Tuesday, August 14, 2012  5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (08/14/2012):
Scooby-Doo!, Dragons: Riders of Berk, Gravity Falls, Adventure
Time and Randy Cunningham  This new Petticoat Junction reboot
looks dead sexy. Mrs. Bjorkland and her bjorkable daughters Each
Tuesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the
week's most noteworthy animated cable shows that are found
outside my Adult Swim comfort zone. The episodes are reviewed in
the order of when they first aired.  I know using a phrase like
"It's The Wire of lawyer shows" or "It's The Wire of space
operas" to describe a serialized show's novelistic narrative
structure has become a bit of a cliché lately. But Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated supervising producer Tony Cervone's recent
tweet in which he asserts that his show "has always been a
52-chapter long story" and nothing more has made such a phrase
unavoidable when describing why Mystery Incorporated is such a
standout cartoon.  As much as I like Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated, I'd rather see anothe