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clyde49 · 4 months

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I have been thinking about the Space Ghost Coast To Coast episode “Lawsuit” and I wrote up a whole tho about it. It's a long read but I'd appreciate feedback if anyone has it, agree or disagree.

Lawsuit is a good episode on its own but if you hold it up to the original space ghost series, it becomes either one of Coast to Coast's sloppiest uses of unjustified retcons or the best uses of the “unreliable narrator” trope in the series, and given the esteem of the writers behind the episode, I'm going to give them a benefit of the doubt I may not of given to other guests writers. Appropriately for this episode, I think I have a good bit of evidence that makes me doubt the Twins in this episode. I'm going to start with some smaller numbered details and work up

One thing that really jumps to me, even if you haven't watched the original series, is the Twins going on about how much they hated being superhero sidekicks in general the whole episode before going “We should have gone with Birdman” at the end. Birdman who's repeatedly shown to be worse than space ghost the entire series. If working with Space Ghost traumatized them, working with Birdman could have only done worse for them.

Ok one thing that jumped out to me on rewatch after watching the original show is Jan and Jace saying, and I'm pulling the abridged quote from Snard, “So we're suing you, for back wages… and, for preventing us from receiving the schooling which might have provided us with a future!”

If you watch the original Space Ghost series, Jan and Jace are constantly doing homework. I'm not even joking. It comes up in multiple episodes that when not on sidekick duty Jan and Jace were working on homework and Space Ghost was making sure they were doing it.

And for the matter It's clear in the original series Space Ghost isn't making Jan and Jace be his sidekicks and they are fully aware of the risks of being Space Ghost's wards. In the original series he clearly values their safety, tells them repeatedly to stay out of danger just for them to ignore him, and on multiple occasions is established to be willing to die for them. The Space Ghost behavior in this episode wasn't in the original series, and is a surprisingly major break from Coast to Coasts established sitting as a bizzaro sequel to the original series in sequence behind space stars. They've never retconned the original series so hard in coast to coast before or since (if you take everything in the episode completely at face value), opposed to how the show would usually just fill in empty information from the original series and any charter changes being reasonably explained as changes that just occurred over time or aspects from the characters that were not yet revealed. Hell even the Brak Show, which looks like it's retconning the original series a boatload by having Zorak and Brak in highschool together, was stated by Andy Merrill to exist as an alternate pocket timeline past Brak and Zorak were sent to that doesn't affect or take president over the countuity original series. But this episode, at face value, has the biggest recons in all of the GPI era.

2. Jan and Jace sure are on the same page with Zorak and Moltar in this one huh. For as much as it's discussed how irresponsible Space Ghost was for leading them into danger, they have no ill will towards Zorak and Moltar. Despite the fact Zorak and Moltar were among the people who repeatedly kidnapped them with the intentions to kill them in the original series. Even more so than it being suspicious from Zorak and Moltar, it's really unusual that the twins don't have any negative reaction to the villains

3. And speaking of villains, and this is a detail that turns the entire episode on its head, we need to talk about Dr nightmare. Dr Nightmare is a space ghost villain that in his original episode had robot duplicate puppets of Jan and Jace he used to trick Space Ghost. He was able to make the robots look so much like them and mimic Jaces voice well enough Space Ghost couldn't tell the difference. This was part of the brain theft attempt They talk about throughout the episode.

With the invoked context of the original series I can't say with complete confidence Jan and Jace are actually even in this episode.

4. How the case wraps up. It's so on the spot convenient the alien super scientist Dr Nightmare says he was the child of Space Ghost's Human boss huh. Like there couldn't have been any other reasons Dr Nightmare could have decided to back out when it comes up Space Ghost’s legal defense is backed by Turner. It's clear the talk show isn't the actual court proceeding, this episode is about Dr Nightmare trying to get Space Ghost to pay “Jan and Jace” off out of court. To me the “I'm Ted Turner's son” sounds like a “I need to iron my lawn” excuse.

5. Honestly knowing what Space Ghost's others bad guys are like and their behavior throughout this era, I'm not convinced Jan and Jace actually show up in the coast to coast era at all and that their appearances aren't just Dr Nightmare trying to torment Space Ghost with the notion he's hurt the people closest to him without realizing it and they will never forgive him for it. It's clear Dr Nightmare could very plausibly pull it off sutch a stunt, and if he wanted revenge on the now unkillable Space Ghost, it may be one of the few ways he could hurt the Ghost in a way that matters.

