Aquabats! Supershow! sneak preview (animation, music)

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Today on Boing Boing tv, we are proud to share the sneak-preview of a television pilot, the AQUABATS! SUPERSHOW!, a live-action and animation program featuring the popular superhero ska band, The Aquabats (MySpace).

Jon Berrett of Yo Gabba Gabba explains:

This spring the Aquabats completed a pilot for a new television show based on the misadventures of rock and roll's greatest super dude men. The Aquabats have been a band for over a decade, have toured the world, and put out 5 full length studio albums.

The AQUABATS! SUPERSHOW! TELEVISION PILOT will have a special screening at the San Diego House of Blues show on July 25th, 2008 [during Comic-Con].. If you already have tickets, you are STOKED!

The excerpt we are world-premiering on BBtv today is an animated portion of the show's first episode, and includes angry mushrooms, vengeful unicorn princesses, and a subterranean paradise with lakes of hot pink lava. The AQUABATS! SUPERSHOW! also includes live performance and real-world hijinks. We think it's pretty awesome.

(Huge thanks from all of us at Boing Boing to Jon Berrett and the crew at Yo Gabba Gabba, and to The Aquabats for allowing Boing Boing to share this first with the non-subterranean world!)

[#1 posted by paddysat , July 25, 2008 8:16 AM]

Joy! I think the Aquabats! have been trying to get a TV show for quite some time. This is great news and I hope it flies. Seeing them live is exactly like a cartoon show from 1980 too. Capers and hijinks abound!

[#2 posted by Tits McGee , July 25, 2008 8:20 AM]

Oh, my head, that was fabulous.

My daughter is already a huge Yo Gabba Gabba fan - I can't wait to watch this with her.

[#3 posted by Anonymous , July 25, 2008 8:22 AM]

Props to Puny Entertainment, the animation house behind the animation in the animated portion of the Aquabats! Supershow!

http://punyentertainment.com/
http://www.punyblog.com/

[#4 posted by wispsmoke , July 25, 2008 9:24 AM]

I saw these guys live in the 7th grade, about 9 years ago, and they have never left my heart. Joy! indeed!

[#5 posted by mujadaddy , July 25, 2008 9:35 AM]

That is one pissed-looking unicorn.

[#6 posted by Xeni Jardin , July 25, 2008 9:46 AM]

@#4, actually, that's my serious face.

[#7 posted by mujadaddy , July 25, 2008 10:12 AM]

No wai. The red wig suits you ;)

[#8 posted by Anonymous , July 25, 2008 10:33 AM]

Just what the world needed.

[#9 posted by jahknow , July 25, 2008 11:05 AM]

Vengeful unicorn princess is vengeful.

[#10 posted by jlborghead , July 25, 2008 11:41 AM]

Might want to set that myspace link to:
http://www.myspace.com/theaquabats.
These are not regular aquabats... no, they are THE Aquabats!

[#11 posted by Xeni Jardin , July 25, 2008 12:16 PM]

@#8 jlborghead, fixed! Thanks!

[#12 posted by mujadaddy , July 25, 2008 1:04 PM]

For you, luv: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/mujadaddy/hailXeni.jpg :)

[#13 posted by Anonymous , July 25, 2008 2:23 PM]

That unicorn is hot... :9

[#14 posted by Trent Hawkins , July 25, 2008 6:27 PM]

god I hope this doesn't end up like screw-on-head

[#15 posted by License Farm , July 25, 2008 7:41 PM]

Good lord, I think I just found my new favorite show. The 12 year old version of me I keep tucked behind my ear agrees.

[#16 posted by Anonymous , July 26, 2008 2:02 PM]

Just got back from seeing their show at the HOB and it was everything I ever hoped for and more.

[#17 posted by Anonymous , July 27, 2008 1:48 AM]

Wow. The animation style is amazing.