Damn it, Adult Swim!
So I watched Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil last night. And I think I hate Adult Swim original programming now.
Last night's Episode of Lucy: TDOTD focused on the Dildo factory Satan owned. (lawl) You see, if Satan could get humanity to masturbate 8% more then the world would end (lawl), and they couldn't get men to masturbate any more than they already do (lawl) so Satan opened a dildo factory to which Lucy submitted some designs (lawl). Then Jesus, a radio DJ, was doing a stunt where he held his arms out at 90 degree angles for three days (lawl) and let Lucy commission a dildo to be made of him in that position (lawl).
I don't know why Adult Swim has embraced this idea that they have to make shows using low-quality flash animation. I don't know why they continue to use the same voice actors for every freaking series they make. I don't know why they hire middle school boys as writers. At one time I liked Adult Swim. Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Sea Lab? Home Movies? I could watch these shows and find enjoyment in them because they were new and different compared to everything else on television. But when they keep doing the same thing using the same people and the same technology it stops being funny and is just sad.
What makes it worse is that when they get a show like Venture Brothers which is brilliant and well-done they fuck around with it because it costs more to make than shit-shitty-shit-shit flash animation with McGuirk voicing half the characters.
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Adult Swim does still try out some (kinda) new stuff, but that winds up being Tim and Eric or Saul of the Molemen. Of course, those are both contrived and campy throwbacks to crap they made up, so even when they do something different, they wind up making several copies of that different thing.
And I hate to admit it, but I actually kind of like Tim and Eric and Saul of the Molemen, and I'm afraid it's because they appeal to nostalgia for prototypes of embarrassingingly bad TV. (Jules Vernian Sci-fi with Sub-Star-Trekkian production value and an acid rock color palette for SotM, and 1985-95 era local access quality TV for T&E). I've only seen a handful of episodes of each show, but I was surprised by how bad each show was by almost any standard of quality, and by just how much I was enjoying watching them. It's like a Snakes on a Plane experience for me or something.
Middle School Boys?! Goddamn, Jay. That's Loren Bouchard! That's half of Home Movies and the guy behind Dr. Katz and Short Attention Span Theater.. you know.. one of Jon Stewart's early gigs. On the pre-comedy central Comedy Channel.
I mean... I love Lucy. The tripping out of DJ Jeusus when Cerberii shred sleeping Judas? Cerberus telling DJ to Stay Strong and not let his arms down to help Judas?
Judas as a posuer hanger-on and asswipe for DJ Jesus? The Dildo Factory as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
I'm afraid you might be missing out on the good jokes becuase you're tied up in the surface ones.
He owned a Dildo factory.
It's funny. Because...Dildo.
When you make a show called "Lucy: TDOTD" and then it's just a bunch of Dildo jokes and "Hey, HEY, Jesus is holding his arms out. Get it!" jokes...it's basically Little Bush.
And that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was so stupid. The entire episode was "Dildos are funny...GO!" with that smidge of irreverent religion humor because they made a Jesus Dildo, which was, again, focused on the "dildos are funny" theme.
To take a line from Skwisgaar Skwigelf,
That episode was Dildos.
You and I have been over this. I dub thee Toki Crankypants.
Grumpy McCranky Pants from Irritableville, Nofunswick.
From the Upper Growlingwoods branch of the McCranky Pants?
Fine folks, they are. Not like their disreputable cousins south of the Mason-Dixon.
The state motto of Nofunswick?
"Live cranky or complain."
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