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Last year, Barnes and Nobles had a "Buy One Boxed Set and Get One Free" and I ended up buying Home Movies on a whim. This is an amazing boxed set. I love this stuff. Melissa Barin Galsky, H. Jon Benjamin, and Brendon Small make me smile every time I hear them on cartoon.
Recently, I've learned that you can download Melissa Galasky and H. Jon Benjamin's latest foray into animation called "O'Grady" http://www.the-n.com/ntv/shows/ogrady/video/index.php?lineup=6141390 as well as their Adult Swim show "Lucy, Daughter of the Devil" http://www.adultswim.com/index2.html and I have done nothing but watch these shows back to back.
O'Grady is such a wonderful show. I think the best way to describe this show like an animated and much smarter version of Saved by the Bell with a surrealist look. And it is helpful that O'Grady is written by very intelligent people that are writing not to kids, but to adults. It reminds me of Home Movies, where the intended audience was adults and not children. There's some brilliant voice cameos from Conan O'Brien and Amy Pohler that make me laugh out loud. And H. Jon Benjamin is great as a female German Exchange student named Iris.
Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, is starting to grow on me. The animation isn't what one would normally associate with Soup2Nuts, but the story definitely fits with a Soup2Nuts production. Jesus is a David Blaine DJ. The Devil wears Cosby sweaters and gets freaked out by his daughter's sexual nature. Melissa Galsky is the anti-Christ in cute raver gear. This show is growing on me, but the improv seems to get lost in the 3-D animation. It feels stiffer than most of the Soup2Nuts productions (no squiggle-type vision) but I think that the animation will get better with time.
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