Adult Swim OPO

shoulda been hueg

prob my OPO, with home movies not far behind.

It should have been enormous. Like Arrested Development, probably too intelligent and convoluted for mass-market tastes. I reckon it's one of the 5 best TV shows I've seen.

tell me more about what the normals can't handle, brainiac.

oh come on, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! kicks everything else in the ass.

I don't think Frisky Dingo was nec. too smart for TV - it's actually more accessible than a lot of Adult Swim shows. In a way I felt like it was the logical conclusion to what the adult swim people have been working at for a long time.

It did share Arrested Development's problem in another way - a linear plot and jokes that built on each other episode to episode. So if someone started watching at episode 8 or whatever, they a. won't have any idea what's going on or who the fuck that muscular monster dude is b. aren't gonna find the funniest jokes funny.

Horrible, horrible model for attracting new viewers but at the same time Frisky Dingo without those things would prolly suck.

yeah, that's probably a better way of putting it - both shows are accumulative and require dedication, which is more than quite a lot of people are willing to give. agreed it was more accessible than other Adult Swim stuff - it's basically their huge juggernaut animated sitcom spectacular, where the experimentalism and iconoclasm of their more nuggety stuff gets fleshed out into a genuine narrative

Xavier: Renegade Angel is the best shit on that shit right now. Fuckin, guy has a snake for an arm. Nothing is funnier, nothing is better.

a baby-eating snake.

Frisky Dingo was basically what the Sealab team moved onto afterwards, right? The end of Sealab really kind of petered out in quality, and I only saw one or two eps of Frisky Dingo and was pretty confused as to what was going on. Maybe I'll give it a try on DVD at some point.

Right, it was the Sealab people and the shows were on the same wavelength. And honestly, I like Sealab...but in retrospect it's like early demo tapes vs. the awesome fleshed out band.

also: scion tc episode is like my favorite moment in human history

Haven't seen that much AS stuff, but Venture Bros is seriously hard to beat.

oh man, I loved Sealab, but I don't think I've even seen an episode Frisky Dingo. might have to check that out.

also: kind of hit-or-miss, but when it's firing on all cylinders, Superjail is one of my favorite things in the world.

i thoroughly enjoyed sealab, but frisky dingo is some next level shit. i definitely recommend watching it in order from start to finish. i probably only got into it because the whole first season (or like more than half of it) was up on youtube for a while. also, killer mike!!

Does anyone like Look Around You?
That's when my tv goes off.

Right now the best is Tim and Eric Awesome Show
but the opo all time is Home Movies, duh
(ok I've only seen one episode of Frisky Dingo so I guess I'll have to seek out some more)

We can't ever go back to Arizona!

"Home Movies" - the idea of an 8-year old Ed Wood is irresistable, and H. Jon Benjamin is some kinda god. (Too bad he's wasted on the occasional "Family Guy" ep.)

Frustraing: Teletoon eliminating Brak and Space Ghost and Harvey Birdman just when I got into 'em, grrr.

Jon Benjamin is also fantastic in Lucy, Daughter of the Devil

...dunno what that is :(

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/lucydaughterofthedevil/indexpage.html#video

it's by one of the creators of Home Movies

First two seasons of Sealab are my OPO.

"Save if for Queen Doppelpopolous."

can I only pick none?

c'mon there's a lotta bullshit on Adult Swim but you're saying you dislike every single show?

I can honestly say I actively dislike every single show except maybe Home Movies.

Uncle Gabby and I weep for you.

then one you would pick is Home Movies, fuckin' duh.

Venture Brothers is pure genius. i think all the newer spazzmo stoney cheap shit is godawful, tho, so i never watch adult swim anymore.

I still watch Family Guy and have started rewatching King of the Hill, plus Venture Brothers and Metalocalypse are both great.

My OPO is Bleach, though.

Snake 'n' Bacon (based on Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle) is the best thing on Adult Swim in ages.

Not as good as Freedom 'n' Ethan.

Finally got around to watching the first season of Frisky Dingo on DVD. A lot of pretty funny stuff, and way more ambitious than Sealab - I tried watching when it was on the air, but caught random eps and the show's plot/characterizations are already kinda confusing without watching them out or order.

I have to wonder though - between all the obnoxious Chinese stereotypes in this and the godawful Dickesode and "Shake turns black" episodes of ATHF when did adult swim go from hilarious surreal comedy to crutching on sub-Mencia-level racist "humor"? Really kept taking me out of it. Even the third episode of Archer that just aired was one of those bog-standard, obviously-written-by-lame-white-dudes "diversity in the workplace" plots. It's enough for me to not bother going to the second season of FD.

I dunno, I never took frisky dingo's humor to be racist - self-aware references to racial stereotypes isn't off-limits imo

regardless, I can't think of any of that stuff in the 2nd season and highly recommend it

and there is a difference between this and 'ironic racism' (one's still a joke about race vs. and one's a joke about racism)

minus one 'and'

It sometimes felt like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too (like the ugh dry cleaner - turning out to be a white guy after all - but then he's not! lulz.) but by the time they got to the rabbit fighting shit in Chinatown and the goddamn sweatshops it was really ruining it for me.

yeah but the jokes don't come from laughing AT sweatshop/chinatown/whatever, just using them for the absurdist situation?

the little dingo i've seen has this family guy element (the Walt Disney JEEEEEWWWWWW!!! sequence in particular) where it stops being "jokes that comment on racism" and starts being "jokes that draw attention to racism." A lot of it seems like wanting to tell a racist joke, but putting a vague veil of "cultural commentary" on it to get away with it

0_0 at Cheyenne Cinnamon. Had to watch for Neko Case, though mc chris, Doom and T-Pain having roles didn't hurt. Still... wtf.

http://www.adultswim.com/promos/bkbuns2010/index.html

Too lazy to watch the other pilots to vote...

fucked up!!!!!

I'm sorry, but I must inform you that if you don't vote for Snake & Bacon you are in fact Hitler. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where a Tales Designed to Thrizzle TV show gets shot down.

Also, I just learned that Pete from 30 Rock was the voice of the father on Moral Orel. Another reason to love that show.

Pete from 30 Rock was one of the creative drivers behind Moral Orel!

Anybody out there have the Saul Of The Molemen episode featuring Thomas Jefferson? I need to see that again.

it's all about Furikuri

Whoa, so FLCL is broadcasting in HD right now! Is this a new remaster/transfer or something?

If Mighty Boosh counts, it's my favorite at the moment since I just found out about this show a few weeks ago and they now only play it on Fridays. However, I'm pretty sure Delocated will own this as soon as Season 2 takes over.

hi-def FLCL must be INSANE