He and George Clinton debate hoods and the “Dance of Sadness”, and he lays down perhaps the greatest comeback of all time, “Nobody cares, Moby” on the house music sensation. He falls in love with Judy Tenuta and marries Bjork. Did I imagine that Space Ghost hosted a talk show?įor a time, the interviews were recorded with other, more normal questions, and Space Ghost’s questions were built around those in order to create a marvelously distorted conversation.
What you were sure you could show a friend to prove you weren’t rambling mad might instead be an infomercial or another Hanna-Barbera rerun. The programming was sporadic it might be on Friday night or it might not. My Man Moltar ran things in the control room, and Zorak, now confined to a prison pod with a keyboard, played the guests in with his band, the original Way Outs. For a scant 15 minutes, Space Ghost, now worn-out and snarky, harassed and hassled guests ranging from Björk to Timothy Leary to Ben Stiller.
#SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST TV#
Like all of the best TV shows - Mystery Science Theatre 3000, anything on Manhattan Neighborhood Network - Space Ghost was one of those strange insomniatic discoveries that must have, at the time, felt like a fever dream. It was revived for the newly created Adult Swim block, with new episodes produced until April 12, 2004.
#SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST SERIES#
Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the first original series on Cartoon Network, premiered April 15, 1994, and ran five years before ending on December 17, 1999. With Andy Merrill, who would go on to voice Brak and other guests, and Jay Edwards, Lazzo came up with the “Coast to Coast” moniker from an early discussion in trying to rhyme words with “Ghost” to create a marathon of the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon for the network. At Cartoon Network, which was then using classic cartoons for its child-aimed programming blocks, producer Mike Lazzo was asked by executives to create a cartoon that would appeal to adults. It’s difficult to remember a time without adult-oriented animation, but MTV found success with Aeon Flux (1991) and Beavis and Butthead (1992). He even invited me to his lava cave to watch CHiPS when I asked, but I couldn’t even drive yet, so space travel was out of the question. It was his official email, on the official Cartoon Network website. The only difference was that I was using my access to the burgeoning information super highway to email Moltar, the oft put-upon director of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, who spent his days in a lava cave watching CHiPS reruns and patching in guests to the main floor monitors to be interrogated by Space Ghost, former super hero turned talk show host. When I got my first school-issued email, I used it, as many girls do, to flirtatiously email boys.
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