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Fans of the Adult Swim
dynasty will surely find entertainment and utter delight
in the pure unabashed randomness exhibited in "The Brak
Show" which basically strings itself along like Monty
Python without an actual point. The narrator boasts
"Imagine that it's later now... about two hours!" and
Zorak declares "Come on, let's burn some hair."
Those who loved "Space Ghost
Coast to Coast", though, may find it difficult to keep
watching after the aforementioned strived in being an
anti-talk show, when its spin-off "The Brak Show" tries
to create a rigid and crude storyline that would later
transfer into the more successful "Aqua Teen Hunger
Force."
In the series,
Brak is an adult who lives with his small
father, and homemaker mother, and they try to survive in
the closed in confines of their suburban home, while
characters from Space Ghost re-appear once in a while
for humorous walk-ons.
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stars of yesteryear, Weird Al Yankovic, and
rappers. Though, I could never understand why
audiences often equate really bad animation,
random dialogue, and toilet gags with comedy, I
mean "Brak Show" really doesn't seem to have an
idea of what to do with itself.
"Space Ghost Coast
to Coast" was basically a satirizing of the
cheesy Space Ghost cartoon, and talk shows in
general, inviting C grade (and sometimes A
Grade) celebrities to chat while Space Ghost and
his villains co-existed, but "The Brak Show" is
just a pastiche of gags of dialogue resembling
humor, but never invokes an actual laugh.
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You
can't help but stare in sheer
bewilderment at the eleven to
fifteen minute episodes in which our
characters seem to be delivering
jokes, and we're never sure why it's
supposed to be funny ("Hey Stupid
Bunny, you're stupid, like your
owner Stupidcleese!"--uh, yeah.) and
you'll be even more surprised to
discover that people consider it
rather hysterical.
The best
episode of the set has to be "Brak
Street" in which he learns the
basics of rapping to take part in
the neighborhood rap contest, which
ends in a rap off between him and
his father, but other than that "The
Brak Show" is an endless stream of
weird hit or miss jokes, bad
animation, and it will really only
appeal to those who can endure
series like this or "Sealab 2021."
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Felix Vasquez Jr.
8/20/06
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