Actually, this is how Parody shows were written in the 90s. The Audience is suppose to be in on the Joke, because even the characters aren't taking the plot seriously. Like WB's Freakazoid.

@mistermann4163

2 ай бұрын

Something that Teen Titans Go failed at real badly the more I think about it. Try's to do the unfunny punchline, the confusing set up, and the random joke in some random order with references sprinkled in but never had a story to tell let alone a good one.

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

​@@mistermann4163at least kids liked it

@sirquagsire971

2 ай бұрын

​@@mistermann4163and then there's just borderline fet*sh art sometimes

@ClownHoundII

2 ай бұрын

​@kanna-san. Kids will like anything. There was even a show a while that was all just butt and fart jokes. Kids loved it too.

@MrLightningbob

2 ай бұрын

Cow and Chicken

I like how when the show's budget starts to run out, you can tell the animation is ironically better.

@Treeeee2008

3 ай бұрын

Less money on colors and details, more money on fluidity!

@DibsAtraiyu

Ай бұрын

Restriction is the biggest influence for creativity

all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put the 4th wall back together again

@hjalfi

10 ай бұрын

Luckily one of the riggers had some duct tape.

Psycrow threatening the narrator is probably the most clever thing in any series. The guy has the power to define fate and yet is the only mortal among them at all times! Another reason why I love psycrow!

@lizardguyNA

2 ай бұрын

You'd enjoy Powerpuff Girls then. Mojo Jojo's evil plan for an episode was to kidnap the Narrator and take over the show.

@BoopaKing

2 ай бұрын

Dave the Barbarian also did that and there was even a redone version of the intro where the evil pig is tormenting the barbarians.

This show was underrated. Too bad the creator hated it.

@daniexists6

Жыл бұрын

"Too bad"? I think you mean, "It's good that noted piece of shit Doug TenNapel hated it."

@paulpavlus6664

Жыл бұрын

he did?

@teddyroo12

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he thought it was a cash grab. Then again, he hates a lot of things

@teddyroo12

Жыл бұрын

This points out one of the things Duckie hates. ME! More specially the part where I like woman as a woman

@Saxdude26

11 ай бұрын

Knowing he didn'tlike the cartoon makes me like it even more.

My personal favourite joke from EWJ? The bit where the villain of the week summons a universe destroying monster. Jim summons a lawyer who tells the monster he needs a permit to destroy the universe, and to get the permit, he has to fill in a form that's a pile of paper taller than Mount Everest. We then get the hilarious exchange: Monster: "But that'll take me a billion years!" Lawyer: "Three billion. I need it in triplicate."

@CheeseMiser

15 күн бұрын

LOL

“I yearn for the sweet embrace of the grave” LMFAOOOOO

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

Real

It reminds me of both “The Tick,” and “Dave the Barbarian.” I didn’t realize until now that Dave the Barbarian had some humor stylings in common with “The Tick.”

@mesousagaby740

2 ай бұрын

Funny you say that, cause Doug Langdale created Dave The Barbarian and developed the Earthworm Jim cartoon.

@TheSomewareMan

2 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, Earthworm Jim and Dave the Barbarian have the same narrator. Don't quote me on that, though. I haven't checked to be sure

@Starpotion

Ай бұрын

The Tick slaps

@demiraichan

Ай бұрын

Still not in Disney+ and it's a crime. Also Freekazoid.

@Petsinwinter2

Күн бұрын

​@@TheSomewareMan absolutely did. Jeff Bennett, a legend. Also Peter Puppy in this if you didn't notice.

You can hear a bit of Homer in his voice

@teddyroo12

Жыл бұрын

Hmm..... I wonder why?

@RetroGaming-gp2ef

Жыл бұрын

@@teddyroo12 Well I know he’s voiced by his voice actor. But you can seriously hear a bit of Homer.

@robbiewalker2831

9 ай бұрын

@@RetroGaming-gp2ef Dan is probably trying to channel Jim Carrey’s voice, as people theorize that EWJ was modeled after Jim Carrey, and his portrayal of Big Head, AKA the Mask. Granted, the Mask came out a few months after Earthworm Jim, but it was in the same year. Perhaps Jim was made to sound like Jim Carrey because the Mask was popular at the time.

@murray9807

19 сағат бұрын

I hear the Devil Robot

@Nevakanezah_

10 сағат бұрын

P sure the president's va is Phil Hartman, aka troy mcclure

You know something I find fun, when a narrator for a show goes off script like Earthworm Jim’s does. Cause we all know that even if the character of the narrator is going off script the actual guy voicing the narrator isn’t which I just find funny

@vksasdgaming9472

7 ай бұрын

I broke with gag of Psy-Crow's dastardly plan of deposing Lucy. Her actual name is too long.

