12 oz mouse

http://www.adultswim.com/promos/12ozmouse/

The new animated series on Adult Swim debuted the other night. I lucked into taping it and have watched it a couple of times now. Drawn with a #2 pencil in the style of a 6 year old, it’s the story of an angry drunk mouse.

I’ve no idea if it’ll have the traction of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but I hope so. It’s certainly starting better than the Bob Odenkirk-blessed Tom Goes to the Mayor.

They are running it again Thursday night – or Friday night. I can’t be bothered to check.
The link is to a short clip of the show. Enjoy.

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Mark Mauer likes movies cuz the pictures move, and the screen talks like it's people. He once watched Tales from the Gilmli Hostpial three times in a single night, and is amazed DeNiro made good movies throughout the 80s, only to screw it all up in the 90s and beyond. He has met both Udo Kier and Werner Herzog, and he knows an Irishman who can quote at length from the autobiography of Klaus Kinksi.

12 thoughts on “12 oz mouse”

  1. listen 12.oz mouse kicks fuckin ass it need to be on every fuckin night or at least long enough to come out in a season so at least the few of us who saw it can watch it

    are you drunk

    not drunk enough

    grab me a beer to fuckin funny dude

  3. Joshua makes a good point. I’m not drunk enough. What else does Joshua know about me? That I’m driven by an ever-unfulfilled desire to please my parents? That I have never shaken off the feeling of being that fat smart kid everyone ignored? That I have a book review four weeks past due? That, this very minute, my bowels fill to bursting? (Or burstin, as he might so aptly put it?)

    Eerie.

  4. hey mike – how many degrees does it take before “book report” becomes “book review”?

    and yes, 12 oz mouse is damn damn funny

  5. “hey mike – how many degrees does it take before “book report” becomes “book review”?”

    One more than you have.

  7. all you adult swim fans should buy danger doom’s the mouse and the mask. apart from being an excellent hip-hop album in its own right it features extended appearances by many adult swim stars. my personal favorite is brak and zorak at the end of the third track. michael, you should add this to your list.

    and here’s the link to the cd on amazon. on sale too.

  9. see how my post about music is actually connected to a conversation about television? please follow my lead in this (and all other) matter(s).

  10. Didn’t Mark post on Wonder Showzen? I’ve tried searching with various versions of that title, in various conjugations, and on “mauer” and “Mark” (in various conjugations), but no luck. So…. I’m hesitant to compare to Aqua Teen, which I find superior to but also very different from Showzen, but I will note: the latter is not as funny, nor as consistent.

    What it is is more consistently, caustically satirical. And there’s the key distinction: ATHF blasts form and convention and character, and achieves a sublime surreality. Showzen, for all its formal innovation, is a dead-eye parody of various kinds of children’s programming. Its focus is brutally nihilistic. Imagine if Lenny Bruce and Samuel Beckett had a kid: this is the show that kid would watch.

    I admit: I get bored with many of the cartoons; the skits with the puppets sometimes drag. Some jokes flag, or fall flat. But when it rocks, it rockets. There’s a recurrent “Beat Kids” segment which puts some tyke on the street with a camera, asking horrible and/or horribly inappropriate questions of people–it never fails to amaze me. Ditto the puppet (Clarence) and his exquisite ability to bug the shit out of passersby.

    Much to recommend here–often very, very funny. Also (and in its favor) the most gloriously blasphemous attack on the omnipresent American babbling about God.

  11. I’ve not seen any Wonder Showzen; it’s on a cable channel that requires rockets going into space and ejaculating satellites into orbit. I already spend a fortune in tinfoil to cover my skull – You think I’m going to install a satellite dish and ASK them to spy on me?

    I do however seriously miss Sifl n Olly. Liam Lynch’s Jesus is Magic was sterile and flat. Bring back Chester (He’s a flower)
    http://www.najical.com/s-o/season1/chester/chester-fav-fablover.mp3

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