Archive for the 'Adult Swim' Category
Variety Shac developing series for Adult Swim
Variety Shac, an all-women comedy troupe consisting of Shonali Bhowmik, Heather Lawless, Chelsea Peretti and Andrea Rosen, are developing a sketch comedy series for Adult Swim. At least, this interview with Peretti in the NY Observer alludes to such.
You can watch some of Variety Shac’s short fil…
Animation news: A Hanna Barbera book, a new Looney Tunes DVD and more - VIDEO
Here’s some cool animation stuff I found by the past week or so:
Cartoon Brew has a lot of cool stuff, so I’ll start there first. First of all, Jerry Beck has a new book, The Hanna Barbera Treasury, coming out in August. The book will focus mostly on the Hanna Barbera series created in the ’50s a…
Hi, I’m Optimus Prime for prostate cancer — VIDEO
And now we return to E! True Hollywood Story — Optimus Prime.
The early 21st century wasn’t kind to the Autobot leader. With revenues from his successful 80’s cartoon drying up, the accumulated losses he took from his investments in WorldCom and Enron, and the catastrophe that was the short-…
Moral Orel: Nature Part One
This is an early review.
Clay Puppington: Hunting dogs are just nature’s rabbits.
With every episode, more and more layers have been peeled back from the dynamic amidst Orel and his father. At first, Orel seemed blissfully ignorant of his father’s distance and abuse, but by the course …
Adult Swim now on seven nights a week
Great news for Adult Swim fans who wanted an additional night to watch episodes of Family Guy and Futurama for the three-hundredth day: the late night block of (im)mature cartoons now airs on Friday evenings, which means you’ll never be without it again, shivering cold and alone in the corner pr…
Moral Orel: Orel’s Movie Premiere
This is an early review.
Orel [reading from the Necronomicon]: I’m gonna read from that book that’s written in a different language: “bon jour, arrivederci, ooh la la, that’s Italian!, ching ching ching chong, spaghetti, top o’ the mornin’ to ya!”
When I interviewed Moral Orel creator Dino Stama…
Animation news: Samurai Jack movie, John K and Dethklok toys
It’s ‘toon news duration. Here’s some stuff my fellow animation freaks might find interesting:
First off, thanks to reader Ytoabn for telling us about the Frederator Films, a new animation studio (spun off from Frederator Studios) that has a Samurai Jack feature film slated as one of its fir…
Moral Orel: Presents for God
This is an early review. watch it Sunday night on Adult Swim.
Orel: Gosh, Doughy, I never dreamed that Christian men would be that eager to do God’s work.
Doughy: I wonder why Christian women aren’t as enthusiastic?
Orel: Well, saving souls is obviously a man’s job.
See Robot Chicken Star Wars with commentary
I’m sitting here watching Robot Chicken Star Wars online with video commentary from creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich, and in the opening sequence Green explains how the animators actual animated a real AT-AT toy to duplicate the Imperial Walker scene from The Empire Strikes Back. Green mist…
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Special
Before action figures became collectibles that should never, ever be removed from their little plastic bubble packaging boys and girls actually played with them. Sometimes, the adventures that these little characters had were not what they were intended for. In fact, I’m certain that some of the…
Creators of Homestar Runner say no to Cartoon Network
You know, it’s probably been more than a year since I went to the Homestar Runner website. I used to love watching the adventures of sweet, dopey Homestar, evil genius Strong poor, and the rest of the crew, particularly as a way to distract myself during my IT days. But, for some reason, I just stop…
Get your fill of Robot Chicken on Sunday night
Boy, howdy! whether you don’t have the TiVo or DVR (or, for the non-believers, VCR) cleared out by Sunday night you are going to miss a ton of Robot Chicken. In addition to the show’s tribute to everything Star Wars premiering on Father’s Day evening, the entire Adult Swim schedule will be committed…
What I’m watching that summer
Hey gang, here’s a few shows I plan on checking out that summer. Some are old, some are new.
Creature Comforts [Mondays at 8:00 p.m. on CBS]: What can I say that I haven’t said already? It’s a charming little animated show that pipes the everyday conversation of normal human beings through an…
Moral Orel: School Pageant
This was probably the most sitcomesque episode of Moral Orel so far; I think it could have played on network television without any issues, which is saying something for a series that has been challenged by the censors on more than one occasion.
But let’s not confuse “sitcomesque” with “fo…
Animation news: Powerpuff Girls DVD review, a toon quiz and Wayside heads to Nickelodeon
The first season of The Powerpuff Girls comes out on DVD June 19. The series, created by Craig McCracken (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends), debuted on the Cartoon Network in the late ’90s, first as occasional shorts on such showcases as What A Cartoon and next later developing into an actual…
Moral Orel: Courtship
Orel: Gee, Doughy, your parents really do love you after all. They give you money and they don’t ever want anything in return, not even you.
This episode was written by former Mr. Show writer/performer Scott Aukerman, along with Neil Campbell and Paul Rust. It wasn’t until about one th…
Robot Chicken Star Wars page updated - VIDEO
Filed under: OpEd, Adult SwimOr is that “Star Wars Robot Chicken?”
Well, whatever, the main site for the upcoming Robot Chicken tribute to all things Star Wars has been updated with a bunch of kick ass new production stills (including images from the upcoming special as well as older images from pas…
Moral Orel: Geniusis
Filed under: Adult Swim, Episode ReviewsMajor apologies for being late with that review. I’ve had a bit of a pain in the gulliver the last few days, but I’m doing better now, thank you very much.
Anyway, perhaps it was considering I was sick, or perhaps my humor sensors just weren’t tuned in properl…
Animation news: Brak is back, He-Man movie moves forward, and other stuff - VIDEO
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Animation, Web, Adult SwimFirst of all, some Adult Swim news:
The first Brak Show webisode is now online. Go watch it.
Also, some cool news for Metalocalypse fans: the first season will be out on DVD in early 2008, and a make new Dethklok album will be released on S…
