See THIS is the classic big picture content I crave.

@insipiddisease

Ай бұрын

I still go back and watch Bob’s Freakazoid video from the classic escapist days, pre-gamergate fuckery

@crunchbuttsteak8741

Ай бұрын

@@insipiddisease Every once in a while I feel like Bob escapes the twitter shaped hell he has slowly been imprisoning himself in and when he does it's so nice. Like I missed this guy, I wish he was around more often

@SquishyProductions

Ай бұрын

@@crunchbuttsteak8741 Yeah that's why I unsubbed. Constantly hearing about what fascists are rage baiting about today was quite literally detrimental to my mental health.

@QUINTIX256

Ай бұрын

_heaviest sigh_ why do I have the feeling all three of you would use the colloquial “woke” as a pejorative unironically?

@insipiddisease

Ай бұрын

@@QUINTIX256 far from it, and I'm actually somewhat offended by that assumption. Massive leftie here. I think you'll note i said "gamergate fuckery". But I can also enjoy when Bob indulges in some deep dive nostalgia. I'm sure we'd agree on most things in principle, but GFYS.

I legitimately did not know this about Frylock's voice actor. Fuck Adult Swim, man. Warner Brothers Discovery gets a lot of shit now, but they truly are born of rotten seed.

@christopherb501

Ай бұрын

I never even liked that show, but stop screwing the workers

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

And nothing I have seen suggests things at WBD will get any better.

@EdBurke37

Ай бұрын

Thirty years... I'm going to die soon.

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

​@@EdBurke37 But hopefully not today.

@Sykdude

Ай бұрын

Is there more to the story? Like maybe he's a drug addict or a criminal. Maybe he just didn't like the industry and decided to not pursue his voice acting talents. There's a lot there you don't know.

One of the best habits I've picked up is learning the names of the people who have crafted the stories I carry with me. They don't spring fully formed from the forehead of a corporate logo. _People_ make these stories by their blood, sweat, and skill. They are sustained by the recognition and compensation they've earned. If they don't get it, we don't get new stories.

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

And sometimes, even that last part doesn't work out. Such is the corporate beast.

@jkclark5204

Ай бұрын

Thank you for doing this. Because most people literally swear fealty to corporations for the content they consume, and have no idea who actually creates things. To the tune of billions of dollars going to investors and CEOs, while artists languish.

Another thing worth mentioning is that Moltar got his own spin off as the original host of Toonami, which basically single-handedly formed mainstream anime fandom in Western culture. You could easily make the case that 90% of adult focused animation as it exists today only exists because of SGC2C

@jasonblalock4429

Ай бұрын

And on the other side of the puddle, weird edgy 90s animated shows like the Adult Swim lineup were a big influence on late-era Gainax and then Trigger. (Most notably inspiring the sheer insanity of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.)

@1tonyvalle

Ай бұрын

I was gonna say that I still remember some of the Moltar intro taglines that made me a fan of both old and (at the time) new anime they showed, such as "Robotech: No Assembly Required." & for Sailor Moon "This one goes out to all the Ladies."

@EidoEndy

Ай бұрын

I distinctly remember Moltar having a crush on Zoisite from Sailor Moon.

@jeremyriley1238

Ай бұрын

@@EidoEndy Never knew that, but I bet he was shocked years later when the first uncut versions of the first two series came out and we found out Zoisite was actually a man in the original Japanese language version.

I'm surprised you didn't mention George Lowe (the voice of Space Ghost). A few years ago I worked at this Comic Shop that also had a bar. He came in on a Saturday afternoon to sign autographs and take pictures. Not too many people showed up but I ended up making him some Tater Tots to go with his sandwich he got from the Wawa down the street. He was so appreciative that he took a picture with me and even autographed the Wawa label it came in saying thanks. He was so kind. I felt bad that not many people knew who he was.

