"Gee, I don't know, no one's asked me..."
Posted on 10/30/2005 1:19:13 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Is Harvey Birdman the defense lawyer that defended the Scooby Doo gang for marijuana use? And Dr. Benton Quest with child neglect? I stumbled across that one night- it was hilarious.
Dilbert is just wonderful, even if it's declined as Scott Adams has moved further from the workplace (for the first half-decade or so, he was working and writing the comic).
My favorite set is where Dogbert becomes a radio talk show host to promote his, "unique conservative viewpoint that people are basically idiots who deserve to be mocked" which, I think, just about sums it all up.
The good thing about this is that ratings are hard to gin up, and advertizers won't pay for no ratings.
"Gee, I don't know, no one's asked me..."
'Boondocks' is a sacred cow.
I TiVo a few Adult Swim shows (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Space Ghost, Brak Show, Harvey Birdman.) TiVo will know my "appreciation" for Boondocks, with 3 or 4 thumbs down.
Just another Time-Warner company "get out the vote" effort for the Democrats.
let me get this straight... these young rats are pissed off because they DON'T get shot at in drive bye's, have to deal with drug dealers and junkies leaving needles all over the place, pimps/hookers and johns on the corners or is the lack of street gangs wanting to kick their ignorant young asses on their way to school that bothers them so much that they have to piss whine and moan like little girls all the time???
As if readers needed one more reason NOT to buy the New York Times ...
Adult Swim is definitely on it's decline. It's kind of sad, but it's not what it was a couple of years ago.
It started with Tom Goes to the Mayor. It was so unfunny that I stopped watching Adult Swim as regularly because I just couldn't sit through the show. Shows like Stroker & Hoop and Squidbillies are too mediocre to be worth the effort to turn on the TV, and Harvey Birdman has worn thin.
Family Guy and Futurama have been re-run over and over for too long now, and need to be replaced (Unless they have a new Family Guy episode to show).
The latest is 12oz. Mouse, which not only looks like it was drawn by a 5-year old, but appears to have been written by one as well.
Aqua Teen Hunger force and Sealab 2021 are still the best original shows Adult Swim had, but I haven't seen a new episode of either in a long time. Robot Chicken and Venture Bros are the lone holdouts right now.
...so when we go belly up after the colossal failure this will be, we can paint America as inherently racist for 'causing' our bankruptcy over a comic geared toward African-Americans. Then since we don't have a lot of money, our debts will be forgiven and we'll go in a completely new direction.
BTW Jesus is Arabic, Ronald Reagan is dead and further from the devil than Hillary Clinton, and, for the most part, the government has no clue about 9/11.
Mending fences with M-80s and masking tape.
Best episode is a take off of the Glenn Close film, Jagged Edge, and deals with a mad bomber, the Unibooboo. Harvey Birdman defends BooBoo the bear, wins the trial--and then finds out he's really the bomber--warped, demented, brilliant.
I guess it makes sense to put on the Boondocks then... I'll have to take Cartoon Network off channel skip and check out adult swim one of these days... or maybe not!
I haven't watched Adult Swim regularly in about 9 months. I love Aqua Teen and Sealab, but Sealab's off the air and ATHF has lost some of its spunk. I used to kinda like Family Guy, but I'm boycotting MacFarlane after "Christians don't believe in science" new episode and Anti-American Dad. Tom Goes to the Mayor was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. I don't understand why people think men wearing makeup is funny. It's painful.
Adult Swim is going to tank further w/ this Boondocks. They underestimate the size of their right of center viewers, and for the most part those who would watch something like Adult Swim, already know about it. They aren't going to increase their market share, they will shrink it, and these Boondock episodes are supposed to be about half a million per episode. Stupid stupid stupid business decision.
Cartoon Network is really going downhill.
We all just want our Brak and Home Movies, but they can no longer be found. Instead they are intent on offending us with crap like this, the Oblongs, Tom Goes to the Mayor, and American Dad.
Oh boy, you ain't kidding.
I had high hopes for the show from the ads--the show looked really quirky and funny. It just tried too hard to be irreverent and outrageous, and practically screamed: "We're an irreverent cult cartoon!"
Worst of all, it was boring.
I'll give "Boondocks" less than a season before it's yanked from Cartoon Network. And any other group that tries to pick the show up.
This could occur due to indiference, boycott or large E-Mail and/or Letter Campaign.
Jack.
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