The alternative comedy movement of the 1990s and the early 2000s caused a dazzling crowd of Boundary pushing entertainment that lasted films, a television, a stand-up, music and animation. It was difficult to keep an eye on all the original voices emerging during this period, sometimes frustrating. For example, just when you thought you had found a new favorite television program, the network would suddenly lead to the grip due to ugly notes, even if the raves of criticisms indicated that he had a high quality series in his hands which may need a little more time to find his audience (as was the case with “Seinfeld”). This is how we lost ceremonial classics like “The Ben Stiller Show”, “Freaks and Geeks” and “Unclared” after a season.
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Although I would like to think that some of these series would have ended up having had a sufficiently important audience to justify their existence of a continuous network, many bizarre series were condemned from the start. For this reason, the intelligent movement for the talented comedy editors and / or the performers was to look for the more permissive shelter of a wired chain like HBO or MTV. These channels research Strange stuff, and they were ready to stick to off -center programs that connected to a small but devoted audience (provided that the budgets remained low).
When Cartoon Network made its debut on its adult adult swimming range in 2001, it immediately became a home in the bizarre comedy series. Already existing titles such as the “Space Ghost: Coast to Coast” revolutionary “have moved to this programming block, but it is the range of new hilarious shows that have transformed this company into an oasis of knowledge of absurdity in a world which, after September 11, had incouted its balls.
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There were many animated classics created for swimming for adults at its beginnings (for example “Sealab 2021”, “The Venture Bros.” “” Harvey Birdman: lawyer at Law “), but his most distinctive success was” Aqua Teen Hunger Force “. Created by Dave Willis and Matt Maillaro, this gloriously strange show follow (Carey Means), a sociopathic milkshake known under the name of Master Shake (Dana Snyder) and a piece of fitting beef and childish beef called Meatwad (Willis). More than a decade until adult swimming suddenly canceled it in 2015 against the wishes of Willis and Maillaro.
Adult Swim was ready to go from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
In the wake of adult swimming, canceling “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”, Willis and Maiellaro have made interviews with Stick And Vice Where they shared their misfortune with the company’s decision. “The show is doing well,” Maillaro told Vice. “It generates a lot of income, it is not too expensive to do. So, so that they let it go, it’s just a little strange. We call it strange behavior.”
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The explanation given to the duo of the president of adult swimming, Mike Lazzo, was that he was “ready to move on”. It’s terribly vague, right? Maillaro had a theory on what really motivated Lazzo:
“It really comes back to the economy of guilt. When you have something incredibly successful that does not take any amount of effort or finance to do, you start to feel a little guilty for America and therefore you withdraw and you let other shows shine here and there. It is the economy of guilt. It is a bit vulgar [to keep making all that money]. It’s vulgar. Sage saying on the cartoon network, for morale, you know. “”
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The boys were particularly checked because they doesn’t Discover “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” who is canceled by Lazzo but, rather, one of their friends at Adult Swim. Although they both freely admitted that the show had made them a lot of money, they were really sad to see that it ends because they always had fun doing it (although they admitted a professional exhaustion in an interview in 2023 with Witney Seibold of / film). In his opinion, all those who worked on the series.
“We will miss the whole process,” admitted Maillaro. “We are going to miss the characters, we will fail to work on it. We have a small crew that has always been there, and they are fans, as we are […] So it’s really sad to see this process close. It is a machine so well oiled. It just works. “”
Indeed, it was difficult to say goodbye to the titular trio as well as to the strange friends that we made along the way, such as Carl (Willis), the mooninites and the cybernetic ghost of the Christmas past of the future. But we were able to spend time with them in the 2023 film “Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm” and, perhaps above all, the 12 seasons of the show are currently available to broadcast on Max. You cannot believe that it will be there for good, but, at that time, you can check the friends of fast food when you wish.
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