6. The fact Jan and Jace aren't aging is specifically yet vaguely handwaved as the result of space radiation or something followed by Jace having his voice drop. I almost feel like Dr Nightmare was playing Jace again and he had a voice actress as Jan who was instructed never to break character if she wanted to see her money for the role.

7. Oh yeah, the court video where Space Ghost is horrible to everyone. Honestly I don't trust the video's validity with the context of everything else going on here. For all we know Dr Nightmare (or anyone else who hates space ghost that could impersonate him) could have been Space Ghost in that clip. Also the fact Moltar already had it on hand when it was “just found” when we already know he was siding with Dr Nightmare on the case. Like I talked about in point one, The clip is very ooc compared to the original series, even compared to other fake clips from the original series in c2c.

As for Space Ghost not disputing it, I'm going to point to the fact Space Ghost is established to have serious memory issues in Coast to Coast alongside being fairly gullible. I don't think it's hard to believe he would trust video evidence over his own memory and start self incriminating based on the new information. If anything I think Dr Nightmare was betting that he would, as false confessions in legal settings, especially from people with established psychological vulnerabilities, are a lot more common than you think.

I know my analysis here isn't perfect and is quite speculative, and it could just be nothing but recons in this episode, but I think it's worth something I even thought about it this hard. But in general I feel like Jan and Jace are exaggerating in this episode if they are even actually Jan and Jace, or else this episode is a bit of a glue stain on an otherwise surprisingly constant continuity.

I don't know if this episode has a commentary or not or because I don't have the third space ghost DVD yet, nor have I looked up anything the episodes writers have had to say about it. But this is my take on the episode as someone who enjoys the original space ghost cartoon.

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thegreatlukeski · 8 months

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MARSCON 2024 March 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2024 Hilton Minneapolis/St Paul Mall of America – Bloomington, MN Comedy Music Track website: http://marsconcomedy.com Main Convention website: https://marscon.org/2024/index.php

Andy Merrill is a comedian, voice actor, writer, and multi-talented creative known for his significant contributions to the early years of Cartoon Network, Williams Street, and Adult Swim. Merrill's breakthrough role was as the voice of the lovable and eccentric character "Brak" on the groundbreaking animated talk show "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast." Premiering in 1994, this show was a pioneer in adult-oriented animation and played a crucial role in the establishment of Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim.

Merrill continued his work with the character Brak in "Cartoon Planet," a show which started out as a showcase of classic cartoons from the Turner library with interstitial segments featuring Space Ghost (George Lowe), Zorak (C. Martin Croker), and Brak. With the popularity of the interstitial comedy sketch segments and funny songs surpassing the classic cartoons being shown, the show switched to being composed entirely of their sketches and songs, some of which were improvised. On both "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" and "Cartoon Planet", Andy's comedic timing and distinctive voice brought Brak to life in a way that resonated with audiences and contributed to the show's success. Cartoon Network released three albums featuring music from both "Cartoon Planet" and the two-part variety show special "Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak", which are prized CDs of any comedy music fan. Dr. Demento has played many tracks from them on his radio / internet show since the mid 90's.

In 2000, Merrill went on to create and star in the Adult Swim series "The Brak Show," a spin-off from "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" that focused on Brak, his best friend Zorak, Brak's Mom and Dad, and their daily sitcom adventures. The show continued the tradition of having excellent funny songs and musical episodes, and ran for 3 seasons. Merrill expanded his involvement with Adult Swim, lending his voice to various characters in popular shows like "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" where he played the recurring role of Oglethorpe the inept alien invader. As the years progress, his voice work continues to extend to notable shows like "Adventure Time," where he brought his unique style to James the Ice Cream Bar.

Merrill showcased his musical versatility by covering the Suicidal Tendencies song "Institutionalized" in character as Brak on the 2018 album "Dr. Demento Covered in Punk". Some people (or at least some people named Luke Ski anyway) say it is the best track on the amazing collection.

Andy makes regular appearances at conventions in the midwest, as well as performances in stand-up clubs where he brings his ukulele and cracks up the crowds with his hilarious jokes and catchy songs. We at the MarsCon Comedy Music Track have been wanting to have him as our guest for many years, and we are very honored to have him join us as our 2024 Comedy Music Guest Of Honor. All hail Brak.

