| Sunday, December 29, 2002 |
01:52 - How much better can it get?
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It's just been advertised: Cartoon Network will be getting Futurama.
Every night at 11:00, except for Friday and Saturday. And they flashed the "Adult Swim" logo, meaning that it'll be part of Adult Swim on Sunday night at least; but what about the other four nights? Does this imply that Adult Swim will be expanding to the rest of the week? Oh, how insanely cool that would be.
And either way, it means we get Futurama-- with its "Mac formatted" androids and its "VCR++" jokes, its Groening art and its geek-humor quotient that goes so far beyond where any other show has taken it. And now Cartoon Network has it. I can't think of a better place for it. Because they know that the people watching Cartoon Network at midnight are the kind of people who would love Futurama.
Speaking of geek humor-- the more episodes I see of Mission Hill, the more convinced I am of its genius. It's another of those shows where even aside from the odd success of its off-the-wall avant-garde art style and the odd ability for it to make squalid urban apartment life look like the vaulted-ceiling luxury of a prince's cave, there are so many little visual treasures to savor. Just now, in a scene in an underground video/comic store of some sort, there was a quick flash to a background shot of a poster on the wall-- a black one with a red eyeball in the center. Around the eyeball, it said, "Get US Out of Mordor." And if I got started talking about how masterful was the animated representation of Wally's horrid late-50s sci-fi B-movie, with negative scratches on the pieces of obvious stock footage of military action, I'd never stop-- so I won't.
Suffice to say that Sunday nights continue to rule, and the music ain't stopping anytime soon.
Adult Swim four-hour marathon on New Year's Eve, too. I know what I'll be doing that night.
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