5.5) Tom Goes to the Mayor
Awesome. This is Tim and Eric's first show on cartoon network. It is about a bad but enthusiastic entrepreneur (Tim) who brings his ideas to the town mayor (Eric). The mayor usually changes the ideas and things get wacky. The style is really cool and I wish I had come up with it. In the Episode "Calcucorn" Tim invents a plug in unicorn statue with a calculator in it's cement base. The Mayor orders them for everyone including the architects building a bridge but the calculator doesn't work properly. "Let's try 8+8..." Tim pulls the cord the unicorn says "18" Tim says "well that doesnt sound right let me just crunch some numbers here... ah crickets!"
5) Aeon Flux
Aeon Flux is a crazy avant-garde science fiction cartoon that was on MTV in the 90's. It's by the animator Peter Chung. It started as a segment on Liquid Television which is a weird and awesome show. It was also made into a not good movie in 2005. It's about an assassin secret agent who goes on solo missions and kills tons of faceless solders while bounding around acrobatically. She usually dies at the end of the episode. You don't really know why she's there or what shes trying to do and then there is usually no conclusion as she dies while trying to complete her mission. It's super trippy.
4) Super Jail
Superjail is about a magical warden of a jail for incurable criminals located at the center of a volcano. It's possibly under water too. According the the famous Brad Garoon, it has the best animation of any show on tv. It's mostly fight scenes and was originally just going to be one long fight scene. The fight scenes are awesome. The show is very insane and violent and trippy. Highly recommended by Lou the Kee. Zoom in on the above picture to get a taste of the insanity.
3) 12 oz Mouse
There is a continuous story line to 12 oz Mouse but it's very hard to understand. This is a show about a secret agent mouse who is an alcoholic and discharges firearms at random. Sometimes he sings opera on top of tanks. There is a shark at a desk and hippy with a hook for a hand who lives on a corn dog farm. The drawings are crude and the dialog is confusing. It is very absurd. It's also very awesome. Give it a shot.
2) Perfect Hair Forever
This is another short lived adult swim show that satirizes anime cartoons. It features a young man named Gerald with a balding problem who seeks the 9th level of power on the Tuna Mountain and his Uncle Grandfather who sends him out on his quest. Quaffio the evil controller of cats sends Astronomical Cat and Cat Man to stop Gerald, but he is helped by an annoying tree and a psychopathic tornado with a knife. There is also the King of All Animals who find himself and his menagere (giraffe voiced by mine and Lou's favorite rapper MF DOOM) in a hole in the middle of a bloody battle between hot dog buns and cats.
It is not for the faint of cartoon heart, but is highly recommended.
1.5) Xavier: Renegade Angel
This is a cartoon about a mystical traveler who is all knowing but also pathetically clueless. Note that it is weirder than all those other cartoons. The animation is disturbing and trippy. It was created by the creators of Wonder Showzen an utterly insane show it it's own right, and it is pretty dark. Xavier is a traveling shaman who has a beak and a snake for an arm and whose knees bend backwards which is really creepy. It is often extremely offensive and awesome. Recommended for the weird cartoon cultured reader.
1) Off the Air
This show is a collection of short films both animated and live action. There are only two 11 minute episodes. The first time I saw it it was 4:00 am and I wasn't expecting to watch anything insane. It totally blew my mind. The Animation is set to music and is fluid and vivid and strange. In one animation it shows people in an office in the fifties and suddenly out of their heads grows a spinning oscillating column of open mouths and eyes with no nose. These eventually fill the screen and there is a long snake of spinning mouths that encircles the screen excreting a swirling psychedelic pattern in the background. Hallucinatory and intense.
Thats all folks. Any differing opinions should be posted at the bottom of Blog de la Lou. I recommend that you scoop up any of these cartoons by bittorrent. If anyone has questions about how to do that shoot me an email and I'll help you out.
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