@LaurieRobey

Ай бұрын

I remember when he was emcee of the Dragon*Con parade in Atlanta. 🤣

This is the best Big Picture in a really long time. I’m surprised he didn’t mentioned Moltar’s role as the first host of Toonami, whose significance speaks for itself

@DianaGohan

Ай бұрын

I've said it before and I'll say it again: EVERY major cartoon network milestone and idea can be traced back to Space Ghost Coast To Coast. Hell even the original Cartoon cartoons as the What a Cartoon Brand first premiered with a SGC2C ep that was the first clips of Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo and the Powerpuff Girls shown anywhere and yeah as you pointed out Toonami also tracks as does Adult Swim so yeah the people who made SGC2C should be doing a lot better then they are.

@christopherwall2121

Ай бұрын

@@DianaGohan The only show on the network with possibly more importance to Cartoon Network history, and that of animation in general, is probably _2 Stupid Dogs_

@r.f.switch5847

Ай бұрын

@@christopherwall2121 I'd say the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, to be honest...

@christopherwall2121

Ай бұрын

@@r.f.switch5847 Which would not exist without _Billy and Mandy_

@louisduarte8763

Ай бұрын

Maybe in a future episode?

Man... this, once again, is why MovieBob is MovieBob and everyone else is everyone else. Brother? You keep makin' 'em, and I'll keep watchin' 'em.

@jordansweet8054

Ай бұрын

The fact that a bunch of "creators" on this site are just doing the umpteenth video whining about how the MCU is dead or Disney is the worse while Bob is providing interesting history about lesser known material, advocating for creatives, and experimenting with his brand even after more than 15 years on here is just amazing to me.

@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247

Ай бұрын

@@jordansweet8054 I know, right? Either sucking every loose penny out of detached-from-reality 4chan knuckleheads, or auditioning for the cool-kids club that is Nebula. Bob has grown, he's experimented... but he never surrendered to the grift.

@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247

Ай бұрын

​@@jordansweet8054I know, right? Bob tried the "angry sarcastic asshole" tack on for size and found it unsustainable. So rather than ride the grifter gravy-train, he just stays true to what inspires him as a creator.

@jordansweet8054

Ай бұрын

@@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 Be nice if Doug Walker had decided to grow like this.

Here’s hoping Andy Merrill and everyone else screwed over by Adult Swim gets their dues one of these days.

@TwinRiver100

Ай бұрын

Yup❤

@TheGerkuman

Ай бұрын

I mean, CN has never fully made it up to Van Partible for kicking him and his team off Johnny Bravo, or to Mo Willems for messing with Sheep in the Big City. The industry is full of exploited people who haven't got their flowers. :( So I 100% agree with you; I just think it's very unlikely it'll happen.

@Sykdude

Ай бұрын

What do you think they're owed exactly?

@louisduarte8763

Ай бұрын

@@TheGerkuman On that note, Johnny Bravo would be perfect for adult swim's sub-block, Checkered Past, which shows reruns or Dexter's Lab, Cow & Chicken, Ed, Edd, & Eddy, Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. Bravo would fit better in that block than like half the shows I mentioned. OP: Last place I 'member hearing Andy Merrill's voice in something was a couple of Adventure Time episodes, I think as a talking ice-cream sandwich (makes a bit more sense in context).

@TheGerkuman

Ай бұрын

@@Sykdude the issue is that there isn't much that can be given, except an apology. The rest is more down to the press and audience giving them retroactive respect and praise.

Holy shit, Badgers, charlie the unicorn, and new grounds. I had no idea I could have such a massive memory vault unlocked moment with so little prompting

@TheBrotherGrim

Ай бұрын

Yeah, Jason Steele, Charlie's creator is still making toons on his KZread channel FilmCow. Give it a look if you get a chance. He's friggin hilarious.

Clay was so immediately passionate and hard working when I first met him, and his loss was such a gut punch…I remember him showing me this super cool Godzilla head/mask he made when he was practically a KID in the 70’s and he even found footage of himself stomping around in the full suit. What a legend.

