Sealab 2021

Part of Cartoon Networks Adult Swim Line up. It is the year 2021 and the members of the Sealab are crazy. In one episode, Debbie's biological clock goes off and she desperately searches for a suitable mate to father her child. Odd thing is part of the time she has a baby dolphin under her arm for no reason adding to the absurdity of the episode. In another episode a flesh eating alien infests the Sealab. But my favorite episode yet features the head of Sealab uses a bouey antenna to create a pirate radio station and becomes a shock jock. But through new laws, the FCC has the right to blow up pirate radio stations at will. The FCC officers hunt the ocean for the sealab cursing like sailors in the process(bleeped out of course). This is a great cheesy little cartoon that can get addictive.

Cartoon Network's dedicated team of lunatics, misfits and stoners at Adult Swim take hold of a staid, stodgy ancient cartoon (SeaLab 2020) and move it one year on to where the crew are bored, listless, and borderline insane...

Dodgy animation loops blend perfectly with edgy humour (Sparks: "Like veal. But with BABIES. I'm talkin' reaalll baby back ribs here...") and the show pokes fun at just about every cartoon standard.

Best of all is their take on the "evil twin" shtick, when the hideous mutant Bizarro versions of the crew show up. Simple yet genius - please let Adult Swim loose in the UK...

As everyone here so far has said, "Sealab 2021" is just hilarious. What makes this show really brilliant is that the episodes follow no particular rules or format. Anything (or nothing at all) can happen and generally does, whether the crew members are striking each other with sticks; the Captain is feeding his Gremlin-like pet "Gloop" liquor, causing it to multiply; or Sealab is invaded by the "Bizarro" crew. (Now that was just friggin' hilarious, with the word "Bizarro" repeated about 100 times.) Enjoy. Adult cartoons don't get much better than this.

This is such a ridiculously funny short cartoon. I think it's better that it's not a full half-hour; the format it has now seems to fit better. You have to stay up real late to watch it, but if you're into faster-paced humor without those annoying laugh tracks, you will probably like this.

Among with Aqua Teen Hunger, Mission Hill, The Brak Show and Harvey Birdman, this was one of my favorite series from the early years of Adult Swim, before the block started going downhill.

I miss these type of series: Despite their limited budget, these series were clearly made with a lot of appreciation for the source material and never failed to bring laughs.

Nowadays, most of Adult Swim shows are just weird for weirdness sake, and I frankly found them to be quite unpleasant, compensating their poor humor with shock value.

Sealab 2021 managed to be absurd in rather clever (And hilarious) manner.