#groovenians

[drawingpad-studios]

art request: King Norman (the Groovenians) wearing a sequin dress and feather boa

Here's the boi

I'm sorry this took this long to make, stuff happened and I forgor about art requests. I hope you like it.

[lyteandronix]

Drew King Norman for the first time and I hate it

[shinyvibrava]

omggggggg happy birthday!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

thank youuu!!!!! ♥️♥️

[mikiruma]

BRO JUST GET SOME LACTAID OR SMTH SO U CAN EAT DAIRY WITHOUT SHITTING YOURSELF IT'S OKAY

you know what they say... the things you love will hurt you the most... or something like that

[adultswim2021]

The Groovenians | November 10, 2002 - 10:30 PM | Special

First, there was Lewis Lectures. Then there was The Finkel Files. Now... there’s this. The Groovenians. A brand new low from your pals at Adult Swim.

From popular street artist Kenny Scharf (subject of a new documentary coming out later this month, too late for me to see before press time) comes this failed pilot about a couple of free-spirit artist types who just wanna act all freely-spirited and artsy. Unfortunately their normy families (they *sorta* seem like brother and sister but they also seem like romantic partners? Not sure if this whole thing is a libertarian pro-incest fable) have DIFFERENT plans for them, and are trying to get them to stop their bohemian rhapsody and CONFORM, CONFORM, CONFORM. 

The pilot tells this enormously simplistic story about two young starry-eyed lovers who just wanna do art and reject pragmatic social constructs of working a bad job and starting a despicable nuclear family. Yes, in the world of the Groovenians there’s no happy medium between expressing your artistic nature and glumly participating in your oppressive capitalistic society. So they flee on a rocket ship to go to a new planet, which is probably called Groovenia. Please, don’t make me rewatch any part of this to find this out.

The show has an impressive cast, including Paul Rubens, Dennis Hopper, Vincent “eBay’s wayward son” Gallo and RuPaul. It’s also got a bitchin’ opening song by the B-52s. But it’s animated all nasty with computer animation, and the script is mind-numbingly awful. It’s not just NOT funny, but it’s also childish and boring. The main characters main motivation is to just be artsy and creative and so you see them doing artsy creative things that seem like they’d just be annoying. Like, if you went to an open mic you’d expect poetry, music, stand-up comedy, mentally-ill street people having an emergency that is mistaken for performance art, etc. But If two beaming dopes just went up on stage dressed like flowers throwing paint around and saying hollow-sounding shit like “CUCKOO-COSMIC, MY MAN!” you would probably blush, boo, or leave (probably all three).

This is the problem with shows or movies or whatever about artist-types: their art is never supposed to be the focus of the story. Just the sheer fact that they’re artistic is what’s supposed to endear you to them. It seems like it’d make all the sense in the world for there to be a particular art project as the focus; some goal that the characters are trying to achieve. Here we’re just asked to root for a personality trait staying in tact. And, we’re supposed to give a shit about this personality trait when it’s threatened. It’s all so shallow.

I personally have known a small handful of people who had an obnoxious penchant for constantly bragging about how artistic they were being, how much art they were doing, etc. Their art is usually unimpressive and lame, and they are usually one of the most insufferable types you can run across. I don’t particularly like what I’ve seen of Kenny Scharf’s art, but I don’t particularly like street art in general so maybe I’m destined to miss the point with him no matter what. But a no-talent artist who has inexplicable success would, of course, have the same attitudes about art that the main characters have in this pilot. I’m just saying, that’s what the script feels like. I am not directly accusing anyone of being bad at art from this glass house.

This aired one more time on Cartoon Network proper, because I think they realized it could pass for a kid’s show. That’s probably a better fit, but it sure did fail there too, didn’t it?

MAIL BAG:

London Arbuckle writes:

The Groovenians should really just be Lost Media. Like it should just exist only as a single still-frame on a youtube video where some monotone-voiced man humorlessly reads the plot summary and credits, and recounts every minor lead from some animator's ancient livejournal post . And then like three years later he makes an update about how it's FINALLY been found and it links to a Vimeo upload of the whole thing that gets about 18 views max. That's my review of The Groovenians.

This is perfect. Yes! And the comments on the video are like, “was hoping this would be as bad as the Rapsittie Kids Christmas, but it’s just boring. Too bad!”

Anonymous writes:

I've never seen Steven Universe but after watching the Groovenians I imagine that's what that show is like. They just replaced Vincent Gallo with Tom Scharpling.

I’m not here to quibble with facts, so I’ll say that you’re “close enough”, except this show by having only one fat character that’s MEAN (the dad voiced by Dennis Hopper) it’s implicitly fatphobic which Steven Universe is not. Every character on Steven Universe is huge

Anonymous writes:

Do you like Garfunkle and Oates? Their first album was a little to "in-jokey" for me but when Slippery When Moist came out in 2012 I think they came into their own, artistically and comedically. The whole album has a rauchy light-hearted sound that really make the whole thing work. They have been compared to Stephen Lynch but I think Garfunkel and Oates have a far-more genial but irreverent tone.

what the fuck is this

[countblumiere]

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[falsearcadia]

song: in time // shemusic

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

GOOD STUFF

[shinyvivillon]

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