@DerekScottBland

Ай бұрын

My wife and I went to Chicago for our honeymoon, mainly for the Chicago Comic Con. I met Clay there for the 2nd time and bought a Space Ghost script from him. He ended up passing shortly after 😞

@mattfrank85

Ай бұрын

I’m so glad you got to meet him, even for only a fleeting moment. I own a print he made of a Godzilla design he actually made back when Tristar was trying to court new designs for their reboot.

Well…fuck. I didn’t know Adult Swim had done folks dirty like that.

@darkmyro

Ай бұрын

Cartoon network has too. Maxwell atoms and and the guy that wrote the "your brains" song were both kinda screwed over. Same thing with megas xlrs creator, same thing with infinity trains creator and a lot of their recent creators. In fact universal, the mother company has had issues with paying their actors and written off a ton of projects to save money (I've heard recently it's kinda bit them in the butt too cause people don't wanna work with them)

@zackakai5173

Ай бұрын

I'm at a point in my life where I just kind of assume *any* entity that can be fairly classed as a "company" or "corporation" fucked *somebody* I respect as an actor or content creator over at some point in their existence. Maybe that's just the state of existence of somebody in their 30s in the post-Ronald Reagan era of western society, but here we fucking are. Those guillotines *really* weren't applied judiciously enough, it seems.

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

Like AC/DC used to sing back in the day, "dirty deeds done dirt cheap".

@louisduarte8763

Ай бұрын

@@darkmyro Universal? Warner Bros.-Discovery own Cartoon Network, among other Turner-founded channels

@Launchpad05

Ай бұрын

@@darkmyro The creators of 'Megas' have to pay A large some of money to get the rights back if they want to revive it.

OG Coast-to-Coast fan here. I'm so glad someone actually decided to put a spotlight on this gem 😊

A friend of mine once said that, knowing what we know now about how Adult Swim treated Clay Croker, that joke about Zorak costing the network $42 every time he moved his arm now takes on a whole new context.

What really sucks is that this isn't an isolated incident, but rather a major systemic problem in the animation industry. Like, shit like this happens to animators and voice actors all the fucking time, and it's so unbelievably disturbing. Oh, also let's not forget that, without Space Ghost, we might not have had host segments for Toonami, as Moltar was the host for it before TOM existed.

@patrickblanchette4337

Ай бұрын

And considering the anime industry is also really crappy towards its employees, it seems to be a global wide issue😔.

I recently came across Andy Merril on Twitter and was shocked to hear that he works as an Amazon driver. The Brak Show is one of the oldest Adult Swim shows that I remember watching when it was new. I was pleasantly surprised to see that those characters were brought back for Jellystone, but I didn't realize what had happened to these people. Andy Merril and the rest deserve better.

The impact definitely goes far into internet culture, too. Early YGO abridged borrowed a lot of the style and occasionally the jokes of Williams Street, which would inspire an entire trend of thousands abridged parodies…a trend that would be culminated by DBZ abridged, which would in turn use a lot of the same material.

@christopherwall2121

Ай бұрын

Something Martin would acknowledge with stuff like having Mooninite parodies and the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past From The Future on his show

@photofreak56

Ай бұрын

In uni I had to take a digital media creation and history class. We talked about how things like the world of abridged anime and early internet memes were shaped by things like venture bros and how most of early AS was what helped create youtube poop and the rick role possible. Its sad that so much of the good in this world came from exploitation of worker.

@Watch-0w1

Ай бұрын

Soon ygo abridge and little kuribo would be turn to a product to sell. Nothing is sacred

“try to look out for each other. We’re all in this together, or at least - we’re supposed to be.” Thx Bob

Not to mention Mc Chris (the rapper who reincarnates into something else in ATHF) who is a struggling artist which I paid for some stuff (mostly ebay) above the value to make sure he had some extra cash. We sometimes have to support the artist. Side note, Bob, I don't skip the ads in this video to help you get some money even if it's tiny.