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cnschedulearchive · 11 months

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September 2021. Maybe the biggest month I've ever had to report the schedules for ever.

CN started off interestingly by airing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (before you ask, Turner has the cable rights to Star Wars movies thanks to a 2016 deal and we don't know when it expires) from 6p to... 9p! Yes, they ate into Adult Swim time. This wound up being a permanent move, cemented by what launched two weeks later. But before that, CN chose to air all the Star Wars movies, and by all of them I mean the originals, prequels, and Rogue One. To fans, those may as well be the only ones anyway.

Then came the big week: Cartoonito finally launched, and it was 8 hours long on weekdays, 2 hours long on weekends. Look at it now: 1.5 hours on weekdays, 0 hours on weekends. To say they came out boldly and brashly is an understatement. I really wonder if they should have considered coming out a little smaller than this. They had no originals of their own yet, the "flagships" like Batwheels and Bugs Bunny Builders would take another year to come out. Note that almost all of the shows on this lineup have since been purged, save for Thomas and Baby Looney Tunes.

Also launched that week was ACME Night, Cartoon Network's excuse for taking the 8p hour away from Adult Swim on Sunday nights. This block's core component is airing big blockbuster movies, either TV-PG or TV-14, with basically the same level of minimal censorship as you'd get on TBS or TNT. It's real interesting what they choose to air here sometimes. Also interesting at launch was their filler choice. Rogue One actually had some filler in the form of TBS' The Cube, something you'll see get slotted in again week 3. Week 1 however, had Family Matters! There was a Steve Urkel Christmas movie in the works for this block... was. There was a few original things planned for this block... was.

Cartoon Network itself, shrunk down to just 6 hours on weekdays, continued to coast along. They started airing Jellystone. Plus they got 8p back at the end of the month, as was tradition.

Adult Swim also had a equally big month: Family Guy left the network after 18 years. Left with the iconic Stewie mpreg episode and a nice little farewell bump. The ramifications of Adult Swim's biggest safest schedule bet leaving wouldn't start creeping in until a month later, but for now we sure got an interesting shakeup in the lineup due to it going.

For the one week between Family Guy leaving and Adult Swim still having 8p, they aired Joe Pera in the hour, which you can never complain about that. More originals got more timeslots (also, should be noted, Tender Touches is rerunning in full for the first time ever), while Teenage Euthanasia made its premiere. Pete Smith Day was celebrated in a condensed 2 hour format for the first time, with just Brak and the bumps, I assume Bob's is too valuable now to be sacrificed for the rest of the week's schedule in favor of a marathon.

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cartoonfanaticmonsterrobotalien · 11 months

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My Bio

Age: In my early twenties

Name: Can’t tell you

Birth Date: December 14, 2002

Favorite Adult Animation Shows: Solar Opposites, Robotomy, Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, South Park, Regular Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Triptank, Lucy, Disenchantment, Futurama, The Simpsons, The Brak Show, Metalpacolypse, Soace Ghost Ciast to Coast, Central Park, Bob’s Burgers, American Dad, Clerks, Duncanville, Great North, Housebroken

Favorite Superhero Shows: Invincible, Villains of Valley View, Koala Man, Miraculous, Lab Rats, PPG ‘98, Hamster and Gretel, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Danny Phantom, Super Friends, Justice League ‘01, DC Super Girls ‘18, Static Shock, Horrorbots, Spider-Man ‘17, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil, Kim Possible

Favorite Cartoon Network Shows: Amazing World of Gumball, Camp Lazlo, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory, Time Squad

Favorite Nickelodeon Shows: SpongeBob SquarePants, Santo Bugito, Invader Zim, My Life as a Teenage Robot, El Tigre, Wonder Park, Modern Life, ICarly, Victorious, Kenan and Kel, All That

Favorite Disney Shows: Amphibia, Owl House, Ghost and Molly McGee, Hailey’s On It, Kiff, Star Darlings, Phineas and Ferb, Milo Murphy’s Law, Hannah Montana, Good Luck Charlie, Kickin It, Lab Rats

Favorite Discovery Family Shows: MLP ‘10, Aquabats Super Show

Favorite Streaming Shows: Centuarworld, Glitter Force Doki Doki

Favorite Food: Steak, Fries, Burgers, Chicken fingers, doughnuts, pancakes, bacon, fruit pastries, French toasts, fried chicken, turkey, duck, baked potatoes, hash browns, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, enchiladas, pork chops, ribs, Korean BBQ, Japanese chicken, steak fillet, Doritos, Ruffles, Cheetos, CC’s Chips, banana bread, Cheez-It’s Snaps, Goldfish

