Customer Reviews

Squidbillies, Vol. 1

5 star:		(50)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

From one of the creative minds behind Adult Swim's smash Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies pushes the limits for offensiveness compared to some of the other shows on the Adult Swim lineup, and in some cases, even goes over it. It's all good however, considering that Squidbillies is mostly pure comic glee. The show revolves around an ex-con, hillbilly, talking squid named Early, who is re-united with his illegitamite son in backwoods redneck country. In between the series of mis-adventures that the two embark on, they deal with crack-pot family members, and a sheriff that has his share of problems. There's plenty of gross out gags and cliche' hillbilly behavior, and for the most part it's all frequently hilarious throughout. The animation style may not be everyone's cup of tea to be sure, but it suits the environment and the setting. As said before, Squidbillies is definitely not for everyone, but it keeps on supplying the laughs, and in that department alone, is worth checking out.

Yea!! I'm so glad this is finally on DVD. This is absolutely my favorite of the Adult Swim shows. You wouldn't think a show about insane, incestuous, drink-addled hillbilly squids would be described as clever and witty, but this show is. It's also disgusting and creepy most of the time, but I enjoy that as well. Can't wait to see all the extras.

Expand your physical, social, and metaphysical, boundary's then expand your mind with party liquor good times! WHOO! Travel to the deep south with the adventures of a uniquely dysfunctional family of squids known as the Cuyler clan.

This family lacks any modern day form of inhibitions. Running around scantily clad and often times only wearing a hat. Through good times and bad the family is continually brought closer together, so that they may once again beat the ever living crap out of one another.

This 2 disk DVD collection is a real keeper. You wont be disappointed in the mind numbing display of violent, corruption, and extreme overt racism. Makes a great stocking stuffer and if it don't fit, what were you thinking its a box of DVD's they go in the DVD player not a stocking.

I have watched this DVD collection twice over and continually on adult-swim as often as I can. Season 3 will start in 2008. I highly recommend this DVD box set be added to your collection. If not yours then perhaps the collection of a roommate you owe rent money to as a distraction to the fact that your a lazy bum that spent the last of your money on a DVD box set and are to busy watching one of the best shows ever made to go get a job. I would like to think we have all been there.

Dictated but not read.
Rd

Squidbillies is of course a funny show. Aqua Teen's Dave Willis is one of the creators, and freqently does voices. Anyone addicted to inexplicable Master Shake speak will find similar comedic gold. And some brutal rape and incest humor.

The thing I don't hear enough, or even at all is that this show is beautiful. The backgrounds have gorgeous brush strokes, scratches and spots. The characters have a squiggly "drawn" look, and at the same time move remarkably smoothly and are extremely expressive and articulate. If this show sucked I'd turn the sound off and just look at it.

I feel guilty watching Squidbillies because so much love obviously went into it. I don't think I have half as much love in my heart as is in this show.

Squidbillies has got to be one of the funniest shows on Adult Swim's lineup. I have been eagerly awaiting the DVDs for some time now and will be buying them as soon as they are released! It's about time!!!

I am so glad this is FINALLY coming out!! The crazy hillbilly jokes and characters are priceless.

Somehow the novelty of the fact that the Cuyler family is one of the rare, endangered "North Georgia Mountain Squid" never ceases to be hilarious as they do stuff, usually involving lots of mayhem and insanity and drunkenness.


Unknown Hinson's voice is a goldmine that makes any and all lines spoken by Early into hilarity waiting to happen, or not. The accents, the butchered english, the jokes, the sounds, all the sort of things, all done to a poorly animated, poorly drawn visuals that nevertheless are fun to watch because of their grit and filthiness.

Unfortunately for the show, it's one of those "Adult Swim" originals that typically will have a fanbase only as large as a hatebase. As many people would/will hate the show as much as people would love it.


Surprisingly, the creators, in one of the DVD bonus documentaries, take the show idea quite seriously, and detail stories of how hundreds of people put together crappy auditions for the roles, and how they did not want to "mock" Southern people or accents, but wanted genuine Southerners in the roles so as to make it sound more natural.

Another feature is an introduction to the character (because he sure as hell ain't real) of Unknown Hinson, created and played by Stuart Daniel Baker, a creation of his he's played on local television in the South, and has released several albums of genuine music for. You can find his album "The Future is Unknown" on Amazon, and see clips from his live performances on Youtube (including a masterfully done cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child").

He's a genuine artist, musician, performer, and actor, and even though he sounds identical and seems similar to Early Cuyler, he's completely different and a delight to see in this feature on the DVD, from behaving like a diva for the show's production, berating Dana Snyder for using a "girly" voice when voicing Granny, and chasing people around with a gun. It's all great.


Ultimately, though, the show is about crazed dialogue, overt offensive humor, and seemingly "random" things (such as aliens who befriend the Cuyler, and shout "Death to America!" at random moments, which no one seems to notice).

This is a show that is immensely quotable. So I leave you with quotes:

"Granny: When I was little, we didn't have fancy ketchup. We just had ketchup. We used to make it out in the back out of possum tails. Only we just called it blood."


"Dan Halen: And what about your work ethic?
Earlie Cuyler: I don't think ethnics do no work, I mean that's they problem really. If you ain't like me go hang from a damn tree.
Dan Halen: Overt racial prejudice. Impressive."


"Early Cuyler: She was my dream, my muse. A vision suitable for the wide-screen format. I can still taste her fist against my face. The sweet sugary sweat from a lifetime of diabetes. A heartbeat you could hear from six blocks away. One big pump every hour."


"Dan Halen: Good work, Denny. You've arrested a fish... and your car.
Denny: Mmmhmm. Yep, I done it. Thank you.
Dan Halen: Any reason?
Denny: Suspicion, collusion... That that car goin' use that wide mouth bass goin' turn into a robot. Probably.
Dan Halen: Denny, I highly doubt that. But, if that's how you choose to spend your weekend.
Denny: I reckon I do. I'm the law. Tell 'em I done whittle this down to get that piece of corn out of my teeth that's been buggin me for two weeks.
Dan Halen: Very impressive. Do you see that cloud outside?
[indicating poisonous cloud killing the townspeople]
Denny: Yeah-huh.
Dan Halen: Direct traffic into it."



"Early Cuyler: Godalmighty, we ask you to bless this feast that lie before us, and please allow these spent lottery tickets with their silvery scratchery seasonings to nourish our bodies as they were unable to do the same to our wallets. Lord, thankya for the untimely frost you sent what claimed our pointless bananer orchards. Oh I was a fool to plan bananers on a mountain, you made sure of that. In short, thanks for nuthin'."

This is my favorite cartoon ever from Adult Swim. Unkown Hinson as Early Cuyler is priceless. I hope there are a lot of behind the scenes, and blooper reels, as voicing these characters has got to prove for some good outtakes. Squidbillies...You either love them or hate them. Should be a lot of 5 stars, and 1 stars on this product!

This is one of the funniest dvd box set that I own. I am so glad that I treated myself to the squidbillies.

"Get your yankee ass off my property! Don't carrrrre if the bank gave you a deeeeed!
This laaands been in my faaam for generations! Since we beat back them slinky Japanese!"
Just one of the opening song to squidbillies.
When I first saw Squidbillies, I thought I wasn't going to like it. I just thought it was going to be a racist show. But it turned out to be hilarious! It's probably one of my favorite shows. I love squidbillies! Haha. My favorite character is Granny. I see so much of myself in her LOL...