| Sunday, March 14, 2004 |
00:30 - They got my number
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At the end of the new Sealab 2021:
Now, I know some o' you don't like the way I do things. In just a few minutes y'all are gonna be running to your little chat rooms and message boards and sissified little blogs, talking 'bout how you don't like your new Captain. Well, I've just got one thing to say to you: You don't like me? Fine. ...Watch anime.
This is why I love Adult Swim.
I'm not quite so sure, though, about This Just In, the new Flash-animated series on Spike TV. It appears to be trying to be the conservative version of that bizarre Camp Chaos series on VH1, angling for the inevitable right-leaning nature of the First Network for Men. Trouble is, they're being so aggro about it. Yeah, it's funny, but it's not that funny. Okay, I get it-- you're all topical and stuff. There's no need for the whole first five minutes of the show to be this self-described conservative bile-spewing political columnist in a bar barking about all the day's most egregious headlines, while his friend stands there and rolls his eyes and looks increasingly uncomfortable, is there? And I don't know if jokes about Wayne Brady or Hannity & Colmes or Ted Kennedy in cars on rivers are really going to wow people these days. Maybe people are starved for unabashedly conservative comedy-- I dunno. If they are, and they think this stuff is worth settling for, then the state of the nation may be well and truly fractured.
'Kay, fine-- I'm impressed that it was able to work in jokes about the Starsky & Hutch movie, the Haiti involvement, and Martha Stewart with this little lead time. But hey, South Park already retired that prize with their "Romanian Quintuplets" episode, their commentary on the Elian Gonzalez incident. The Gonzalez home was raided on a Wednesday, and the South Park episode aired on Saturday, replete with a parody of the at-gunpoint-in-the-closet photo. There's just no beating that.
Well, Godspeed, This Just In. I wish you well. But they just had another parody of that same closet photo tonight, on Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, and I think that's where my loyalties will remain.
Sorry.
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Brian Tiemann
