Frisky Dingo - Season 2

The second season picks up pretty much right where the first ended, and continues the strange, winding storyline that it's become known for. My memory of the first half isn't great since they broke it into two halves, the first of which aired a while ago, but it featured a funny arc about Killface and Xander running for President. Xander fits the role of idiot conservative perfectly, and it culminated in a plane crash cliffhanger, leaving fans waiting for more. The first block also brought Wendell into the limelight, one of the funniest characters on the show. He starts off working for Killface but branches out and becomes very important to the outcome of the season.

There's a lot of running around and betrayal in the second half, but the central focus is on Xander's ex-girlfriend, who has since transformed into a monster and become pregnant with a mutant child. There's plenty of violence and laughs, and several characters get killed off. The finale includes lots of great moments and action movie clichés, culminating in yet another scene at the Annihilatrix site, with yet another cliffhanger twist. Sometimes the show seems like it's trying to be too clever instead of just silly fun like the rest of Adult Swim's programming, but it's always enjoyable.

Frisky Dingo - Season 1

After it was canceled, the creators of Sealab 2021 eventually came back with a new show, Frisky Dingo. While, like many early Adult Swim shows, Sealab was based off recycled art from older programs, Dingo is all original, although the art kind of looks like it was traced from real images. The show is heavily plot based, with each episode directly continuing the previous one, focusing on a story about Killface, a villain who's created the Anihilatrix, a weapon capable of destroying the planet, and the people who try to stop them, including Xander Crews, an idiotic billionaire who runs around in a costume for fun.

The show's humor comes mostly from the (improvised?) dialogue, which comes off as pretty natural and doesn't quite gel with the fantastic situations that the characters are actually in. There aren't many gags or real jokes, just funny conversations. As the season goes on, some goofier stuff starts happening, involving double-crosses and blindness and stuff like that, and it comes to a head in a finale that seems like it wouldn't support much continuation. Thankfully, the show fortunately resumed late last year, and the second season has its own finale happening tonight. I find the show's treatment by Adult Swim a little odd, seeing how the first season DVD has absolutely no special features, because it's one of the legitimately funniest things they have.