Happy 100th, Bob.

I remember watching Freakazoid dubbed into another language. All the pop-culture references were lost in translation which made the whole show just weird.

Anyway, I did catch quite a few eps in their original language and became a big fan... totally missed the internet prophecy, though

Back when the WB was worth watching.
Historia, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Pinky & The Brain, MiB:The Cartoon, original Pokemon.

Oh man Freakazoid, Having only just watched it maybe a year or two ago now It didnt even occur to me just how out of place that kind of comedy would be in the 90's.
I mean hell, the only reason I started watching it was BECAUSE of internet forums and such, so man kinds slow downfall in to self-initiated madness had already begun so to speak. I remember vividly the old candlejack threads, thinking to myself "I wonder where this jo

Holy crap, I just realized this thanks to your ending, but Candlejack is basically SLENDER! The show even predicted THAT particular meme some 17 years or so in advance!

Scream.

Thank you Bob. Freakazoid still is one of my most beloved shows until today. Good to know that it's out on DVD.
I always liked The Lobe more than Candlejack though. Especially because

Never realized how the show basic was what the internet was going to be 10 years in advance. 100 episodes and yet no Sonic Satam episode, what's up with that?

I don't get it.
Who's candl

Maybe they didn't predict what the internet was going to be like, but rather, what the internet was already shaping up to be at the current time. As I remember having the internet around that time, back when it was crappy geocities websites about people's lives or pictures of their cat.
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My god, blogs, can I haz.... IT HASN'T CHANGED AT ALL!

Why did you do a Candlejack joke by cutting off mid sentence in his name, everyone knows you have to say the whole thing or he wo

Freakazoid in and itself was a mixed bag for me, there was some American humour (which I loathed then and still do now), some fourth-wall breaking (which only now I appreciate), and some genuine insanity which has forever shaped me as a person.

But it paled in comparison to The Mask, who, for all the wejie-based jokes, still had more than enough insanity to make it a decent programme for children. Also, it had TIM CURRY as a villain, which is one of the best combinations!

The only parody of the Internet that comes close to Freakazoid are the trolls and (2 other characters) from Homestuck, which is a more intentional parody of the Internet and its stereotypes. These characters are a parody of specific parts or users of the Internet, while Freakazoid is the Internet as a whole.

Well, now I have some new things on my "to buy list". Though I'll be a little bit of a nitpicking jerk and say you used the Candlejack meme wron

I suspect the creators were at least somewhat aware of the "Internet culture" that was emerging even then. There are some Internet memes referenced even now that date back to the Usenet era. Heck, the term "spam" was born out of a Usenet meme that was a reference to Monty Python. And as for the creators' personal experience with those proto-freakazoids... well, just ask Tress MacNeille why she refuses to voice animal characters anymore. Yeah. It's exactly what you think.

The Tall Nerd:
now that i think about it , dude has a point, way ahead of his time freakazzoid was a major troll.

He even has the hair for it!

Call me supersticious, but I actually never dared to type that guys name. You know, from the end of the video.

The character i remember the most was that big fat alien guy but i don't know his name in english.

Can we stop it with all this nonsense? I mean, why are lines being cut off? Because of a character in a TV show from the 90s? That's so silly! There's no way saying 'Candle Ja--

I always loved Sgt. Mike Cosgrove and his "Cut it out" and everyone would just stop. Where are all the Escapists going? Candlejack, Cut it

Justified for the the 100th special. I wish you could of done a multipart episode.For anyone wanting to see the whole thing with CaveMan go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHDH6oIv-2o&feature=relmfu

I love that you did this episode, just wish you did more.

Though I think the episode Handman sums up the internet as a whole.

I didn't get the reference at first, but than I remembered Candlejack! Good joke, Bo

I didn't liked Freakazoid back then. I was little and stupid, I had other interests back then (don't remember clearly, but may had to do with Power Rangers, Dragon Ball and/or Ninja Turtles), it was mildly amusing to say the least, but it was just so... random.

Granted, I now love random humor, ponies and internet memes (and pictures of cats), I think I've (childishly) grown up enough to fully appreciate the show, I'll definitely check it out once again.

As much as I like this series, I really hope that the Candlejack ending doesn't mean that this series will end up like The Game Over...

Bob, you got me right in the nostalgia. Now I need to rewatch at least season 1. Bare minimum for the Hula Girls gag.

And Candle Jack is right, we're not a very br

I'm of the opinion that the show got better in the second season because it dropped the sketch comedy routine and stuck to more story centric episodes. If it didn't do that, we never would have seen Freakazoid team up with Leonard Maltin and Henry Kissinger to fight Tim Curry.