Space Ghost Coast To Coast Explored - World's 1st Cartoon Talk Show, Classic That Defined Brilliancy

[@TimSchnack]

Great to see some love here for SGCTC! In the 90's, I worked in video post-production and was the Assistant Editor (Edit Assist) on this show in the mid 90's. In fact, the episode "Surprise" held a birthday gift to me from the Cartoon Network team: "Holy Tim Schnack! You guys are worse than payroll!"

[@janedock3126]

that's awesome what was a favorite episode to edit or help edit?

[@Captain1nsaneo]

"The tapes are then put in a magical closet for 3 magical days. After that, the videos go... somewhere. But that's not important."

[@Ghost-rb5tg]

And guess who's the schmuck who's credited with editing it? -- MF DOOM

[@thesocialmediagame]

don't let us hanggin' Tim !

[@Natsoc1488]

Please tell us more. That is AWESOME!

[@davenewton4862]

C Martin Croker was also animation director for the show. He had never done professional voice work before (just animation), and wound up being the last minute choice for Zorak and Moltar's voices after Herve Villechaize, who was going to do their voices, committed suicide.

[@Maw0]

R.I.P to the both of them.

[@jtgazaway1617]

Yeah, but he did do the possum at Stone Mountain lasers.

[@thesocialmediagame]

what way to start a show, hey OG actor off'd himself, so you got the rol, congratulations

[@rvelazquez1986]

Space Ghost the hero: meh Space Ghost the talk show host: legendary

[@soulessdarkangel]

I know the show is out of print but this show deserves a release on blu ray.

[@staceyanderson3634]

I still have my Space Ghost Coast to Coast action figure with his interview desk, seat, interview cards, and coffee cup! I love it so much, but telework leaves me without a desk to display it on. I'll never part with it!

[@Maw0]

Fun fact: Eric Andre was inspired by this show and once asked Mike Lazzo about this show, and which he responded "That show is dead to me." He wouldn't even be sitting comfortably in retirement right now without this show smh.

[@phily-hu5pr]

Fun fact dude we know more than your you will ever know we don't need your opinion you must be a lonely loser

[@wettoaster.]

I was watching the episode with Old Kentucky Shark and all I could think was that it seemed like a bit Eric Andre would do

[@Jared_Wignall]

This is the best show ever. One of the most influential and yet quite underrated shows ever. Having over 100 episodes, 10 seasons, not the 11 Adult Swim says these days as they’ve done a bad job of putting episodes in their proper place such as the season 4 finale now being placed as the season 5 premiere and the last two episodes of season 8 now being labeled as season 9 when in fact you can actually tell what episodes fit with each season and those last two fit with episodes of season 8 especially when you see how spotty season 8 had episodes released throughout 2003. It makes sense how they’d finish that season by having some more the following year and even then they stopped short as it was cancelled in April 2004. And while Dreams and Live at the Fillmore fit with the episodes made in 2003, Joshua is obviously the last episode of the 4th season, but it seems like for that one because that episode came out in 1998, while the other episodes of that season came out in 1997, they seem to put Joshua in with season 5, which is wrong and the only reason that episode was in 1998 was because season 4 is the only season to have 25 episodes and had an episode every week for a good portion of the year compared to the normal season before and after where the number is anywhere from 7-15 episodes. You can tell how much every season has a particular feel to it and Joshua ends the feel of Season 4 just like Live at the Fillmore ends the feel of season 8. Unfortunately for the show, I think the reason this rearranging of episodes has happened is due to how Mike Lazzo doesn’t really care about Space Ghost anymore and while he’s since retired from Adult Swim, because he doesn’t care about it then I guess those at Adult Swim and people behind listing the episodes just don’t care either. But anyway, I think it’s amazing to see how long the show lasted, especially when its first run was on Cartoon Network, the Adult Swim block for its second run and GameTap’s video section for its final run and how its sense of humor formed many of the early Adult Swim shows when it first became a block. The spin-offs it had, Cartoon Planet , The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law were and still are very entertaining to watch. This show was one of the first shows I remember seeing and being a kid from the 90s, it really helped in forming my sense of humor. The voice actors were incredible and I wish George Lowe, C. Martin Croker and Andy Merrill got more opportunities to expand their talents on other non-Adult Swim oriented projects after Space Ghost ended or have better luck getting other stuff off the ground for themselves being part of Adult Swim. I remember George Lowe once said in an interview at a convention that there were like 50 episodes that were recorded, or at least interviews filmed and perhaps had some of them where George and Clay got to record lines for episodes, yet they never came to be as the network just stopped Space Ghost after it’s third revival. Sorry for the long comment, but thank you for the video, it’s really amazing. Keep up the great work!

[@theChilest]

This comment is biblical. Good work!

[@forestgrumpy119]

Where do I got to watch all the seaso s i only watched like 5 of them and its hard to find the rest

[@theChilest]

@@forestgrumpy119 HBO Max has almost all episodes.

