#which is funny cause I’m pulling from almost 20 year old dvds

[rangersoup]

I need to do some experimenting with coloring on my lone star gifs. Looking at them and comparing them to my Bones gif sets has made me realize how pale and grey they are 🤔

Like you see what I’m talking about?? The Soup gif looks sad and grey and the Booth gif looks a lot brighter?? Tell me I’m not crazy

[adultswim2021]

Space Ghost Coast to Coast #82: “Baffler Meal” | January 1, 2003 - 12:00 AM | S08E01

An all-time classic, wonderful episode. Ending 2002 on a high note (technically this is the first episode of 2003 being that it aired at midnight, but I’m delaying my EPHEMERA CORNER post for as long as I can).

The origins of Aqua Teen Hunger Force are laid bare for all to see with Baffler Meal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force was famously based on a rejected Space Ghost script. Well, this is that script, re-imagining the Aqua Teens based on old designs and concepts from that unproduced episode. The desired effect is to approximate what that episode would have been like had it been produced in 1999 before the Aqua Teen Hunger Force series proper was developed. It’s supposed to be confusing; to the point where in the DVD commentary track they even question weather or not they should make it clear within the commentary that that’s what’s going on here (they do).

I will now take this opportunity to quote one of my favorite synopses of a TV show ever, originally taken from tvtome (remember tvtome? god, what a great site):

Space Ghost is forced into a raw deal with the deadly Colonial Man, forever altering the future of classic rock - again. Willie Nelson and a MOCKERY of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force star in this episode. This episode mocks a great comedy show. It doesn't feel funny in the least.

Here you can see the lack of understanding for what the episode really is. Despite the fact that the ostensible Space Ghost fan (tvtome was run by volunteer submissions for it’s episode data) should one-thousand percent understand the Space Ghost connection, clearly recognize Dave Willis’ voice (he still voices Meatwad in a very similar manner), etc. The degree of confusion this episode caused can not be understated.

Nuggets from the DVD commentary:

Frylock is a guy in a costume in this. Okay, that wasn’t specifically from the DVD commentary, but it’s the first time I caught that detail, ever, and I don’t want to start a separate bullet-point list for stray observations.

Shake’s read of “blahd” instead of “blade” was inspired by a real typo in the script, just like “Branford the Branford” before it.

Todd Hanson of The Onion helped write this episode and kept pitching a character named Napkin Lad. I believe Napkin Lad actually comes to be later in the Aqua Teen series.

And another thing I love: The cool song at the end. The part where Dave is like “OH BABY, YEAH BABY” etc. towards the very end of the episode? That part gets stuck in my head like, VERY FREQUENTLY, and for years I thought it was Bob Odenkirk singing in either a Mr. Show or Ben Stiller Show sketch and have been trying to place it forever. Turns out it wasn’t Bob, but David, and I ain’t talkin’ Cross, do I sound cross to you? Do you even appreciate wordplay??

NEXT is my end-of-the-year roundup of second-run premieres, shorts, commercials, bumpers, etc. That’s right, EPHEMERA CORNER is back! But it’s gonna be a long one so I might break it up over the course of a few days, maybe a week, even.

MAIL BAG

I think these were all anonymous, please forgive me if I have, as the French say, “fucked up” by failing to name the conspirator.

2002 is almost over! What do you think brak's position on the iraq war was? Carl's? Hesh's? Junior addleburg's?

Brak: against, but respects the office of the presidency and urges using civil methods to protest. Carl: pro, he is a white supremacist and is supportive of any and all mass destruction committed on non-white nations. Hesh: HESH WANTS SOME SEX! lol. Junior Addleburg: has not been told about the war.

Do you think you are being overtly charitable to Brak this time around? Surely the best Brak show episode isnt even half as good as the worst Home Movies episode. Right?

