60-1 - Space Ghost: Coast To Coast - Season 3 Episodes 13-15

Three episodes of Space Ghost that are all weird in their own way. What a way to end a season!

This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover the last three episodes of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Season 3: “Cookout,” “Art Show,” and “Woody Allen’s Fall Project.”

In “Cookout,” Space Ghost stages a cook-off between three celebrity chefs, Emeril Lagasse, Nathalie Dupree, and Martin Yan, and recruits the Council of Doom (Lokar, Metallus, Tansut, Brak, and Black Widow) to judge. Though the stand out part of this is Martin Yan, who is somehow weirder than all of the cartoon characters.

In “Art Show,” performance artist Laurie Anderson irritates Space Ghost by saying she never watches television, then wanders into conspiracy theories about cyberspace while he disengages and misses much of the conversation. The group Stomp also appears, seemingly against their will.

Then “Woody Allen’s Fall Project” drops the usual format entirely. It’s a live-action special hosted by self-described “Space Ghost Expert” James Kirkconnell, who presents five re-enactments of scenes from earlier episodes performed by the Ghost Planet Dinner Theater Ensemble of Doraville, Georgia. It’s a parody of E!’s well-publicised re-enactments of the O.J. Simpson hearings, and it’s oddly high-effort for a bizarre joke.

We discuss why “Cookout” works as a talk-show send-up, why we’re all scared of Martin Yan, if Stomp need an intervention, and how Season 3 holds up now that we’ve watched all of it.

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📌 Topics covered this episode:

– Space Ghost: Coast to Coast S3E13 “Cookout” (feat. Emeril Lagasse, Nathalie Dupree & Martin Yan) recap & review

– Space Ghost: Coast to Coast S3E14 “Art Show” (feat. Laurie Anderson & Stomp) recap & review

– Space Ghost: Coast to Coast S3E15 “Woody Allen’s Fall Project” (feat. James Kirkconnell) recap & review

– Season 3 retrospective

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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