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What A Cartoon! - Korgoth of Barbaria (Patreon)

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2020-08-10 04:01:00
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2023-01

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Chosen by premium Patron Brian Hortin, we watched the arguably the best pilot Adult Swim ever produced, Korgoth of Barbaria! We discuss the career of creator Aaron Springer, the production of the pilot itself, and the history of '70s strongman fantasy it parodies. So listen now as we steal the golden goblin together!

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Devin Hoffarth

well you spoiled the episode I'm on! But great podcast. Really sad this never got turned into a series. But I suppose there was just no hope for something like this in 2006.

Andrew Grieve

This was a throwback - I remember watching this pilot in 2006 with a bunch of people from my floor crammed in my dorm room. We were mostly D&D/RPG fans, and this was not only up our alley, but also there wasn’t anything like it on the air at the time. At that time, I barely knew anyone on my floor, but watching this subversive, funny and well-animated pilot was a better icebreaker than most of the university’s mixers. ...and I haven’t thought about this pilot since then! When this WaC episode was announced, I rewatched the pilot to see if it held up and it’s still great. AAA voice acting, hilarious facial reactions courtesy of Springer’s art style, and it’s a decent blueprint for what could have been. It’s unfortunate it never went to series, but at least we got to see this on the air. For all the Adult Swim unsold/busted pilots I have watched, I’m sure there’s tons that never saw the light of day online. But I feel somewhat confident that those would pale in comparison to both Korgoth and Eltingville. Prove me wrong, kids!

Brian Hortin

Great episode, the Adult Swim pilots update bump was heartbreaking. https://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/3898 At least Korgoth will live on seemingly forever on YouTube.

Anonymous

Speaking of A+ pilots that never saw a series, which one of you high ballers is going to suggest The amazing Screw-On Head :D

Anonymous

I must have seen this during one of the few times it was re-ran on Adult Swim. I found it online while listening to the podcast and i realized I had never actually seen the episode all the way through. So thank you, Bob and Henry, for giving me an opportunity to come back to Korgoth. I am an animation student in NY, and I now want to learn more about Aaron Springer. Your research into his career gave me another realization, and that Springer has had a hand in everything that inspired me to become an artist in the first place. At the end of the episode, Specules flies off and then does and abrupt turn to the left without changing his orientation. Perhaps this is a Powdered Toast Man reference? Given Springer's history with Ren and Stimpy, it is a slight possibiltiy.

Frank Grimes

I can't even remember the last time Homer strangled Bart, and I still watch new eps.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Much like Henry and Bob, I was never into this kind of Metal-Barbarian male power fantasy, and I still find it pretty hard to get into in general. I appreciate this pilot being a more comedic and hilariously excessive in its violence (and with great animation), but I don't think it does *enough* in some ways to turn the genre on its head, especially in regards to its treatment of women. I would hope that as the series progressed, they would bring in their kind of Red Sonja to make some commentaries on the genre's tropes when it comes to gender, but as the pilot stands I don't think they really do much to have her part of the story be any different than what you'd expect of the genre. I'm not saying it needed to explicitly destroy the trope and condemn the genre for being sexist, but for the sake of parody I was hoping they'd exaggerate some aspect of it to make me laugh. That said, I do think it's a bummer this was just shelved because of money and all the talent that was put into it was essentially wasted, when this could have become something super interesting and noteworthy among the other crop of Adult Swim shows of the era.

Anonymous

I think Patreon deleted my last post so let me throw some quick bullet points: 1. Aaron Springer reuses a lot of visual cliches in his work. The jack-knife dive is used several times in Spongebob and Specules' flight is probably a Powdered Toast Man nod. In Doing Time (a Springer written/directed Spongebob episode) Mrs. Puff rips off a cop's face and it's framed exactly like Korgoth. Billy Dilley is okay but there are several character designed lifted straight from Korgoth. 2. Howard good, Lovecraft bad! Conan stories are still good fun and read well. The Savage Sword of Conan comics are A+ material from some of the best artists in American comics. The Scarlet Citadel is straight up a horror-themed dungeon crawl that ends with Conan fighting a Specules-like sorcerer. 3. "Metal-barbarian" is commonly celebrated for its violence but Conan stories veer on anti-capitalist/anti-imperial rhetoric which reflected Howard's outlook of society being a cycle of exploitation and decay. Conan is a depressed bumpkin in a world that sees him as nothing but a blunt instrument so the only thing to do is fight, screw, and maybe people will toast your name after you died young.

Cody C.

Oh yeah, my metal household loved this one, but there was no way adult swim could afford to pay for this, especially in that era. Ah well.