hundred years since the introduction of Tarzan to the world. It's about time Inner Toob celebrated his existence in the multiverse!

Okay, so I had three good reasons.....

TARZAN

aka

JOHN CLAYTON, EARL GREYSTOKE

CREATED BY:

Edgar Rice Burroughs

AS SEEN IN:
'The Innes Book Of Records'

AS PLAYED BY:

Neil Innes

TV DIMENSION:

Skitlandia

STATUS:

Recastaway

"Enchanted" by Mr. Sweet

From Wikipedia:

Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel "Tarzan of the Apes" (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and then in twenty-five sequels, three authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, authorized or not.

Tarzan is the son of a British Lord and Lady who were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan was only an infant, his mother died of natural causes and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe by whom Tarzan was adopted. Tarzan's tribe of apes is known as the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother. Burroughs added stories occurring during Tarzan's adolescence in his sixth Tarzan book, "Jungle Tales of Tarzan".

Tarzan is his ape name; his real English name is John Clayton, Earl Greystoke (the formal title is Viscount Greystoke according to Burroughs in "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle"; Earl of Greystoke in later, non-canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie "Greystoke"). In fact, Burroughs's narrator in Tarzan of the Apes, describes both Clayton and Greystoke as fictitious names – implying that, within the fictional world that Tarzan inhabits, he may have a different real name.