Thursday, 30 January 2020

Sybil & Friends 30/1/20 Idea - Revenge On Adult Swim



In 'Sybil & Friends', after Fig and I think up some new ideas based on the Tumble Leaf episodes 'The Wheel Thing' and 'Twine Line', accompanied by new imaginative designs from Bix Pix, the company behind Tumble Leaf, Fig is curious to know why I'm into Adult Swim. Instantly, my friends get angry, with Resus stating that the whole Adult Swim thing is behind us, but I reassure my friends that Adult Swim is nothing more than a tale of betrayal and darkness, the most terrifying thing ever seen on US television. I tell them that a few years ago, before Moltar and Zorak died and left Space Ghost to fend for himself and save his friends from Cartoon Network from Adult Swim, it was fine from 2001 to 2003, and then it went completely dark, kicking Space Ghost off the throne. It leads to a segment shot on location in Grant Park Coffeehouse in Atlanta, with animation for Space Ghost, Zorak and Moltar done by Williams Street themselves in the style of the original Space Ghost Coast To Coast series and coffee break conversations. Taking place a few years back, the skit sees Space Ghost discussing with his two co-workers about how Adult Swim had ruined his life and his pride of place as king, and after a riotous argument that leaves Space Ghost in tears, Zorak reassures him that he won't have to fight off Adult Swim alone, and that he and Moltar have got his back. At once, Space Ghost cheers up and cries out that he'll visit Cartoon Network whenever he'll please, but as long as the two are with him, he'll rally who he loves and fight off Adult Swim once and for all! Different voice actors had to play Moltar and Zorak since their original voiceover actor, C. Martin Croker, died in 2016.

As the sequence ends, everyone agrees that they all don't like Adult Swim either, and Cleo remarks that if Scream Street aired on Adult Swim over in the USA, the show would be redubbed to include alcohol and drug references, including swearing. I refuse on that idea, and think CBBC would prefer Scream Street just the way it is. Furaha then suggests to me that, using my imagination, I could let her go to Atlanta using her flight power and blow up Williams' Street to seek revenge. What follows is another sequence shot on location in Atlanta, this time with Furaha flying over Williams' Street before swearing revenge, throwing a hand grenade into the building. She then lands by Adult Swim's 10th anniversary mural and says in a deep, demonic male voice; "Destruction." We then zoom out to reveal Furaha walking away from the building in slow-motion, as Williams' Street explodes behind her. Taramba's 'Udu Tu Yutu' plays in the background. We then see all the staff of Williams' Street in the aftermath of the explosion, covered in bruises lying in the destruction of the building.
It then fades into the Forge, where we see Tom clapping sarcastically over seeing the footage on one of the screens. All of this is animated in the same CGi used for Toonami's host segments. Sara, his holographic assistant, asks if he feels homesick, and Tom replies that he is missing Cartoon Network's Toonami a lot, and because of Adult Swim, he's been suffering sleep paralysis in the daytime, but luckily he can confront it by yelling "Boo!" at it. Sara laughs it off, but Tom feels he still misses his friends from the real Toonami, when he was king of the Cartoon Network one. Now he's become a new king of a new Toonami, and it isn't the same without any of his kid-friendly anime friends. Sara suggests that he might watch clips of the "Toonami that once was" to pass the time whilst he waits for the Saturday coming. Tom thinks it's a good idea, and gets to work on watching clips from CN's Toonami, which delights both him and Sara.
Before all that and more, during bedtime, I become scared of the dark so Furaha sings the cat's song from 'The Magic Faraway Tree' to put me to sleep. She sings:
"Once my whiskers grew so long, I had to have a shave
The barber said it's not the way for whiskers to behave
If you're not careful my dear cat, they'll grow into a beard
And then a billy goat you'll be, or something very weird

Once my tail became so short, it hadn't got a wag
The baker said-"

And then Furaha instantly falls asleep, leaving me to snuggle down with my friends.