I do tend to react to “better” Brak episodes the same way you encourage a problem student when they squeak out a B minus. There absolutely was a time when I loved The Brak Show and was all-in on it. That time was SEPTEMBER 2nd-8th, 2001. Hippo was certainly a factor. 9/11 may have also contributed.

I don’t think I’ve said this yet, but I’ve been keeping a running episode ranking of Adult Swim shows as I’ve been doing this. It’ll probably get revised at some point, so I’m not exactly ready to share it. In my ranking I tended to group Home Movies episodes very close to each other, and I would sometimes talk myself into ranking things a little higher or lower than I normally would just to break up a long streak of Home Movies. So I can actually say with impunity, yes, there are strong episodes of Brak Show that I've ranked over weaker episodes of Home Movies. But I might have to have a little chat with the man in the mirror about that.

Are you only doing animated shows or are you going to do live animated shows to. I feel like most people agree Tim and Eric bringing live-action to the block ruined it permanently even if you think those guys are funny in a vacuum. I'm just wondering because I know you did animation only for your Simpsons Night B-sodes so I feel you are a "tooned-in" guy.

Live-action is getting reviewed too! I can’t WAIT to revisit Saul of the Molemen. Are you fucking kidding me? I’m not sure where to draw the line on the internet stuff, though. If it aired on Adult Swim I’m very likely to cover it, but I don’t see myself covering the FishCenter repeats that aired at 4AM. Anime is generally getting the shaft. Sorry. I think it’d be cool if somebody started a blog that covered Adult Swim Action. But yes, you are right, I’m a pretty tooned-in guy. Lots of people have said this about me.

If you had to dress like any of the Adult Swim First Era characters for Halloween who would you dress as and who would you LIKE to dress as if difficulty of pulling it off wasn't an issue.

There was a Space Ghost muscle suit at one of those Halloween Stores one year and I very nearly bought it even though I had no intention of wearing it for Halloween. I did a very low-effort season 4 Hank Venture because by happenstance my hair looked like his at the time, and I found what looked like Brock’s jacket at a thrift store.

Putting on a blue Sealab uniform and only traveling in a chair with wheels would be real fun. I could probably pull of an effective Carl. As far a difficult costume I’d be the poolside announcer during the O.G. bumpers, because I imagine that he’s very muscular and his dick is real long and it’s constantly flopping out of the pantleg of his swim trunks and that it’s getting sucked off all the time by them old ladies and most of the time he’s like “no no, we mustn’t do that, for I am a professional” but every now and again he’s like “well alright” and this would reflect my experiences at whatever Halloween party I’m at except it would be a 20 year old woman dressed like an old lady because it’s Halloween. Thanks for the question.

Do you have a girlfriend? What does she think of Adult Swim or does she hate cartoons like mine.

I’m not done with the last thing. I would also have a bullhorn and I’d be using it while getting sucked off, even though that’s a discreet affair. Like, we’d find a bedroom that was empty and lock the door and I’d be like “Oh yeah baby suck my peenie, yes you are doing so good at sucking that.” in hushed tones, but into the bullhorn. I’d also use it to yell at children for wearing racist or appropriative costumes, which, as we all know, leads to more getting-your-dick-sucked. Anyway, I got a wife and we literally met at an Adult Swim event during Comic-Con! It was Tim & Eric Awesome-con 2007! I’M NOT LYING

Would you rather take one big bite out of meatwad or drink the entirety of Master Shake.

I wonder if Master Shake is warm. Anyway, I’d go with that, biting Meatwad seems like CERTAIN DEATH.

[cheollies]

Rent a Boyfriend!Jun

a/n: happy belated birthday to our precious prince Jun

Wen Jun: the revenge boyfriend. when you really want to piss off your ex by showing you're in a better and happier relationship, Jun is your guy. he'll give a few jabs to your ex at just how much happier you are and even say how your ex lost something very special. extra services include Jun being a little handsy, but it's all fun when you see the reaction of your fuming ex.

