Will Ferrell’s The Spoils of Babylon debuts tomorrow night (IFC, 10 pm), and here’s the opening theme which will insure that you do not miss it! Babylon is a parody of those “epic event mini-series” of the ’70s, about a murdering, incest-having family of oil tycoons, and it stars a plethora of funny people including Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Haley Joel Osment, and Haley Joel Osment’s terrible wig. An epic opener indeed!
Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.) More by Wm. Steven Humphrey
“Those “epic event mini-series” of the ’70s?”
I’ve never heard of such a thing. How old ARE you?
I’ve actually never seen one… I overheard my grandparents talking about them while I was beta-testing Titanfall on Xbox One while wearing Google Glass.