Time for Some Squidbilly Soup

There is a saying in my country. It was quite popular when I was a child, and even earned a Simpsons episode about it. It goes something along the lines of: "If you looked up (stupid) in the dictionary, it will have a picture of your face by the definition." "Stupid" could be easily interchanged for a bunch of different "insulting" words, such as fat, ugly, moron, idiot, etc.

When it comes to Squidbillies, I can't help but be reminded of this familiar bromide, but it ends up a little different. I think of something more along the lines of: "If you looked up the word 'bad' in the dictionary, the definition could simply say: 'Squidbillies'."

This isn't "bad" like that word meant in the 80s, when it suddenly meant "cool." Don't think you're clever if you responded to that sentence with a thought along those lines.

Squidbillies is an attempt to take the absolute worst about already popular Adult Swim shows - Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force - and make a show consisting only of that.

Sealab and Aqua Teen, and even Space Ghost had some pretty lousy animation. Almost like a bare bones attempt at the South Park style. This could be enjoyable in a quirky kind of way, but only worked because episodes of those show actually managed to have legitimately funny dialogue from time to time. The animation was pretty much the worst part of those shows.

But I guess Williamstreet decided that it was the animation style that brought people to watch those shows. But it wasn't. Despite the reality, Squidbillies is a show that exists to have an extreme version of the lousy animation from those shows. It's even worse, which I guess is one hell of an achievement by itself, but nothing to be proud of.

And apparently this show is supposed to be funny because the animation is just that fucking bad. It's so bad that it somehow makes the show "good." Which is such an utterly idiotic concept that it boggles the mind. This is what they must think however, because the incredibly bad animation is the only thing the show has. That's it. Nothing else. The writing might as well not be existent. I have never in my life seen a more pure example of a completely lack to even just try to write something. It almost seems like the "writers," (it pains me to even call them that) simply sat around a tape recorder and spoke into it while growing progressively drunker throughout the night. Then they took some dice and rolled them, and whatever number it landed on they would go that many sentences through the recording and pick whatever was said and write it down as the next line of the script.

To say it makes no sense would be a compliment to this show. It doesn't even bother to try and make sense. It doesn't bother to tell jokes, it doesn't bother to have character humor, it doesn't bother to make absolutely any aspect of the show whatsoever into anything that is even worth the time it takes to create it.

There are probably plenty of 5-year-olds out there who can make an overall more entertaining and better done television show than Squidbillies. This show is literally bottom of the barrel. There is absolutely nothing here worthwhile, and yet somehow it's on its third season (of 20 episode seasons!?).

My only assumption is that they were literally trying to make the absolutely worst show they possibly could. That is the only logical conclusion I can draw. And they would have succeeded, too, if it wasn't for Tim and Eric.