#minoriteam

True but you can just do netwrok for some of those. Anyways... thank you. moving on to this one and including Aqua Teen since i somehow missed it last time.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Shake. It used to be carl but Dana Synder gives his best performance here and a lot of the series best lines are thanks to this asshole cup. The show itself is excellent. It skids a bit as it goes on but the first few seasons are just non stop joke factories and the dr weird segments are a treasured part of my teen years and even now still are fantastic. It's a great show with top notch voice acting, fun surreal stuff and lots of fantastic episode. There's even some great later ones like Bible Fruit and Totem Pole that live rent free in my head. The show kinda deserved to live it's horrifyingly long life and will no doubt return again. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever

The Venture Bros: Anyone who knows this blog or my history of crossover ships (I.e. maybe two people on the latter) willlikely be able to guess but

It's the boy. Hank is a consitently funny characte rfrom the start of the series but grows from a mild jock who sucks at being a jock and bullys his brother, to a loveable weirdo who has no idea how to interact with people, wants to be batman, and yet has a lot of confidence and a genuine heart you just can't help but love. I need to write this character one of these days in fanfic and i've been working on batshit insane ideas like him being a dtective duo with sasha from amphibia that I will probably go with. Hank is one of my faviorite fictional characters and I miss him dearly.

Venture Bros is a show i've covered and PLAN to get back to next year, fingers crossed, after covering another show that flows through my veins. For now i'll say Venture Bros is one of the best adult cartoons period. It started in a simlar place with a lot of dick jokes, some transphobia and way too much stuff that hasn't aged well to get into, but grew into a show with a deep world, a heart and a lot of neat points about toxic masculinity and over obessing on your passoins long before the latter two were wildely known issues. It loves nerd culture but also makes a spectacle of the kinds of people who take it too far, is clever and despite being written by the seat of creators and sole writers Jackson Publik and Doc Hammer, they still manage to make a coherent saga with tons of character growth, humor and Hank. It's one of my faviorite shows period and the best show Adult Swim has done, and it has some stiff compettition.

Stroker and Hoop: The car, because he was hilarous. This show was one I didn't like a lot as a teen and care even less about now. It's a pretty bleh run of the mill adult cartoon.

Perfect Hair Forever: Not sure. The show itself is solid, but didn't last long, is vaugely racist in places and hasn't aged all tha twell. It was fine, but not really a great adult animated cartoon or an anime parody. It feels like a guy who hasn't watched a ton of anime's impression of what anime is which is right in some places, like perverted old men or characters claimed ot be teens being used for fanservice, but otherwise it's just kinda.. there.

Tom Goes to the Mayor; JEFFERTON ALIVE! While I like Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job More, we'll get to that, this was a solid start. My faviorite is the wizzard whose theme is stuck in my head

The show itself is solid.. but is hampred by the formula. You can only watch Tom's life implode so many times before it becomes hard to watch. But i've come to appricate the weirder gags and less cruel moments. It's telling the best parts are the live action commericals that tim and eric would perfect with their next show.

12 Oz Mouse: great theme song, barely remember this show. Some think it's a masterpiece, I think.. ti exists. I like the shark? I don't have much here

Robot Chicken:

Protect the Environment or he'll fucking kill you! A show I haven't watched in seasons but have fond memories of the early days. Some sketches have aged like hot milk. Others aged so well I still quote them or will review pluto nash soley because of the pluto nash day sketch. A solid show with a lot of invetion.

Lucy Daughter of the Devil: One i'll have to give another look at.. and i'm shocked came BEFORE metalocalypse. The Devil probably. It's a show I do want to rewatch as it was not only Lauren Bouchard's last show befor ehis breakout with bobs burgers, but it's solid. Its' art style is hit and miss, but the concept, the anti christ dates Jesus whose an arrogant dj while the Devil tries to tempt him, is great stuff.

Minoriteam: This show sucks. I didn't like it as a teen and tween as an adult it comes off as horrible shock humor trying to be edgy but failing. There's a reason Adult Swim has mostly buried this thing. I don't think it should be.. but only so this failure can be stuided to avoid other racist shock stupidity.

Minoriteam #1: “Operation Blackout” | November 6, 2005 – 11:45PM | S01E01

I saw exactly one episode of Minoriteam on TV. I thought to myself “never again!” Unfortunately I did not know that I would grow up and become an emotionally stunted/mentally ill man who dedicates his evenings to watching bad cartoons. Actually, nah, I knew.