Jun is like that guy, that dude that catches girl’s eye even if he’s just walking by a window.

He’s that perfect

And he plays his role pretty well that people who work at the company can’t tell if that’s his actual personality or not (hint hint he’s a great actor)

He’s that flirtatious, incredibly hot, playboy looking dude

So i guess you could say he’s pretty popular among the ladies

His persona is actually one of the most popular personas, i mean why else would you want a fake boyfriend for if it wasn’t to take revenge on your old boyfriend who screwed you over

That’s basically the whole point right?

Jun absolutely loves his job, well he’s fond of it since he kind of does whatever he wants

He accidentally bumped into Minghao while he was in a photography session with a client

“What if I pretend I’m Minghao’s best friend who just happens to be in Paris too. It happens all the time obviously”

“GO HOME jUN”

“Geez you’re the one who dragged me here”

“YOU DROVE YOURSELF HERE”

anywho…….Jun working? Does he really? Cause no one seems to see him do a job

The guys have heard of him doing job and they’ve taken shifts for him, but they’ve never seen him get ready for the jobs at all??????

Seungkwan: it’s confirmed, he’s a ghost haunting the building

In reality, Jun works really odd hours, mostly late nights because the most revengeful girls are apparently the ones who party 24/7 and need to get revenge on their REAL player ex-boyfriend

when he’s working, he’ll have that cocky little grin and his hands probably near his client’s hips and he might lean in really close while keeping eye contact with the ex-boyfriend

And it really ticks the guys off cause he just knows that the guys are terribly territorial about their women.

aaaand he gets into a fight here and there but nothing he can’t run away from

He’s actually a real softie okay. The guys are always like “gotta protect”

His favorite spot in the company building is the movie room

That’s right, there’s a movie room that was just recently put in. technically it started as a resting room but then someone put a flat screen tv in there then seungcheol brought in his dvd player and now everyone just brings in movies whenever.

You wanna know how soft he is

He brought a bucket of stuffed animals

Jihoon: no one’s ever going to use these stupid stuffed animals

Fifteen minutes later……

Jihoon: GET YOUR HANDS OFF SQUIRTLE. HE’S MINE

the story of how Jun got the job actually all started with you

you two started university together and when you sat next to Jun in the introduction to acting class, you didn’t expect to become practically best friends with him

so by the end of the year, you two were kind of in a battle of ‘who’s the best at acting’

on one of the days you were getting incredibly competitive and a little bit devilish. You remembered being handed a job application for a Rent A Date position so you challenge Jun

“If you can land the position for this job as a player douche, i’ll totally admit you are the best at acting”

Well twenty four hours later, Jun comes to you with the smuggest of all smug smiles and announces he got the job and accepted it

Jun: darn now I have to quit my other job

Now he buys you dinner once a week to thank you for getting him such a good job, which has such a good pay, and such a good work environment

Have you noticed that you’re jealous yet

You were soo jealous of his job okay, not because he got to go on dates with pretty, incredibly beautiful girls, no that totally wasn’t it, it’s totally nothing to do with the girls. TOTALLY NOT THE GIRLS. (is it obvious yet)

There was always a little pit in your stomach when he brought up his job even though he was doing it so innocently

but he always spewed about how the girls just throw themselves at him, or how he has to pretend to be so into the girls and touch them or whatever

By this point you’ve kind of started to tune him out

and to be honest, he notices it and it kinda makes him sad because he’s starting to think you don’t like him as a friend any more

But no no no, it’s totally the opposite because your cheeks heat up when you see him, and your heart feels like it’s going to burst when he smiles, and sometimes you just want to totally, really, and cutely kiss him

but he’ll never know that you think that when you’re having dinner with him

so naturally you turn to Minghao

“You’re Jun’s best friend right?”

“Is he telling everyone that again?”

“If, perhaps on a totally hypothetical situation, I like Jun. You know like like him. Do you think he like likes me?”

