Sometime in May 2002 (I remember the date because my girlfriend was visiting my house at the time, not something that happened too often with her) I saw a cartoon on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It was about a group of geeks, and the episode finished with them having a trivia contest to see who was the biggest geek, and the question that finally caught one of them (after a winning streak so long that it called for a time-passing montage) was “who was the main villain in Friday the 13th?” which was incorrectly answered “Jason”. Does anyone have any clue what I’m talking about? I was never able to find this show again…
It might have been Undergrads, a short-lived cartoon series that was actually shown late at night on Comedy Central (as part of an attempt to compete with Adult Swim in its earlier days). The time frame sounds about right. If not, it could have been Mission Hill or Eltingville.
Undergrads actually ran on MTV originally (who naturally killed it before it had a chance). CC picked it up and ran it at 3:30 in the morning for a few months sometime later. But if you saw it in 2002 it was on MTV.
That being said, this definitely sounds like Undergrads.
But if it had to be on Adult Swim, then it was definitely Mission Hill.
Google is no help though.
No, I think I know which one he’s talking about… and I think it only had the pilot. The kids were in a comic shop and both wanted to buy some limited edition boba fett figuring or something so they had this geek trivia-off thing.
I’m sure I haven’t seen it myself, but it doesn’t seem to me as if a concensus has been reached on the name of the show. Are the descriptions thus far inconsistent with Clerks: The Animated Series?
Yeah, I think Big Bad Voodoo Lou got it; it was the trivia contest over the Boba Fett figurine in Welcome to Eltingville.
Sounds like Eltingville to me too. Pity it sucked … the original Evan Dorkin comic books are high-larious. Rarely have I see geek self-loathing taken to such an extreme … .
I’ve never actually seen the Eltingville cartoon, only heard about it. They only made one episode, no? I’d love to catch it some time, since I like Dorkin’s humor and would probably relate a little bit (as a comic book reader).