"Metalocalypse" Dethkomedy (2006)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Jon Schnepp

Writers:

Tommy Blacha (written by) &
Brendon Small (written by)

TV Series:

"Metalocalypse" (2006)

Original Air Date:

3 September 2006 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Music

Plot:

Dethklok try stand-up comedy routines, but Pickles struggles with stage fright after he is booed off the stage. |

Plot Keywords:

Stand Up Comedy | Comedy Club | Airplane Shot Down | Heckler | Shot In The Head

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 29	12:30 AM	TOON	Dethkomedy	#1.5
Wed. July 29	4:30 AM	TOON	Dethkomedy	#1.5

Cast

Tommy Blacha	...	Toki Wartooth / William Murderface (voice)
Brendon Small	...	Skwisgaar Skwigelf / Pickles the Drummer / Nathan Explosion (voice)
Mark Hamill	...	Senator Stampingston (voice)
Victor Brandt	...	General Krosier (voice)
James Hetfield	...	Lorkey (voice)

Quotes:

Senator Stampingston: It appears that Dethklok has taken to studying comedy. This is not good, gentlemen.
General Krosier: With all due respect, Senator, how can this mean anything to world economics?
Senator Stampingston: It means everything. It's true that comedy has been no threat to us over the last fifteen years, but with Dethklok in the mix, they threaten to excite a field of entertainment we all know to be dead. Gentlemen: our comedy specialist, Dr. Donald Gorfield.
Dr. Donald Gorfield: Well, the people of the world are depressed and stupid. They look to comedy to lighten the load of their boring, dreadful lives. These idiots have been force-fed garbage from our own secret cable networks and our own employees covering as high-profile standup and sketch comics.
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Movie Connections:

References "Transformers" (1984)

Metal Comedy

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This is another great episode of Metalocalypse. This time, the band does comedy. This episode was funny from the start when they were name-calling the judge when they were in court. Dick Knubbler from the second episode makes a cameo on this episode.

This is actually episode 6 because Adult Swim skipped the fifth episode. The episode was funny from Nathan Explosion on stage with a body bag to the part where Murderface covers the audience in "Instant Feces." The end was really funny, where Pickles goes psycho and shoots at everyone and yells,"What, I thought this was the NRA!"

The whole episode was once again another brutal addition to Metalocalypse's episode lineup. Dethklok rules in comedy!

10 out of 10.