In an attempt to make this go on as long as humanly possible I decided to talk about the pick up shows Adult Swim picked up. Not only because of that but because I wanted to talk about them. I figured why not. I just now have like 78 or 79 shows to now talk about. I did not know adult swim had that many. I will likely be talking about these on the afterlife internet twenty years after my spirit has left my body. Anyway, today is interesting because it’s going to be about the four most popular pick ups they ever had. Two of those shows clearly got brought back in different ways because of their newfound popularity on adult swim. I’m pretty sure you have to know about these shows so I will be discussing how I felt about them when they originally aired (because being a cool guy I watched all of these shows even when Family Guy and King of the Hill got moved to Tuesday because Fox is and was ran by morons. Anyway let’s get on with this shit show!
This is a show you either love and find hilarious or you want to find Seth McFarlande or however you spell his stupid name and kick him right in his dick or something. There’s not much in between you either find this show hilarious or incredibly annoying. Personally I found it hilarious when they had it on Fox for three seasons and I thought it was still pretty funny when they brought it back for a few more seasons. I believe the first episode of Season 8 (which was that murder mystery episode where that news reporter lady was the murderer) was the last one I watched. I mean I really liked that episode but I just stopped watching for like seasons. Some times I’d see an episode and be like “wow that’s not very good” and some where I was like “wow they at least tried something new there?”. There were funny moments but they clearly had run out of gas and they really like abusing fourth wall breaking/meta comedy like there’s no tomorrow and you know how I feel like that stuff should be using sparingly and subtly. You can say Family Guy is a lot of things but it is not subtle at all, probably once or twice and those two times were an accident.
I have now watched two episodes from Season Twenty of Family Guy. I do not know if they are the newest but they are new enough for me to talk about. I watched one where they parodied the life stories of Music people, you know like the Doors or Elton John. I thought it was pretty good. I also watched an episode where they made fun of HBO shows like Game of Thrones and Succession and since I do not watch fancy television for grown ups I had no idea what any thing was. Anyway I enjoyed the first episode I watched enough to actually check out more of Newer Family Guy.
I have to amend something from earlier in this article. This is how ramshackle this joint is. It wasn’t King of the Hill and Family Guy that they put on Tuesdays it was King of the Hill and Futurama. Or maybe it was all three. I know there was a time when they put them on Tuesday but the Simpsons (which let’s be fair was something they should have let die around that time anyway) Anyway I remember hearing about Futurama and being like WOW THE SIMPSONS MAN HAS A NEW SHOW and watching it and being pretty entertained. It was something I kept watching even when it was interrupted by Football (the worst sport) and shoved on to different days. I even bought the DVD sets. I’m pretty sure I watched most of season four because of those sets. Fox treated this like a red headed step child because I believe it didn’t hit those Simpsons numbers so quickly. The Simpsons is something most people can enjoy and even relate to. Sci Fi is something a lot of people may just not care about but that didn’t matter to the dunderheads at Fox. However the nice respectful people at adult swim helped this show find its footing which lead too four movies, one of which I probably would watch again. Not to say they were the worst thing ever it’s just I don’t think they were that amazing or worth my rapidly decreasing time on this planet rewatching. I did like Bender’s Big Score (the first movie) enough that I would watch it again.
Now comes the Comedy Central years, I watched I think the first two or three episodes. I do remember liking the first episode but I do know that like just about everyone else the Susan Boyle (remember her? Of course you don’t I barely remember her and my brain is literally stationed in the fucking past) but she’s a boil on Leela? It may have had that classic SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY bit but that’s still the worst episode of this show that I’ve seen. Remember grabbing some flash in the pan reality tv show person and putting her in your TV show that will probably be re-watched in the future because they are not that memorable and will probably confuse the people watching it at the time. I also remember seeing the third episode and going “Man that a whole lot of meh” . I stopped watching but did end up seeing two episodes I really liked later on. I do want to see the entire Comedy Central run but I do hear it’s very hit or miss.
And now since they are rebooting everything, Matt Groening got sad and missed Futurama and 10 years later we have a new season on Hulu. Also Disney might have problems with RONNIE DESANTIS now but I think they should thank God or something that they had Donald Trump in office when they literally bought Fox. I get the feeling that if a Democrat was in office they would not own Fox and thus many many new things to reboot and probably tarnish the reputation of. Also if you hate Disney because some anti-woke YouTubers told you to then you have to blame a guy you probably love for giving them even more things to be able to reboot. Thankfully the Futurama episode I just watched was pretty funny and a worthwhile piece of entertainment. It makes me want to watch all of the Comedy Central years and the new 10 episode season. So I’m gonna say they still have the magic. And the new writer people are pretty good too.
