I remember once when I was a teenager turning on the TV at like 2 in the morning on a Saturday and being treated to Adult Swim’s Sealab 2021 for the first time. Along with the rest of their line up around 1999-2003. It was fucking weird as shit. But hilarious.
I can still hear the theme song…
Adult Swims programming from the exact same time you mentioned helped shape me into who I am now, lmao. What an awesome time for TV. I can remember sneaking downstairs to the TV to put on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I didn’t “get it” but I was very aware that I liked that type of dry humor.
Space Ghost is also how I discovered Triumph the Wonder Dog.
“If by ‘worked with’ you mean ‘banged up the ass’ then, yes, I worked with Lassie.”
“You can say that? Huh. Well, I too, once banged a dog up the a-”
“How was I supposed to know we’d be taken off the air?!”
Didn’t Space Ghost Coast to Coast predate Adult Swim?
The Teddy Perkins episode of Atlanta had me wondering what the hell was going on in a hilarious way even though the episode was creepy.
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
The Who’s Tommy Pinball Wizard. I was expecting some cool music, and pinball. Maybe something like The Wall. Nope, What I got was Uncle Eddy and the Acid Queen.
Biosphere (2023).
Watched it because I’m a fan of doomsday scenarios. The former president of the United states starts spontaneously growing a vagina and uterus because ‘life uuuh, finds a way’.
I won’t wreck the rest of the plot but this movie took a fucking wild turn and left me sitting there the whole time going WTF!
Beef. What a ride.
The Room (2003) is without exaggeration the worst movie ever made. It’s so bad that you can’t even enjoy it ironically. Someone else made a much better movie (The Disaster Artist) about how The Room ever got made in the first place. Because that will be the first question on your mind after watching it.
Hbomberguy made a great argument (in the middle of a video about CTRL+ALT+DELETE, weirdly enough) for one reason to… find value in The Room. Not like it necessarily, but maybe come away from it having learned something. The Room is almost definitely a twisted reproduction of a real relationship that Tommy Wiseau actually had, and therefore you can watch the movie from the angle of “how terrible people like Tommy Wiseau twist the stories of past relationships to fit their narrative”. Of course, you also have to parse through Tommy’s absolute insanity to get to the message he’s accidentally making about himself, but still.
And yet, there are entire crowds of spoon-throwing and football-tossing fans who gather at showings of the film regularly.
It’s not the first bad movie to attain cult status. It’s just the worst.
I’ve seen it about 10 times. It keeps getting worse, lol.
Most recently, Triangle Of Sadness
The Taste of Tea. Japanese stuff can be pretty weird, but I had absolutely no idea what that film was about.
Belladonna of Sadness and maybe Angel’s Egg.
I’ve seen weirder obscure experimental non-anime films I’ve forgotten the titles of. If I remember, I’ll add it here.
Cat Soup
Midsommer
This movie disturbed me for days. What the actual fuck did I watch??
Yeah, I was surprised nobody mentioned it before me. I think part of it is how they ease you into it.
You go from thinking “oh this is some nice cinematography, seems like they’ll do some interesting character development” to suddenly realizing… well I’m not even sure how to explain it. It gets weird.
It had a weird fandom as well. All you get to see is a cult easing the protagonists into their cult stuff, but some people were full “yeah, female empowerment!” I mean, I get it, but they basically fell for the cult rethoric.
Thankskilling
You’ve heard of A movies. You’ve heard of B movies. But have you ever heard of Z movies? No? Then Thankskilling is for you! (watch at your own risk, I am not liable for the mental, emotional, and other damage that will occur).
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Alright. That part did make me laugh. I’ll give you that.
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The green knight
The Lighthouse. I still don’t know what the hell happened.
The Eric Andre Show