I'm glad you talked about this because as an animator who grew up in Atlanta, I would always hear horror stories from guys in the Turner/Adult Swim collective.

Cartoon Planet was life for me and it breaks my heart that the team that made it didn't get buy-an-island money for everything they did.

When I was younger, sometime in the 2010s, Brak and Zorak hosted the CN movie nights, and it was never clear or explained who they were, it was only clear that they had pretty stiff animation and looked like none of the other programs of the time. I appreciate the full context from this vid.

Dang, I'd always wondered what had happened to Andy Merrill in particular. Like you say, none of this is surprising, but it still sucks.

I'm a fan of Toonami and I didn't know any of this about the behind-the-scenes, corporate skullduggery origins of Adult Swim. Really, really sad stuff. Personally, I'm not going to stop watching because I like what I like, but at least now I know (just like looking a nutrition label on a Twinkie I shouldn't be eating but do anyway). Thank you for making this video and I hope others find it informative.

Bravo Bob. As someone else who essentially grew up on early Adult Swim, the conflicted feelings are mutual. Thank you for putting those feelings into words.

Thank you for including Cartoon Planet. It was my favorite of that whole bunch, and feels like it always gets forgotten.

It's so disheartening hearing about so many companies not caring for the talent that spun gold for them. I work with a number of people that have been similarly slighted by another industry and boy, does the phrase "pearls before swine" keep coming to mind a lot whenever I hear another story from that industry...

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

When it comes to entertainment media, that's all too often the story, sadly. It's why I really get pissed off when certain loudmouths decide to go their own way, prove to be less talented and/or virtuous than they made themselves out to be and then tar the folks who actually were worth the time by association. That's a pattern I've been seeing since the founding of Image Comics in the early 1990s. It makes this kind of fight harder than it needs to be.

@juliagoodwin9510

Ай бұрын

I wish there was something we could do about it... but I can't think of anything that would be considered "legal"...

This is a really pleasant middle-of-the-night surprise - moviebob being nuanced and informative about something niche I care about. Also really sad/aggravating to hear that this is how this went down, bc I had no idea

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

The fact that the subject matter is so troubling makes the middle of the night a perfect drop time.

I saw the orinal, full length airing of Fire Ant. If I remember correctly, it was followed by Table Read. "I dreamt I grew a beard of meat, shaved it off, and ate it" It's entirely possible I have early days AS on some VHSs in my old room.

@Arsnof

Ай бұрын

Checking Wikipedia, I may be misremembering the order. It might e been followed by Roger Ramjet?

@Lou-Mae

Ай бұрын

The full 'fire ant' episode is just... avant garde as fuck. I think if I had seen it on an actual TV I would have been laughing really hard in incredulity.

@christopherwall2121

Ай бұрын

​@@Lou-Mae"yoursonisaMORON!"

I had no clue about the shittiness of Adult Swim’s heads. I cannot believe Frylock’s VA works as a dishwasher. He’s so good at his job.

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

My own work as a ghostwriter helps me believe it. That whole bit of "the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong" is never more true than in the arts.

@SpoopySquid

13 күн бұрын

​@@johnathonhaney8291and now they're trying to push "AI" so they can cut artists out entirely

It was my dream as a kid to be a writer for an adult swim show. I'm glad that never came true.

@Watch-0w1

Ай бұрын

It funny . A lot dream of my didn't come true. I was devastated and depresse. No w, I glad . The cost of does dream don't matter

Its good seeing you back in this kinda form Bob. I couldn’t care less about Space Ghost the show, but you make telling their history, that of the network and its victims shine with your earnest and deep thoughts on the matter. Even if the subject is dour, these are the episodes I can walk away from thinking about for a while after.

