Useless History: The Tick 

Don’t be ashamed of your character that looks like the Tick, just remember Crimson Chin still exists and it’s basically identical to The Tick.

The Tick reason for being a hero is just "I'm indestructible and strong so why not fight crime"

One of the many things I love about the animated series, is Chairface Chippendale's plot to deface the moon. Other shows of the time would have stopped the villain before he could implement his plan and maintained the status quo. Here the "Cha" on the moon could be seen for the rest of the shows' run. Also there was no way Chairface could fit his whole name, using that font.

What I like about the version from 2016, is that it appears that his origin story in that one may be that he didn't even exist until his existence was necessary for Arthur plot armor. That is my favorite interpretation of his origin. He wasn't born. He wasn't an ordinary guy who gained powers. He doesn't have a past. He simply, is, because it's necessary for him to be.

I love how the comic book made fun of superheroes at that time and the Amazon prime show makes fun of modern superheroes

Gotta love The Tick. SPOON!

Sadly Amazon cancelled the show :’) I loved watching it 😭

It sucks that Patrick Warburton's Tick run for only 1 season, literally everything about that show ruled

great fun fact: Part of the creation team, involved with the 90s FOX cartoon, the creators of the Venture Bros were involved! A lot of the niche humor comes from them

Ahhh, the all time greatest battle-cry... "I HOPE I DON'T GET HURT!!"

Without the Tick the Venture Bros wouldn’t exist as Jackson Publick one of the creators worked on both the animated and 2001 version of the Tick and he was introduced to his co creator Doc Hammer by Ben Edlund.

This was NOT useless history, it was actually good. I really liked this video. Well done.

Didn’t like the animated series as a kid, I didn’t get it. Now having watched it almost 30 years later, I love it!

i just finished the amazon series, and while the show itself was good Im now absolutely obsessed with the Tick as a character. In my opinion the actor who played him was amazing at playing the role, although I guess if you were a fan of the other versions I can't really speak in that aspect as I never seen anything else yet. I'm so dissapointed they cancelled season 3, I really wanted to find out if Walter had to do with the creation of the Tick.

The Tick is my favorite superhero

Game everyone hated? I liked it!!!

Mother destiny calls to me, she says hello by the way. I am the Sterling silver ladle of justice pouring it's foamy cream over the just picked strawberries of crime. Ty for the useless info. SPOOOOON!

Always liked the tick. Wish the Amazon show would have been renewed. Remember when Spider-man took a jab at the tick in his show?

The tick is freaking awesome

I hope we get a new Tick, a cartoon one preferably. And hopefully after the Amazon series Ben Edlund's done experimenting with edgy Tick and we can actually focus on the comedy

This such an underrated video and channel, hope he becomes RU-vid famous some day or sooner.

The Amazon show is really good. I’ve watched both seasons at least 3 times.

Brilliant stuff Cool channel looking forward to more

thanks for covering this, I looooved the tick as a kid!

This is real high quality content for sure! Keep it up man!

Patrick Warburton was AMAZING as The Tick!

Heavily underrated show. Good video here!

2:12 Brilliant repurposing of the sound from Peace Walker's title screen. It was damn-near seamless, too. I'm impressed!

Patric Warburton is the tick. I still think he was the best live action version

I wish you would have mentioned how Ben wrote for Venture bros for awhile

I loved both seasons on amazon and I was super bummed out when I realized the show was cancelled. Is it worth reading the comics?

Met Ben briefly when he was still with New England Comics. I was glad to see him move on to better options.

My favorite as a kid

I loved the tick Comics and the cartoon, but the Patrick Warburton Tick was the best by far.

I wish the Amazon series had more episodes. It started off as my least favorite version of the tick (I started collecting comics in the 80s), to my most favorite and still feel like that series only got better and was really coming into its own when they cancelled it.

Brilliant character, especially in the original comics.

I loved both TICK TV shows, and I want more. Whassisname - that british dude, Serafenawiczsa - or whatever - he was excellent!

