Sometime in May 2002, I remember watching a late night cartoon on the Cartoon Network. I don’t remember much of the details of it, but in the episode, there was a world series of pop culture between a couple of film geeks. The episode ended with one of the characters asking “who was the villain in Friday the 13th” and the other character answered “Jason”, which was incorrect since Jason wasn’t the villain until Part 2. Am I totally crazy–I was half awake so I could have just been dreaming, or can anybody identify what show this was?
Sorry for waiting 5 years to ask, but my memory got sparked when that same trick question came up among a discussion I was having earlier tonight.
Welcome to Eltingville. It was based upon strips that ran in Evan Dorkin’s comic book. The source material is hilarious – incredibly dorky and scathingly self-loathing at the same time. Unfortunately they toned it down for TV and the series sank like a stone after the pilot.
wow, it’s a shame this show didn’t get picked up. Every single character on that show reminded me exactly of somebody I knew at WPI.
I found the pilot on youtube, and this is indeed was the show I was thinking of. Sounds like I had really good luck tuning in when I did!
Except…this show didn’t have the foul up on the Friday the 13th question (even though it did have the trivia contest that goes on forever, including “which Friday the 13th was the first with the hockey mask”?). Getting off on a tangent here, but does anybody know where that trick question was from, since it wasn’t Eltingville?
It could have been an interstitial that they threw in. I remember they did a spoof of The Blair Witch Project which bookended episodes of Scooby Doo that they ran all night in a marathon.
Yeah, it was. There was a very funny argument about whether or not Boba Fett actually died in the Sarlacc pit.
The final question was not what you thought it was, however. One of the characters kept imitating Twiki from Buck Rogers. One of the questions was, “Who says beedy beedy beedy?” Much like the old Honeymooners episode (or the Animaniacs which paid tribute to it), he ended up answering his friend’s name.