I Praise You: Frisky Dingo

But you signed off on the proofs!

True story: I found season one of Frisky Dingo on DVD hanging out in my mailbox.

People love me.

You know people love you when they give you Frisky Dingo on DVD because Frisky Dingo on DVD is love. Especially if you don't have cable, and you're not in the 18-to-24 demo, and all you know of Cartoon Network or Adult Swim or what have you is their obnoxious marketing and how your kid watched Ed, Edd, n Eddy while on vacation in Port Aransas and subsequently lost some of his fine motor skills. You're not the target. Serendipitous mailbox delivery is probably your best hope.

That's why I'm here today to pass on the love. If I can get one MamaPop reader to watch this snarky little show about a musclebound supervillain trying to make it big, my life will have found its meaning. At least partially.

You will like it. Read on for why.

Hmmm...mrrrfffff.

• You will love Simon, the mumbling and diffident adolescent son of bad guy Killface.
• In its rollicking satirical characterization of orphaned tycoon "superhero" Awesome X, the show draws out to its logical conclusion the bratty entitledness of Batman, who totally doesn't have any powers.
• I don't know what it's like on the air, but on DVD those little Adult Swim shows are just like Skittles: self-contained and pleasantly fruity, and you can power through them in an evening with a cliffhanger every twelve minutes or so. "Just one more," you wheeze, pawing at Play like a lab monkey with an automated cocaine delivery system.
• There is Watley, the browbeaten intern who's had giant lobster claws surgically implanted and is turning crustacean. He develops buds on his head: "I think they're going to be eyestalks!"
• In one episode, Killface is on the payphone in the ER with his health insurance call center while impaled upon a length of pipe, and I have had that day.
• Apparently you can get season 2 on iTunes if that's what you're into.

Comments

[In the Trenches of Mommyhood]

But why does it say "Welcome to 'you are' doom"?

[Marrit]

Killface signed off on the proofs too hastily.