Edit: They teased me by airing a Bebop bumper by accident and I started to edit this. EVIL.
So, I went a long time between having Cartoon Network. Like, 3 years? Sounds about right.
In that time, new (or “new to Cartoon Network”) shows premired, aired all their episodes, and went into perputal reruns. That’s what usually happens. But everything is still New To Me.
On the rare occasion I caught Cartoon Network – on the road, in a hotel, partially in Spanish – two shows caught my eye: Samurai Jack and Cowboy Bebop. I’m not here to sell them to you, because the shows are so good they don’t really need that.
I saw what I guess was the newest Samuari Jack, and then it started to repeat in the afternoon, so I was all over that on my TiVo. It was nice, but since I’d…uh….found other means of getting episodes when I was particularly inspired, but not all of them so I was just waiting my time till the new ones came.
Bebop, I only saw one episode – the meet Ein one – so everything was new. And good. And on a bit late but heck, I wasn’t sleeping anyway. I was kinda sad that they were getting to the last couple episodes but reallllly intersted in seeing (for myself) how everything got resolved. If it got resolved.
So I check my TiVo today for the afternoon Samurai Jack recording, and while the program is listed as Samuari Jack, it certiantly looks a lot like Justice League – a nice cartoon, but not what I was looking for.
Still, I figure they’ll air them all again when they’ve got new episodes to tack on to the end. I thought ‘at least I’ll get to watch Bebop later. Certinally they wouldn’t pull it with just two episodes to go!’
Yea, right. I guess if it’s the 15th time you’ve shown the episodes you think everyone who’s wanted to see them saw them – but then you don’t know the crappy cable companies. Less than happy ending to a lass than happy day, anyway.
[I guess I won’t feel so bad just finding it by other means…]
The moral of this story is that I’m tired but got talked into TiVo-ing Cold Pizza so I’m also insane.
Yeah, Samurai Jack is a good show. The guy who created Samurai Jack, Genndy Tartkosky is in charge of “Clone Wars” which premieres next month.
You should also check out FLCL. It rules.
Of course, my personal favorite of the Cartoon Network shows is “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.”
Corrado