Favorite Sweets: Ice Cream, Hershey’s Chocolate, Reese’s, KitKat, Toffee, Cake, Cupcakes, Ice Cream Cakes, Skittles, Starburst, Cookies, Crumble, Cookie sandwiches, ice cream sandwiches, ice cream pops, animation character ice cream pops, sundaes, Nestle’s chocolate, Oreos

Favorite Fruits and Veggies: Asparagus, Carrots, broccoli, potatoes, strawberry, raspberry, lemon, like, grapes, apples, lettuce, cherry, bananas, coconut

Favorite drinks: Mountain Dew, Water, milk, root beer, coca-cola, tab’s, Mr. Pibbs, Pepsi, Dole’s juice brand, Fanta, Crush, Dr. Pepper, soda floats, Nesquick, smoothies

Favorite Actors: Patton Oswalt, Dan Stevens, Thomas Middleditch, John Gemberling, Will Forte, Charlie Day, Mike Sinterniklaass, Roger Craig Smith, Dan Mintz, Josh Gad, Dee Bradley Baker, Rob Schrab, Nate Corddry, Rob Corddry, Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Brian O’Halloran, Justin Feilbinger, John DiMaggio, Billy West, Oded Fehr, Michael Cusack, Zach Hadel, Phil LaMarr, Robbie Daymond, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Matthew Lillard, Kevin Michael Richardson, John Mulaney, Antanio Banderas, Richard Steven Horvitz, Brandon Rogers, Sam Riegel, Jon Heder, Andy Daly, Zeno Robinson, James Marsden, Dana Snyder, Fred Tatasciore, Rob Paulsen

Favorite Actresses: Felicia Day, Mary Mack, Lacey Chabert, Brenda Song, Stephanie Sheh, Kate MiCucci, Riki Lindhome, Kari Wahlgren, Grey DeLisle, Jenny McCarthy, Melissa Fahn, Cristina Vee, Lana Condor, Sandra Oh, Odette Anaboe, Edie Mirman, Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, EG Daily, Olivia Olsen, Hynden Walch, Christina Hendricks, Libe Barer, Marieve Harrington, Sarah Nicole Robles, Kimberly Brooks, Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Vannessa Hudgens, Tika Sumpter, Reba Buhr, Erica Lindbeck, Vivian Nixon

Favorite Music Genres: Rock, Classic, Pop, orchestra, country, funk, techno, dubstep, heavy metal, Christian

Favorite Band: Ice Nine Kills, Adelitas Way, Bowling For Soup, Hansen, Disturbed, Slipknot, System of a Down, Hollywood Undead, Kiss, Queen, A Day to Remember, Thousand Foot Krunch, Nightwish, Evanescence, Seether, Imagine Dragons, Skillet, Newsboys, Simple Plan, Play, Nickelback, BTS, Blackpink, aespa, Black Eyes Peas

Favorite Singer: Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, P!nk, Katy Perry, David Quetta, Jennifer Lopez, Sia, Halsey, Kelsey Belleriny, AJ Michalka, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, China Ann McClain, Ashley Tisdale, Avicci, Kelly Prickler, Aloe Blaccc, Lil Naxx, Post Malone, Eminem, Kelli Monologue, Paul Simon

Favorite Tv Genres: Animation Drama, dramedy, slapstick, comedy, animation, sci-if, romance, buddy, superhero animation, manga, anime

Favorite Movies: Hulk ‘03, Sky High, Kim Possible: So The Drama, Clerks, Incredibles, Ruby Gillman, Boy Who Cried Werewolf, Ratatouille, Alvin and the Chipmunk ‘07, Muppets in Space, Kickass, Belle, Elemental, Madagascar, Rugrats Go Wild, Wild Thorn Berrys Movie, Peanuts Franchise, Turning Red, Encanto, Emoji Movie, Ice Age Franchise (but not the Buck Wild one), G-Force, PPG Movie, Ben 10 2008 movie live action, South Park The Movie, PeeWee’s Big Adventure, Captain Underpants, Napoleon Dynamite, Jay and Silent Bob, Mallrats, Finding Nemo, Frozen, Super Mario Bros. Movie, Mitchells vs. Machines, Veggietales, Cars, 102 Dalmations, Romeo + Juliet, Small Soldiers, Godzilla vs King Kong, Godzilla: World of Monsters, Van Helsing, Hotel Transylvania, Secret Life of Pets, Sing 2