@tuckernutter

2 ай бұрын

I mean tbh as a non personified disembodied voice they could be ad libbing for all we know

Jim asking what sounded like "what's a nonce" was very much unexpected (It's English slang for a paedophile)

@adamofblastworks1517

2 ай бұрын

I thought it was slang for idiot.

@brakistroier

2 ай бұрын

Wait, is it? I thought it was just a weird way to say "idiot" or something.

@FlareStorms

2 ай бұрын

yeah​@@brakistroier

@adamofblastworks1517

2 ай бұрын

@@brakistroier I said the same thing earlier, but apparently my reply was deleted for some reason.

@AW-sx8hm

2 ай бұрын

But in the case of 'for the nonce' it just means for now. There isn't an actual paedophile demanding attention away from Jim.

When you have a cartoon premise so weird that you don’t know what to do with it, just make it an off the walls 4th wall breaking comedy, and you’ll make gold!

looking back they really did have a allstar cast of voice actors playing every character. the cream of the early to late 90s crop of recognisable VAs. just missing Robert Paulson to make it complete

@NoNeed2No

Ай бұрын

His name is Robert Paulson.

4:10 Cody: I yearn for the sweet embrace of the grave.

@kanna-san.

3 ай бұрын

He's so real for that

2:08 "And what's a nonce?" Oh my...

@redrasegarden

Ай бұрын

Do I wanna know?

This show is so.. Charming?? How come i’ve never even heard of it before-

@Gaia_BentosZX5

Ай бұрын

That's because there's hidden gems like this one in a sea of Ren & Stimpy copycats (prior to the Spongebob Standard, we had to deal with the Spumco Standard. It was anything BUT pleasant given the work ethic!).

this show seems unironically good

Why is this as funny as it is to me? Like it's such a non-cartoon cartoon but people enjoyed their jobs and it shows. You know. Minus the guy who made it.

@diegomorales7290

2 ай бұрын

Wait what? He did? Shame, the animators and voice actors look/sound like they're having fun

I love that the narrator just wasn't having it anymore in "Wizard of Ooze". Even when there's danger he's on the phone with his agent demanding to be let out of the show. 😂

The Wizard of Ooze was one of my favorite episodes specifically because of all the fourth wall breaks.

@robbiewalker2831

Жыл бұрын

My favorite joke is when Death was gonna play a game with Professor Monkey-for-a-Head, but instead of chess, PMFAH does the coin toss and was killed off when Death Wins. PMFAH is now living the highlife in a mall-styled afterlife with frozen yogurt.

@RippahRooJizah

2 ай бұрын

Sure ran into the wall a couple times.

"What a huge action sequence!" 😂 💀

I was obsessed with this show when I was a kid. Even now, I think it was an awesome cartoon. I wish it had gotten more episodes, but I'm also glad that it ended before it went downhill.

This was probably the best possible advertisement you could have possibly given me to immediately look for a way to watch this show.

8:33: Not counting the Christmas Special, this is, in fact, the last episode; so Queen Slug-for-a-Butt is defeated for good.

This cartoon is very Freakazoid. In fact, maybe most cartoons from the 90s used this kind of humor.

@seronymus

2 ай бұрын

I wonder why

@hypnotised-clover

9 күн бұрын

Sam and Max, Earthworm Jim, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Pinky and The Brain, all have similar, satirical humour.

@EbonySaints

4 күн бұрын

​@@seronymusIt was a confluence of factors. - Budgets and creative freedom went *way* up from the 70s and 80s to the 90s. While limited animation never stopped surrealism and post-modernism, the fact was that cartoons were cheaply made and a vehicle for selling toys and filling timeslots. You could dedicate a little more time to the writing when you weren't shilling toys every second. - The rise of creator-driven productions. Most people point to _The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse_ as the starting point for this, though the success of other shows like BTAS and R&S showed that you didn't have to have the same old format as usual to be a success. - The culture of the time. The 90s were *really* referential in a lot of ways and obviously, that influence from movies, books and music filtered into cartoons. - Residual 80s backlash. The 80s were fairly straitlaced as far as cultural factors go and the loosening of previous moral taboos as well as a new generation of people tired of all the stale, predictable stuff made a lot of stuff in the 90s have a flippant, "devil may care" 'tude. The 90s were a welcome break from the past and it really shows. The problem was that a lot of future productions took the wrong lessons from the era. The referential comedy became the whole point as opposed to just an enhancer. The edgy-ness went into overdrive in the next decade where everything that pretended to be mature was mostly just crass. The 90s were the celebration kegger for the West for cartoons and a lot of other things. The 2000s were the hangover.

I love Earthworm Jim.