From the twisted mind of Adam De La Peña, who is one of the most uniquely untalented creatives in the business. So much so that he occupies some weird space in my head as a guy that is important to hate. In fact, I will reel off his career, or at least what I know of it, without consulting wikipedia or IMDB or whatever. Adam De La Peña cut his teeth writing comedy on the Man Show or Jimmy Kimmel Live or some shit like that. Then he created I'm With Busey for Comedy Central, showcasing some of the most forced “reality-based” comedy I've ever seen in my life. In the first episode, Busey goads Adam into dressing like a woman with him, because he's so cRaZy!

Then he created a show called Code Monkeys that is almost like a parody of what stoners would like in 200-whatever. That may or may not have been before this. I don't know! I just remember seeing an episode where the characters are excited that it's 4-20, and the script came off like something I would have written in 7th grade, which I actually sorta did. I wrote a lot of stoner comedy as a child who not only didn't do pot was genuinely terrified of it.

Another thing I saw was a web cartoon that was like a fake entertainment news show. I don't remember what it was called, I just remembered it was sub-Critic webisode in regards to content, and that every little vignette ended with somebody being killed in a gristly way. Like, imagine you do a sketch comedy show and every sketch has the same exact punchline, but you're somehow a professional comedy writer who’s had a billion shows before that. The world truly isn't fair.

Another enduring memory was during, I'm guessing, 2006 comic-con Adult Swim had a couple panels that represented 3-4 shows on each panel. I remember Tim & Eric dressed like Hulks. I think this might be the panel where Dino Stamatopolis picked on Doc Hammer for having dyed hair. I also remember Adam De La Peña on one panel, and anytime he had a question he'd obnoxiously go “uuuuuhhh” and toss of some stupid answer in a faux/actually obnoxious manner. I don't know how to describe it but it was like how a kid would sorta imitate Beavis and Butt-head but kinda do a weird mash up of both voices cuz he's not allowed to actually watch Beavis and Butt-head so it’s based on other kids’ impressions of Beavis and Butt-head?. He unquestionably came off like a guy who has a shitty sense of humor that sucks and is completely arrogant despite being totally untalented. I know my own.

ASIDE: Are those videos ANYWHERE? I know some of that stuff was repurposed for DVD extras, but I think those videos were on Adult Swim's website on a weird section that nobody saw fit to rip before they got taken down. Can we get the lost media wiki on this? The Dino/Doc fight on the DVD is good, but it's missing the part where Seth Green acts pompous because somebody calls Robot Chicken claymation instead of stop-motion animation.

Then there's Minoriteam, a show that ironically resides in my blog header. Listen: I know that there's a lot of culture war bullshit about various shows being pulled from streaming sites, and this is famously one of the shows Adult Swim pulled for racist content. No matter what side you're on when it comes to this it's important to not lose site of two things: no corporation should be applauded for pulling episodes or series for racist content. They are doing it because they are scared of losing money. There's literally zero virtue in that whatsoever. Being scared of losing money is the way a lot of other racist shit happens, like slavery. Slavery and pulling racist shows are basically exactly the same thing.

The other thing to not lose sight of is that this show is unquestionably terrible and unfunny. You wanna be a free-speech warrior and do whatever the opposite of a virtue signal is by talking up how great Speedy Gonzales cartoons are or whatever? You know what? You are being protective of culture and I get it and I say go with god. But please, whatever you do, do NOT do that with this show. You’ll look stupid and discredit your cause. I promise.

Take the torrent that I downloaded this from. It's a torrent from 2009, a scant few year after this show ran it's course. The uploader called it Adult Swim's worst show, and uploaded it purely for archival reasons, citing that it was liable to fade into obscurity, not for reasons of sensitivity but for reasons of it sucking absolute shit (the site I got this from has a very “no one-season cartoon show left behind” mentality. You can get Capital Critters there if you play your cards right). No hint of 2020 discourse about racist jokes being literal violence. Nothing of the sort in 2009. A more recent torrent went up post Adult Swim's removal of the show from it's website, this time full DVDs (it came out in Australia, where racism is treated with more respect). Now people are debating the merits of this show as an important document. Nah man. It still sucks. Also, the DVD inexplicably has episodes 2-11 on the first disc, which I downloaded from my seedbox ASSUMING disc one would start with episode one. NOPE! Can't download disc two cuz of housemate bandwidth issues. So I had to watch a lowly TVRip for this.

Okay, listen: I've been having long days at work lately and I let my queue run out of posts, requiring me to write these up as quickly as possible the night they are “due”. This is the second of a one-two punch of covering not one but TWO first episodes for shows that quite frankly took a lot out of me to write about. Any first episode does this to me, because it requires me to sorta summarize the entire series in some way. If it weren't for a brief respite from Squidbillies, Lucy would've contributed to this being the third in a row. Please trust me when I tell you this: I watched this episode and it sucked and sucked so much that it barely even made enough sense for me to adequately rehash it for you. The show stars a group of superheros that are minorities and use their racial stereotypes to their advantage. They fight with an evil league of villains who are just racist supervillains, basically. In this episode they are trying to squash black-owned businesses. The Minoriteam stops them.

Minoriteam #19: “Behold Balactus!” | July 17, 2006 - 12:00AM | S01E19

For the first time in my life I’m like, “damn, I’m glad it’s a Minoriteam night”. I was out of town and let my queue run dry while I was visiting my mommy for mommy’s day. So now it’s 15 minutes till press time and I gotta post a post. I can simply dismiss this show out of hand because it doesn’t deserve respect. Furthermore: it’s a two-parter, and I can just recap the stuff from part one on the second episode!

MAIL BAG

When I send a mailbag to you the screen says, "Thank you! Your question has been received." Did you put that there yourself or is that an automated message. Have you ever been thankful for anything anyone has mailed you. Would you even know how to be thankful?

I like some of the messages, but many of them I despise. I am pissed off from the Minoriteam show so I can’t tell how I feel about this message here. I’m still screaming from TV

Anyone ever tell you that Tim and Eric are fucking annoying as shit. Not saying they aren't funny, but criminy.

A co-worker, who I already hated, once found out I liked Adult Swim and started asking me what I thought of the recent Robot Chicken special that had aired, and I told him “oh, I don’t really like that show at all” and he was like “don’t tell me you like that Tim & Eric crap?” and described the show as spazzy. Maybe I’m a spastic!!!!

We ask. You answer. You don't like it, too bad. That's how the mailbag works. Now get off my phone.

YUP!

What is your ideal Celebrity Deathmatch matchup? How about your ideal Celebrity Deathmatch matchup only using Adult Swim characters. Let's get READY to RUMble!

I would like to see Sam Hyde vs, I don’t know, any woman I guess

I believe Tim always wanted Jerry Seinfeld on Awesome Show or another product but knew he wouldn't do it if they worked with Bobcat. Guess it didn't work out and the damage was done.

Jerry would freak out if he did the Tim & Eric TV Show. He’d probably flee to Israel, putting himself in custody of the IDF, and never come back to America. Boy, I wish he’d done it.

You sure like popping of these mailbag questions. Okay? Ever consider doing a special mailbag where you take pitches for Adult Swim shows from people? Could be good for a gag and maybe I have one? Maybe I do. We'll just have to see what you have to say.

This is a good idea! Send me your bitches and I will make you SUFFER. 9 minutes before this posts, AHHH!

What's Blu-Ray TV and how do I start watching shows on it?

It’s kinda like Sega Channel but you need to buy a receiver (blu-ray player) and some blu-rays (pee wees playhouse complete series set shout factory 2014)

When was the last time you called a woman "mamacita"? It was only Cinco De Mayo five days ago. Did you pull it off?

What am I, Peanut from Harvey Birdman? GET OFF MY PHONE

Do you think if they, as a gag, started showing seinfeld on Adult Swim it would have had a profound effect on the channel.

All at once Adult Swim’s audience grew up. Damn. It would be the end of everything. We’d all be dead.

Good random DVD news: In July 2022, Warner will release a 20 disc complete series boxset for Aqua Teen - repackaging the older sets and movie with new discs and the first time release of seasons 9-11. Absolutely a relief since the movie DVD quit working recently

Minoriteam #10: “Space Driftin'” | May 15, 2006 – 12:00AM | S01E10

So far, this is the only episode I'd call a stand-out episode, but I'm damning it with the faintest praise possible. In this one, Wang is the subject of an It's a Wonderful Life style journey into an alternate reality where he'd never been born. Under the tutelage of Space Drifter, a cosmic traveler who can jump metaphysical planes in order to teach lessons to protagonists of bad TV shows. He's basically a dirty hippy with a stereotypical hippy van that drives around through space and time.

He shows Wang how the world would be different, and how his teammates would fare in a world where he never came into being. But there's this weird moment in the beginning where visits his city in this alternate reality and a bunch of the regular people are like, clones of the bad guys? As if not only were things racist and run by the bad guys but also they bred a lot or cloned themselves and populated the city with them? And I'm not sure if that convoluted logic was part of the humor or if it was inept storytelling that made them decide that was just a good way to show that the city was now racist using visual cues being all like “now all the people walking around are just little versions of the big bad guys”. It's sorta hilarious when you think about it but I have no idea how intentionally brain dead it’s supposed to be.