Adult Swim Trolls Fan Petitions To Bring Back 'Metalocalypse'
Adult Swim wants you to fax your reasons why the show should get a final season…just so they can trash them.
Jeremy Fuster | April 12, 2016 @ 4:09 PM
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Be warned, Dethklok fans: Adult Swim has heard your cries, and their response is brutal.
For the past two years, Brendon Small has been trying to get his gruesome animated comedy 'Metalocalypse' picked up for a fifth and final season. The series ended in a cliffhanger with the 2013 musical special, "The Doomstar Requiem," which saw the dark prophecies surrounding the wildly popular but incompetent death metal band Dethklok finally come to life. With Charles Offdensen no longer their manager and Murderface corrupted by an evil force, Small had planned to wrap things up with six final episodes, including a series finale called "Army of the Doomstar."
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But after budget negotiations with Adult Swim fell through, Small turned to the fans, starting a petition site called "Metalocalypse Now." The site encouraged fans to send guitar picks to Hulu urging them to make a deal with Adult Swim to pick up the final season, and even show up at a rally in front of the site's headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Small even got metal musicians like Devin Townsend and Scott Ian to show their support.
Now Adult Swim, with its typical trolling attitude, has struck back. They have put up a petition form promising to add their signature to the Change.org petition to bring back the show if they get enough signatures. The catch? The form asks for at least 125 words why the show should be brought back and has to be faxed to the network's offices, with the note that "Adult Swim's endorsement of this petition — in no way whatsoever — will bring back 'Metalocalypse'". The site has even put up a live stream of their fax machine receiving petitions and throwing them into a bin. The fans have responded by faxing other things instead, like pictures of Nicolas Cage and some NSFW memes.
Small responded to Adult Swim's swipe at his movement on the "Metalocalypse" Twitter account.
thanks for all the links to the latest adult swim troll -i replied to someone yester about it but i'm not advertising it. its funny but lame
— Metalocalypse (@youarethegears) April 12, 2016
@JFBenton3 thats their whole schtick with everyone, not just with us. its ok ☻
12 Movies That Served Up Dinner Parties From Hell (Photos)
From "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" to "Get Out," TheWrap lists 11 films that depict a situation in which dinners (or weekends) go wrong.
This 1966 classic "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with famous flames Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton could easily qualify as the original "Dinner Party From Hell," when a couple perform their private crises in front of two friends over a meal.
1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" isn't necessarily a thriller, but it's still a lasting symbol of the pain, conflict and true social awkwardness that arises when breaking bread with others -- and it further added to the legends of Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
In 1985's "Clue," the famed parlor game is brought to life with a very formal dinner at a patron's home that leads to murder and mayhem for Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum.
The Manhattan transplants living in a haunted New York country house in the 1988 classic "Beetlejuice" throw a dinner party to impress their friends. The undead, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, have different plans.
The underrated 1995 indie gem "The Last Supper" boasted an eclectic cast in Cameron Diaz, Courtney B. Vance, Bill Paxton and Annabeth Gish. It follows a group of ultra-liberal housemates who begin an odd tradition of inviting right-wingers and zealots for dinner -- and poisoning them for dessert.
1999's "House on Haunted Hill" might be a horror classic, but it certainly inspired dozens of copycats over its basic premise -- invite a handful of seeming strangers for a weekend getaway, and terrorize every last one of them.
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Robert Altman's 2001 period film "Gosford Park," about a couture-laden weekend hunt in the English countryside, becomes and upstairs/downstairs meditation on class (and, uh, murder) in one of his best and final films.
An aspiring employee (Paul Rudd) has to recruit an embarrassing dinner guest (Steve Carrell) at the cruel request of his boss in 2010's "Dinner With Schmucks."
In 2013's "August: Osage County," the reconvening of an impossibly dysfunctional mid-Western family went from Pulitzer Prize winning play to the big screen in 2013 -- and features a wrenching luncheon confrontation that ends in a electric physical brawl between Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.
In this Sundance heatseeker, dark things unfold in "Complete Unknown" when Michael Shannon throws a dinner party, and swears he's met a guests mysterious plus one (Rachel Weisz). She denies their connection, but the truth slowly unfolds.
"The Invitation" starring Logan Marshall-Green, Michiel Huisman and John Carroll Lynch couldn't feature a worse dinner party. A group of friends realize their hosts are part of a controversial new cult.
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Not quite a "dinner party" from hell, but a weekend from hell. An interracial couple (played by Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams) go to visit her family's estate for the weekend. Once there, he finds out her family had other plans for him.
Jordan Peele's "Get Out" is the latest movie to depict a pleasant evening gone wrong