I hate to sound like a broken record or use outdated clichés, but Adult Swim sure does suck now huh? I also don’t want to live in a world where Tim and Eric are thriving with that abomination of a show and I would have to watch “Aqua Something You Know What It Is.” It’s just a sad state. I don’t think it’s me yearning for the halcyon days of my high school years, but I have sure been wrong before. I don’t think 23 is old enough to be so nostalgic. I forced myself to try and like “Children’s Hospital” and “NTSF: SD: SUV” but it just doesn’t work. I don’t think it’s totally me, because I still love “The Venture Brothers.” Then again that show started almost ten years ago, so maybe it’s a hold over. Oh well, that rant went way too long. I forgot what I was even talking about. We’re going to relive the wonderful little program “The Oblongs.” I think the reason shows like this are considered better by old fuddy duddys like me is because A.) IT wasn’t made by Adult Swim, so it had a better budget. B.) Even though it was weird and had random moments, it doesn’t rely on it entirely to prop up the show. We have proper characters and motives along with a linear story that has a real arc. Suck on that you horrible “12 Oz. Mouse.”
Adult Swim makes me want to do this too.
Bob Oblong is the patriarch of his crazy family and is gosh darn proud of it. He doesn’t see his family as weird; they are unique. Let’s be honest here, even if they were weird it’s not their fault. These poor people live in the valley. Flat-land folk are weird and live by swamps and sewers. Bob’s family is a little peculiar looking, but he takes the cake. He can only take that cake with his mouth because he is only a torso. He has no legs or arms, but he’s a got a noodle full of positivity. He has four children despite likely having his male organs stomped fairly often considering people’s feet are right there. He’s supremely positive and believes his family can accomplish anything. If it weren’t for missing all his limbs, he’d be completely normal. On second thought, maybe he’d be a jerk with limbs because once he almost ran off to be a lifeguard when affixed with mechanical legs and arms. He learned his lesson though and continued loving pickles more than anything.
You're darn tootin'
Excuse me, I meant to capitalize Pickles. That is the name of his darling wife (the woman so dearly smoking and drinking above), who happens to be a former hill person. She had the looks, the money and the altitude. Sadly she had a little bit of rebel in her and fell for a guy with no limbs. It seems like love, but her ambivalence seems to know no bound. She is a chain smoker; she acts very crassly and has to wear a wig. She also has kids that are all freaks, so she’s at least guilty by association.
Bob and Pickles have 4 great kids. It could probably be counted as three considering that their oldest children are conjoined twins.
I’m not sure, but that doesn’t look right. I haven’t watched the show in a long while, so I could be misremembering. They were half slacker/half athlete. You can imagine the hijinks.
There other kids consisted of a little girl with a weird lump on her head. She was stupid and really not important to the plot, so let’s move on to this boy:
This poor boy. He has a funny shirt, one hair and one functioning eye. He’s like the new age Charlie Brown. He’s very forthcoming and wants desperately to not be such a freak. Sadly the cards just aren’t in his favor. He’s has numerous disorders and problems, most of which his idiot parents aren’t able to assist with. He’s got a group of great friends that I can’t stand. There’s the fat one, the “deformed Gretchen Grundler”, the weird Goth and the kid with multiple asses. They all play in a tree house. I hate the fat one so much; I wish she’d have died in that sewer. Right Debbies?
Yes we do!
Basically I wish this show went much further than its exterior. It really doesn’t. They are a bunch of freaks and a bunch of freaky things happen. I’m really not trying to bash it, because it’s a pretty funny show. There is a reason only 13 episodes exist. I personally think they needed more Mayor Johnny “The Mayor” Bledsoe.
OH YEAH!
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