Aqua Teen Hunger Force #90: “Rubberman” | February 15, 2010 - 12:00AM | S08E03
I remembered this one being a little too gross. And you know what? IT IS! But you wanna know what else? It got me laughin’, so I’m not pissed off about it! I’m pissed off about other things.
There has been a spate of sketchy activity in the Aqua Teen area, as evidenced by the nasty leavings of drug-fueled sex-havers. There are condoms and needles and crack pipes all over the place. Frylock’s solution is to set up an information center, urging the drug-users and prostitutes to practice safe sex, and he builds a mascot duck out of the used condoms and needles and stuff. He calls him Clucky, the rubber litter ducky. He comes to life like Frosty, a snow man. He’s now Lance Potter, and he has his own theme song. He demands human appendages and has his ward, Meatwad, acquire them using TV-MA violence.
I’m struggling to account for why exactly I like this episode as much as I do. I feel like other shows would invoke nasty things like used condoms and needles for easy laughs, but this one juuuuuust reaches the absurdist sweet spot that complete loser idiots like me gallantly enjoy. This might not be your thing, “no matter what”, but it worked for me.
Well, it worked for roughly the first half. Then it started to peter out. But it was lively, and there was even a funny song in the Frosty the Snow Man style. I actually guffawed at the flashback Carl has where he talks about the killer whale that nipped his stones. And, guess what? Don “Tansut” Kennedy is the voice of Meatwad's new baby boy, and George Lowe shows up as a cop. Also, the DVD has a fun video showing the behind-the-scenes recording of the Rubberman song, which is why you ABSOLUTELY NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON PHYSICAL MEDI- oh, wait, it’s on Youtube.
EPHEMERA CORNER:
The First Brit Block (January 22, 2008)
This began a somewhat failed experiment where, on Friday nights, Adult Swim aired their British acquisitions back-to-back-to-back-to-back. We’re talking The Office, we’re talking Look Around You, we’re talking The Mighty Boosh, we’re talking Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. It lasted until April 2nd.
It brings to mind the time they did an “old school bumps” night on August 1, 2008. Fun fact: I think I failed to highlight “old school bumps” night on Ephemera Corner. At least, I can’t find any mention of it in my 2008 posts. Weird! Bad mistake! In fact, they tried to do a weekly-recurring old school night that lasted three weeks from August 22-September 5, 2008.
9 notes
·
View notes
Space Ghost and Co reactions to cryptocurrency headcannons:
Space Ghost - he had a front row seat to the dot com bubble popping in real time you can't trick him into buying fake Internet money again
Brak and Zorak - Zorak set up a surprising legal fake NFT scam involving overcharging people for ms paint commissions from Brak. He made bank but had enough unpaid dues he didn't really break even.
Moltar - somehow missed the whole trend until it was over but was opposed to cryptocurrency in concept when told about it afterwards
Tansut - he hasn't had a computer since 2007
Lokar - didn't buy anything but has a list of the cryptocurrencies with the best and worst names (in his opinion) on his WordPress.
Black Widow- inherited a crypto wallet from a husband she killed and has no idea what to do with it
Metallus - he was interested in it about five years before anyone else was but became opposed to it once it became a fad. He is secretly bitter he sold all his before he could scam someone else.
Creature King - bought one of Zorak's fake NFTs knowing it was fake just to launder money he owed to Brak
Jace - lost $300 on “Scooby Doo Coin” and regrets it
Jan- won't let Jace live down the fact he lost money on “Scooby Doo Coin”
Moxy- didn't invest in anything, but he was the person who informed Scooby Doo his likeness was being used for crypto without his consent, which resulted in a lawsuit that destroyed the “Scooby Doo Coin”
Toonami - TOM and SARA both actively told people to avoid NFTs because it's a scam
8 notes
·
View notes
Finally get to upload these! I made both of these pieces for the Adult Swim Zine which is out now and which you can look at HERE:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uK1d2IuP0hP9Xz2wPCMdM3XszIlrJAy0/view
Really glad to have been a part of it! Look at it! Look at it NOW
269 notes
·
View notes
“DON’T HIT ME! DON’T HIT ME!!”
Another quick Space Ghost Coast to Coast warmup this time with my favorite non-Brak Council of Doom member - TANSIT!
Or is it Tansut? Even official websites can’t seem to agree. But his voice is absolutely hilarious either way
39 notes
·
View notes