I decided that the best idea right now was to discuss some shows Adult Swim picked up from other stations. Some of these shows were one season only, some three seasons, hell some of these shows they helped become even more popular and revive them like Family Guy and Futurama. Yes, those will get discussed but not this time. I felt it was more important to discuss some of the less popular shows. The ones I remember because I was a sad child who watched Fox enough to get to see the first two seasons of The PJs!

I have to be completely honest in the fact that I only decided to talk about the pick ups because I honestly looked at the list of shows they picked up to show and saw that there were several I was never going to get to talk about but I would really like too. The PJs is actually something I’d probably end up covering for a Final Episode. The show had three seasons, only like 44 episodes (and I think 3 that were unaired originally) The other reason was that I wanted to see if these shows still held up. Everyone on twitter goes on about how comedy ages like milk and I was curious. Still any even vaguely comedic thing that came between 1950 and 2005 was funnier than History of the World Part II. Nick Kroll won’t ever get a chance to age like milk because he’s fucking terrible to start with. Anyway enough blabbing I did re-watch one episode and honestly had a very fun time with it. I laughed out loud several times and I can’t wait to re-watch more. The PJs was a stop motion claymation cartoon created by Eddie Murphy and I think the guy from the Daily Show. I don’t know I never watched the Daily Show. American Politics is way too depressing for me even when being made fun of. Anyway this was the daily life of a Superintendant working in the Projects. All kinds of fun goofy characters in this show. I’m glad that I can tell YOUNG LITTLE CLAW OF 1999 that he’d still get a kick out of this show in 2023. He’d probably be surprised he ended up living that long.

Ah man this brings me back to the days of Teletoon. Late Night Teletoon. Teletoon was a Canadian TV channel that showed all kinds of oddball cartoons. Didn’t matter if the cartoon lasted 2 weeks or never ended (Like the Simpsons) this channel would show it. It had stuff like Duckman, Cybersix, Downtown, The Simpsons (and like only the first four seasons for some reason). Weird stuff from Canada and Japan. It lost it’s lustre but for it’s like first eight or so years man I would watch it like there was no tomorrow. The Oblongs was one of the shows they would show despite it being only around 13 episodes of a show. Adult Swim showed this show and man. I’ve got to give credit to Will Ferrell (who is without a doubt one of the most uneven comedy men to ever exist. I will seriously stand up for the Anchorman movies, Talladega Nights, Old School, Barbie and Step Brothers but everything else ranges from not good at all to at best okay. The man can be very amusing but he needs either a small role (like Old School) or a director to tell him to calm his ass down.) He’s pretty good as a voice actor for Bob Oblong. All of the voice cast is very good. The characters are all weird dis-formed people that live in a shithole called the Valley where rich people (UGH) get to live in the Hills. Anyway, I had a good time re-watching the episode. Some of the humor doesn’t land any more but some of it is still pretty good. Better than anything Nick Kroll will ever do. No I’m never going to let him or his garbage go. The man ruined Mel Brooks’ good name and the name of good comedy anywhere!!!

If there was a single show I could have kept from being cancelled it’s probably this one. I loved this show when yes I would watch episodes of it on Teletoon late night. Before they turned it into Teletoon at Night in like 2008. I remember the days of Pond Life and Captain Star BITCHES. It was a really neat channel and showed me all the weird shit you can do with animation. This was a show that like the Oblongs appeared on The WB (IN MY DAY IT WAS UPN DAMNIT) and was cancelled in a season after they spent way too much money on both shows. This was a very likable show with very likable characters created by I hope two very likable men, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. They worked on the Simpsons from I believe Season 4 to about Season 9 so they are writers of COMEDY GOLD just there. This show follows the life of slacker Andy French who wants to become an animator. They had a ten year plan even worked out. It was a shame it only got 13 episodes but damn they were a really great 13 episodes. Very amusing show and who couldn’t want to hear Brian Poshen’s voice? or however you spell his name. I’m too lazy to look it up.

Anime. It’s something so many people out there love to an insane degree and there’s also a lot of people who hate it with a fiery passion. Me? I’m in the middle. There were many anime series I loved as a child and want to re-watch and no matter how they hold up I will always have a fondness for them. Mostly the memories of that time in my life the show reminds me of. There was a very small amount of time where I watched several series to a conclusion. That’s where I kinda get annoyed with anime. Anime series can range from 7 episodes to like 1,000. I’m sorry there’s only one show I care about enough to watch a thousand episodes of and that is the soap opera Passions. A lot of those series MUST have an insane amount of just filler. Yes I know Soap Operas are like 98% filler but shut up. It’s only one of them anyway! Still there are a lot of animes that I do enjoy and a lot of one I will watch when they finish (I’m looking at Spy X Family and My Hero Academia) and probably have 300 episodes at least. Fooly Cooly or FLCL is only 6 episodes and I really liked it in like 2004? I’m going to guess around there. I cannot believe it’s almost 20 years since then. I am very old and I need my Metamucil. I’m sadly going to have to say that this is the show that did not hold up. I enjoyed the weirdness and maybe even some of the comedy at 19 years old but right now as a grumpy almost 38 year old man? I find the weirdness to be forced by a person who is like THIS IS WEIRD MANNNN and not someone who clearly should have been in a mental hospital instead of making anime weird, which is the kind of weird I enjoy now. The comedy is also way too much and very obnoxious. I will not be re-watching any more but I will hold the memories of watching this and talking to people about it online to my chest. The memories are what is important.
Three shows that I still think is funny and one that I just feel is obnoxious and trying to hard today. All of them still better than History of the World Part II. AND YES I WILL RUN THE JOKE OF ME HATING THAT THING INTO THE GROUND WORSE THAN NICK KROLL DID.