Home Movies is forking amazing…it’s the same guy who did Dr.Katz…right?
Home Movies is one of the best shows on TV. The Renaissance Faire episode was hysterical. I mean, King Arthur vs. Robin Hood? Come on!
Home movies is great. It took me a while to get into, but I’m glad I did. My week isn’t complete without a healthy dose of Coach McGuirk.
Mission Hill was my favorite, but I guess I’ve seen all they have to show us. The “randoms” are hit-and-miss. The Oblongs are bearable but not essential. Ripping Friends is just plain boring. Then one week they had that thing about a dog who gives lectures . . . I’m glad I haven’t seen that one since.
But Home Movies, Sealab, the SpaceGhost/Brak/Birdman stuff . . . essential viewing.
The best Home Movies episode, IMHO, is the “scared straight” episode where a new teacher who is a former prison guard takes the kids to jail to straighten them out. And that one doesn’t even have Walter and Perry in it!
There’s going to be an Adult Swim marathon on New Year’s Eve with a new Space Ghost episode! I’m having a New Year’s Eve party, so I’ll be taping it to watch while I get over my hangover.
Bonus points to any Doper who can identify the Adult Swim show from whence my username comes.
My favorite is still “Home Movies,” although Sealab 2021 is excellent. “It’s like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain.”
“Harvey Birdman” is good when they avoid the obvious – Dr Quest & Race Bannon as a gay couple, Shaggy as a stoner; that’s all been done before. And I can’t get that damn Shoyu Weenie song out of my head…
I love sealab as well, my favorite episode is the one with the evil selab team, the “Bizzaro’s”. It was a very mind f***ing episode.
I like Sealab 2021, The Oblongs, Mission Hill, The Ripping Friends, and Harvey Birdman.
Home Movies is okay, I guess, sometimes…
SGC2C just seems pointless and silly, as does Brak’s show.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, OTOH, I’m really starting to dislike. It makes no sense at all and most of the characters are just really annoying to me–especially that little Meatwad guy (besides, I hate the theme music).
Aqua Teens is great. My favorite was the episode where the characters found a belt that gave them all the powers of Foreigner. “You! You’re nothing but a . . . dirty white boy!”
Aqua Teens is quickly becoming my favourite. The episode with the Mooninites and their droning, deadpan mode of speech is fucking hilarious.
Hilarious 2 da MAX.
Normally I love Sealab 2021, but recently, I saw an episode that just plain sucked. It was the one where some submarine captain who has a grudge against Murphy crashes into a rock, and the crew has to go in and stop some radiation from coming out or something.
Except for the obligatory explosion during the closing credits, there wasn’t a single joke in the whole show! It was just 11 minutes of the “action” that I assume comprised the original Sealab 2020. For all I know, they could have lifted the whole thing straight out of the 70s and just re-dubbed the voices.
What the hell was up with that? The commercials made it out to be a brand new episode, but it seemed like it was supposed to air on April Fools’ Day.
Also, the Ripping Friends are disturbing in some bizarre way, I can’t put my finger on it. But I love Home Movies, Oblongs, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
My personal favorite right now is Home Movies, however like most of Adult Swim I have seen all of the episodes. McGirk always gets me. “I’ll cut off your hands! How’d you like that? A life with no hands?!” I wish I had a soccer coach like him.
Aqua-Teens is my close second. Originally it was Meatwad that kept me watching, with his “Do what now?” and opinions on God. “He made me in his own image.” Shake and Carl are quickly stealing the show, however.
The Brak Show came and went for me. I miss Marsha Crenshaw. The dad is still cool, though. “Haha! You lose! Tonight you sleep on the lawn with the rest of the single-celled organisms!”
Harvey Birdman. This was damn funny. Then I saw the original “Birdman & the Galactic Trio”. That made me bust a gut.
