The Oblongs is a great, hilarious show about a twisted family living in a severely twisted town. If you like shows like The Simpsons or South Park, I think you will love this one. Although it is very different from both of those shows, it has a similar but slightly more morbid and grotesque type of humor. Also, if you like Will Ferrell, you will probably love this show, because his voice is used for one of the main characters, and I am almost positive that he does some writing for the show, too. The DVD has 13 episodes, and they are all extremely funny.
There are also some really interesting extras about Angus Oblong and his animation. (Angus Oblong is the animator and creator of the cartoon). I think anyone can appreciate this show if they like cartoons.
Attention parents: this show is not for small children. It isn't really bad, about PG-13 I would say, but I would not buy it for a kid under 12. It does have references to sex, drugs, and other more mature topics. Just a tip.
In conclusion, if you are already a fan of the show, you will LOVE this DVD of the complete first season. I give it five starts because I can't think of anything I didn't like about this DVD. The only thing I am left wanting is MORE!
A Sad Masterpiece
Undoubtedly the best cartoon ever on Adult Swim for the way it exposed social and political hypocrisy through comedy; I'd say Best satire ever (well at least until THE BOONDOCKS came along... Oblongs were legendary but the Boondocks is better in that sense)
For being "Pre-9/11" the writers were totally in tune with the New World Order's plans (Futurama season One was also), even before their biggest staged event in the history of mankind. Very sad indeed, we need more cartoons like this :C
more info about the nwo: tiredofbeingalive.com
Adult Cartoon's Master
A excentric and trusty vision of family and prejudice around the world... In several ways you can test your soul from hard to comic situations. Never seen before, this serie is no long available for hypocrisy reasons. This cartoon dispense labels.
If you can see far from your eyes you'll can see kindness, altruism and love inside each human being. Will be hard to find in the future... Take yours fast... It's a classic already.
If Jonny, Haji, Race Bannon, and the rest of the Jonny Quest gang were idiots, their animated adventures might play out like The Venture Bros., a consistently funny spoof on '60s adventure cartoons from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming. The premise should be immediately familiar and nostalgic for any Saturday morning TV aficionado who grew up in the '60s and '70s: Dr. Venture (James Urbaniak from Henry Fool) is an inventor, while sons Hank and Dean's insatiably curiosity lands them in hot water with supervillains, robots, magicians, and the like. Brock Sampson (voiced by the very funny Patrick Warburton of The Tick) is the good doctor's right-hand man, who rescues the boys with good old-fashioned manpower. The twist in The Venture Bros. is... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Christopher McCulloch DVD Release Date: Released the 30 May 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Take the stop-motion animated toy action of Kablam! and the pell-mell-paced gag barrage of, say, Laugh-In and you've got the fast and furiously funny Robot Chicken, the addictive addition to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim late-night lineup. Co-created by geek-God Seth Green and filmmaker Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken episodes run a scant 12 minutes or so, which invites repeat viewings to catch what you missed during the channel-flipping mayhem through TV, movie, and commercial parodies, and non-sequitur blackouts, all acted out by dolls and action figures. To truly appreciate this series, it helps to have a Family Guy grasp on pop-culture trivia, although you need not remember the failed TV series Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place to enjoy "Two... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Matthew Senreich - Tom Root - Seth Green - Douglas Goldstein DVD Release Date: Released the 28 March 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Of all the "re-imagining" wreaked upon the Hanna-Barbera animated catalog by Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programs, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law is probably their most deliriously creative effort. The series revives second-string '60s avian hero Birdman, and via a combination of old clips and new animation, recasts him as a crusading lawyer (voiced by Gary Cole) who defends the rights of other cartoon characters. That Harvey is pitted in the courtroom against old supervillain foes, who have followed his lead and become prosecutors and judges, is one problem--but even more challenging are the pickles his fellow Hanna-Barbera creations find themselves in: Harvey must clear Fred Flintstone of organized crime charges ("The Dabba Don," perhaps the first season's... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Robert Renzetti - Vincent Waller - Richard Ferguson-Hull - Ben Jones (III) - J.J. Sedelmaier DVD Release Date: Released the 12 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Long before his stint as an intergalactic pirate, and later, as an addled sidekick to Space Ghost on Cartoon Planet and Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Brak was just a naïve, feline-esque kid living with his parents, his pal/nemesis, the evil mantis Zorak, and a massive warrior robot neighbor in the suburb of Spacetown. Fourteen of his misadventures have been compiled on this weird and frequently hilarious two-disc set, which also features a bundle of extras, all highlighted by Brak’s irrepressible need for song. Written and produced by SG: CTC writers Jim Fortier and Pete Smith, and featuring several performers from that series as well (including Andy Merrill as Brak, C. Martin Croker as Zorak, and George Lowe as Brak’s Dad), The Brak... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jim Fortier - Pete Smith (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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