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Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and the Birth of the Weird (2016)

Any “weird” show on the air today has this brilliantly weird Adult Swim comedy to thank.

Episodes always appeared in sporadic bursts, and even after they stopped, suddenly Space Ghost would pop up in an ad on Adult Swim to interview Zoe Saldana for Avatar, or Steve Nash while saying the words “Vitamin Water” a few times. The closest Cartoon Network got to adult programming in its nascent days was showing reruns of the All in the Family rip-off Wait ‘Till Your Father Gets Home. Working with Andy Merrill (later known as the voice of Brak, a former Space Ghost villain turned childlike pest), the two devised a relatively cheap concept for a very unusual kind of show.

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