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IMPORTANT DATE IN TV HISTORY: March 23, 2008

PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON THIS DATE: Frisky Dingo, “Differences Are Put Slightly Aside” (Season 2, Episode 12). [Watch on Hulu.]

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: The second-season finale — and final episode ever — of Frisky Dingo begins with a “Previously on” segment that consists solely of a masked man in a robot suit riding a giant white larval creature wearing a diaper that’s marauding through the deserted streets of a city. That’s it. No context. No dialogue. The episode then begins where the previous one left off, in the middle of an armed stand-off between Killface (a naked, muscular alien with perfect diction) and the X-tacles (a mecha-suited fighting force). Nobody should just jump right into the finale of a series and expect to know what’s going on, but even as someone who watched every single episode of this series, it’s jarring to remember just how insane things had gotten by the end of the series.

Frisky Dingo is best known — if it’s known at all — for being Matt Thompson and Adam Reed’s pre-Archer animated series, airing for two seasons on Adult Swim. It perhaps should also be known as a test case for an animated series that burns so hot for such a short time that it self-immolates. The best reason to watch Frisky Dingo is that at its best, it was a comedy that was so fast-paced, funny, and self-referential, you couldn’t believe the kind of stuff it was getting away with. Blending the sensibilities of sci-fi, superhero movies, comic books, mockumentaries, politics, media criticism, and corporate culture, Frisky Dingo threw an unbelievable amount of incredibly dense comedy at its audience every week. In the series finale alone, jokes called back to catchphrases (“snip-snap”), meme-style arcana (“Cat Party”!), and recently-killed characters who had mutated themselves into crab creatures.

Honestly, don’t try to make sense of it. Certainly don’t try to make sense of Wendell, the former ATF agent turned vigilante turned psychopath turned surrogate-molesty-father to a giant mutant ant larva bay. To say this show got nuts by the end is a massive understatement. Perhaps it was never meant to go beyond two seasons, to just burn itself down to the filter like this and leave itself with nowhere to go. I can’t say with a clear conscience that it was a satisfying end to the series, but watching it again absolutely makes me want to start the series from the beginning one more time. TV shows as crazy/funny as this one don’t come around very often.