08 Mar 2008 12:28:06 | Chad Koch
1. You Must Be This High To Ride This Ride 2. There's No "P" In
Pool 3. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law 4. Aqua Teen Hunger
Force 5. Sealab 2021 6. Brak Show 7. English Channel Swim 8.
Bobby G. Can't Swim
1. You Must Be This High To Ride This Ride
Adult Swim is a unique kind of Must-See TV found on the Cartoon
Network. Catering a fast food sized gem of cartoon hilarity to a
crowd that has become too jaded and aware for network fare.
These viewers need something with juice and Adult Swim delivers
on all accounts.
2. There's No "P" In Pool
The shows in the Adult Swim line-up know about our attention
deficit and don't bore us with unnecessary drivel. For instance,
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law lasts on 15 minutes and they
pack the laughs in there tighter than ***. To play in this pool,
you'll want to close your laptop and shut off the cell phone
because the rapid-fire jokes and humor are slung at you a mile a
minute.
3. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
Harvey Birdman the Attorney was once Birdman the superhero, but
he is now a dimwitted practicing lawyer. All his cases involve
legal disputes between other cartoon characters. He's handled
cases involving a custody battle for young Jonny Quest, a
copyright infringement dispute between the Chan Clan and
Jabberjaw and defended Scooby and Shaggy on trumped-up pot
charges.
With hammer in hand, the mighty Thor plays the judge. One of the
episodes does a slippery Sopranos parody with Fred Flintstone
aka the Dabba Don. He comes to Harvey to defend his many
"businesses". During the course of the 15-minute episode you get
to see Harvey's assistant defect to the side of the gangsters,
Harvey adding commentary to old Flintstone's footage and a
pterodactyl lamp taking the stand.
4. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is about a group of human-sized food
items living together in South Jersey. A pistachio milkshake, a
bag of fries and a meatball have banded together to form a
crime-fighting trio. As lazy as they may be, they make an effort
to rid the New Jersey suburbs of unwanted mischief and crime.
This wacky trio was originally conceived to appear on the hit
Cartoon Network talk show, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast. Ah, but
the network knows a good thing when they see it and gave these
misfits a fighting chance with their own show during the ever
popular nighttime line-up of more mature cartoon fare known as
Adult Swim.
5. Sealab 2021
Aww, the drama of precariously doomed underwater colony and its
personnel members that can't stand one another. The year is 2021
and in the depths of the big blue ocean resides a monumentally
high-tech compound known to all as Sealab. With a multi-national
scientific staff and a trillion dollar budget the lab is
dedicated to the research and exploration of the mysteries of
the deep.
Underwater colonization is the order of the day since the
surface of the Earth has gotten crowded, hot and icky. As is the
case with most government agencies, Sealab is manned by a motley
rabble of malcontents and misfits who are unfit for work in the
private sector. This hapless crew have manipulated their wayward
leader, Captain Murphy into submission and are purely content
with riding the government clock, raking in a fat hazardous-duty
paycheck. The humor here strikes a deep cord in reality and is
some of the funniest stuff to ever grace the Cartoon Network.
Here's an excerpt between the Captain and Marco:
Marco: Calm down, I'll see what I can do about finding your
little toy.
Captain Murphy: It's not a toy, it makes real cupcakes, with a
40-watt bulb, and there's icing packets. But the secret
ingredient is love. Damn it.
Marco: Just try to calm down, go have some pudding.
Captain Murphy: Pudding can't fill the emptiness inside me! But
it'll help.
6. Brak Show
"The Brak Show is the story of a neighborhood. It's the story of
a family. It's the story of what happens when adults have
children and those children go to school. And Brak is in it. He
lives in a house. A house on a quiet street not unlike yours or
mine. A house in a neighborhood. That's The Brak Show."
That's the network's official description of their new hit
sitcom starring Brak, the absent-minded space pirate from the
Space Ghost cartoons. He goes through all the typical sitcom
situations with his friend Zorak. Also along for the ride are
Brak's parents, his brother Sisto, and his next-door neighbor
Thundercleese.
7. English Channel Swim
The hilarious giant block of mature-themed entertainment also
includes the shows: Baby Blues, Cowboy Bebop, InuYasha, Lupin
the 3rd, Mission Hill, The Oblongs, Reign: The Conqueror, The
Ripping Friends and Trigun.
Joining the lineup are ex-Fox Network nighttime toons, The
Family Guy and Futurama.
8. Bobby G. Can't Swim
The cornerstone of the parade of humor is former superhero,
Space Ghost and his hit talk show, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast.
Remember the acclaimed Superhero Space Ghost? Well now in his
40's he is no longer a superhero, and goes by his real name Tad
Ghostal. However to remain in the spot light he has started his
own late night talk show filmed in his studio in outer space.
With his co-host and former villain Zorak, and his director
Moltar they interview movie stars on earth through their
videophone. Space Ghost has conducted interviews with many big
celebrities including Jim Carrey, Weird Al Yankovic, Johnny
Carson and Cameron Diaz.
Truly Trivial: There was once an episode where Space Ghost's
evil twin brother Chad visits the show to cause havoc.
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