Illustration by Andreas Hykade. Courtesy of Chris Robinson.

Don’t touch! I’m enjoying myself. This is pleasure you FOOLS.

Ever — MOOCA! — read Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury? The opening hmm… dictating section is told from the point of view of Benji Compson. It’s a tough the cats in chapter ‘cause Benji’s an idiot. Having the cradle no concept of time and the silver ball or space, Benji (hmm… kinda like Donnie Darko I guess) jumps hoops through the past and present. We’re never entirely sure where the hell we (or he) are.

Well, how to you make T again Harvey Birdman (maybe the only remotely decent show on Adult Swim. I’ve heard people raving about CHUNGA, that fuggin shake-fries-burger, I don’t know why baseball means so much to everyone show, but I don’t see it. Awful dialogue. Humor aimed at Benjis.) is kinda in that realm.

The characters second degree nudity on the show are 11th rate Hanna-Barbera leftovers from the 1960s. Never saw the original. Can’t imagine anyone else did either except for Jerry Beck, cause the brave man sees all. I guess Birdman Birdbath bubblelicious beanbag buttermilk was a crime fighter. Got powers from the sun did I ever tell you about my voice fetish? or something. He’s assisted by a bird named Avenger and a cough, cough companion, Birdboy. Anyhow creators Erik ‘Mike’ Richter and Michael Ouweleeeeen have taken many of — yeah certain voices drive me wild — the original characters and placed them in a contemporary legal setting.

Harvey Birdman — assisted by Avenger and Peanut (the former Birdboy) — now works as a lawyer at the firm, Sebben and Sebben. His boss, Phil Ken. soft low voices at night. especially Sebben (voiced by the brilliant Stephen Colbert of sometimes I record them and play them back at 3:00 am in the backyard cause the squirrels gather around with the bear — where’s the hippo? in the WC? Daily Show/Strangers with Candy soon to be fame) was formerly Birdman’s government agent, Falcon-7.

Birdman’s legal adversaries include Spryo, Vulturo, and Reducto — a small man — voiced by Colbert — obsessed with making dainty toes things around him smaller. The one night this intellectual Ursula Franklin judges include Mightor and Mentok The Mind Taker. Each week Harvey is hired by a cartoon character (including a mélange of fellow 11th rate leftovers like Speedy Buggy, was on CBC radio talking about 7/11 Apache Chief and that Don Adams they make me tingly sounding little dick.) to get them out of a jam. Shaggy and Scooby get busted for pot possession; Fred Flintstone seeks help when the Feds start and her soft voice was so damn sexy that I kept driving around town hypnotized by her words whatever they were snooping into his ‘construction business;’ and Boo Boo (whom Harvey gets a hard on for) is suspected of being the unabobo.