Favorite Wen Series: Annoying Orange, SMG4, Sunset Paradise, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Meta Runner, Amazing Digital Circus, Eddsworld, Murder Drones, Most Popular Girls in School, Summer Camp, Summer Camp Island, Villanos

My Skills: Typing

My Weakness: I can’t draw

Favorite Monsters: Aliens, Kaijus, wereanimals, Kaijus weremonsters, robots, werewolves, vampires, mutants, giant beasts

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adultswim2021 · 6 months

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Space Ghost Coast to Coast #76: “King Dead” | December 17, 1999 | S06E08

King Dead is not just the final “real” episode of Space Ghost that I’ll be covering (I WILL cover GameTap at a later date, which are fake episodes), it was also the final pre-Adult Swim episode of Space Ghost, and for what felt like a while this WAS the de-facto final episode of Space Ghost ever. I for one, was blissfully unaware that Space Ghost would ever resume production. There were no episodes of Coast to Coast produced in the year 2000, unless you count the alternate versions of “Snatch” and “Fire Ant”. I sure don’t, and you shouldn’t either.

Without being particularly piped in to Space Ghost ghost spaces I remember feeling dread that this could be it. What a dream to learn that Adult Swim was on the horizon, and with it a whole new season of Coast to Coast along with support from Space Ghost-esque quarter-hour absurdist programming. It seemed like a dream, like something to blog about, in fact.

This one has guest H. Jon Benjamin. It just so happens he’s in the very first scene of the very first official “Adult Swim Show”, Home Movies. And what a ferryman he is. He is very funny and charming as a Space Ghost guest, and he has one of my favorite moments in any episode, which is the part where Zorak and Moltar disguise him as a lamp, and you see him nervously chortle as the buffoon Space Ghost doesn’t suspect a thing. I wonder if he talked about Home Movies during his full interview, or if they filmed his interview far too early for that to have happened, or if Home Movies was already doomed or what. He does talk about Dr. Katz, and Space Ghost even morphs into him at one point. He did that before, I think in Brilliant. But, when god closes a door.

The plot of the episode is Space Ghost fires Zorak and Moltar, so they start a band and then take over Space Ghost’s apartment, and he gets pissed off about it. They produce a video tape to list their “Unreasonable Demands” Zorak’s line “I want a pet I can love, but don’t have to take care of!” is one of my favorite jokes. The fact that it resembles an action movie trailer is also hilarious, and the fact that they fail to actually list their demands (other than the pet thing, I guess) is simply wonderful.

Also wonderful: the weird part when Moltar just begins fading from existence for no reason, and briefly acknowledges it with a panicked “Woah, where’d I go?” and then fades back in. It’s such an obtuse gag. Could it be based on Clay just earnestly asking this as he tested his headphones in the booth, and they stuck it in there for fun and friendship? Maybe! That would be funny if true, right???!

Also, shamefully, I need to admit something: I never got the “--king dead” joke until maybe a few years ago. It’s Space Ghost saying that Zorak and Moltar will be “FUCking dead, and it’s just cut off at the beginning of the episode so he’s only saying “King Dead”. So subtle I didn’t even register it as a joke. Or, I’m stupid as fuck. Who’s to say?

Other stuff that’s good (I’m in the mood for this): Space Ghost ignoring the distress call placed by Zorak claiming to be a woman in danger (as part of a ruse to rile Space Ghost). Space Ghost believes it’s a woman, but resigns himself to her fate by bluntly stating “she’d be dead before I got there”. They draw him out instead by threatening his cable television, and Tad becomes incensed when he finds out Zorak and Moltar have his cable on but aren’t watching it, which Space Ghost thinks is “wasting” it.

Brak and Tansit take over for Zorak and Moltar respectively. Moltar shines in this episode; not only does he disappear, but he also has good ideas for band names and he yells at Brak that he ain't on Cartoon Planet. Way to put that bitch in his place. He will never be the star of a show ever again! Goddamn, this one has so much great shit in it. I left out like FIVE killer lines. Okay, one more: (sternly) “looks like your movie is going direct-to-video”.

