Earthworm Jim cartoon

So a friend of mine got me hooked on this when he was playing some episodes during an art stream. I had the hardest time finding the DVD at a decent price, but I finally got it off Amazon for only $15.

The stuff's hilarious. Nearly every sentence is a punchline, and all the voice actors (Dan Castellaneta is the title character) turn the ham up to 11. Really easy stuff to get into even if, like me, you never played the games.

edited 22nd Mar '14 6:09:46 PM by Twentington

I remember a promo for the cartoon. It looked like fun. Like the game, it's hard to imagine that their are biblical references involved in here.

I love it; it's very similar to other Warner Bros. cartoons at the time, especially Freakazoid.

It's always puzzled me why the game designers disavowed it. It certainly holds much better than any of the post-16 bit sequels they okayed.

I think Doug TenNapel didn't like how they toned down both the weirdness and some of his political commentary from the game.

That said, oh, I loved the cartoon. I still reguarly quote the Planet Of Easily Frightened People. "Ah, something green! Ah, something not green! Ah, air!"

I still have good memories of it. :)

THIS is toned down?!?!?

I think I read that Doug Ten Napel saw the cartoon as a cash-in for the games.

That said, it's still friggin' hilarious.

I did, in fact, play the original game and loved it. I liked the cartoon, I liked it a lot, but felt it lacked some of the snap of the game. Also, they politically corrected Princess What's-her-name. She was supposed to be a ditz and a twit, but they made her reasonably intelligent for the show.

So, she became Honey?

Doug TenNapel has some pretty crappy political views so it's prolly a good thing the cartoon doesn't reflect them.

edited 28th Mar '14 10:47:55 PM by DrStarky

@7 Well, for the political commentary, that was way toned down. @11 is fair to reference that some of his ideas are a bit objectionable (TenNapel is an adherent of intelligent design for example - Professor Monkey-For-A-Head is his exaggeration of the theory of evolution by way of mockery).

As for weirdness... I take it you either never played the video games, or you never got particularly far in them. Trust me, the cartoon isn't as strange as the games (well, the first two... the third was toned down).