https://twitter.com/ErinPlays_Games/status/1526818038648999936
I miss Adult Swim circa 2009ish. So comfy ending the night with something like Metalocalypse, Home Movies, Tim and Eric and American Dad. I even miss Family Guy on it. Now it’s just Rick and Morty and stuff I haven’t heard of
Now also thinking about Super Jail, Xavier Renegade Angel and Mission Hill. OH and Tom Goes to the Mayor!
Okay, great. Those are cartoons alright. Do you have any particular memories about these cartoons that you can share?
No. She’s just listing names. She’s fucking boring. And she’s never seen any of this shit. This is all made up.
I’ll have to supply my own cartoon *nostalgia*.
Metalocalypse. Never heard of it.
Oh. It was released in 2006. That explains it. I wasn’t living in the US. I was off doing shit with my life. Try it out, Erin.
Home Movies. Yes, I liked it. I don’t think I’ve seen it since it originally aired but I definitely watched it both during it’s UPN and Cartoon Network runs.
Actually, I have seen it subsequently because it wasn’t that long ago that I watched the final episode. I wanted to see how it ended. I watched this maybe six months ago.
I don’t really have anything to say but I enjoyed the show.
Oh, and I was initially interested in the show because I liked Dr Katz and Home Movies has a similar animation style. I had no idea that the other characters on the show were played by comedians. Even if it was live action, I probably wouldn’t have recognised these people.
Tim and Eric. Never heard of it.
Oh, this is another one released after I left the US. And in fact, it was several series with different names.
American Dad. Yeah, I used to watch that in the US and then I watched it in the UK too. It was on BBC3. And I think that they were fairly new episodes, which is unusual.
Like with the Simpsons, Channel 4 would show episodes but the most recent episodes they’d show would be from like three or four years ago. You had to go to Sky, which was like a cable service, if you wanted to watch new episodes. Channel 4 was free tv. And BBC3 was free tv too.
So anyway, I’d watch American Dad. And I liked it.
I also watched and enjoyed Family Guy. Same situation. It was also shown on BBC3, I think right after American Dad. Or maybe before it.
And I think that these were on every day. I could be wrong. But in the UK, they don’t really do the thing where you have a show broadcast once a week, like they do in the US. They just show a run of episodes, every day. That’s why the series have fewer episodes. But yeah, I think American Dad and Family Guy were shown every day. Mostly reruns, obviously. They showed them going back to the first season.
My girlfriend claimed to be a big Family Guy fan and I was surprised by this.
So a few months ago, she was visiting and we were watching Family Guy from some streaming site. And it was an episode with Cleveland. And she says, “Didn’t he used to have his own show?”
I couldn’t believe it. She had said numerous times in the past about what a big Family Guy fan she is. And here she is asking a question that anybody with a passing knowledge of the show would know the answer to.
So I said, “There is no way that you’ve seen this show before.” I had to call her out ala Erin. Why the fake *nostalgia*? I don’t give a fuck if she watches Family Guy or not. Just be honest about it.
So she said that she hasn’t been watching it for years but she’s seen it and she likes it. Uh huh. Couldn’t have been watching that much. There are many episodes that reference Cleveland having his own show. And he was gone for one or two seasons.
Different people must have wildly different ideas of what being a fan of something means. Maybe when Erin talks about what a big Match Game fan she is, for example, after seeing two episodes with Mike, she genuinely means it. She liked those two episodes. So now she considers herself to be a fan.
Erin played Harmful Park, once, on stream for money, and she liked it. So now. in her mind, she’s justified in saying that she’s a big Harmful Park fan.
It’s fucking idiotic and leads to great confusion but this is the way that some people think, I guess.
Rick and Morty. Never seen it but I’ve seen nerds on the internet complain about it.
Super Jail. Never heard of it.
Xavier: Renegade Angel. Never heard of it.
Mission Hill. I liked this one too and I was really sad that it only lasted one season. I must have seen every episode. I watched it just recently. The older brother was somehow identifiable to me at the time.