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #space ghost coast to coast

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popculturebuffet · 1 year

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force MC Pee Pants Retrospective (Comissioned by WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy people. So this one's a bit of a breather after some very intensive exausting reviews, some major schedule slippage and before even more intensive reviews. Today we're looking at Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Having gleefully covered Sealab 2021, Mission Hill, and having a whole Venture Bros retrospective on this blog (That I assure you IS coming back, my schedule is just like living in a living nightmare sometimes), and planning to cover home movies at some point after I realize I hadn't because it's purespun gold, observe…

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It's probably not a suprise to Kev who comissoined this nor anyone reading whose been with me a while that I fucking love Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It fit the mold for the other williams street shows at the time like Space Ghost COast to Coast (also another one to cover), Brak Show, or Sealab itself: dialouge heavy but entirely bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-anas to compensate for a budget of a paper cup. It's also the longest lived of them by far, going on for most of Adult Swim's lifespan till being abubtly cancled and even THEN i'ts recently came back with a series of web shorts and the first DTV movie from Warner's new adult swim based intitative.

Aqua Teen will never be canceled, Aqua Teen Won't be Dismantled, Aqua Teen Gonna Be Together, Aqua Teen Gonna Be forever! And honestly it's easy to see why it's lasted this long as given the very simple yet inherently weird nature of aqua teen, three fast food mascots with super powers living in new jersey and having weird shit happen to them and their perverted asshole neighbor carl, means you can do just about anything with it from have Shake cause nuclear armageddon to reboot a flintstones pastiche, to the gang unearthing an evil sandwitch, to evangelical fruits showing up in thier house and one going on an alchoholic spiral, to carl getting himself shoved up a trolls ass as part of a metal band's performance, it can be anything. And while the later seasons are a bit weaker, I do think they still have their gems ala the simpsons.

So I was more than happy when asked to chronicle the rise and explosion and rise and slaughterhouse and rise and vamppiric explosion and rise and rise and squashing and rise and swatting and rise and elder fraud of mc pee pants aka sir loin aka little brittle.

MC Pee Pants came about due to Willams Street at the time making good use of comedian and rap god, MC Chris, a nerdy as fuck rapper with bars for days who I REALLY need to listen more of. When doing Improv one night osme of the williams street execs saw Chris, and asked him to come to atlanta nad while hesitant at first, the part of Hesh for sealab, who I assure you will get his own specail one of these days, maybe a heshtober fest, appealed to him and soon Hesh wanted sex and Adult Swim wanted more of him. So i'ts not a huge shock he popped up on adult swim's latest show Aqua Teen Hunger force and would make yearly apperances before vanishing entirely. Why he fell out with the company.. no one knows. He gladly came back for the 100th episode so there appears to be no real bad blood.. he might of just moved out of altanta. Whatever the case while Hesh made MC Chris' voice acting career, MC Pee Pants is easily just as memorable. As for who he is.. well tha'ts best left under the cut as what he is.. is a lot.

MC Pee Pants MC Pee Pants first debuted in season 1 and our journey begins with him as all his episodes do: with Meatwad blasting his jam box to high heaven and pissing everyone else off. What makes this one special besides being the first is Master Shake is trying to jam a new romantic ballad on the guitar. It can't be undestated how hilarious Dana Synder is and i'm pleased as punch he's still getting work to this day, including a starring role in Ghost and Molly McGee and voicing half of Jellystone.

Naturally Shake's response is to smash his guitar in rage and plan to ram the neck down meatwad's….. uhhhhhhh….. huh. You know I don't think ramming something into meatwad would actually kill him. Maybe HURT him, but i'm not sure ANYTHING can actually kill meatwad short of destroying every last molocule. As long as there's one cell left it'll still be sapient.

Shake CAN still beat the piss out of his hapless roomate though so Frylock, always anti child beating, tries to talk Meatwad down instead. Every attempt is objectively funny. The first is my faviorite: Frylock tries to get Meatwad to listen to classical music. He has such high school band teacher energy here trying to convince Metawad that these were the "real gangsters" while Meatwad looks on in abject horror and just switches back to MC Pee Pants after. Frylock still tries to be patient despite Meatwad having done this for days and does the obvious: has Meatwad use earphones. And I love his happy tone as he says "So master shake won't want to kill you with a guitar neck". I also like the Meatwad hearing loss gag after. Good sound mixing there. Eventually Frylock just tell shim to fuck off with it or he'll let shake beat him which is'nt great parenting but he tried good parenting. Now it's "don't make me let your roommate/brother/tormentor beat you".

