On Sept. 20th one of the best television shows of the last hundred or so years will be released on DVD. Which show am I talking about you say, Clone High of course. So I don't have to go to the trouble of explaining the plot and introducing the characters, Wikipedia has pretty good article on Clone High here.Sure it was put on permanent hiatus by MTV after only one season, but I beleive that MTV is to blame for the lack of success of this diamond in the rough. After some small protests in India about the show's character Ghandi, who is actually a clone of Ghandi, and not the real Ghandi himself, MTV put the show on hiatus before the show was even aired, hid the website, and ceased all promotion. When things settled down a bit, MTV showed the series without any real promotion. It never had a chance.
In the US that is. In Canada, Clone High had a very successful, and highly promoted run on Teletoon. The series ran over and over. It may not have had the viewership of The Simpsons, or even Family Guy, but it was quite popular amongst my friends both in highschool and in my first year at York.
How could a comedy series about the teen issues of clones of historical figures not be absolutely amazing? ... That's right, it can't be anything but absolutely amazing!
I'm not sure if there is any planned release for the DVD in the US as it is being released by Teletoon rather than MTV, but Canadians can order it now here. You may as well go ahead and order Arrested Development Season Two now too, I know I am.
Keep on Tranglin,
Anthony
5 comments:
i LOVE clone high. i have a bootleg dvd of all of the episodes and quote them frequently.
i remember in first year you were principle scudworth for halloween. but your hair was so curly that you had a hard time getting it to slick properly.
good times.
"Raise the roof, RAISE IT!"
"Did you see the pool? They Flipped the bitch!"
Man I'm jonesing for some clone high right now. I never actually watched it on TV, only downloaded episodes on my comp...Sept 20th it is!!!
WOHOOO found 10 episodes on my portable hardrive... Clone High marathon!!!
"Way way back in the 1980's..."
nup never heard of it.
i'm starting to think i'm a little isolated down here.
AD is the shizzle.
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