Free: Watch 92 Episodes of the Surrealist Cartoon, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Featuring Björk, Thom Yorke & More

Head over to AdultSwim.com and you can watch online 92 episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Not famil­iar with the show? Here’s how Vox frames it:

One of the most decep­tive­ly influ­en­tial series of the past sev­er­al decades, Space Ghost took the char­ac­ters from a junky old Han­na-Bar­bera series and insert­ed them into the mid­dle of a talk-show set­ting, where they could have the most pos­si­bil­i­ty for utter strange­ness. Celebri­ties dropped by to be inter­viewed, while the rest of the show’s back­stage shenani­gans played out with an utter­ly straight face, even though one of the major char­ac­ters was an evil pray­ing man­tis named Zorak. Was it ter­ri­bly sophis­ti­cat­ed? No. But it invent­ed a whole new pro­gram­ming bloc — Adult Swim — and proved sur­re­al­ism could sell in late-night TV.

Con­se­quence of Sound is also quick to note that Space Ghost Coast to Coast “brought an impres­sive line­up of musi­cal guests to the table, includ­ing Pave­ment, Dave Grohl, Thurston Moore, David Byrne, Thom Yorke, Willie Nel­son, and Space Ghost’s “wife”, Björk.”

You can catch Björk and Radio­head­’s Thom Yorke in the clips above. Watch all episodes here. And spend a moment think­ing about the show’s ani­ma­tor, Clay Mar­tin Cro­ker, who recent­ly died at the all-too-young age of 54.

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