I was just a hair too young for Coast to Coast. The absurdist humor and late night talk show parody meant nothing to me and i didnt have the brain matter to comprehend it. I absolutely loved the old Space Ghost reruns though. Despite all that, its the coast to coast voices I'll always hear when I think of it. Especially Brak. I saw the post about Andy working deliveries and Im glad this video exist. Adult Swim and Toonami were such culturally formative for a whole generation and really became pop culture flag barers like MTV before it, that seeing how exploited and fucked the creatives and voices behind all that media is beyond gross. Meanwhile the top of the foodchain just grows a bigger mouth to stop anyone from getting their dues.

Hey Bob. I've been watching your content since The Escapist. The first run. Anyways, thanks for always being there. A reliable friend in the nerdom across all these years. ❤

As a 40-something, I loved these shows but didn't know any of this history. Thanks for shining light on it.

Man, this is a highlight on a bunch of stuff I had no idea about. I never watched Adult Swim and very little CN stuff, so I would see Space Ghost and similar stuff referenced all the time. But had very little context. So thanks!

Thanks for this nostalgic throwback 😎, and the information about what went on behind the scenes 🤔.

God damn there is always something about corporate politics within the creative industry specifically that really breaks my heart. To many stories of creatives giving everything they have to make a dream come true and then have all the money, ownership, and sometimes even credit taken from them by people who didn't do anything to help make that art.

@juliagoodwin9510

Ай бұрын

Anyone else wish we could do something about those kinds of people?

@jaffa4242

26 күн бұрын

Microsoft: lays off the studio that made hi-fi rush yeah it fucking sucks aye

It's taken me however many years until this video to realise jet Chicken from Aqua Teen shares space ghosts voice actor. Adult swim got a big leg up in the UK by broadcasting in the junky Bravo channel (I guess it was our equivalent of spike TV?). To this day I have part of this show burned into my brain right alongside images of my dad passed out in his chair and the volume on low. I cannot thank the creators enough for all the strange looks I get when I quote Brak or Carl.

Bob speaking positively on Smiling Friends is WEIRD. Not bad, just an interesting crossroads

Uh oh, the sad Big Picture music played...

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

So much of the untold or rarely told stories of geek media are laced with tears.

Found our very recently that Andy Merrill sang songs on his KZread with a homemade Brak puppet during the pandemic. Genuinely cannot get the paper plate song out of my head.

It's weird, the two big influences of the day were SGCC & South Park. You're only willing to spend the time and effort to collect .wav files and manually mod all the pilot voice lines in X-Wing vs Tie Fighter if you love the material. The two shows really did hit exactly right at the time.

KZread reccommended me the Jellystone clip a few months back and it sent me down a rabbit hole of unlocked memories of Zorak and Brak. While I didn't catch C2C or Cartoon Planet more than a couple times (my dad was a fan of the old Space Ghost and didn't like how they repurposed the characters), those two were ubiquitous in Cartoon Network ads and bumpers during my tweens and I always loved their dynamic. I hadn't thought about them in decades before that. Andy Merrill is a treasure

I don't know why, but me and my brothers kept count of how many times Zorak got blown up an episode of Cartoon Planet, and the one where Space Ghost kept blowing him up to punish Brak had us rolling, so it was surprisingly nostalgic to see that clip especially.

Space ghost coast to coast is one of my all time favorite shows. I sent a fax to the number they always show at the end and got signed pictures and a letter back in the mail. I really hope the people screwed over by AS are okay. They deserve so much.

That ant gag caught me off guard.

Sort of makes you re-think where they got the idea of Phil Ken Seben. Can't wait for that follow-up. I had been sort of hoping for something following Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.

For my own experience, I was the youngest of three kids and was 11 ish years old when we switched from dial up to the new Always Online model. My family did not have cable, but most of my friends did. So my first and only experience with Harvey Birdman is the running gag of "Did you get that thing I sent ya?" When someone finally says Yes and the character was SO HAPPY HE HAD TO SHOUT IT FROM MULTIPLE ROOF TOPS at around 2 am after my friend and I fell asleep watching the anime block on adult swim.

