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PAGE 5 INSIDE DIVE ■ TWO DRAGONS ... "Starsky & Hutch'delivers hilarious, vaguely homoerotic hijinks PAGE 7 ■ THE BLACK HAND ... Ferdinand assassinates the New York indie rock competition PAGE 8 ICMMQC Ihkißtihf the trail for mature-minded programs on \ \ adult viewers.” ‘family guy' courtesy of 20th century fox Although the primetime scene features “The Simpsons,” the stream animated content, “Adult Swim” is the first late-night block of animated pro gramming geared specifically toward adults. “At a certain point, we found that 30 per cent of our viewing audience was people over the age of 18,” Babcock said. “We were able to take this audience we already had and create a place for them.” StWlflmWJm " The kind of irreverent and edgy content ■P\fr&lgßl JW Jr/Tr&R that marks late-night talk shows such as it \P “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and I W “Late Night with David Letterman” also HBHHh Hull 11| J. fAH . ; , Y^ highlights the creative process involved in “Adult Swim” programs. HBBWBHBNj The often bizarre “Aqua Teen Hunger 7 Force” unites a meatball, a milkshake and a box fries as they the suburbs JB New Jersey. And “Sealab 2021,” a parody of HhBBBHHBB BE Hanna-Barbera’s “Sealab 2020,” is an off- B| the-wall program about an idiot captain and „ MHB his ragtag crew. could repurpose when we were working with- -,c, - 1 Cartoon Network,” said “Sealab 2021” co-cre ator Adam Reed. “My partner and picked a HH -AQUATEEN HUNGER FORCE'COURTESY OF CARTOON NETWORK couple of cartoons, watched them when we JB were drunk with no sound, and picked the one that we thought would be funniest.” The popularity of “Sealab 2021” comes I from the show’s tendency to use pop culture references from the 1970s when many view ers were growing up, such as “Star Wars” and “WKRP in Cincinnati.” However, cartoons also gain popularity in adult spheres by diverging from real life X‘~>. V-- media in a way that can't be imitated. Beyond what Reed calls "crackeijack art- fig ' ISk Y ¥ work,” cartoons also offer a medium with ;V : ' countless ways of expressing points. V’ “Cartoons like ‘Family Guy' and ‘The BHNbHs§ / Simpsons'can do stuff that you can’t do in a qBE&iL ',^'A live action show,” Reed said. “(Sitcoms) imagine flash-sideways, but can’t take that to anywhere near a cartoon.” slltFjs,' Unlike sitcoms, which are restricted by jßflßSjjHpSitt physical barriers, cartoons have the versa- HBnNNil Ifsß *' % tility to show characters doing anything ||£ mBHBH|HHHNBI'I' anywhere. The fluidity of cartoons also allows for * SEE CARTOONS PAGE 9 wSKSi 'x-statix’ courtesy of marvel comics ONLINE at www.dailytarheel.com ■ I GOT A FEVER, AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS ... Tad Leo and the Pharmacists rocked Go! Sunday night with a show that may or may not have contained some cowbell. Diversions www.dallytarheel.coni Q3ip BoUy (Ear MM THURSDAY MARCH 18, 2004
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