When Fox came crawling back to Mr Seth Farlande to put Family Guy on their channel again (after literally failing with 900 different shows. It was kind of amazing how many they put out and had fail in that short amount of time. Maybe one day I will review them when I am a half cyborg computer in the year 3987. That would be really cool actually.) They sweetened the deal and let him do another cartoon and that cartoon would be American Dad. He was all gung ho about making a cartoon making fun of conservatives. I’m not saying there’s not a ton of material there and not saying I haven’t mocked them either but it was not very good. I can’t tell a lie but for the first two seasons when it was politically heavy it was just not very good. I remember watching them and being disappointed (I had nothing else to do and just watched them with my parents) but around season three something happened. They stopped doing a lot of the political stuff and just got weird with the show and it became a favorite of mine. I do not think this show would have lasted if they kept doing the political stuff. However the stuff that just went gonzo was so much fun and I would watch (admittedly off and on for a while) this show and very much enjoy it. It did move to TBS which was a really weird move. I mean I watched tons of TBS as a kid but I don’t think it even comes up in our cable box anymore. It was changed to Peachtree TV and then just vanished. I have now watched a new episode of this show and uhhhhh It’s not a great one that’s for sure. Some plastic surgeon steals Stan’s face because he hates him for getting a house and a family. Roger goes into a sinkhole to get an apple back. Not the prime gold material this show can do thats for sure. Still I’m not calling the entire of season twenty (despite the fact it came out in 2005 how the hell does that work?) bad or something, just that I certainly did not pick the best episode to view. That’s for sure.
This is a do over for me. I’ll get to that in a second. I always waffle back and forth if I should even do a Final Episode on King of the Hill. Yes, it started in 1997 and I will probably make exceptions for shows that ended in like 2005 if it started in 1999 or before, but King of the Hill was on for thirteen years. Something that legit amazes me. The Final Episode is for stuff from the 1950s to the 1990s. 2010 just feels way too modern for me to do an post on. I guess I will just have to ask the discord and also portnoyd if its okay.
Now for a boring pointless paragraph where I talk about something I did in the past. In 2003, at the tender age of eight teen, instead of trying to talk to girls (or anyone really) I decided that I needed to open up a website with someone (who now hates me!) and it was dedicated to discussing old pop culture. Kinda like I do now except way worse. You see I had become a fan of the site Whatever-Dude that did the same thing. Review movies and tv shows from the 1980s and 1990s. You see I loved the guy who wrote under the name B (who now I hear is a bit of a jerk and stuff. I guess The Dark Knight was right, you really do die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain) and all I did was just treat the stuff negatively just like he did. It worked for him because I guess that’s the person he is but it does not work for me and finding the few remaining posts from that site (and the second attempt) still around on the internet is one of the few things to make me cringe.
You should know that I love this stuff. Okay that’s not the case for many of these things now but it was for sure back then. I made angry posts about the Care Bears and Sailor Moon and Goosebumps and King of the Hill. I clearly love these things. King of the Hill was never the most hilarious show when I was younger (it clearly works better as an adult) but it was carefree and entertaining and just plain really likeable. I wouldn’t have watched something for at least six or seven seasons if I didn’t get something out of it. I can force myself through a movie but I don’t rush to get to a TV show I didn’t at least somewhat enjoy. I do enjoy it more now as an adult and want to rewatch it (I really need to pick a show and watch it through to the end because man I have a lot of them)
This is just a big rambling post where I could have put all the information in one or two sentences but didn’t. I was angry at the time that the site was deleted and hacked but now I must thank that person if he ever somehow pops up in these comments again. KRAP (the website) was terrible. I apologize to Michael Judgement (aka Mike Judge) and everyone who created those things I angrily yelled at because it was 2003 internet and everyone had to act that way. I just wish I knew what I talked about at that time so I could talk about it again in a more fair and honest manner that works for the person I am now. I love this stuff I might get angry and obscene at some of it but I wouldn’t talk about any of it if I didn’t get enjoyment out of the majority of it. I might poke fun at things but out of love instead of out of anger.
With that pointless crap out of the way let’s discuss the show King of the Hill. King of the Hill is the life story of Hank Hill, his family, his friends, his neighbours, his abusive dad, all of them. It’s very amusing and funny and laid back and very low key. It’s also at times pretty darn weird. However no matter how weird it did get it was still done in a laid back and low key way which makes it a very different show from not only every show on this list but also Mike Judge’s other show Beavis and Butthead. I like that everything he touches does feel somewhat different to each other but you could easily see that they are done by the same guy. That’s hard to do!
The episode I watched involved Dale and Joseph. Dale was clearly the best character on the show (RIP Johnny Hardwick!) and the episode was fine. He end s up in the nut house because of course he does. This was already done in another episode where Bill AND Dale ended up in a mental institution and was much funnier than this one. When you are more or less re-using plots ideas it’s probably time to give up. Anyway the episode was decent enough but not a classic. Of course since we live in a time when Hollywood really does not want to do a single thing that could be considered creative we are getting a reboot of King of the Hill. What I’ve seen of the Beavis and Butthead reboot is pretty good but I just don’t think we need another reboot. We also do not need some of the ideas they are bouncing around for King of the Hill. Apparently Bill might end up with dementia because you know that’s a really good goldmine for comedy. The saddest thing I think that can happen to you happens to Bill. Maybe I’m not in love with that idea because it’s already happened to three people in my life that I cared about. Just a depressing concept that you don’t need to pile onto Bill. Poor bastards life got too depressing at time in the original series. The fact Johnny Hardwick was perfect as Dale and is going to be hard to replace. It all just makes me not care about the writers and actors s trike and I do think everyone should get a good honest pay it’s just I can’t get excited for Marvel/DC/and Now Anime movie #403204 or reboot #13,000. Like even after enjoying the Futurama reboot I STILL think we have too many reboots.
There. I went over the four most popular pick ups for adult swim. I think we have two more pick ups I want to talk about right now for the next time but what will be the other two!!!!! WHO KNOWS MAYBE EVEN SOME MORE ANIME!!! I just know I have at least 74 or 75 more shows to fucking talk about!!!!
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