“If we’re using your kindergarten terms. He like likes you too. Why else would he spend all of his money on taking you to dinner. You know he’s really stupid with his money. He always buys new clothes the day before the dinner just because ‘y/n needs to see different sides of me’ what an idiot……”

You tune him out after that because you’re just too happy at the moment

So a whole week passes, jk, it’s only been like two days but it feels like a week before Jun asks about going for dinner again

and you’re sooo excited because why not, it’s Jun, it’s your best friend who you have such a crush on because he’s so so cute when he eats and gets flustered

gosh you’re so into him

Jun gets to the place first, he’s so nervous, he’s always nervous when he’s meeting you, he’s using the spoon to fix his hair but he kind of gets distracted by the side of the spoon that makes your face look funny

but then he sees you

and YOU LOOK LIKE A SNACK OKAY

His hand tried to rest on the table but his palms are so sweaty that they slipped and his head almost smacked on the table

He was that affected by you

“So what would you say? This would be our like fifteenth date?”

Jun choked on his straw and his cola went up and out his nose

Well aren’t you a charmer to suddenly grasp Jun as your boyfriend

um now that you guys are dating he can finally sneak you into the movie room and just cuddle with you in there

It’s a plus now because the guys pitched in and bought a pull out sofa for the room

It’s for ALL the boys and their s/o but you and Jun are always on it that everyone kinda argues and bickers because

Chan: THIS ISN’T FAIR, IT’S OUR TURN

Jeonghan: This is the only room with a bed! We want it!

Now there’s a sign up chart for the pull out

and hence it is called a pull out couch, get ready for the pull out jokes (*coughs*strangerthings*cough*)

As much as his job sorta bugged you before, it’s kind of growing on you

By growing on you means that he’s totally assured you that the job is only temporary. It’s like a part time job a college student has

so you may not like it but you know what, he may not like you wearing that shirt that makes the other guys turn their heads but he’s gotta suck it up

soooo Junnie’s birthday is coming up

you know what that means……...trying to top all those other birthdays

but thanks to the newly put forth movie room, you’ve declared a slumber party!!!!!

yes you had to fight and pull hairs with Soonyoung’s, Wonwoo’s, AND Seungcheol’s s/o’s about a slumber birthday party but you got it

You’ve made it required that everyone gets and wears their own onesies. And it’s gotta be the cute onesies too not a lame one

Initially Jun worked his birthday so you two agreed to meet up late that night. You would pick him up from work and basically bring him to his ‘super secret surprise birthday party’

It’s really quiet when Jun is waiting in the dressing rooms, and just when he’s about to leave the room to ‘investigate’ about why it’s quiet, you come into the room

‘SURPRISE’ you scream in your cute unicorn onesie and before he can react you’re shoving a similar but larger unicorn onesie in his face and rushing him to get dressed

You’re making him close his eyes while leading him to the movie room but you’re doing a really bad job because you’re so excited and thus he keeps bumping into chair and walls and pillars

But he’s really excited, his heart is basically jumping out of his chest and his lips are pressed into the happy thin line he always does

Finally you let him open his eyes and there he sees his over 20 people squashed into a room dressed in various onesies with Chan and Soonyoung in the back bickering about having the same dinosaur onesie

You ordered a bunch of pizzas and the same delivery guy who worked Chan’s laser tag birthday was delivering and had a look of horror on his face as he watched horse Seokmin and Dinosaur Soonyoung race each other to the pizza man

You and Jun are honored the couch while others are stuck with the ground and their own blankets and pillows

you may have not gotten him a cake but you put candles on the pizza and Jun couldn’t help but giggle so much because he was so excited and happy

Even on the couch he was just hugging you so much, practically squeezing you and literally doesn’t shut up about the movie because he’s the type of guy who just can’t stop talking during a movie

and he loves you, he loves you, he loves you.

Jun absolutely loves you that in his mind, it’s impossible to love anything more.