Strength? High. Badness? Very high!

July 5, 2024 9:03 PM

Back in 2012 there existed, on the dooméd Hub network, a kids show too awesome for this world: The Aquabats Super Show (Season 1 and Season 2, both on Youtube), starring the superhero-themed ska band fighting a variety of weird creatures, ranging from ManAnt to the Krampus. One sign of its unappreciated greatness was the fact that some episodes were written and/or directed by Matt Chapman, half of The Brothers Chaps who created and still sometimes make more of Homestar Runner. One episode of the show was CobraMan (22 minutes), where they fought a 🐍snake person with a 🐍snake's head and 🐍snakes for arms that shot 🐍snakes from them. However, CobraMan had a manager, that helped him along in his nefarious career, called "Carl." Thing about Carl... he wore a familiar wresting mask, and spoke in a veeeeeery familiar voice. He doesn't wear boxing gloves though....
posted by JHarris (8 comments total)

OMG so realistic!
posted by aubilenon at 9:31 PM on July 5

Here is the episode cued up to where "Carl" first appears.
posted by JHarris at 10:22 PM on July 5

Just opens to the beginning of the video
posted by stevil at 10:40 PM on July 5

Try 4m in. (He appears for a second earlier but 4:00 is his actual introduction.)
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 10:43 PM on July 5

Argh, it's been "that" kind of night.... here it is.
posted by JHarris at 11:10 PM on July 5

Ok who plays Carl? I didn't recognise his voice at all?
posted by razorian at 11:51 PM on July 5

It’s Matt Chapman who voices Strong Bad from a very old but still kinda going web toon site Homestarrunner.net.com. Carl also wears a luchador mask similar to Strong Bad’s. This is not a coincidence.
posted by aubilenon at 12:10 AM on July 6 [1 favorite]

Ahh that makes sense. Never heard of him or the site before. :)
posted by razorian at 12:41 AM on July 6