Freakazoid on DVD -- yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

Oh hell yes! Warners just released season one of Freakazoid, the best TV cartoon since the Max Fleischer era, on DVD. This is the most demented, hilarious, madcap, witty, surreal, fantastic toon of all time, and now you can get it for the home collection. Yes yes yes! Link (Thanks, Jeff!)

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Antinous

I think that one of the reasons that I read BoingBoing is that your incessant enthusiasm keeps chipping away so effectively at my existential despair.
Colonist

I’ve never seen Freakazoid before, but last night I watched Disney’s The Incredibles and I am amazed by the near complete resemblance to each other. Their outfits are nearly the same, their logo is I instead of F, and they even have the same style of masks.
Wareq

Candlejack rejoic
Minvaren

Super teen extraordinaire…
Freakazoid! Freakazoid!
Dillenger69

Ever since that show I can’t see any other show or movie without noticing how “Toyetic” things are.
GASPACHO

Aaaaah yeah! That guy runs funny. I’m sold!
pepsibookcat

Excited much there, Cory? :)
DataWhat

Wow.
Let me just say that having no knowledge of this show, the comments read like chatter at the insane asylum.

Rave on!
gobo

Hunt hunt hunt, he’s the Huntsman!!

I should add that watching Freakazoid do the longest-ever cartoon spit-take was one of the funniest pieces of animation to grace TV sets.
Takuan

hmmmm….. I wonder… if we sawed off the top of Cory’s skull and scooped out say half? Dried,powdered on the black market….
Antinous

Antinous, how did you post back in time?

I have power that the Dark Lord knows not.
Trent Hawkins

I would scream, but I am at work.

I have been waiting for this to come to DVD for years! Now I just have to wait till it ships and then for Silence of the Hams to come out too.
Ang Snape

Tears of Joy when i saw the dvd . the one i waiting for is when Mor-Ron phones home waiting days . waiting on top of dextor house .
Daemon

Hmm. If you look up Candlejack on the ecyclopedia dramatica, all you get is a blank pa
Nadreck

Now that this and the “Hudson Brothers’ Razzle-Dazzle Show” are out on DVD I can die happy.
Arcadian

Hugbees!
Anonymous

I liked Freakazoid because he was the only Washington, DC based superhero on television!

It made me feel better about my crappy city.
GammaBlog

Thanks for the recommendation, Cory. I’m looking forward to Netflix delivering disc 2 this afternoon.

You have to wonder about the WB’s marketing strategy, airing this at 7AM Saturday morning. It should have been on in the evening. I remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid, and stretching my brain to catch the adult references. That was fun and educational. But Freakazoid takes this to an extreme. It’s 90% parody of stuff relevant to the generation-and-a-half prior to that 7AM, seven-year-old, Saturday morning audience. Maybe that was Spielberg’s idea, to wack out the brains of the kids of the 80′s, to tickle their tender sensibilities, like Jay Ward tickled mine.
Jambe

Wow! I longed for Animaniacs on DVD for some time, and after I got it my next thought was, “let’s hope they release Freakazoid!” All has come to fruition (well, I should mention Fox’s release of The Tick, too, because that made m’heart go pitter-patter as well).

Come to think of it, I wish Nickelodeon (Viacom) would release the Angry Beavers on DVD, too, but that seems quite unlikely. That was such a fun show with much too short a run.

*sigh* I suppose I’ll just have to console myself with Venture Bros Season 3 whenever it comes out.
davegroff

Everybody! You have to watch my favourite episode, the one with Hero Boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlnh1QKcAI
kaiza

Now all I need to do is remember which season Candlejack appea
leebenningfield

Awesome. I’ve been waiting for this ever since Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain started coming out on DVD…
vonpokemon

Oh, hell yes. Sgt. Cosgrove is my hero.
Davin

What will Cosgrove do!?
Santos

I’m in. I await the Lobe.
Anonymous

Wow, I thought I was the only one that watched this series. Haha. I’m gettin this for sure!
edison_carter

I agree with Antinous – however, I have been partial to Samurai Jack for the last couple of years. I suspect not really in the same vein of best-tv-cartoon-style as the Jack.
raisinlove

Now when are we going to see an animated version of Mike Allred’s Madman? Oh wait, people would confuse both ;)
Lobster

Samurai Jack is very good but it’s really a different genre than Freakazoid.

Also, what WILL Cosgrove do!?
Chris Schmidt

Not to go TOO off topic, but speaking of kids shows finally making it to DVD, where’s my Pete & Pete season 3!?
pancake poor

I remember this show because it came out around the time I gave up on Saturday morning cartoons. Saturday mornings stopped being nifty to me after Eek the Cat(the earlier episodes) stopped airing. The Spielberg produced shows never really worked for me. The writing was clever, goofy, and zany, but the sound and look was always a turn off for me. I never looked forward to watching these shows, but I wanted to. I always found this strange because my friends in high school absolutely loved these shows.
Clay

Antinous, how did you post back in time?

More importantly… Want to go see a bear ride a unicycle?
stupidjerk

People still pay for media? Haw haw haw…kids these days…
Emmanuel Goldstein

I think I speak for everyone when I say:

“I can’t go down there!….The whole thing smells like poo-gas”
Santos

@Rasinlove? How. One was funny – the other wasn’t. Allred is too static, and in the end wasn’t even a compelling read. Freakazoid stands proudly with the Tick as a precursor to the wonderfulness that is the Venture Bros. And we shall always cherish it.

You’re one of those snarky people who bitch and moan about Tim Hunter and Harry Potter – aren’t you? You shouldn’t confuse surface appearance with content. A discerning reader will be able to differentiate between both.
Stevezilla

Hugbees!
csixty4

Oh my!

Anyone know the current temperature in hell?
John H.

Cory a Freakazoid fan! I always knew there was some reason I liked him.

It really is an awesome show, and the only think more amazing that it was made in the first place is the fact that it made it into a second season.

WB Animation at the time was a mixed bag. They had hits and misses. Tiny Toons was over-rated. Animaniacs was often excellent, but just as often lame depending on the segment aired… it was like they were afraid to be too cool, so they put in non-starter segments like Mindy and Buttons to stop it from getting too good. Batman Animated was awesome, but it’s hard to believe, now, that they even CONSIDERED making “Road Rovers,” a semi-comedy cartoon about a bunch of humanoid dogs fighting evil in armored vehicles.

Freakzoid is possibly the best thing they did.
zikman

oh man, sweet. I was just youtubing freakazoid the other day for no apparent raisin.
adamlcox

Greatest TV show EVER. Except possibly…no, no, wait, that was a dream. Carry on.
Mousewrites

Joy!

I still find myself humming the theme song. Another to add to my ‘Must have’ list, (though it has cut in line to the top).
Uncle_Max

#11: Probably not gonna happen. According to DVDonTV.com, they even had the box art ready (winter, to go with the summer and fall of 1 & 2), but then they decided to not go forward with it because of disappointing sales. I was pretty crushed when I found out. So everybody reading this go buy season 1 & 2 of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, so one day they’ll complete the collection!

#12: WOULD I?!

I always loved this show, and I’ve had to stick with crappy versions on the internet. I’ll definitely pick this up tomorrow.

Also, if anybody’s interested, Tiny Toon Adventures is being released tomorrow as well. I used to love that show as a kid, but unlike Freakazoid, I’m not sure how well it holds up.
Anonymous

The Fleischers didn’t produce animation for television!
Anyway, welcome back Freaky.
knifie_sp00nie

Scream.