Big Picture is always a treat.

The influence of SGCTC extends into almost every popular comedy show/movie of the past 20 years. They influenced multiple writers who have won emmys.

Dude! That was the most satisfying f-bomb response timing I've heard in a while. I haven't even finished the video yet, because I had to congratulate you for hitting them hard on this one. Well done!

I’d also argue that Family Guy and Futurama would likely had been relics of the early 2000’s if Adult Swim never existed. The audiences Space Ghost and ATHF created gave them the numbers for revival, something that back then never happened for network TV shows.

When the somber music plays instead of the normal Big Picture music does, I know the episode is going to be a downer. Still, good to get the word out on this for people not in the know.

A busy Bob is a good Bob, hell yeah. And dude my algorithm has been putting the as stream of space ghost at top of feed for the past three weeks. Oof.

I remember when this era of Adult swim began. I managed to record a marathon of Space Ghost, Harvey Birdman, Sealab and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Had a friend over, and said "you have to see this." He watched the entire 4 hour tape, turned to me and said "this is one of the most brilliant things I've seen, can we watch that again?" It's sad that the execs at Cartoon Network thought that the retro / amateurish animation style was the appeal of these shows and not the writing. C Martin Croker once told me that he had several projects rejected because the animation was "too good." Too many shit shows were put out from Adult Swim based on that ridiculous viewpoint. I never knew how Cartoon Network absolutely fucked these guys over 😞

As someone who didn't know any of this, I am now extremely sad. I was 25 when [adult swim] started, and every show on the lineup was like pure mojo beamed from space into my head. _The Brak Show_ especially. I'm also now fairly glad I stopped watching entirely after _Sealab 2021, The Brak Show,_ and _Harvey Birdman_ ended.

Waving from the, "stoners who were just awake," corner.

Looks like the heads of Adult Swim and Cartoon Network didn't get enough oxygen.

I remember in 1995 or 96 first seeing Space Ghost coast to coast one late night when I couldn’t sleep from a fever. I swore for years that it was a fever dream because no one else I knew knew the show. It wasn’t until I saw something on Newgrounds around 2000 that referenced it.

Before video started: YES! Gonna talk about Space Ghost. Man, I watched so many of those episodes during the Anniversary celebration stream. And even though it had been more than a decade, a great many of them I could still quote word for word. Gave me so many happy feels about long lost youth. After video ended: Fuck.

“Classic big picture” is basically Bob being bob 😊

yeah I had heard some of those folks getting screwed over and falling on hard times from what I read on social media. definitely all kinds of fucked. It did take me a little bit at first to 'get' wtf was going on with these shows, but I certainly watched my fair share of them. harvey birdman was a personal favorite, loved peter potamus and his constant 'did-ya-get-that-THING-isentya'?! so ridiculous. also shoutout to ATHF, you wanna talk about bizarre...

Hey Brak, hey Brak, hey Brak.... What? YOU"RE BRINGING ME DOWN MAAAAAANNN!!! (My college stoner friends LOVED this show, and me, the sober one, love that kind of humor) 😂🤣😂🤣

This is a great episode of Big Picture. Man, I knew Adult Swim were a bunch of scumbags, but I hadn't realized quite how scummy they were

I met Mister Coker several times. I knew all of this and it still hurts.

This was more from my brothers' generation than mine but one of the first videos I ever saw on the internet was an amv of piccolo singing "I'm a cucumber" by brak. Absolutely adored the song and i annoyed my brothers with it.

Geez - I just assumed the talent in the adult swim cartoons were getting some kind of compensation in line with actors on similar level shows throughout the rest of the TV landscape. It's really gross that they were being used so badly. Aqua Teen, Sea Lab, Birdman, Venture Bros - those were just amazing. I hope some of them got a fair shake. I'm guessing Seth Green got his dues for Robot Chicken.

