xavier: renegade angel

oh my god the baby eating episode is one of the most deranged things I have ever seen

if you mess with thee, she will punish thine

okay I've been seeing a lot of Xavier references/clips online lately which is odd because I genuinely don't think I'd ever heard of it before and I'm pretty sure I was watching Adult Swim during the time it was on. maybe it really was way ahead of its time.

amusingly one common experience seems to be people who fell asleep with the TV on, woke up at 3 AM and saw a bit of it then fell back asleep, only to discover much later it actually wasn't part of some weird dream

the burning person episode i'm guessing? lotta significant crystals being lost atm

Maybe having a resurgence because you can watch it on Max now?

I tried showing some to my wife and her opinion was that it's very much of its time, lol.

could be, also seems several people have uploaded it all to YouTube which I'm sure has helped a lot. previously you could only find clips and compilations.

I agree the show fits into the Tim & Eric/YTP stuff that was popular in the mid-00s but it also sometimes reminds me of those Vine/TikTok compilations where it's just a bunch of really strange/unpredictable humor coming at you really quickly and there's no way to really describe what's going on or why it's funny

xra's energy is still to be found in the work of, say, podel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_n8toR4Bxo

hell yes, more of this stuff please

pilotredsun maybe fits too though his stuff is less funny and more downright unsettling

another podel while i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLJiIZt0FEY

the key isn't just weird shitposting, it's weird shitposting that's had loads of effort and paralogical thought put into it

maybe conner o'malley speedrunning southland tales in 10 minutes counts too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6VOgmv9-c

yeah a lot of my favorite things are ideas that are incredibly stupid or insane that regardless have crazy amounts of effort put into them, it's why I love On Cinema and Lasagna Cat and even Neil Breen films. XRA just makes you feel like a pure observer, there's some internal logic to how it works but nothing you can figure out or predict, you can't discern a thing about the writers' views, and you can't identify with a single character outside of maybe Popo the Gorilla

hah yes "Rebranded Mickey Mouse" definitely fits especially the second half which in pacing and plot basically IS an episode of XRA

all happening so quickly, and so inaccurately

great show

i have bad news and a snack for you

Computer, explain!

"Xavier, according to my research, something very weird has happened here"