Xavier Renegade Angel

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Stratomsk

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I don't know how many of you have seen or even heard of this show, seeing as it has been scarcely mentioned in the entire forum. Perhaps one of the most quotable shows of all time, it follows the journey of the eponymous Xavier. He is one who is forced to walk the Earth in spite of his abominable appearance to ultimately find a higher meaning in life and understand his origins.

Probably the most bizarre show Adult Swim has ever produced, the show was largely one huge mind screw, with Xavier speaking in a near-continuous, stream-of-consciousness...well, stream of narrative/conversation/wisdom/puns/portmanteaux/"unintentional" double-entendre/callbacks. It was originally premiered on November 4, 2007, and ended on April 16, 2009, with a total of 20 episodes, cancelled as a result of low ratings.

I'll just let these clips speak for themselves.

Full episodes are on YouTube if anybody wants to experience this glorious abomination that transcends our realm of mundane expectation.
 
CatParty dijo:
it's produced by pffr who also did brilliant shows like delocated and wonder showzen. are there going to be new episodes of this?
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3rd season was apparently being considered a few years ago but they ultimately scrapped it because muh ratings.
 
I actually started watching this a few weeks off of YT. I remember back when this was still on-air the shitty CGI was really off-putting, plus at the time I was kind of burnt out with AS's "lol surreal randomness" schtick. However, watching this now, I'm really disappointed I missed this when it first came out.
 
I thought my life was complete.

Xavier informed me that I was wrong.

I remember seeing the show a long time ago (it was episode 2 of season 2), and thinking this was the best thing ever.
 
So I finished the series.

Did Schmorky do part of that fan episode? I recognize his style.
 
I remember watching it twice and just not getting into it. While some of the clips are kind of funny, I don't think it's going to be something that I'd go out of my way to watch.
 
I watched the first episode and did a spit take at this exchange.

Xavier ~ "Hey is this the military? I need a sample of that disease you guys created."
Army guy ~ "Crack?"
Xavier ~ " No the other one."
Army guy "Aids?"
Xavier ~ "That's the spice!"
 
I loved it the minute it began airing. As soon as it ended I bought the DVD.
I immediately fell in love with the PS2 cgi, it played on my love of crappy video games, and my love for the surreal.
I also remember it hardly getting any air time, and nobody at my high school even heard of it. It's beyond clever, it's some of the most original programming ever put to air. PFFR has always had a very patented way of creating.
The combination of a native american mythology inspired protagonist on the backdrop of a twisted american landscape using that same simple CGI made it instantly memorable, but beyond that the writing was just otherworldly. The situations, the conclusions, the characters, the voice acting. It's a gem, and it was made sincerely without trying to be nihilistic, which ends up being the case for most Adult Swim shows.
Interestingly, this show has made a resurgence, especially among younger people who didn't catch the show the first time around, as it's being touted as the antithesis to Rick and Morty.
I'm happy to see it finally getting the respect it deserves, certainly a show way way way ahead of it's time.
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Ruin dijo:
I watched the first episode and did a spit take at this exchange.

Xavier ~ "Hey is this the military? I need a sample of that disease you guys created."
Army guy ~ "Crack?"
Xavier ~ " No the other one."
Army guy "Aids?"
Xavier ~ "That's the spice!"
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That exchange made me fall in love with the show.
 
So I recently started watching this, and god damn, its way the fuck funnier than I thought. I was under the impression the show was just "lol random" humour where it basically jangles keys in your face for 10 minutes, but its actually genuinely clever, its filled with puns, wordplay and metaphors, both verban and visual, caked in absurdism and surrealism with the ever present undertone of "Its a show about a guy so high he doesn't know what the fuck is even happening anymore".

While surrealism is everpresent, there's a good effort into inverting the "straight man in bizzaro world" turning it into "bizzaro man in straight world." which is why its so funny. It has a good mix of subversion and my most favourite jokes are the ones that are played straight in a such way that its subversive in of itself in a way "well what did you think was gonna happen?" way.

There is actually a serious ammount of effort put into the writing, I don't think an idiot could make this show and I don't think you could write this show "on drugs". In fact I think writing for this show is actually pretty hard and most people would fuck it up.

It is a genuinely clever and funny show.

Also worth noting, this show gives me extreme MDE: World Peace, vibes. A lot of the jokes in it could be in world peace and vice versa. I think if you like world peace, you will like this and if you like this you will like world peace.
Overcast dijo:
That exchange made me fall in love with the show.
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You left out the best part.

A guy then procceeds to drink the gallon of aids, he dies, and Xavier goes to the guy's sister and tells her "Your brother died of a shameful lifestyle choice."
 
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