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Space Ghost Coast to Coast
The 1998 Episodes
For
the unawares, Space Ghost Coast To Coast is a animated spoof talk show
based around a select number of Hanna-Barbera characters from the 60's
cartoon Space Ghost. The title man himself, Space Ghost, is a
egotistical and childish superhero who has given up his attempts as
saving the world to focus on his talk show. He is backed by his band
leader (ala Paul Shaffer on the Letterman Show) Zorak, the mantis alien
and space ghost prisoner, Moltar, the shows producer and body of lava,
and Brak, the often victimised mental marshmallow and cat like alien.
The show, which is produced for Cartoon Networks Adult Swim features the
same off the wall humour as your Harvey Birdman, or Aqua Teen Hunger
Force, but with the interesting element of live celebrity participation
thrown in.
The
main content of the show revolves around the surreal interviews of the
celebrity guests who are projected through a TV on the guest couch of
the set. Although celebrities getting interviewed by a fictional
character would be entertaining enough, the trademark of the show is
editing the pre-recorded interview footage and changing the questions to
off-beat answers and consistently making their guests appear as
confused, psychotic, and severely deluded.
The
main content of the show revolves around the surreal interviews of the
celebrity guests who are projected through a TV on the guest couch of
the set. Although celebrities getting interviewed by a fictional
character would be entertaining enough, the trademark of the show is
editing the pre-recorded interview footage and changing the questions to
off-beat answers and consistently making their guests squirm and appear
as confused, psychotic, and severely deluded. Featuring celebrity guests
such as Tyra Banks, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Stiller, Moby, Shirley Manson,
and Kevin Smith. Being the fourth DVD release since Space Ghost went off
the air, it's a pretty standard release of eleven episodes, but these
are some of the best episodes produced in the shows life. 'Chinatown'
see's Space Ghost trade Moltar to a Japanese baseball team for a bag of
kittens, or 'Rio Ghosto' in which Space Ghost pitches his failing script
to
Jim Jarmusch
and Kevin Smith.
This
is another fantastic Adult Swim DVD release with some pure comedy gold
moments and a 'off' sense of humour that is guaranteed to have tears in
your eyes. Although the extras are fairly nonexistent besides a few
trailers and a two minute clip of kittens running around a green screen
stage, it's still a filling DVD with over two hours of great laughs.
Like all comedy of this style you will have people watching it and
saying 'That's just not funny, It's Stupid!', but just look to either
side of that person and you'll find others doubled over in laughter.
Episodes:
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Terminal
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Toast
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Lawsuit
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Cahill
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Warren
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Chinatown
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Rio Ghosto
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Pal Joey
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Curses
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Intense Patriotism
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Waiting For Edward
Special Features:
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