Meatwad then tries to get him some candy as the dope new drop from mc pee pants h'es been blasting, I want candy tell shim to. We get a great him as elvis gag (Shake's "Are you the fat elvis" is comic gold as is his casual attempted murder), and ends up getting his fix form carl who true to form has a bunch of easter bunnies he got from the dumpster they just have to wipe off which would be gross but we don't see them actually EAT the things nor what's on them, so it works, especially with Carl's later ask of "Wipe me off another rabbit"

They end up doing this long into the night, and washing Carl's car for some reason. Probably cocaine. I wouldn't put it past carl to have put some on the bunnies and told meatwad they were sugar. Or done so by mistake. It's carl, he's either going to be sad, sleazy, deeply incomptient or all of the above. How is a crapshoot.

Frylock has concerns. Not about the cocaine, he has a snow mountain in his closet, no he's worried about the lyrics which talk about using the hyper active energy of those who eat the candy to power a drill straight to hell to unleash demons to help mc pee pants with a diet pill pyramid scheme.

So with the address given in the song, everyone heads to 612 wharf avenue. Which is ana ctual place in new jersey. It's even near Kevin Smith's store.

Turns out that's EXACTLY Mc Pee Pants scheme and instead of the child on the cover, he's a grown man whose also a giant spider in a diaper and shower cap who talks about how he's insane. Chris unsurprisingly is great in the rolll as MC Pee Pants really makes little sense with his plan, an dis only doing it because he can't get a job.

The resolution is one of the series best: the aqua teens set mc pee pants up for a job interview…. and then blow up an abandoned building iwth him inside. It's just so hilariously cruel and there's no real reason for it. They could just.. take meatwad and leave. He can't really do anything to them. I mean he did domestically abuse dr. weird though.. so fair enough.

MC Pee Pants is a solid episode.. and I got paid TO WRITE THAT. I love my life. It's got plenty of great jokes, chris is terrfiic and I want candy will get stuck in your head guaranteed

Super Sirloin While the first ep was decent, Sir Loin is even better. With this one Frylock hasn't quite caught onto the formula despite Meatwad once again blasting a song at all hours.. in this case instead of a sugar high he can't sleep because he's worried about the starving children.. and how he goes about helping "the shorties" is also hilarious, grabbing every bit of food and stuffing it into a garbage bag. I also like the runner about Master Shake somehow affording steak and eggs and Duck Alaronge, as well as despite Frylock saying it perfectly, him bitching about Frylock butchering the prounciation. I forget how much subtle humor is dotted aroudn the weirder shit. Carl also spits in a bag and Dr Weird grafts a dear antler to his groin to fit in with the heard so it hasn't gotten too subtle. "Sigh" I really miss Dr. Weird. And C. Martin Croaker.

I also like the runner with meatwad eating sand, which starts with Shake just .. getting him to eat it on a regular basis.

Despite Frylock being worried about it even though Meatwad is clearly a highlander, and later escalates to meatwad expecting everyone else to for the shorties and Shake trying it with ketchup and deciding this sucks and they need to go see sir loin. Naturally Mc Pee Pants, now sir loin is the best part of the episode. This time he's a cow whose renting patio furniture and is amassing flies to melt down a bank. Once again I got paid to watch a man explain all this and then write about it.

My faviorite bits are Mc Pee Pants slowing down explaning things because he thinks frylock is dumb, chris really nails the condesnion and the bizzare ness of him talking about the farmer asking "gimme the milk, gimmie the milk" and frylock's deadpan "There isn't a farmer is there. " He's way too used to the nonsense that is his existance at this point. They naturally use a slaughterhouse this time which tops the previous finale as last time it was at least plausable that building was a buisness… I mean not very but he's a giant spider in a diaper man. It dosen't tak emuch. This time it's very transparently a slaughterhouse and the SECOND time they've casually murdered him and will not be the last.

Sir Loin is another great episode, taking the same basic premise but finding even better jokes for it. The result's a classic.

