Posts with tag the tick
Posted Aug 11th 2008 7:29AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Ask TV Squad, Reality-Free, Stump the King
One day in 2001, I was having lunch with a friend and we were talking about the new fall shows. We discussed shows that we thought weren't going to make it as well as shows we really enjoyed. Towards the end of the meal we started to discuss The Tick and how we were both excited to see the live version that was premiering later in the season. I remember turning to my friend and saying, "Isn't there another show premiering on FOX later in the season?" We couldn't think of which show it was and so went back to discussing The Tick.
The show we were trying to think of was The Bernie Mac Show and five years after The Tick had come and gone Bernie's show had become one of the funniest family sitcoms on television.
Continue reading Stump the King - Bernie Mac
Posted Aug 8th 2008 11:04AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, TV Squad Lists
Let's face it, science fiction on television is always a challenge, and more often than not, these series fail to find a big enough audience to stick around. That's why the year after
Lost hit it big on just minor sci-fi elements, we had three ratings flops at once with
Invasion, Threshold and
Surface. And all three were good, for different reasons. So my question is why did none of them make
Sci Fi Wire's list of the top 10 sci fi shows canceled too soon? Because Sci-Fi Wire liked
Eerie, Indiana better!
Seriously though, while there were some good elements in their list, and I absolutely agree with their number one choice, there were some real problems and omissions as well.
Wonderfalls ranked way too high and
Homeboys in Outer Space didn't even make the list? Outrageous! So I've taken it upon myself to make my own list of
The Top 10 Sci Fi Short-Lived Sci-Fi Shows That Weren't Pulitzer Worthy But Went Great With Popcorn. And I intentionally didn't include any of the shows on their list, because I'm acting like a spoiled brat and I don't want to play with their toys.
Continue reading My Top 10 list is better than Sci Fi Wire's
Posted Aug 6th 2007 6:31PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- 8 Simple Rules... - Season 1
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie - Complete Series
- Charlie Lola - Vol. 5
- Daniel Boone - Season 5
- Darkwing Duck - Vol. 2
- The Dresden Files - Season 1
- Full House - Season 7
- The Hills - Season 2
- Home Improvement - Season 7
- Inside The Actor's Studio - Barbra Streisand
- The Muppet Show - Season 2
- Rome - Season 2
- Roseanne - Season 8
- Saved By The Bell - Hawaiian Style and Wedding in Las Vegas movies
- The Simpsons - Season 10
- Soul Food - Season 2
- The Suite Life of Zack & Cody - Vol. 2
- Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - Complete Series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season 5
- That Girl - Season 3
- The Tick - Season 2
Posted Nov 17th 2006 2:01PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, TV Royalty, Adult Swim, Celebrities, Angel, The Venture Bros.
Lisa Hammer, voice of Triana Orpheus on
The Venture Bros., heads a filmmaking company called Blessed Elysium, which usually makes a lot of wacky, surrealist short films of the German Expressionist persuasion. Her latest project is a feature film called
POX, currently in post-production. The Blessed Elysium team is looking for a bit of help in funds for
POX, so some excellent Ebay auctions have been set up. The TV-related items include this fantastic
Venture Bros. lot, which contains a DVD, picture of Triana, and a few script pages with some Jackson Publick sketches (all items are signed). Hey hey! Perfect holiday gift for your favorite
Venture Bros.-loving blogger friend whose name begins with an "A" and ends with "Nnie".
There are also
some super-special panels from
The Tick comic and a
script from Angel, both signed by Ben Edlund. Oh, and here's a
Vanna White doll. I'm not quite sure what's going on with that.
[via the
Venture Bros. LJ community]
Posted Sep 11th 2006 7:58AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Cable, Late Night, OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, The Venture Bros.
(S02E09) Oh, dear. I was waiting for something to kill the hot
Venture Bros. streak, and, finally, it has come... in the form of a totally random Abe Lincoln ghost.
I guess I really should have known. A few months ago, Jackson Publick posted in his blog that the ninth episode's script was his least favorite. I see why. It didn't feel like a
Venture script. The jokes were relatively dull (and really dated, in some cases), the plot was a little too much like a real boy adventurers' story, and we re-connected with an old character that we really didn't care about (I didn't care for him, anyway).
Continue reading The Venture Bros: Guess Who's Coming To State Dinner?
Posted Aug 29th 2006 8:10AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Arrested Development - Season 3
- Astroboy - Ultra Edition, Set 2
- The Awful Truth - The Best of The Awful Truth
- Criss Angel Mindfreak - Halloween
- Darkwing Duck - Volume 1
- Desperate Housewives - Season 2
- Driven To Win - Season 1
- Flavor of Love - Season 1
- Monty Python's Flying Circus - Personal Best
- Mr. Bean - Best Of
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Collection: Volume 10
- Nip/Tuck - Season 3
- Roseanne - Halloween
- South Park - Season 8
- Survivor: Palau
- Tale Spin - Volume 1
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Volume 5
- The Tick - Season 1
- Will and Grace - Season 5
Posted May 16th 2006 10:03AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation
As I mentioned before,
The Tick animated series is coming to DVD. At the time it wasn't clear what the exact release date would be, and while it's still not absolutely official yet, August 29 seems to be the date that's getting kicked around right now. The series, which aired as part of the FoxKids Saturday Morning Block for thirty-six episodes starting in 1994, featured Townsend Coleman as the voice of The Tick and was based on the short-lived series of comics by Ben Edlund. In all likelihood, Disney will release the entire season eventually. Thanks to Sean for the tip.
Posted Apr 4th 2006 3:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation
I know, I know, this news is a bit old, but stuff slips by sometimes and you have
to catch it later. In this case it was TV Shows On DVD's unofficial annoucement back in January that The Tick,
the 1994 animated series based on Ben Edlund's comic book, will be coming out on DVD this year. Disney, who owns
the rights, have not made an official annoucement, so we'll have to trust TVSODVD's super secret inside sources.
I hate to admit it, but The Tick didn't really impress me all that much, at least not at first. I had been
a huge fan of the comic books long before the animated series came out, and, perhaps unfairly, I had a hard time not
comparing it to the comics. Eventually I stopped making that unfair comparison and began to enjoy the show on its own
merit. Still, I think I prefer the comics more. I suppose some people felt the same way when the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles got animated. It's hard to let go sometimes, but you learn.
Special thanks to vaccenyl, who mentioned this over on my Animaniacs post.
Posted Feb 26th 2006 10:03AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, The Five
Here's a fun game to entertain yourself at home. Take any random object around
the house and imagine its molecules combined with that of a man. Then speak in a deep announcer voice and
make up a TV show about it. For example:
He's half man, half spatula. Despite the cruel world that shuns him he fights a battle against the forces of
evil in his underwater helicopter. He is Spatula Man.
For this edition of The Five we're talkin' about our favorite hybrids. Here's five of mine. As always, share some
of your own.
Continue reading The Five: Hybrids
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