The main character is a tragic and melancholic old man who has lost everything and whose only way of living is with violence.

1. It's a kind of genre that hasn't been categorized yet, the reality-drama show. That means that they show reality but it's edited or filmed in such a way that it seems like a drama without scripts and full of ad-libs and naturality.

2. In both shows, the protagonists are AA/AAA actors that everyone knows about.

3. Those actors aren't variety entertainers, they only focused on acting and maybe it's one of the few times you see how they act in real life. It shows awkward reactions.

Both depict a parodic adaptation of the famous "Journey to the West" lore. In fact, you wouldn't get some of the musical Easter eggs without watching the 1995 version as this was written by Stephen Chow, the same who acted as Monkey King aka Son Wukong in 1995.