Axe Cop getting Animated series

I was thinking it would last the whole hour.

Speaking of that, I really hope we get an hour or even thirty minute long special to adapt Bad Guy Earth or Axe Cop Gets Married. While parts of them have been used in other episodes, the overall plots (Bad guys turn everyone on Earth evil while Axe Cop is a fugitive from the law, and well Exactly What It Says on the Tin for Axe Cop Gets Married) seem too big/epic to be cut up or fit into 11 minutes.

Tonally, Major Lazer especially would fit well with Axe Cop. However with the show seemingly running on a mandate that it can't get more mature than Malachai would personally want it (like making sure the violence sticks to same "kid fighting with action figures" rules the comics do because Malachai freaked out when he saw a fan film of Axe Cop that had realistic blood from people's heads getting chopped off) I'm not sure how they'd get around Major Lazer's drug themes and swearing.

edited 9th May '15 8:46:18 AM by IHOP

Well, they probably wouldn't involve the recreational drug use of those other shows, at least.

That was funny how right when I was sure they would never be able to use Ralph Wrinkles, they threw him into that one scene with no explanation just to make the battle cries a little less incomplete, and I'd always wanted to hear Ken Marino speak that line in a pinch, even if there was no time to transform him to use the others. So, yeah, Ralph is a talking dog with robots that probably should have aided the sand people in the previous episode.

I suppose I have to agree with the Bubble Blabber review that the Alabaman mummy was interesting enough that they didn't really need to graft the Every Man concept onto him, although it was fun to see and I liked how it was set up by calling Rooster "half man, half nothing", and everyone falling apart from getting their souls sucked out was plenty disturbing. I also agreed that Grey Diamond probably should have gotten a new power rather than just borrowing Axe Cop's ax, like that hands-into-swords thing Gray Diamond had in the comics, but it's still cool that the diamond gave him a super suit and immunity to someone else using it for soul-sucking, and I like to say that just doing Sparkling Wide Pressure HARDER is good enough too. And if he ever claimed to have a giant brain like in the comics, that must have been fraudulent too if that was the reason for wearing that traffic cone in that rabbit episode, unless it was to suppress some uni-powers I don't know about.

Around the beginning of the "Professor Jones" scenes, I noticed that Hulu's "high" quality wasn't enough to be able to read that one kid's shirt said "SOAP BOX RACER". At least they've caught up on closed captions. Their "Taxi Cop" captions are the same ones that still mention the missing song!

So I see that tomorrow's episode must be the actual President of the World adaptation...

Aww, no one wanted to talk about what might have been the funniest episode of this season so far? Mainly it was funny just how many things they rushed into to compress the story, so you get the whiplash of learning them a bit after-the-fact. And I guess it was kind of funny to fake-out that the show was High School USA, because wasn't that the only ADHD show that didn't get renewed? Then you have making Flute Cop too smart for his own good... Who's Maurice though? I wanted to see Maurice!

So I spent this morning trying to narrow down who might have voiced Ralph Wrinkles from that one line he barked in "Mark Frankenstein". We've got Todd Barry, Rob Huebel, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Patton Oswalt, and Tyler The Creator reprising roles from previous episodes. Wikipedia says Joe Unger played the policeman from "When Night Creatures Attack" and the farmer from "28 Days Before", so now I'm sure he's doing the same voice for the diamond guardian from the prologue. It also says Clancy Brown plays "Soldier", by which I'm guessing they mean the miner who says "Cut through him if you have to" in Clancy Brown's bad-guy voice? The museum curator sounds like the sort of bit part that ADHD editor James Atkinson plays. I see Dwight Yoakam is mainly known for country music, so maybe he would be spotlighted as the voice of Lord Diamond. If all that's correct, then someone must be pulling double duty somewhere, but Ralph Wrinkles' voice seems like the wrong kind of growly voice for Clancy Brown, who would either sound deeper or sound more like Mr. Krabs.

While double-checking what James Atkinson sounded like, I noticed that Repossession Man from the Lucas Brothers episode "DDT" had a voice like Ralph Wrinkles, but IMDB says he was voiced by Beck Bennett, who wasn't in this one, while James Atkinson is supposed to have played "Email Voice"—so do they mean The Stinger then? Oh and I found a Facebook update that announced a few of the voice actors when the show was new, and a comment guessed that Patton Oswalt would play Ralph, but I've never heard Patton Oswalt do a voice like that! Oh well, maybe he'll be in another episode. In the process of all that searching, I managed to spoil myself on the fact that Kristen Schaal plays God in tonight's episode. I might just edit any thoughts I have on that into this post later.

EDIT: Okay, maybe it was actually more distracting to have Mr. Chicken-Chicken Slice sound like Jack McBrayer and to have yet another Clancy Brown character. And it's funny how in a series that clones characters so often just to make crowds, the devil didn't get to use his cloning trick from the comic, but you could argue that was a method of comic book Padding. Eh, so where do they go next after credits that have nothing underneath them?

edited 30th May '15 12:36:07 AM by BagofMagicFood

Tonight's episode was good. I like how Axe Cop has gone from his month being a birthday to every day being it. The only criticism I have is that they left out the "But I have video footage of Gobber Smartist giving birth to me" "Well... I can't explain that" from the comic. Also, I thought it was a huge missed opportunity to not have Malachai or even Ethan voice God.

And now that I notice how many voices Clancy Brown has been doing for this season, I find this interview where he mentions getting into the Axe Cop comic books.

So "Baboons Rising" was the one written by the Nicolles, eh? And here I thought the rest of the writing team was just fixated on random animal wars. That episode reminds me that I can't always tell when Axe Cop's being a Magnificent Bastard or just a Bastard. Now did Megan Mullally quit, or what? Who's the new voice of Anita, Tara Strong? (I see IMDB and Wikipedia are crediting her with "Refugee Woman", but I thought that would have been Maria Bamford.)

edited 7th Jul '15 4:26:09 PM by BagofMagicFood

Boy did this series disappear.

I was looking for a list of all of the ridiculous powers Axe Cop's gained/invented over the course of the first two seasons. I don't think such a list exists. I know of:

• Axe Cop Fire
• Axe Cop Soul Kick
• Axe Cop never pooping because his body uses 100 percent of everything he eats
• Axe Cop never sleeping because he's Axe Cop
• Axe Cop having the ability to chop the heads off of creatures much larger than himself

Man, ADHD disappeared without anyone caring. Goes to show that fox can't make anything without it imploding on itself.

I do miss seeing it every Thursday. But The Simpsons and Archer do help to fill the void, if only a little.