[@kottonmouthking721]

HBO Max has all the episodes from the first 8 seasons I believe..... that's where I've been watching🌌👻

[@danielbloomquist9810]

Now there's a Des Moines fella doing it right. Well put, Jared.

[@voldosmith]

Space ghost, bird man and sea lab are the 3 pillars of adult swim, love the fact that I watched them on live tv :)

[@Maw0]

What about ATHF and The Brak Show?

[@dextervortexsungte5348]

@@Maw0 you don't get it. those three were from the 60's and remake the comedy shows version. so why include ATHF?

[@Maw0]

@@dextervortexsungte5348 OH. I just thought he meant the classics.

[@hungrytervigon]

Same

[@jtgazaway1617]

This show never would have been what it was without C. Martin Croker (aka Clay). You will HEAR the voice of Zorak and Moltar but you SEE everything else he did including the bulk of the animation and a major contributor to the the set design. The round keyboard was also his idea. He not only served as animation director but he made that "planet" you see during the opening. It's made from all sorts of paper but mostly expansible polyurethane foam. What is commercially known as "Great Stuff" at your local Home Depot. If I remember correctly, they were actually pissed off it cost them $150 to make.

[@NoahSpurrier]

It was impressive the stars they got to agree to be on this series.

[@jamalvargas6146]

Now That's My Childhood This Show Was My life back in the 1990's RIP C. Martin Crocker

[@calvingrondahl1011]

I watched Space Ghost as a teenager in the 1960s. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was a brilliant upgrade, animation on the cheap. Like Star Trek the budget went up eventually.

[@damianstarks3338]

This takes me right back to my childhood god I miss the 90s.

[@Ravuun]

I was 18 in 1994, and I looked forward to Space Ghost every Saturday night. Getting to watch adult swim evolve over the years has been amazing!

[@Sv_vic]

Who knew that this show would end up giving us Adult Swim ! I would go to a friend’s house to watch this back when it started , it sucks we didn’t get more .

[@spaceghost3941]

How dare you forget to mention that I'm also the most handsome space hero in all of the universe!!

[@williamcrowe2576]

I was first introduced to the show's concept via an after-the-movie cast interview featurette on the VHS tape of The Mask.

[@black_hol]

:0

[@shainewhite2781]

They had Tommy Wiseau as a guest to premiere the movie THE ROOM on Adult Swim, in 2009, 2010, and 2011, until 2012, where they showed the first 15 minutes of the movie then switched back to Anime for the remainder of the night.

[@southbeachtalent]

Tim and Eric got Tommy to be in a sketch called "Pig Man" as well!

[@bevrosity]

criminally underrated show. I'm always sad when no one gets my space ghost references.

[@seanmcmillan472]

I loved Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Such a great concept having a Super hero host a late night talk show

[@foomp]

3:16 Wow that hit deeper than it should have. 30 damn years ago... I'm old as shit.

[@jmill7928]

my favorite episode was the one with macho man interviewing raven symone

[@WowbaggerTheInfinitelyProlonge]

For me, Brak was essential to making the show great. Or as he likes to be called, El Brakiachi.

[@Makoto03]

This was fantastic video on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Loved this show as a kid. I first saw it on Adult Swim. I had no idea it started all the way in the 90s. It feels like an Adult Swim style show before that block started.

[@thecianinator]

I love how you explain the way video editing works and how what people say is taken out of context on TV. I know you're talking about how space goes to takes things out of context to make it absurd, but literally all television does this, and you explained it really well.

[@TheMack1993]

My favorite cartoon show in the 90's🐐💯 Space Ghost Coast to Coast

[@deadeyedarwin]

I have just as many memories of Cartoon Planet.

[@terrencecarter1153]

I loved this show and Space Ghost is still the best talk show host ever

[@danielt.8573]

Man, I miss the 90s.

[@migzydrift]

Bob Costas. “Chambraigne” episode, was my all time favorite. The one with Carl the talking brain 🧠

[@migzydrift]

“Chambraigne. It’s shampoo, for your brain!” 😂🤣

[@Hotcommodity24]

i'm 21 and in love with space ghost

[@Ironcorgi2]

What made space ghost brilliant was it used existing animation and mostly dialogue to make awesome comedy. It was truly original. It moved other shows like Harvey Birdman and venture bros. It practically built adult swim from the ground up

[@cadeevans4623]

Classic stuff right here this is great loving it

[@edhager77]

I loved this show! It was so good!!

[@kelseysvenson8544]

Space Ghost taught me English.

[@xune2316]

Brak is the best!!!

[@georgekirby7150]

All hail Brak!

[@black_hol]

brak brak brak brak brak brak

[@Stoned420Guru]

Adult swim always ahead of the curve, I remember the premiere of Fullmetal alchemist before it got big by weeaboos.

[@EasterIslander13]

I was a huge zorak and and didn't know he had a last name. Must have been revealed in brak show or cartoon planet I didn't watch them

[@daleday3902]

Do one on sea lab 2021

[@Maw0]

Man, before Harry Goz died, that was some great stuff.

[@Reviewer2016]

Please tell me the brak show is coming soon?