Mission Hill. Not bad, but to me it seems as if the characters are just a little too-diversed. The slacker with his uptighty bookworm brother, the slobby computer guy, the spiritual girl and the gay resturant owner…oy. Too much baggage to enjoy.
Oblongs. Only Jonah Vasquez could do it better. And he did. With Squee. 
SeaLab 2021 was ahead in my book as far as overall quality and enjoyment, but the recent Tinfins episode, and then the way too-serious one killed that rating.
The Chicken Boy…he likes the Adult Swim.
You said I was husky!
Guess I was blinded by your fat.
I thought we were friends!
Fat makes you think crazy things.
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Which in turn makes me want to say:
“A lot of people think a lot of things about Hawaii.”
Sealab!!!
“Hollywood will pay MILLIONS to get their Chubby Cox back!”
Err, actually there was a single joke in the whole show, the explosion. That was kind of the point, I thought. It’s 15 minutes of build-up for one punchline. Plus, it’s odd hearing the 2021 voices speaking like they know what they’re talking about; I spent the whole time waiting for the joke. For what it’s worth, I love that episode and thought it was a great idea.
I never watched Sealab 2020, but I think that that’s exactly what they did; took footage from an original episode, edited down and re-dubbed it with the 2021 voices.
And speaking of “Home Movies:” “You want me to carry you across the field, Janine? In a rickshaw? Is that what you want? Welcome to China, Janine!”
Well, the explosion is a standard gag on Sealab 2021. If a whole episode of South Park went by with no jokes other than “Oh my God, they killed Kenny”, or a whole episode of The Simpsons went by with no jokes after the chalkboard and the couch, there would be rioting in the streets!
Sure, I watched the episode from start to finish, waiting for the joke, but I consider it 15 minutes wasted. I could have left the room until the closing credits and not missed a thing.
I can see the humor in an Andy Kaufman, “look what I made you do”, sort of way. But Andy Kaufman got voted off SNL for a reason. 
I’m not affiliated with the show, but I can tell that’s exactly what they did.
All of the ‘new’ animation on Sealab 2021 is done on computers and has a real fluid (if rather limited) look to it. You can spot any scenes from the original 2020 show because it has that crappy Pacific-rim sweatshop boilerplate look of all Hanna-Barbera shows from the 70s.
This episode was what I refer to as a ‘creators head-trip’. Basically the entire show is kind of one big inside joke. They’ve done it on Space Ghost once or twice.
Sometimes its ok. In the ‘Table Read’ episode of SG it was neat to see the faces behind the voices & how the show is put together. But it wasn’t at all ‘funny’. More like a documentary.
This last 2021 was like that SG episode with the actors & production people’s mother’s comments. It was ‘conceptually’ funny, not ‘ha-ha’ funny.
IOW, unless you work for the show, it totally sucked!
My favorite Sealab is still the one where Quinn and Stormy get caught in a time distortion and wackiness ensues.
Stimutax and the one where they all want to put their brains in robot bodies are in a tie for second, though. And it’s a very close second.
“Gonna show Quinn this thing in my hand…”
“Vengence is mine,” quoth Elvis
And lo, a show did come, both bizzare and sick, and I did laugh mightily, and be confused muchly
And then the rights to Futurama was bought, and Adult Swim was proclaimed throughout the land, and there was much rejoicing
And there were some, yes some, who missed Mission Hill, but they were quickly silenced
And there was much rejoicing…
On a non-Biblical note, anyone else flip to Comedy Central right after to watch Undergrads and The Critic? It all fit together…
I hate that episode and would likely ditch the show if they pulled a gag like that again. That whole episode is just a ‘screw you, viewers’ bit, sticking us with something that doesn’t even try to be funny to see if we’ll watch the whole thing instead of ditching it in disgust. Andy Kaufman’s humor is great to read about but if I take the time to watch a comedy show, be sure include the comedy. The SG episode with the creators sitting around doing the voices was neat; it wasn’t especially funny, but you could tell what was going on in the beginning and let you see how they come up with some of the stuff.