One of my favorite Adult Swim shows from the initial launch is March’s header. I held off celebrating the crew’s misadventures to now because a vaccine rollout (January) and Chinese New Year (February) were more pressing…or would it be relevant. If you’re not familiar with the show, you can now watch all of its seasons through HBO Max via the Adult Swim portal. Sealab 2021 is also Archer‘s parent show, a big reason why Archer fans will enjoy it and it explains a certain episode with John Ham. The difference between them, Archer has original artwork and more famous voice actors while Sealab 2021 repurposed and modified the mediocre Hanna-Barbera material, making it even funnier, especially scenes involving Sparks.
The original cartoon was some rote crap from Saturday mornings in the Seventies when people still thought the NASA would get us to Mars by the Eighties and we’d find future solutions underwater. The Adult Swim writers did remake one story which had a hilarious ending, you just have to be patient for the payoff.
Lastly, I thought it would be funny to share all the things we were told as kids on how the human race would progress. My fave was something I found in sixth grade around 1979-80. I could tell our World History textbook was clueless (printed in the mid Seventies) since it projected a permanent settlement on the moon by 1996 despite NASA getting mothballed after Skylab. Now poor NASA is dependent on billionaire assholes to deliver supplies to the ISS boondoggle.