The Big Picture: The Prophesy of Freakazoid
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Congratulations on 100 episodes Bob. You could not have picked a better topic for your centennial, considering I never realized how prophetic Freakazoid would wind up, and I was one of the fans when it played.
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Bob, a friend of mine linked me to your show for this specific episode because he knows of my deep and abiding love for Freakazoid!
Watching this video reminded me of the "Island of Dr. Mystico" episode (with cameos by Tim Curry and Leonard Maltin) Your narration reminded me of Leonard Maltin's introduction to that episode.
I also love that the final episode had Norm Abram as himself. How many kids cartoon shows have Norm Abram? I only know of one.
Also, that show had some pretty irreverent moments. In one Lord Bravery short he says to his mother-in-law "Most people your age die. Why won't you?" Another thing you don't really expect from a kid's show.
I could go on forever about Freakazoid! but I think I've done enough. Thank you for the Weena Mercator reference. (Bonus points if you can name two other places that Weena Mercator has appeared in the credits.) Find Emmit Nervend one time in this response.
The whole time I've been typing this I've been trying to decide if I wanted to end it like everybody else by referencing... you know who. I think I'd rather be kidnapped by Orangu-men...
AAAAAHHHHH! Get your hands off me you hairy apes!
Watching this video reminded me of the "Island of Dr. Mystico" episode (with cameos by Tim Curry and Leonard Maltin) Your narration reminded me of Leonard Maltin's introduction to that episode.
I also love that the final episode had Norm Abram as himself. How many kids cartoon shows have Norm Abram? I only know of one.
Also, that show had some pretty irreverent moments. In one Lord Bravery short he says to his mother-in-law "Most people your age die. Why won't you?" Another thing you don't really expect from a kid's show.
I could go on forever about Freakazoid! but I think I've done enough. Thank you for the Weena Mercator reference. (Bonus points if you can name two other places that Weena Mercator has appeared in the credits.) Find Emmit Nervend one time in this response.
The whole time I've been typing this I've been trying to decide if I wanted to end it like everybody else by referencing... you know who. I think I'd rather be kidnapped by Orangu-men...
AAAAAHHHHH! Get your hands off me you hairy apes!
I know I knew FZ existed but I can't remember liking it much as a kid. I get the feeling it will be a bit like Adventure Time is to me now, a little too random for me to get behind, but I'm going to check it out again anyways and try to give it a fair chance.
Also Congratulations on another long running series Bob. Please tell me there was cake to celebrate!
This is what Reboot was to me. I didn't get it at all but loved it. I'm still not as computer literate as I should be, but I understand sooo much more now that the show is great on a whole other level.poiumty said:
Also Congratulations on another long running series Bob. Please tell me there was cake to celebrate!
You know, now that I've thought about it a little more, Freakazoid may have been ahead of its time, at least in that people didn't get the connection between being powered by the Internet and being a looney, but it was also very much a product of its time. The premise of a superhero who gets his powers by zapping himself into "cyberspace" is a very '90s thing, as you point out at the beginning. It would have been well past passé by the time the general public was familiar with Internet culture. It wouldn't even work as a parody, because the thing it's parodying would fall in the window of too-old-to-be-current, too-new-to-be-retro. Plus, once Internet memes became mainstream enough for anyone but niche audiences to get the joke, they'd be mainstream enough that you couldn't really parody the phenomenon so indirectly. He'd have to be some guy who goes around making direct references to specific memes all the time. And then everyone would hate him.
Maybe I'm overthinking this.
The upside is, between nostalgia for the source material itself, a better familiarity with the gimmick, the popularity of superhero movies and a general lack of parodies of them, and the fact that dated origin stories fall under the grandfather clause, the time is ripe for a Freakazoid movie. It would have to take some liberties with the concept, like actually be a parody of superhero films rather than just 90 minutes of random crap happening, but I think it could work.
Maybe I'm overthinking this.
The upside is, between nostalgia for the source material itself, a better familiarity with the gimmick, the popularity of superhero movies and a general lack of parodies of them, and the fact that dated origin stories fall under the grandfather clause, the time is ripe for a Freakazoid movie. It would have to take some liberties with the concept, like actually be a parody of superhero films rather than just 90 minutes of random crap happening, but I think it could work.
Sgt. Cosgrove's response to Bob derailing his own thread into a meme spewing moshpit:
Shame it only lasted 2 seasons, though I'm sure that if it lasted at least one more year it would've found a way to incorporate an AYB reference.
Shame it only lasted 2 seasons, though I'm sure that if it lasted at least one more year it would've found a way to incorporate an AYB reference.
I find it hard to believe that throughout that entire diatribe about the seemingly limitless capacity of the internet as both a means of instantaneous interpersonal communication and a collection of all of humanity's stored knowledge, Bob neglected to mention that it turned out at least half of it was porn. Well, I suppose the acknowledgement of Rule 34 makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy at least...MovieBob said:
