What do you get when you take a lame Hanna-Barbera cartoon from the 1960s and bring it forward and make it all smarmy and shit?
You get "Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast.
Cartoon Network started airing the talk-show format (Space Ghost is the host, Zorak, his praying mantis nemesis is the band director) in 1994.
While I was working on writing and securing content for the first PepsiWorld website, I secured exclusive rights to air Space Ghost on the site.
Our favorite bit was Brak singing "Don't Touch Me."
But a lot of bands also showed, including Pavement, Modern Lovers frontman Jonathan Richman and The Ramones.
We got a lot of free shit from Cartoon Network.
None of which I currently own.
(Yes, I got fired from that job, the only time I have been fired. But who hasn't been fired in advertising?)
Anyway, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast relied on surreal comedy. See for yourself, as Space Ghost is your Video Friday:
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2 comments:
This was my favorite tv show when I was little (along with Cartoon Planet). Now my favorite show is Firefly, but in laughs, this definitely takes the cake.
Of course, Brak was always my favorite character.
I'd say my favorite song back then was the Baloney sandwich one.
My favorite 'skit' was the 'Space Ghost, I think I'm pregnant' one,
I've seen that Space Ghost thing and not quite known what it was all about. I'm still not sure I get it... Maybe I ought to put the book down and actually WATCH it once. Or twice.
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