Tom Goes to the Mayor. This is just one of the Tim & Eric shows. Erin doesn’t know any of this because she doesn’t watch this shit. It’s all made up. Maybe she saw one episode and now she’s a big fan.
I was showing my girlfriend some cartoons that I enjoyed in my youth or young adulthood. Aeon Flux. She just said, “Why is she dressed like that?” It’s true, that is the only appeal of the show.
Boondocks was another one. I’ve only seen a few episodes but I was trying to think of more “urban” shows that she might enjoy. She didn’t think it was anything great and couldn’t understand why the Uncle Ruckus character was using racist language against the protagonists, in spite of him being black himself. I had to explain that that’s the joke. He doesn’t consider himself to be black.
Then she showed me some cartoon about a horse who lives in Los Angeles and works as an advertising executive or something. I’ve never seen it before.
Oh. Bojack Horseman. Yeah, I didn’t like it. I’m not interested in shows that feature the lives of wealthy Hollywood Jews, even if they’re disguised as cartoon horses.
Let’s see…edgy cartoons that I enjoyed…I can’t really think of any others. I liked King of the Hill. You can add that to the list. But I can’t think of any obscure ones to impress everyone with.
Somewhat on topic, Mike was talking about his fondness for The Munsters recently. It’s somewhere in this six hour stream. The first hour, probably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9z0LLiAMBY
And he’s talking about a proposed Munsters movie. He’s outraged by this. “You can’t replace Al Lewis as Grandpa”.
He’s a big Munsters fan, guys. He totally forgot about The Munsters Today. It ran from 1988 to 1991. There were 73 episodes.
I used to watch this. Didn’t Mike? He’s such a big Munsters fan, after all. I mean, yeah, the show was terrible but he was a kid. Surely he would have found some enjoyment from the show.
And who played Grandpa Munster? None other than the late Howard Morton. Bumbling police officer Ralph Waldo Simpson from Gimme A Break.
So there’s already been a replacement Grandpa Munster. Also, Herman on that show was played by some guy who played a Klingon in a few Star Trek movies and tv episodes. So Mike should enjoy that.
I watched the pilot just recently. It’s not good. It’s not funny, of course. The writing is bad. But it’s not the worst thing in the world. It’s a decent homage to the original show. And it was only made 20 years after the original Munsters ended. For comparison purposes, this reboot was made 35 years ago. Nearly twice as much time has elapsed.
People in the Youtube comments for that pilot episode said, “Why didn’t they just get the original cast back? They were still alive.” Yeah, they were alive but way too old. You’re going to have a 30 year Butch Patrick coming home from school in his little shorts? A milf Marian? Elderly Herman and Lily? Al Lewis was about the same age as Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo so it wouldn’t much matter that he was elderly but still. Time moved on.
And there was that Munsters tv movie that was an attempted backdoor pilot. That had the original cast in it. What year was this…1981. The Munsters’ Revenge. I saw that. It sucked ass. It got poor reviews and poor ratings so a new series never got made.
Wow. I’m just looking at Wikipedia and there was also Here Come the Munsters in 1995. Oh, I remember this. Just looking at the description. There was a cameo from the starring actors from the original Munsters, except for Fred Gwynne who had died a few years before.
So there’s another example of somebody else playing Grandpa Munster. Robert Morse. Oh, he just died last month.
And in 1996, there was The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas. I don’t remember this. But again, a whole new cast, including a new Grandpa Munster. Sandy Baron this time.
So plenty of other people have taken up the Grandpa Munster mantle. Four, in fact. Five if you want to include the 1973 cartoon The Mini Munsters. And they’ve all done a damn fine job of it. This takes nothing away from Al Lewis’ performance in the role.
Anyway, The Mini Munsters is probably Mike’s favourite cartoon. He remembers watching it as a kid. That’s his era. He’d just watch all of the 1973 cartoons when he was a kid in 1986. He was riding the *nostalgia* train before it was a cool. Even as an INFANT he was into *nostalgia*. *Nostalgia* from before he was born.