@user-wj8sl5ue1z

3 ай бұрын

Me too

@robotnikcentric64

Ай бұрын

Me three

3:21 Taylor Swift when she needs the tv remote

Its really cool how the 4th wall gag with the budget running out was later used in TAWOG

@Gell-lo

2 ай бұрын

And Chowder

Jim is exactly the kind of hero that the world needs

8:26 Earthworm Jim confirmed prequel to Metal Gear Solid V

Cartoons like this defined my perception of any kind of plot since i was a toddler.

He clearly said whores, not horse. What a guy.

😂😂😂The plot development alarm!!! 😂😂😂

If you think this show didn't care, Freakazoid was much worse.

@kanna-san.

3 ай бұрын

And was amazing for it

@rossnunez3512

3 ай бұрын

Leave those gophers alone you weirdo! Gotta love how he can fly and has super speed, but he travels most of the time by spreading his arms and making airplane noises as he runs.

7:29, 7:45, 7:54, 8:04: Fun fact, this is actually poking fun at the matte paintings from the 1940s Wizard of Oz Movie, as people today nitpick that you can see where their path ends for a particular scene: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKhswdWSe9PKcqg.html

It must've been a lot of fun playing the narrator, getting to be as sarcastic as you want half the time.

I love the Earthworm Jim cartoon, so underrated

Charlie Addler is Professor Monkeyforahead. Now I can die happy.

@robotnikcentric64

Ай бұрын

Lol, you can still hear the Red Guy in his voice (kinda like Dan's Homer)

I also sense A LOT of BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo energy here.

@seronymus

2 ай бұрын

How?

@mesousagaby740

2 ай бұрын

@@seronymus The narrator calling out everything.

@mommalion7028

6 күн бұрын

Oh I forgot about that!!!

The more I hear Earthworm Jim yell, the more I think: "Man, he really does sound like Homer."

this is the stupidest thing i've ever seen and i love it, it's like if you hung the world's biggest lampshade

"what did you mean by kettle drum?" "Don't question me" Legit I'm dead 😂

"it's the plot development alarm" 😂😂

4:10 They actually got away with that kind of scene...

“Of course the worst part about being the narrator is the degrading hula skirt they make me wear.”

Dan Castellaneta's voice is definitely much easier on the ears than Doug TenNapel's.

@paulpavlus6664

Жыл бұрын

Indeed.

@teddybeer6206

10 ай бұрын

Nah. I prefer Jim as a redneck than as a superhero.

@maxpops8427

10 ай бұрын

Not really a high bar

@animfan98

10 ай бұрын

@@maxpops8427 Aw, his normal speaking voice is OK, and his Klogg voice is the stuff of legend! It's just that his Jim voice is a bit...abrasive.

@jeremytung1632

9 ай бұрын

That man was EVERYWHERE in the 90s, here, genie in Aladdin the series, mega volt on darkwing duck, and of course Homer Simpson.

WE NEED A REBOOT!!!!! WITH MANY NEW EPISODES!!!!!!

@teddyroo12

Жыл бұрын

They're trying, but Interplay is stupid

@Sillimant_

6 ай бұрын

I hope not, it doesn't deserve to be subjected to millennial writing and tryhards failing to be funny

@urdimsum7961

3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't work

@pyrolee17

2 ай бұрын

i mean if battle toads can come back why not

@FightingFoodonsFan

2 ай бұрын

I'd settle for a re-airing, so I can watch all the episodes legally.

0:40 I've never seen this cartoon but this is when I realized Jim was voiced by Dan Castellaneta and now I think this might be one of the most underrated series ever solely for its selfaware humour and great voice actor pick

You're not old enough to get monetized? Well I'm glad you can appreciate shows like this one from before your time!

@teddyroo12

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! You can blame ASD!

@genericnoone9610

Ай бұрын

wait if you created this channel in 2013, how old are you then???

@teddyroo12

Ай бұрын

I'm 17.

@genericnoone9610

Ай бұрын

@@teddyroo12 damn...It feels weird to know that people born in 2007 are old enough to vote & drink...(among other things)

0:50 - funny how this was a legit that actually happened. Crazy when cartoons make funny outcomes that the universe just…somehow finds a way…

Too bad the creator basicly hates everything, luckily we might get that new show which looks pretty good Edit: Never mind I just remembered it got cancled

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

Shame, it looked fun

Now I want to see a Narrator-off between Earthworm Jim's narrator and Joe, the narrator from Freakazoid.

"Test Patterns get more viewers then we do." Lmao 😂

What a relatable show.

Behind the Scenes & 4th Wall Lol Homer Jim is best Homer

Feels like the Sam and Max cartoon.

The narrator sounds a lot like the narrator from Dave the Barbarian, which was a similarly 4th-wall-breaking show and had a whole episode where the villain kidnaps the narrator and forces him to read a script where the villain wins.

