OK am I tripping or did I not see the other night (last week actually) on those little words they flash between shows that they were going to release a Sea Lab 2021 dvd. I don’t know, I could have read it wrong I guess as I’m not that fast of a reader.
Anyway if they are; when?
Also as a new fan I’d like to know how many seasons they’ve been around. I just discovered this show about two months ago myself.
The first one I saw was the one where that captain dude gets stuck under the Bebop soda machine. I damn near pissed my pants on that one!
Looks like you started watching at episode 6, “All that Jazz”
Second, I thought they were releasing Aqua-Teen and Space Ghost DVDs (the ad with the Moses-lookalike holding the DVDs like the commandment tablets), although they may very well be releasing Sealab.
I dunno, of the Sunday Night original series (excluding shows like Family Guy, Oblongs, Futurama which have appeared on other networks - OK, Williams Street series), Sealab is among the most inconsistant in my opinion.
They already have done 3 (or is it 4) episodes where Sealab is shown as a show/video-game - getting a bit overused.
Although Sealab at it’s worst [For me, episode “TinFins”] is still better than a lot of what’s out there.
Huh. I actually really liked the “TinFins” episode- the movie preview spoof was dead to rights, and the vapid host chick was very subtle but funny (as an example- at the return from each commerical she said the exact same thing each time.)
The only one I really didn’t like was Episode 20- “The Vacation”- the extended dance-remix “Uh-Oh” scene was just too weird and out there.
But nothing was better than episode 21. “Quiet, Debby, the men are talking!”
Then you must see the new Sealab, Johnny L.A., so that your memories can be pleasantly perverted.
The new episodes they’ve been showing have been without Captain Murphy. I wonder if they’re going to try and get someone to replace Harry Goz (who recently died) or just phase the character out. I don’t really know who could replace him. But this Sunday night’s episode was great, even without him.
Wow, has it really been on since December 2000. Sure doesn’t feel like 3 years since I’ve been watching it.
Surprisingly this show easily out odds, weirds and bizarres Aqua Teens, the Brak Show and SGCTC. It doe suffer a bit from that but it’s still pretty damn funny. I loved the uh-oh scene.
I’ve seen it since the first episode they aired ‘Chickmate’ I believe. In fact, it was when Adult Swim first premiered, and when my friend asked about it, I had said, “Oh yeah, I had heard Cartoon Network is doing this new timeslot thingy, might be worth a peek”
We watched that episode and laughed our asses off. God, I can’t think of my absolute favorite episode, they’re all so funny. I am a pretty big fan of the show.
The new episode was pretty funny. I liked how much focus on the Doctor (whats his name? Vinnu? Vishnu?) and how he was in the Battle of the Bands competing against a bunch of anamatronic weasels.
I also really like the commercials they do spoofing the 'Celebrities reading satellite subscriber’s comments". The one Quinn read had me falling out of my chair laughing so hard.
The first episode I ever watched was Predator, where a flesh-eating invisible monster invaded Sealab, and they resorted to sticking Dolphin Boy in a meat vest in a room to lure the monster out.
I damn near pissed myself laughing.
I love this show.
Now, if only I could get the Harvey Birdman series on DVD.
My favorite is either the one with the alternate timelines and all the extra Stormies and Quinns (“Take that, Queen Dopplepopolous!”) or the one with the kid from the Make-a-Wish foundation comes to Sealab to run “the biggest con since Genghis.” (“I bet your lymph nodes are as big as cats!”)
The show’s definitely inconsistent, but when they hit it’s brilliant, and when they miss it’s only 15 minutes wasted. I still hate “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” though.
Shh! Don’t tell Johnny LA, as that was an episode (more or less) from the original Sealab 2020 (cut and chopped, of course, and with a new ending of the sub crashing into Sealab added).
OK, even though I like Aqua-Teen and Brak better, every Sealab (hell, almost everything Williams produces for Adult Swim) has at least one great line or gag (even the dreaded ‘Tin Fins’, when Murphy in Western clothes on a fake-looking ranch set (I guess Harry Goz playing Harry Goz the actor) rambles on about the All-American goodness of Onions, until the Asian Dominatrix (Yummi?) shows up with a plate of onions, and Murphy pauses and then says “Um - This is my wife” - somehow that deadpan line just seems hilarious to me).
I forgot about Harry Goz passing away - the episode before ‘Splitsville’, “Return to Oblivion” where the Network executive investigates the set of Sealab, had Murphy (under the BeBop cola machine). I was kinda wondering why Murphy wasn’t in Splitsville, and now it seems very obivious.