[@Maw0]

That's not happening even if C. Martin Croker was still alive.

[@Reviewer2016]

@@Maw0 figured as much I was more hoping this channel would talk about the show.

[@Maw0]

@@Reviewer2016 OH! Ok. Yeah, I would like to see that too. Such an underrated show.

[@Reviewer2016]

@@Maw0 agreed

[@thezenitsufan1249]

Zorak is best character

[@elh7179]

Space ghost is like iron man they both started mcu and adult swim

[@HeyItsStephx]

SAY SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST MORE PLEASE

[@NewportBox100s]

This show is an absolute classic!

[@brunnen1]

was it this show or a different one with the mantis guy got stuck in a vent

[@Floweramon]

Yes it was this one, it was the episode Flipmode

[@BootuInc]

You gave Brak second billing? Over Moltar?! Can't even pronounce Metallis or Tanzit right... lots of weird, weird stuff in this video said super confidently

[@snager80]

it also sounds like someone just copy-pasted 3 or 4 different articles and read them all back to back. how many times is this person going to tell us what space ghost is and rephrase the idea that they used live action interviews as if this is new information?

[@mattchew6426]

Classic late night TV...

[@brianban110]

IDK if I trust current Warner bros or adult swim but I'd like to see a action series based on the hanna Barbara cartoons not just space ghost.

[@lifeisoverated81]

I'll never forget the 1st time I saw this show. It was right around the time I started smoking weed, in my late teens. My life's never been the same since. Also, I still like to watch Adult Swim when I get high.

[@janwright7162]

The Greatest Talk show host in the Last 50 years

[@johnnyreis6899]

8:48 should be Sealab 2021

[@Otokichi786]

Space Ghost is not extant; Morbo the Conqueror is your host now! (Do ya think Disney will bring him back?)

[@seanmcmillan472]

Do a video on Black Dynamite; The animated series

[@deshawnedwards6412]

Can y'all do Judy Ken Sebben aka Birdgirl from Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and Birdgirl please?

[@Maw0]

Only if we're talking about Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and not the Birdgirl series.

[@kevinalford]

I like this video, but how did you mispronounce so many names from a TV show?

[@johnnyreis6899]

Wow, I had no idea Moltar was the first host of Toonami! Before my time I guess 😂

[@rexd_kin6850]

I had forgot, but yes he was the original host. It was a really smooth transition now that I think about it lol

[@MrCREWCRUSHIN95]

VOILÀ is a french word. It is pronounced "Vwa-La". It is NOT pronounced "Vy-Oh-La"

[@RRaquello]

I think he did that on purpose as an inside Hanna-Barbera joke. It's from the early HB cartoon "Super Snooper and Blabbermouse". One of Snoop's characteristics was misusing and mispronouncing words and as one of the recurring ones he'd say "viola" instead of "voila". Snoop was based on the character Archie from the old radio show "Duffy's Tavern", and the Snoop's characteristic murder of the English language was taken from Archie. So this joke goes way back, to the origins of Hanna-Barbera, and beyond to radio.

[@yeeaahBUDDY]

LOL that's hilarious that you didn't realize it was on porpoise

[@jamesthompson3023]

this show is responsible for most of the things wrong with me and would not have it any other way this cartoon planet the Simpsons sea lab athf and south park are were i got my sense of humor from also monty python movies and show helped a bit

[@Maw0]

Love how Cartoon Planet is thrown into the mix with all those other raunchy shows.

[@bluebaron6858]

So why is this okay but not thundercats roar?

[@omega7045]

Classic

[@daleday3902]

Do home movies also

[@michaelarmstrong6483]

Why don't they make a movie space ghost ?

[@Harrytraegtklettschuhe]

It was a great show

[@jonathanlochridge9462]

This kind of reminds me of fetch but for adults?

[@PuddingRadSkin]

Yo what that's my art in the thumbnail

[@PuddingRadSkin]

Literally what the hell man

[@yeeaahBUDDY]

@@PuddingRadSkin Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally Literally

[@Jws20]

Copyright claim the video

[@mzaite]

Oona-unga-chawa-neiha!

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@damaniqphillip2756]

Nice

[@kookadams85]

Cartoon Planet was THE BEST. All hail Brak! 🗽

[@younglickhitta]

Spaceghostpurrp

[@jeremyhall2727]

I loved this show. It grow on me; at first I hated it 🤷🏾

[@kvme1548]

Have a drink for everytime he says “space ghost coast to coast” 😅

[@erictheblue7256]

Very few shows make me laugh like SG-CTC. The only caveat is that to truly appreciate the satire, you would have to have watched the original Hanna-Barbera series as a child. I guess I lucked out! 😁

[@dcnascarboy0514]

I'm a hardcore Marvel guy, but I'll make an exception with SGCTC

[@glassGPT]

Boont or poont

[@DS-zp8dc]

Who’s the hot chick with the accordion?

[@doubleplusdanny]

Weird Al

[@jtgazaway1617]

Judy Tenuta. Sorry that took 5 months but I was trying to remember.

[@viktormota9517]

Crack a window will ya