# Moonbeam City **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428 "2015-09-24T20:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/1 "2015-09-24T20:51:11Z")
Just got around to watching the first few episodes of this new animated series on Comedy Central, currently running in the coveted Wednesday-night-right-after-South-Park time slot. Best way I can describe it is “Archer with an '80s cop drama vibe instead of a '60s spy thriller vibe”. It’s all neon and big hair and synthesizers and Rob Lowe and pinks and purples everywhere. A little more over the top and less intellectual than Archer, but it definitely channels the feel of Miami Vice and '80s action flicks pretty well. Anyone else seen it? Like or dislike? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/2 "2015-09-24T20:55:50Z")
I’m allergic to Nagel. Actually, I got sick of Archer after less than a dozen episodes, and figured I couldn’t take an Archer rip-off, so I passed all together. Is it funny? Doesn’t sound like it. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/3 "2015-09-24T21:05:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Is it funny? Doesn’t sound like it. I found it hilarious. It’s by the same production company behind Metalocalypse and Venture Brothers, for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Elliot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jane_elliot/32/6166_2.png) [@Jane\_Elliot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Elliot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/4 "2015-09-24T21:43:15Z")
I thought last nights episode was hilarious. I was a big Nagel fan and I keep wondering if his estate is involved in any way, or getting residuals. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/5 "2015-09-24T22:47:03Z")
Well, Metalocalypse is fucking great, so maybe I’ll reconsider. I might have to hit a thrift store and pick up an old black-and-white TV however. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/6 "2015-09-25T03:28:57Z")
I watched the first episode this week and like it. I’ll likely watch the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/7 "2015-10-15T18:18:11Z")
“Every 11 seconds in Moonbeam City, 10,000 people get shot. 8,000 people get stabbed. 2,000 people get stabbed… and then fall into a bucket of knives and guns that stab and shoot them. 300 people get shot… with Novocaine… so it’s less painful when their teeth get stabbed. 80 people get stabbed with a knife shot from a gun. Some people call this getting shabbed. Of course, these statistics are incomplete because every second 90 statisticians get shot.” One of the best opening lines in any comedy ever. I hope I’m not the only person still watching. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonbeam-city/732428/8 "2015-10-16T07:18:31Z")
I would have liked it better if I could watch it without constantly thinking,\* “It’s an Archer ripoff”\*. \*Archer \*is still the funniest and most well-written show on TV, so this just comes off as a flashy, style-over-substance, pale imitation. The comedy and whit just flows naturally and effortlessly from Archer’s dialog. _Moonbeam City_ just tries way too hard to be both hip and meta-hip and doesn’t quite make it. It may find an audience though.