Rob Corddry gives us the “secret origin” CHILDRENS HOSPITAL and why clowns just suck, plus if you watch GLEE are you watching THE GLEE PROJECT on Oxygen? we talk with Ellis Wylie booted off the show just days ago.
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Once one of the best kept secrets on the web, now Rob Corddry‘s CHILDRENS HOSPITAL is part of Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network and you need to be watching. If that doesn’t convince you, listen to cast regulars Ed Marino and Lake Bell plus guest start/writer Paul Scheer. Plus GREEN LANTERN gets sucked into the box office vortex.
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Fans at San Diego were treated to a wonderful panel including the creators behind the much beloved Robot Chicken, Venture Bros., and Metalocalypse. Enjoy here the shaky cam goodness of the panel in it’s 6 part entirety!
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Archie Comics is perhaps the most innovative publisher
around these days, although for many comics fans they’re beneath the radar.
That’s a shame; folks are missing out on some great stuff.
Some fans are aware of their New Look digest books
(“Ultimate Archie”?), and Mike Uslan’s Marriage of Archie and Veronica has made
headlines. For me, well, I’m looking forward to their upcoming crossover with
the 1950s/60s Archie Comics characters: Cosmo the Merry Martian, Super Duck,
Seymour and friends. But the stunt they’ve just announced is the most
provocative one yet.
Tom Root, co-head writer/ co-producer of Robot Chicken and co-creator/executive
producer of Adult Swim’s new Titan
Maximum parody series, is writing the 200th issue of Jughead. Yeah, that’s volume two of Jughead; you know how comic book numbering goes these days.
Both Robot Chicken
and Titan Maximum are, to put it
politely, hardly family fare… unless your family has the name “Manson” in it.
The Adult Swim broadcasts are heavily bleeped – the DVD releases are not – and
they tend to be quite violent and, dare I say it, irreverent. Oh, and extremely
funny. Which probably tells you more about me than you wanted to know.
The story, “Something Ventured, Something Gained,” starts
out with Jughead trading his, ahh, metabolism to a witch for a
mega-cheeseburger. Bizarre wackiness ensues: Archie tries to cut a deal to
trade the witch his awesome wholesomeness to restore his best friend to
normalcy, Betty and Veronica try to cut a deal to restore Archie’s purity, and
so on. All the while, Jughead actually
gains weight!
It probably would have been easier for the Riverdale crew
to just drop a dime on Sabrina, but hey, count me in! After all the mindless,
in-perpetuity crossover events from DC and Marvel, I can use a self-contained
book-lengther!
Those of us who would Do Anything for Dethklok will now have
many more opportunities to share the love. (Why, yes, I do have a cartoon crush
on Nathan Explosion. He can “teach me who rock” anytime.) The creators of the
Adult Swim show Metalocalypse are preparing an assault on several platforms.
If you’ve actually bothered to read the Adult Swim bumps
instead of fast-forwarding past them on your DVR, you already know that in
Season 3, episodes of Metalocalypse will double in length to 30 minutes, and
the second Dethklok album is scheduled for this fall.
On Wednesday, Konami announced that they’ll be putting out the downloadable videogame
Metalocalypse: Dethgame, which will be available for Xbox and PlayStation. The soundtrack
will feature tracks from both the old and the new Dethklok albums. Game creators are promising a
thrilling and an exceptionally gory time as the player takes on the role of a
Klokateer, one of the band’s many masked minions. Here’s hoping that they will
be able to fulfill that promise: a very early version of the game is currently
being showcased at San Diego, and one IGN reviewer is already profoundly
unimpressed. Apparently, gameplay now mainly consists of urinating on, brutally beating, and slicing up Dethklok fans. Hey, that may be enough for some people.
Also on Wednesday, the one-shot The Goon vs. Dethklok hit
comic book store shelves. That was quickly followed by Thursday’s
announcement from Dark Horse that a Metalocalypse comic book series is in the
works. The Dark Horse San Diego Comic-Con panel takes place later today, and no doubt more
details will be released at that time.
