Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Rio Ghosto
TV Flash files “Rio Ghosto” as hour 69 of 112 in the TV Flash guide — Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994–2004) on Cartoon Network, season 5, episode 8, aired 1998-09-18, 15 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E08: listed hour 69 of 112 in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast guide, hour 8 of 12 in season 5. It aired 1998-09-18 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “Chinatown” (S05E07). Next is “Pal Joey” (S05E09).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Rio Ghosto sit in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast guide?
S05E08 is listed hour 69 of 112 — hour 8 of 12 in season 5, season 5 episode 8.
When did Space Ghost Coast to Coast S05E08 air?
Rio Ghosto aired 1998-09-18 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,…