Enter Apple and Onion, a Cartoon Network program about a world occupied almost entirely by food with arms, legs, and faces, and personalities reflective of their type. Most are cooked, well seasoned, grown-up.
Hot Dog
Burger
Pizza
Root Beer Float
Kobeba
The exuberant Apple (George Gendi) and the skittish Onion (Richard Ayoade) are raw, childlike, new to the big city. In the first episode they meet, face the crises common to newbies, and become friends and roommates. They don't really have an odd couple vibe -- it's more of a Mordecai and Rigby, as they set out to bring joie de vivre to their friends and neighbors, one food at a time. Of course, everything goes wrong.
When their landlord Falafel (Sayed Badreya) gets homesick, they take him out for a fun day in the city.
They play basketball with Hot Dog and Burger (Paul Scheer, Eugene Mirman)
They invent a new game, which they play against the scheming Bottle Cap and Whey.
They are stuck with a duck as they are preparing for a block party.
No one is specifically gay -- I assume that this rainbow is not intended to represent a rainbow flag -- but there is always a gay subtext with buddy pairs, and hetero romance is minimal except in the pilot (where Onion has a crush).
Ten episodes plus some shorts are streaming on the Cartoon Network website, and more are reputedly in the works.
Hot Dog
Burger
Pizza
Root Beer Float
Kobeba
When their landlord Falafel (Sayed Badreya) gets homesick, they take him out for a fun day in the city.
They play basketball with Hot Dog and Burger (Paul Scheer, Eugene Mirman)
They invent a new game, which they play against the scheming Bottle Cap and Whey.
They are stuck with a duck as they are preparing for a block party.
Ten episodes plus some shorts are streaming on the Cartoon Network website, and more are reputedly in the works.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Literally an anthropomorphic milkshake, order of fries, and shapeshifting ball of hamburger meat. Though it was more 90s heteronormative, typical of Adult Swim during the time. Even before their dog banana thing repeatedly raped the neighbor in I think it was the penultimate season?
ReplyDeleteLongest-lived Adult Swim show, which began as a Space Ghost Coast to Coast knockoff. (Great, now I'm remembering when Adult Swim was catering mostly to Generation X. Good times.)
I remember seeing the ads, but I never watched.
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