#9 of Animated Shows That Should Come Back

I live in a small town called Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Now why does that matter to you? Well, around the corner from me on a street called First Avenue is a spot called the First Avenue Playhouse which would hold auditions for a project that some kid from Henry Hudson Regional School was working on called “Clerks”. Later, this would be a comic book series which was then adapted to an animated series on the ABC network(owned by Disney)…since then Mickey Mouse has been seen sitting outside Quick Stop groceries(another local spot) smoking cigs wearing a skull cap and spitting rhymes to anyone who will listen.

Just the other night I was out to dinner with a bunch of people I work with at a place called “The Bistro” in Red Bank, NJ, across the street a local comic book establishment named “Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash”  was in our window view when this douchebag of a kid I work with from Boston asks “whooaaa, is that the store from the Kevin Smith films?”  I pretty much ignored him, just concentrating on my order of lobster ravioli, when my boss points him to all of the spots in town in which held claim to various films such as Chasing Amy and Strikes Back.

I’ll be honest however, as although some of those movies were really good(my personal favorite actually being the Highlands-based “Jersey Girl”), the only thing I could think about was how much cooler the show was. Granted, it was only 6 episodes, but the cast was great with everyone from the movie PLUS Alec Baldwin providing voice to their respective roles, you would think only a retarded network could fuck this up, right? Quick answer, yes. Only in the last year or so with “Modern Family” has ABC figured the fuck out that you need to bend some rules in the name of making people laugh, and that’s what the show did.

One might ask, could this show come back today? Absolutely, one thing I know about Kevin is that even with all the craziness that is animated now with shows like South Park and Family Guy, I guarantee the one person that could match both these shows in dark humor is some guy from Jersey who made a movie that everyone still talks about…entirely in the dark.