While too expensive to pickup new episodes, Cartoon Network has purchased the off-network rights to King of the Hill and will add it to their Adult swim programming. As a result, Adult Swim will now be expanded by an hour, beginning at 10 p.m. and running through till 6 a.m. seven days a week.
The arrival of the animated series will be in January according to Variety. The mix of original and off-network programming has skewed towards older teens and young adults since it debuted in 2005. All 13 seasons’ worth of episodes will be part of the deal as it joins Family Guy, also from Fox.
Fox recently announced King‘s cancellation and ABC is reportedly considering picking up the show.
It appears as if Boondocks, the popular animated series created by Aaron McGruder, has finally discovered how much (and more importantly, what type of) controversy it takes to get an episode banned. Actually, make that two episodes.
According to this report at Newsarama, two episodes from the current season of Boondocks have been removed from the schedule by Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Sources say the episodes target key executives at BET, specifically Debra Lee and Reggie Hudlin, the comics writer and former Boondocks producer.
Newsarama provides the following description of the episodes:
The reason for this is two of the planned episodes, “The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike” and “The Ruckus Reality Show” have been pulled. The episodes take savage strikes at not only favorite target BET, but also two of its key executives, Debra Lee and former Boondocks producer Reggie Hudlin. In “Hunger Strike,” Lee is made to look a lot like Dr. Evil from Mike Myers Austin Powers films while “Wedgie Rutland” is depicted as a total toadying nerd. “Hunger Strike” takes even broader strokes at the Black Entertainment Television, implying its true goal is to destroy and/or diminish African-American culture, exemplifying what Chuck D’s statement that the networks letters really stand for the “booty ‘en thugs” network. “Ruckus” takes matters even further, working off the premise that the black-hating Uncle Ruckus is given his own show on BET.
The article also quotes an exclusive report by hip-hop news site HipHopDX on the Boondocks controversy. However, there is wide speculation that the true source of the "rescheduling" command was with the show’s producer, Sony, rather than Adult Swim.
Today is Dana Snyder’s 34th birthday. Most of us only recognize him when he is playing a narcissistic talking milkshake with a penchant for irrational shenanigans, but the voice over artist is a favorite all across the Adult Swim board, not just as Master Shake in the absurdist hit, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. His voice has been featured on Minoriteam, Squidbillies and even Robot Chicken.
What most of us didn’t know is that his most famous character, Shake, is pistachio flavored. Fancy that. You hear of pistachio ice cream, but you never see a pistachio milkshake. Why is that? Too chunky? But Shake isn’t made from pistachio ice cream: he’s made from pistachio flavored ice cream and that’s different.
Mmmm, pistachio ice cream.
Excuse me.
While watching my TiVoed Frisky Dingo last night (and thanks, Timothy Truman, for the recommend – I’d never be able to say "My TiVoed Frisky Dingo" without you!) I caught the Adult Swim promo for the long-delayed second season of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks It goes up Monday, October 8 at 11:30 PM.
This season will run 15 episodes and, true to Simpsons form, will feature a zillion guest voices, including Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Donald Faison, Aisha Tyler, Kym Whitley, Tichina Arnold, Marion Ross and teevee’s own Granny Goodness, Ed Asner.
At last, the first of the new Futurama productions is about to be released… and just in time for Christmas cheer!
On November 27th, a D2DVD entitled Bender’s Big Score will precede Futurama’s return to Adult Swim. The plot is simple: our heroes have to save Earth from nudist alien Internet hustlers. In order to do this, they must solve the secret of time travel – a mission that requires close inspection of Fry’s, ah, butt.
So, of course, Al Gore joins the Futurama cast in the made-for-video movie, along with Sarah Silverman and Coolio.
The D2DVD boasts the usual assortment of bells and whistles, including a new episode of the series complete with futuristic commercials.
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