Saturday, December 1st, 2007
The Boondocks has become almost a frustratingly dumb show replicating finally in style and writing what it always replicated in visual design: shitty anime. This week was much, much better than the last, but the show is still very shallow. It’s a fun ripoff of the The Mighty Ducks ripping off The Bad News Bears or Slapshot or South Park or something.
Xavier’s not a big thinker this week, but it’s also not as gratuitously gratuitous. Some interesting ideas, but a lot of garbage that some people might accidentally take seriously.
The hook with Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job is that anything is fair game as long as it could possibly be considered funny by anyone. Or maybe it’s an inside joke. Or maybe it’s performance art (complete with everyday people performing in weird ways) blended into video art (complete with shitty vhs effects) and something worked. Steve Brule rules also. This week’s is about dolls but this clip isn’t (pull the timer to :50 to see what I’m saying):
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And Garth Marenghi was a weird, slight letdown.
Tags: adult swim, boondocks, dolls, garth marenghi's darkplace, tag spam, tim and eric awesome show great job, tv, video, xavier: renegade angel
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Each of the big adultswim.com premieres this week are absurdist explorations of male-only parenthood. They’re so goddamn serious about being retarded that they can only be described at cutting-edge-ridingly hip.
- Garth Marenghi’s main character acquires a baby man-eye that drives him a bit crazy.
- Xavier finds himself in the care of seven babies after he steals them, and then solves the mystery of who stole them before he does a phoenix act.
- Tim and Eric introduce their huge collection of cutting edge children, all conditioned and disciplined to be ready to active achievers in the next generation.
- Boondocks hasn’t been getting along this season (unwatchable again this week), taking itself way the fuck too seriously.
- Check the full Tom Goes to the Mayor episode this week entitled “Glass Eyes” to get an eyeful of retardedly serious nonsense.
Stupid serious is a serious phase of hilarity.
I follow up tomorrow.
Tags: adult swim, boondocks, conspiracies, garth marenghi's darkplace, tag spam, tim and eric awesome show great job, tom goes to the mayor, tv, video, xavier: renegade angel
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
The new adult swim show for this week, Xavier: Renegade Angel is a cd-rom loaded nightmare from 1994. The show looks like cutscenes from all the adventure and puzzle games of the early 90s available on the revolutionary newish cd-rom format, or perhaps even cruder. It appears as if it could’ve been “shot” in Second Life with a shitty digital camera and then digitized (trans-en-re-enconvertificated) again for the internets.
You might recognize the voice of the dumb main character. It sounds like a few voices from one show in particular. The reason is because the show was made by the same folks that made Wonder Showzen, PFFR.
It’s tragically hip and mentally twisting.
Tags: adult swim, pffr, raw power, second life, tv, video, wonder showzen, xavier, xavier: renegade angel
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