This week I got a damn cool show on DVD. Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law is a somewhat surreal show on Cartoon Network Adult Swim lineup. It is a take off on old Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows from the 60's and 70's where the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon stars get in legal trouble and need the services of Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law. This started off as a running gag on the Space Ghost Coast to Coast show and it is brilliant.
Much like how Space Ghost is now a talk show host Harvey Birdman's new legal career has him helping Scooby and Shaggie when they get busted for possession of a controlled substance, when Johnny Quest's dad has a custody hearing with his "life partner" Race Benton, when Speed Buggy gets in a slow speed chase with the LAPD, and when mob boss Fred Flintstone gets busted by the Feds for violations of the Rico act.
My only complaint is that there is not enough episodes on the dual disk pack. While it made up of colorful classic cartoon characters it is not really aimed at kids. I am not sure that little kids would follow the humor but it is right aimed at twenty something nerds or stoned college students. When I stuck in the disk for the first time and a song by the legendary surreal psychotic singer Wesley Willis I knew it was going to dish out a damn good time.
i love this show...how many episodes are in the set? if its too few i wont bother picking it up...
I like watching it on CN, but I'd never buy it.
I guess I think it's just more sacred if watched on Adult Swim.
My studio did a spot for Harvey's DVD - it was a contest they ran. We didn't win, or place in the top five, but it was fun to do. I like the show, but I don't think I'd buy the DVD set.
You can see the ad we did here http://www.jocs.biz/videoStudio.html
rock on