I’m impressed by the amount of research

The fact that originally he beat up beaker and bunson honeydew from the muppets to escape the insane asylum was hysterical

I have a plastic Tick figure I got in a Happy Meal years ago. It's always fun to take a trip down Big Blue Memory Lane.

That Facebeast fellow you got there looked fun.

The Tick & Mystery Men is how it would be in real life. It wouldn't be so clean and perfect, people would have real issues with their powers and personal life.

Spooooooooooooooooon!

Awesome and nostalgic 😎

We need a season 3! Spoooon!

Amazon show is amazing and not gritty. Its just more plot based, still fucking ridiculous though. Love it so much.

Bro why is this underrated??

The Amazon shows is almost doing it realistic and acceptable but one thing is wrong: Tick's eyes and retina are never supposed to be visible, they're supposed to look like he's blind. Can't they do CGI that hides the eyes?

Ben is a local hero. He lived a few towns over, in Pembroke, Ma.

The comics are freaking awesome! Man Eating Cow, Paul the Samurai, the Ninja Hedge..... 🤣

Loved the Amazon version I'm on season 2 episode 5 👍

They did a live action The Tick and I loved it, so of course they cancelled it.

I'm still waiting for the Little Wooden Boy spinoff.

Spooon!!!

I think I used to game with Ben... I loved The Tick from the get go, and I had the original comics. Until a "friend" stole them and sold them to Bop City Comics. Ah well.

Naughty spawn! You face the tick!

The man with the brains of steel!

I thought the tick was a test subject that escaped from a facility and later became a hero of a city that's just called the city

loved the animated series.

this is great

That last throw with the tire to a persons head, it would kill a man..

in the picture at 1:24 Ben Edlund is wearing a Venture Bros shirt! He wrote and directed season 2's Viva los Muertos, the only episode of the Venture Bros not written and directed by the showrunners, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick. Jackson Publick actually got his start in TV writing working on the Tick cartoon.

TV has been all downhill since the cancelled the 2001 live action Tick show.

This is so nice and well edited. Wheres your subs bruh?

SPOON!

SPOOOOON!!!

i like this

Such good work. Excellent!

Damnit. Now I'm gonna yell "Spoon!" As a cry of victory.

And here I am, watching a video from 3 years ago in my recommended.

I loved Tick. And I still love the series. One of my favorite.. Why insault him.

One of my favorite lines in the Amazon version which spoiler alert one of the villains who is a twist villain and he’s model logging and then the tech yells would you stop villainsplaining

Living Doll: he's full of tinier men.

I loved that video game

I remember being 5 and saw The Tick when it first aired.

Spooooon! ☺️🥄

Subbed

Missed an appearance in the intro of MIB2 as T..

Well done & reminds me of one punch man

The show with Patrick Warburton was amazing.🖖

Interesting

Thanks for the video. I do the Tick.

I spent a good ten seconds trying to rotate my screen near the end lol. Good video tho :)

OfTen. OfTen.OfTen. Do you like ticks up your ofTen?

dude i hate that amazon cancelled their version of the tick, it kinda makes sense though, around that time the boys was getting way more popular and they simply shifted budgets. invincible too. hey we still got 2 great shows, i just wish the tick wasnt left on the back burner. its the perfect superhero.

they need to do a tick cinematic universe

Have seasons 1 and 2 of the cartoon on dvd

Thentick was a great show

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!! :=8D

"Spoooooooooooooooooon!"

I've always felt that The Tick character was based heavily on Dave Sim's The Roach.

His name is Putty, his nemesis is Vegetable Lasagna

I was so bummed that Zombieland didn't get picked up from Amazon Pilot season. I loved the movie and it made more sense as a TV show. Though I also voted for Tick and thought it was great.

Men i love the animated series

Easily, the animated series is the best version of Tick out there.

Chairface must be inspired by the Chippendale chair villain from Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick.

SPOON

Also, you forgot Tick's signature power, that of drama. He is a drama magnet, weird stuff ALWAYS happens around him.

I had the idea like where the spider that got hit by radiation in spider man but, without Peter parker.

Da dwee da da da dwee dow!!!