Great to see some love here for SGCTC! In the 90's, I worked in video post-production and was the Assistant Editor (Edit Assist) on this show in the mid 90's. In fact, the episode "Surprise" held a birthday gift to me from the Cartoon Network team: "Holy Tim Schnack! You guys are worse than payroll!"
C Martin Croker was also animation director for the show. He had never done professional voice work before (just animation), and wound up being the last minute choice for Zorak and Moltar's voices after Herve Villechaize, who was going to do their voices, committed suicide.
I still have my Space Ghost Coast to Coast action figure with his interview desk, seat, interview cards, and coffee cup! I love it so much, but telework leaves me without a desk to display it on. I'll never part with it!
This is the best show ever. One of the most influential and yet quite underrated shows ever. Having over 100 episodes, 10 seasons, not the 11 Adult Swim says these days as they’ve done a bad job of putting episodes in their proper place such as the season 4 finale now being placed as the season 5 premiere and the last two episodes of season 8 now being labeled as season 9 when in fact you can actually tell what episodes fit with each season and those last two fit with episodes of season 8 especially when you see how spotty season 8 had episodes released throughout 2003. It makes sense how they’d finish that season by having some more the following year and even then they stopped short as it was cancelled in April 2004. And while Dreams and Live at the Fillmore fit with the episodes made in 2003, Joshua is obviously the last episode of the 4th season, but it seems like for that one because that episode came out in 1998, while the other episodes of that season came out in 1997, they seem to put Joshua in with season 5, which is wrong and the only reason that episode was in 1998 was because season 4 is the only season to have 25 episodes and had an episode every week for a good portion of the year compared to the normal season before and after where the number is anywhere from 7-15 episodes. You can tell how much every season has a particular feel to it and Joshua ends the feel of Season 4 just like Live at the Fillmore ends the feel of season 8. Unfortunately for the show, I think the reason this rearranging of episodes has happened is due to how Mike Lazzo doesn’t really care about Space Ghost anymore and while he’s since retired from Adult Swim, because he doesn’t care about it then I guess those at Adult Swim and people behind listing the episodes just don’t care either. But anyway, I think it’s amazing to see how long the show lasted, especially when its first run was on Cartoon Network, the Adult Swim block for its second run and GameTap’s video section for its final run and how its sense of humor formed many of the early Adult Swim shows when it first became a block. The spin-offs it had, Cartoon Planet , The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law were and still are very entertaining to watch. This show was one of the first shows I remember seeing and being a kid from the 90s, it really helped in forming my sense of humor. The voice actors were incredible and I wish George Lowe, C. Martin Croker and Andy Merrill got more opportunities to expand their talents on other non-Adult Swim oriented projects after Space Ghost ended or have better luck getting other stuff off the ground for themselves being part of Adult Swim. I remember George Lowe once said in an interview at a convention that there were like 50 episodes that were recorded, or at least interviews filmed and perhaps had some of them where George and Clay got to record lines for episodes, yet they never came to be as the network just stopped Space Ghost after it’s third revival. Sorry for the long comment, but thank you for the video, it’s really amazing. Keep up the great work!
Fun fact: Eric Andre was inspired by this show and once asked Mike Lazzo about this show, and which he responded "That show is dead to me." He wouldn't even be sitting comfortably in retirement right now without this show smh.
Who knew that this show would end up giving us Adult Swim ! I would go to a friend’s house to watch this back when it started , it sucks we didn’t get more .
I watched Space Ghost as a teenager in the 1960s. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was a brilliant upgrade, animation on the cheap. Like Star Trek the budget went up eventually.
This show never would have been what it was without C. Martin Croker (aka Clay). You will HEAR the voice of Zorak and Moltar but you SEE everything else he did including the bulk of the animation and a major contributor to the the set design. The round keyboard was also his idea. He not only served as animation director but he made that "planet" you see during the opening. It's made from all sorts of paper but mostly expansible polyurethane foam. What is commercially known as "Great Stuff" at your local Home Depot. If I remember correctly, they were actually pissed off it cost them $150 to make.
They had Tommy Wiseau as a guest to premiere the movie THE ROOM on Adult Swim, in 2009, 2010, and 2011, until 2012, where they showed the first 15 minutes of the movie then switched back to Anime for the remainder of the night.
What made space ghost brilliant was it used existing animation and mostly dialogue to make awesome comedy. It was truly original. It moved other shows like Harvey Birdman and venture bros. It practically built adult swim from the ground up
I love how you explain the way video editing works and how what people say is taken out of context on TV. I know you're talking about how space goes to takes things out of context to make it absurd, but literally all television does this, and you explained it really well.
This was fantastic video on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Loved this show as a kid. I first saw it on Adult Swim. I had no idea it started all the way in the 90s. It feels like an Adult Swim style show before that block started.
this show is responsible for most of the things wrong with me and would not have it any other way this cartoon planet the Simpsons sea lab athf and south park are were i got my sense of humor from also monty python movies and show helped a bit
I think he did that on purpose as an inside Hanna-Barbera joke. It's from the early HB cartoon "Super Snooper and Blabbermouse". One of Snoop's characteristics was misusing and mispronouncing words and as one of the recurring ones he'd say "viola" instead of "voila". Snoop was based on the character Archie from the old radio show "Duffy's Tavern", and the Snoop's characteristic murder of the English language was taken from Archie. So this joke goes way back, to the origins of Hanna-Barbera, and beyond to radio.
You gave Brak second billing? Over Moltar?! Can't even pronounce Metallis or Tanzit right... lots of weird, weird stuff in this video said super confidently
it also sounds like someone just copy-pasted 3 or 4 different articles and read them all back to back. how many times is this person going to tell us what space ghost is and rephrase the idea that they used live action interviews as if this is new information?
I'll never forget the 1st time I saw this show. It was right around the time I started smoking weed, in my late teens. My life's never been the same since. Also, I still like to watch Adult Swim when I get high.
Very few shows make me laugh like SG-CTC. The only caveat is that to truly appreciate the satire, you would have to have watched the original Hanna-Barbera series as a child. I guess I lucked out! 😁
