Clone High Street Team...GO!
Quick, everyone help me convince
groovesinorbit that she should watch Clone High! It's hard to advocate clearly without gushing too much!
Here was my attempt to explain, describe, and fan the flames (comment repeated here as not everyone has access to the friends-locked entry):
It is hard to adequately describe the splendor of Clone High. Sadly cancelled after one season, it's an animated series out of Canada about a high school, except all the students are clones of brilliant minds from throughout history. Of course, they're famous people...as teenagers, so not only are they standardly angsty, they have angst about living up to their genetic predecessors. It also sends up teen drama staples: Abe Lincoln pines after sexpot Cleopatra, who's dating school lothario JFK. His best friends are gothy Joan of Arc (who's not-so-secretly in love with him) and wacky party animal Ghandi.
And famous Canadians make cameos, and the principal is absolutely looney toons, and the vice-principal is a sweater vest-wearing robot who calls everyone Wesley, and it's got an awesome catchy theme song, and the best comedic timing of anything I've ever seen. So it comes highly recommended. So worth tracking down the DVDs on the second-hand market (I got mine from Amazon.ca, but it seems they only have the French version in stock).
I'm not a spoiler-phobe, so if you're not either, you could check out the memorable quotes on IMDB to see if it continues to tickle your funny bone:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305011/quotes
Or feel free to bemoan if you like: about the fact they only made one season, or some of the disappointing aspects of the series. (I've always hated the Scudworth-vs.-various-Woody-Woodpecker-esque-creatures segments, and in my opinion it peaks early and some of the late eps, like Snowflake Day, fall a bit flat.)
groovesinorbit that she should watch Clone High! It's hard to advocate clearly without gushing too much!
Here was my attempt to explain, describe, and fan the flames (comment repeated here as not everyone has access to the friends-locked entry):
It is hard to adequately describe the splendor of Clone High. Sadly cancelled after one season, it's an animated series out of Canada about a high school, except all the students are clones of brilliant minds from throughout history. Of course, they're famous people...as teenagers, so not only are they standardly angsty, they have angst about living up to their genetic predecessors. It also sends up teen drama staples: Abe Lincoln pines after sexpot Cleopatra, who's dating school lothario JFK. His best friends are gothy Joan of Arc (who's not-so-secretly in love with him) and wacky party animal Ghandi.
And famous Canadians make cameos, and the principal is absolutely looney toons, and the vice-principal is a sweater vest-wearing robot who calls everyone Wesley, and it's got an awesome catchy theme song, and the best comedic timing of anything I've ever seen. So it comes highly recommended. So worth tracking down the DVDs on the second-hand market (I got mine from Amazon.ca, but it seems they only have the French version in stock).
I'm not a spoiler-phobe, so if you're not either, you could check out the memorable quotes on IMDB to see if it continues to tickle your funny bone:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305011/quotes
Or feel free to bemoan if you like: about the fact they only made one season, or some of the disappointing aspects of the series. (I've always hated the Scudworth-vs.-various-Woody-Woodpecker-esque-creatures segments, and in my opinion it peaks early and some of the late eps, like Snowflake Day, fall a bit flat.)