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The Aquabats Super Show 

The Aquabats are novelty music. They are goofy. They are weird.  These are some of the criticisms thrown at The Aquabats. To me they are successful business owners who did not compromise on what they felt was their creative output. They made their own damn movie  and kept their creative freedom!

The Aquabats started in 1994 as a band that wanted to counter some of the negativity in the punk movement. A positive band! Imagine that! Sadly being positive and upbeat seems to make you fall into the realm of novelty music for some reviewers. Years went by, albums were released, and a fan base grew.  Christian Jacobs, known as the M.C Bat Commander, took some of that time to break his TV teeth in on Yo Gabba Gabba, which those of you with small children may be aware of. Lots of big cameos there, as he used his friendships in the music business to bring in talent such as Mark Motherbaugh on a regular basis.  The Aquabats, however, did not get a show. They failed with Disney.  This was probably for the best.  In 2010, after 16 years as the Aquabats, Christian Jacobs secured a deal for The Aquabats Super Show on The Hub.

Sadly, three years later The Hub was taken over and became the Discovery Channel – The Aquabats were told they no longer fit the format, and they had a choice: Allow Warner Brothers to buy the rights to their show and likeness, or get lost (I remember this, but had problems locating an article to support this.)

The Aquabats chose wisely. They kept their freedom and got lost. Sets went into storage, fingernails were bitten. In 2019, on the second attempt at crowdfunding, the Aquabats raised enough money to continue mini-episodes  known as The Aquabats Radventures on You Tube.  Just this year, Shout! Factory TV,  a company with exquisite taste, added The Aquabats Super Show to their distribution which leads to us being able to watch the episodes today (outside of YouTube.)

Okay!  Enough of my talk. If you want to learn more about the Aquabats, visit their website.  I picked a few episodes.  Choose what you want to watch!  Or go to YouTube / Tubi and pick what you want to watch.  It was ridiculously hard to just pick a few episodes:

Watch!  Or Don’t!  Everything is voluntary!  Next time: Commies!  Vampires!  Sex!  Watch Comrade Dracula, an almost new movie you never heard of!

*For you kids, The Hub was a channel, much like today’s streaming stations, broadcast on a medium called “cable,” which forced people to accept packages of expensive channels and pay rental on substandard ‘cable receiver boxes.’  This outmoded business monopoly, supported by crooked governments that legislated competition out of business, was overthrown almost overnight by the internet revolution.  

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