5:48: Based on that sketch intro from EWJ Special Edition, also cursed front mouth Jim.

Naw, this was the vibe. A lot of "The Tick" vibes Earthworm Jim, The Tick, Freakazoid...

its like if dave the barbarian had licensing

Never had a chance to see this when it was new. Weirdly nostalgic, having played the games (even EWJ 3D, ugh...) Thanks for sharing so more people like me can at least get an idea of what the show was like!^^

One of the few cartoons my dad would actually like watching. 😂

This series was comedy gold.

"And what's a nonce?" I'm not surprised they got away with that joke given this aired primarily in the US, but _oh my god_

Love this show still getting recognition

For those wondering why the humor is so out there, there's in fact two video games of Earthworm Jim. They're pretty obscure now but they were really popular in their time. The cartoon is pretty much on point with the humor of the games though there's no cow launching in any of these clips. If you can get your hands on them you should, they're really fun, and exceedingly out there.

@JBrown1009_1

23 күн бұрын

Not to mention that Earthworm Jim is voiced by Dan Castellaneta (who voiced the Genie in Aladdin 2). I'm getting the Genie's voice out of ol' Jim 😂

This show deserved more episodes.

He voice Robot Devi and homer Simpson.

This show is TOO GOOD.

Clearly the script writers, animators and VAs did :V

4:42 The line, "if it were just a cartoon, could I do THIS!" is one of my favorites in the whole show. The delivery is so good!

I didn't know toe socks were a thing back then.

Jim is my last brain cell.

Pretty sure Earthworm Jim is voiced by the same guy who voices Homer Simpson

One of the funniest showes ever made

Dan Castellaneta did the voice

1:41 Oh, so this is where Svengoolie got that quote from.

As a kid this show was great. Saturday morning cartoons on the WB Network. Men In Black was pretty good too.

That bee got me actin up

Oh my God, "the plot development alarm"

I know I liked this as a kid but I don’t remember it. This, freakazoid and the tick are going to be what I show my too-young kid when he asks for Deadpool. Deadpool at home:

Heck yeah! I was looking for a video essay and all I got was a highlight reel of early 90s satire cartoon taken seriously by a description box and commenters. Good stuff. Feels like there's some kind of meta joke about irony here that would have worked in Anamaniacs or Freakazoid, or even Earthworm Jim

@teddyroo12

Ай бұрын

I wanted to give the title something other than "4th wall compilation" so that's what I went with

@csx00

Ай бұрын

@@teddyroo12 Satire Inception?! Amazing.

3:16 - Christ I can only imagine what he does just to reach for the remote on the other side of the couch XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

I love the Homer Simpson voice actor

@JBrown1009_1

23 күн бұрын

I love the Genie voice actor

The way this show was written, it's way more obviously meant for the adults to find it funny. Most Saturday morning kids aren't going to get fax machine or budgeting jokes

Duckman vibez for kids :)

meta humor at its finest

l love Princess What's Her Name so much 😍❤

I miss this show

'No one on the Earthworm Jim cartoon cared for their jobs.' Same for the asshpole creator of the comic lol

No one is gonna ask why Peter is wearing a bikini? Did he lose a bet? Haven’t seen this show in ages.

@NimhLabs

2 ай бұрын

Peter Puppy is now a trans-icon. Darn the Woke Agenda's usage of Time Machines! xD

@rossnunez3512

2 ай бұрын

@@NimhLabs An actual hilarious woke joke, thank you, the first one to ever make me laugh.

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

​@@NimhLabsi thought we was gay imo

8:33 There. Now, was that so hard?

2:19: So Thought Bubble WHN is Game Canon WHN?

This truly is Dan Castellaneta's best role

Are you kidding? These were the jokes It was a parody show I mean, c'mon The main character is a cybrid earthworm with the IQ of vaseline on toast This train wreck colliding with a bus full of clowns was intended When shows try to be smart and fail, it's shit When shows intentionally be dumb and roll with the stupidity, it's gold

It still blows me away that the creator of Earthworm Jim is now a KZread conservative commentator. This world is as wacky as the show sometimes 😅

@gamechannel1271

2 ай бұрын

From what I can find he makes art videos. I don't see a political react content channel.

@lordfacepalm98

2 ай бұрын

@@gamechannel1271 look up Doug in exile

“Don’t question me.”

I thought this would be a behind the scenes interview type video or a video showing off animation mistakes or even like weird macabre stuff in the background not a random clip show of jokes

Why is Sonic For Hire Earthworm Jim so different from errr.. this

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

What is that?

@colonel1003

2 ай бұрын

@@kanna-san. Jim is much more calmer and less absurd in sonic for hire

Such a great cartoon! 😆😆😆