Author: UbiquitousUbiquitous
Date: Dec 22, 2006 07:23
Lengthy postmodern discussions about the drug use in "Scooby-Doo" and the
sexual habits of the Smurfs dominated the public mind long before TimeWarner
acquired the Hanna-Barbera catalogue. It was only a logical move, then, that
TimeWarner's Cartoon Network would devote much of its late-night Adult Swim
programming block ("Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law", "Sealab 2021", and, to
a lesser degree, "Robot Chicken") to taking the old H-B anti-classics and
filtering them through the fine mesh screen of a contemporary ironic eye.
Look here, we've got an old superhero, he's an attorney now, that's pretty
wacky! Check it out, we've turned the straightforward drama of "Sealab 2020"
into angry surrealism! It works to varying degrees of success, primarily
depending upon the individual show's...
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