Space Ghost Coast to Coast
President's Day Nightmare
TV Flash files “President's Day Nightmare” as a desk essential hour — Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994–2004) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 1, aired 1995-02-20, 15 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 13 of 112 in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1995-02-20 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “A Space Ghost Christmas” (S01E12). Next is “Story Book House” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “President's Day Nightmare”. President's Day Nightmare: Zorak's contempt as house style, dead air already funnier than half of actual late night.
Viewer FAQ
Where does President's Day Nightmare sit in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 13 of 112 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Space Ghost Coast to Coast S02E01 air?
President's Day Nightmare aired 1995-02-20 and is listed at 15 minutes.
Are the celebrity interviews real?
Real guests played along with the show's hostility while a retired hero and his villain bandmates treated late-night as sabotage.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A retired superhero hosts a talk show and interviews real celebrities like nobody briefed him. Adult Swim’s ancestor in a cape: Zorak’s contempt, dead air, and banter that treats late-night as performance art. Cartoon parody that invented a network attitude — hostile, cheap, brilliant, still funnier than half of actual late night.
In medias res on a cheap talk-show set: a retired superhero interviewing real celebrities like nobody briefed him, villain bandmates sabotaging the lighting. Mike Lazzo's Cartoon Network series premiered in 1994 and ran in various forms into the 2000s. George Lowe's Space Ghost, C. Martin Croker's Zorak and Moltar, Andy Merrill's Brak. Max can keep his vending-machine late night; this is the cape that invented a network attitude — hostile, cheap, brilliant, still funnier than half of actual late night. Dead air…
Filed against
- George Lowe as Space Ghost
George Lowe's Space Ghost hosted a talk show like nobody briefed him — retired superhero, real celebrities, Zorak's contempt, dead air as 1990s performance art. Adult Swim's ancestor in a cape. TV Flash files him as cartoon parody that…
- C. Martin Croker as Zorak / Moltar
C. Martin Croker voiced Zorak and Moltar on Space Ghost Coast to Coast — a retired superhero's talk-show band of contempt, dead air, and banter that treated late-night as performance art. Adult Swim's ancestor in a cape. TV Flash files…
- Andy Merrill as Brak
Andy Merrill’s Brak mumbled through Space Ghost Coast to Coast as Adult Swim’s ancestor in a cape — a retired superhero interviewing real celebrities like nobody briefed him, Zorak’s contempt, dead air as performance art. Hostile, cheap,…