"We're all in this together; at least ..... we should be."

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

The latter is more true.

As someone who only watched a few of these shows, I had no idea about any of this nonsense at Adult Swim...

Just here to say "Labor is entitled to to all it creates"

as a small aside about CN but not AS, i will never forgive them for ensuring that Megas XLR will NEVER get a reboot because they counted the show as a lose to be exempt from taxes for it and thus cannot sell the property license, release it to streaming services or anything else cause then they would have to pay back taxes.

Maybe my ears just missed it, but how was George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost, not mentioned in this?????? As much as I love this paying tribute to the foundational elements of what became Cartoon Network and Adults Swim , It just feels like not also talking about the voice that helped propel and sustain the series

Oh yeah I remember reading the skinny on all AS's drama and issues in a recent Bluesky thread sometime last week and between this and all that horrible business over at Nickelodeon coming out really tempered a lot my childhood memories now. Seeing that clip of Seth and Andy is jarring to say the least

Oh, Bob is gonna get *a lot* of mileage out of the Gwimbly Gun clip isn’t he?

"Everyone want big screen TV, but no one see big picture", Ras Amin

I have great memories of watching this all the time when it aired with my mom when I was 7 or 8, we both loved it, and my dad getting pissed and leaving the room because he loved the original Space Ghost cartoon as a kid.

Always felt like Zorak and Moltar were the ingredients that spawned Strong Bad.

Im ready for another thing that exists.

Making a Red Green Show reference at the end of a formative 90s kid episode? That's nostalgia-ing

Today I learned things about SGC2C's glorious artists I did not want to know.

Man I have a vivid memory of my Grandma mock singing Brak songs. It really suck how the people who actually made the show were treated. Creatives getting no respect.

All Corporations are Bastards, take of your creators!

This video covered two topics: 0:44 Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and its impact 7:24 Adult Swim's treatment of creators

I came on with Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and got into SGCTC that way. I agree with your assessment about early internet humor being shaped largely by this form of absurdist meta humor.

Ugh, I do not have time in my schedule to plot revenge for all the things what need a revenge plotted. Little help?

I was just talking last night to a friend of mine about a bunch of those web comics/vids you mentioned in the first few minutes. Completely agree with your thesis here.

Unfortunately, this isn't anything new. A lot of the monetary success of Power Rangers in 1993 can be attributed to the show being non union and not having to pay most of the cast and crew royalties. Haim Saban made so much money that he gained legitimate political power that he wields to this day while most people who actually worked on the show struggle to pay their rent.

I just heard about this recently from another channel with the Space Ghost thing. Also just Adult Swim being jerks that ripped its workers off. I honestly never knew about any of this. Condolences. ❤🙏🏽

Take care of the creative team. If you don't have creators, you don't have a product. If you don't have a product, you don't need sales, an operations team, or an executive staff.

@johnathonhaney8291

Ай бұрын

Paging David Zaslav...

This was friggin a bummer episode, damn.

Woah, I dodged a bullet without even knowing it. I had no idea about this, thank you for sharing, as enraging as it was to watch, this was very educational for me.

I'm glad I remembered Bob exists. This was great, classic Bob. Really good stuff.

Wow. It’s like all my thoughts watching SGC2C recently manifested into this video.

"We're all in this together." I'm not locked up in here with you, you're locked up in here with me.

I had no idea about any of that stuff about Adult Swim D: such a bummer, I definitely enjoyed a lot of those early shows

please keep talking about stuff you like with passion and a critical eye, you are really good at it.

Damn, didn't know about almost any of this. Heartbreak city out here.

Thanks for this, Bob. All this was juuuust slightly before me, so I knew OF Space Ghost Coast To Coast, but I didn't know IT, and I certainly never knew for sure all the context after that either. Explains a lot about the company and adds to the Warner assery in recent days. Cant wait for whatever's next!

Love these kinds of episodes

Great ep. Good righteous content. We like good guy Bob.