Little Brittle

So we're onto the final focus episode for MC, and honestly when I was a teen and until this rewatch I hated this one, feeling it was too slow paced and not nearly as entertaning as the first two. On rewatch I expected to still hate it and dreaded getting to this one

Little Brittle.. is the BEST of the trilogy, and after wondering why MC hadn't come back for more than a cameo till Aquadonk Sidepieces, this gave me the answer: there was no where to go from here. THey already took the formula as far as they could. While other recurrers could be crammed in wherever, MC's episodes relied on him doing the same brainwashing raps and reveal of some stupid plan every time and with this one tearing that formula up they likely just.. couldn't think of a new spin on it. Brittle has the same inciting incident: Meatwad's playing MC's latest rap on loop, only after two times Frylock catches on instantly. Though instead of 612 Wharf Avenue he's at a decaying old folks home, presumibly next to elvis and jfk.

Two things really make this one pop: the subversion of things, which is not easy to pull off: there's a fine line between playing with a formula nad audience expectations and getting good laughs or drama out of it and pulling a swerve bro. It's what seperates the rian johnstons from the vince russos and they pull it off here. Instead of a zany plan MC instead genuinely seems to be a sad old man who just happens to also have a diaper, shower cap and yellow eyes , who misses his grand kids and is dealing with how horribly we treat the elderly. And that's the other sauce: the episode is suprisingly well done satire about how we treat our elderly: the place MC is stuck is GENUINELY awful, wether he's pulling a scheme or not, and Frylock mostly goes along to feel good about himself then abandons Meatwad there with a strange old man because "someone has to" and he dosen't want to be around the elderly because they smell. Shake and Frylock represent the most common ways society treats the old: Shake is just an asshole and is fine with leaving them to die while Frylock is only fine with actually treating elderly people like human beings as long as it's comfortable. Meatwad is only sympathetic because he not only came iwth good intentions but is basically a child unless the episode says he isn't. Little Brittle is a lot and hte fact he powers thorugh and genuinely seems to befriend him again is great.

As is the reveal that of course this is another stupid scheme, this time to have a vampire bite him to become immortal. The reveal he ONLY released come visit me yo in Transylvania is gold, only topped by Meatwad revealing "the import fees were a bitch". What caps it off though and likely sealed this trilogy off.. is that it ACTUALLY WORKS FOR ONCE. No really, Dracula shows up, bites him, and MC actually gets to be a vampire. He dies again, but only because he goes out into the sun and explodes. The ending's also something that grew on me: originally I felt it was random as hell, and while the explosions are, now I can see the setup: after two episodes of a stupid scheme tha tmakes no sense he has one actually work.. and then dies anyway because of the stupidity that got him killed the last two times. Truly brilliant. Shake is also low key great. Carl.. I don't think is in this one much. Dr. Weird is sadly absent altogether as we'd gotten to spacekataz at this point, which was fine and I get stopping the weird bits once they ran out of ideas but god do I miss them.

Side Pieces

So while they only make the three starring episodes, MC still got to show up a few more times.

First was The Last One that united all the villians legion of doom style… where they procede to get nothing done but adopting a highway by clickclickclickclickclick. MC Pitches a scheme and then dies. It's still nice to have him for this one. Then we have the movie, which like the last one I didn't watch in full, but thankfully youtube had his scene which has Meatwad calling on him to make a rap, and MC coming back as a fly, eating a dog turd and giving us a great rap to stop the insano flex.. before shake kills him because he's needlessly cruel and self destructive. It's a great scene honestly especially the oepning where he has choclate unicorn backup dancers because it's awesome. Chris himself also returned for the 100th episode though rather than play mc he simply did a rap.

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Given they played this in all the commericals, it's imbeded deep in my brain… and was also the best part of the episode by a wide margin. So finally we have last year's aquadonk side pieces episode. ADSP was a series of web shorts adult swim did focusing on thet villians, with Carl and the others still showing up. It was great, with this one being tied with the dumber dolls sequel for my faviorite of the batch. It's MC teaching people who to rap the elderly out of their homes. BUT HOW IS THIS LEGAL MC

Since it's so short I recommend watching it yourself bellow

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It is truly fantastic and pure comedy gold.. and also strangely heartwarming? Like this is the happiest ending he's gotten… being adopted by an old man whose house he planned to steal with his original body again. So if you have HBO about to be Just Max, I highly recommend these episodes. MC Chris is the best and I felt it was only right to play us out with one of his tracks and since it is may the 4th.. hit it youtube! Thanks for reading.

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