, or VPN was a short-lived Japanese late-night variety and comedy skit TV show which mixed animated and live-action segments (often parodying TV series) in a fashion similar to SCTV

Second City Television

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. The series is best known for its recurring segment, The Fuccons, which spun off its own series.

Recurring skits

revolves around the adventures of an American family (portrayed by mannequin

Mannequin

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s), and was eventually spun off into its own show called Oh! Mikey (broadcast and released to DVD in North America as The Fuccons).

• "Cathy's House" features four women in clothing, sets, and situations evocative of Barbie dolls.
• "Resident Starship" is about an apartment complex style starship, complete with crazy residents.
• "Midnight Cooking" parodies cooking shows, set apart by random singing and self inflicted torture.
• "One Point English Lesson," a parody of language learning shows, features an oiran
  Oiran
  were courtesans in Japan. The oiran were considered a type of "woman of pleasure" or prostitute. However, they are distinguished from the yūjo in that they were entertainers, and many became celebrities of their times outside the pleasure districts...
  
   teaching risque pick-up lines in English.
• "Juvenile Delinquent Takako," excerpts from the life of Takako, a rebellious schoolgirl living in a world of mannequins, similar to the Fuccon Family.
• Each episode also included at least one musical performance by a core group of female singers and musicians.

DVD release

Five compilation DVD

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s of skits from Vermilion Pleasure Night were released in Japan, as well as a repackaged feature-length compilation titled "THE COLOR OF LIFE", which recycled much of the same content though also contained some bonus material as an incentive for collectors.

The US releases (published by ADV Films) paired up these DVDs into three volumes:

• Vermilion Pleasure Night Vol.1: OpticErotica ("GOLD" + Japan volume 2)
• Vermilion Pleasure Night Vol.2: VoxStimuli (Japan volumes 3 & 4)
• Vermilion Pleasure Night Vol.3: Créme de la Créme (Japan volume 5 + "THE COLOR OF LIFE")

In the beginning of 2009, a Complete Collection was released.

CD soundtrack release

"RISE - Vermilion Pleasure Night", the official soundtrack

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 CD containing full versions of another of the show's theme songs as well as audio versions of some of the recurring skits, was released on April 18, 2001 on the Zetima

Zetima

is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Outside Japan the label is most famous for releasing music by several participants in Hello! Project, the most famous...

 label. The limited-edition first pressing came accompanied with a photobook

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.