#I only consitantly talk with Crow

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I wanna talk with more of my mutuals on discord dude 😭😭

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Next up for Adult Swim, favorite character from their mid-2000s shorts: Squidbillies, The Boondocks, Metalocalypse, Frisky Dingo, Assy McGee, Saul of the Mole Men, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Fat Guy Stuck in Internet, The Drinky Crow Show, and Superjail?

We thankfully haven't hit where I haven't watched a lo tof these.. yet as I watched adult swim pretty consitantly. Squidbillies: Dan Hallen. I may not like this show, but any time I saw him in an episode it was funny, with Sheriff a close second. And yeah... I do not like this show. It's overly cruel, overly gross and has all of Aqua Teen's weaker aspects magnified. It's not as bad as I remember but i's still not GOOD.

The Boondocks: Huey. The cast for this show is stacked, but huey is a nicely done voice of reason, fairly consitant on telling you I told you show and ready to kick ass, but still limited by his youth and the madness around him. They took the already intresting comics version, sanded off an edge or too without taking away what makes him intresting.

The Boondocks might be the finest comic strip adapatation there's ever been, and tha'ts coming from a massive comic strip nerd who dosen't get to talk about that side of things often. It's also one of the few to succeed, being massively popular to this day and it's revvial likely only falling through because well.. Warner Bros Discovery sucks dirty ass in thunder storms. It takes the thoughtful commentary that made the original great, but fleshes out the characters: Huey is still a standofish radical, but no longer as judgmental (and when he is it's for good reason), as well as a kid who while out of his depths at times is smart and thoughtful, Riley's obesssion with rap culture is deepened as is his own skills and fowl mouth, and Grandad is expanded greatly, giving not only a better reason for the move (wanting to enjoy his life) but a wonderful sarcastic streak and horny nonsense. I'ts not a stretch to say the talented voice cast elevate these characters, as does the lack of newspaper confines: while I Love newspaper comics, McGruder has outright said how much he chafed at the confines and The Bondocks is a fantastic example of an adult cartoon using the medium to tell truly adult stories, exploring black culture, racisim, human nature and other topics.

The show is gorgeous as hell too, it's anime style looking tight, the fight scenes being some of the best i've seen in a cartoon to this day. It's also damn funny as it is insightful, Dick Riding Obama still gets caught in my head regularly. Ruckuss Song from the first episode, you know the one, thankfully does not but is still hilaroius in it's sheer audacity and racisim, as well as the white audience clapping it. Boondocks was a show that let you know what it was from the jump, never compromised and was great for it's first three season. Season 1 can be utterly bleak at times, but in a way i've grown to accept is horrifically real especially after learning more about r kelly, 2 is full of fun nonsense and while the second weakest season, still has classics like the halloween parody and Season 3 is a triumph. Mostly for this

I don't know what the point of this was, but I welcome it. Season 4 .. is bad apart from freedom ride or die. But the shows first three seasons are a show that is of it's time yet more nad more relevant with each year and one of adult swims finest.

Metalocalypse: This is like asking me to choose my chlidren but Charles. Nathan is close.. but Charles is such a presence in the show for most of it's run, hilarous, badass and the straight man to his four man child clients/surrogate children. Metalocalypse itself is another of Adult Swim's best and thankfully got a full ending last year with the epic and awesome Doomstar Requiem. It's a show I need to rewatch more, cyncial as hell about the music industry, yet hilarous, mashing together the badass opera of metal with tons of great concerts and songs.. with the man childish egos inspired by the metallica doc some kind of monster that shows just hwo human these god like figures are.. and how stupid they are. oh so gloriously stupid. The shopping scene from the first episode never ceases to make me laugh and serves a sa perfect mission statment for the series

Metalocalypse created 5 perfectly stupid human beings and just lets their own egos, selfishness and incompetnece do the comedy work, while giving them the perfect straight man to keep them from dying in a sewer some where. This somehow perfectly overlaps with an epic ongoing plot where these 5 idiots turn out to be the world's saviors and part of a dark and epic subplot that ... is slowly paced and clunky but is really just there for the most part to give a reason WHY our heroes concerts are so awesome and dangerous they kill thousands and give us some structure while nonsense happens. It's a decent story but the main point is to let 5 well thought out dumbasses go through nonsense at the highest level possible. It pays off it's story well in the last season and the doomstar films, but serves as a great background for a fantastic bunch of comedy, animation and music.

Frisky Dingo: Xander Crews. Adam Reed playing the douchiest iron man imaginable is brilliant. Ghostface is second. This is a show I need to revisit. Plot wise it can be wonky, pivoting broadly in weird places, but comedy wise the premise is gold: a supervillian can't afford a "Media buy", only able to send hilarious post cards

Put him up against Xander Crews, who badly wants a new arch enemy so he never has to actually grow up, a bunch of plots we probably didn't need, some great catch phrases in "ya know" and "boosh!" (Master Cyllender) and a lot of hyjinks and you get a great show. Season 2 is better having a less soapy structure in favor of a mocumentary, letting the characters just be assholes, and ending in a return to supervilliany an da cliffhanger. Frisky Dingo was sadly criminally underappricaitedin it's time, but should be recognized as one of adult swim's best and the blueprint for archer. Killface booshed so Sterling could shout "Phrasing".

Assy Mcgee: No faviorites here. I never really liked this one apart from it's theme song and name. And the concept of a talking butt as a hardboiled cop on the edge is just.. funny. Otherwise it's one of those shows I Just didn't watch hardly.

Saul of the Molemen: A solid show I might revisit one of these days. As a kid I didn't really glom onto it, but I dig i'ts hammy vibes, truly awesome theme song from Trey Parker and Matt stone and will be eternally greatful for this song.

Even better once I found out what Mustache Ride Meant from the comic strip girls with slinghsots Otherwise not much ot say, I lvoe the lead actors main performance. Probably not amazing these days, but still worth remembering and preserving

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!: A fucking hard choice given the show has both a ton of great sketches and characters. I'll go with David Libe Heart on the character side, as he had so much pizzaz and i'm glad he's still around. For sketches there's tons and tons, though sexual romance is probably the tops for me. SEXUAL ROMANNNNCEE.

The show itself is comedy gold. While i'm not a huge one for dark comedy, Tim and Eric does it in the way I like: over the top, goofy and so damn dark it's funny. A prime example is this

The show fades slightly as it goes but the sheer number of great comedians tha tpass through, great jokes and talent Tim and eric found is amazing. It's a show that only gets better as time goes by with greatly analogue effects, jokes and more. It took everything they did right with their first show and amplified it.

Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet: great name, forgetable as fuck show

The Drinky Crow SHow: Didn't really like this one but I appricate it's animation style, it looks gorgeous and theme song, which slaps. Wasn't for me at the time, may be these days.

Superjail: Not sure on a faviorite character, possibly the gay couple. But the show itself is one I'm not a huge fan of due to it's mean spirt (Not to mention it's outdated if well meaning depecition of trans people in Alice) but I respect the hell out of it for it's creative animation, chaos and David Wain in the drivers seat as the warden. Love that guy. It's a series I dont' love but can easily see why so many do.