Perfect Hair Forever

"Uncle Grandfather" redirects here. For the Cartoon Network series, see Uncle Grandpa.
Perfect Hair Forever
Genre Adult animation
Comedy
Black comedy
Created by Mike Lazzo
Matt Harrigan
Matt Maiellaro
Voices of Kim Manning
Dave Willis
Nick Ingkatanuwat
George Lowe
Dan Dumile[1]
C. Martin Croker
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 9 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Mike Lazzo
Keith Crofford[1]
Producer(s) Dave Hughes
Matt Harrigan[1]
Editor(s) Dave Hughes
Paul Painter (episodes 8 & 9)
Running time 11–12 minutes
Production company(s) Williams Street
Radical Axis (episodes 1-7)
Bento Box Animation Studios Atlanta (episode 8 & 9)
Release
Original network Adult Swim
Picture format 480i (4:3 SDTV)
16:9 HDTV (episodes 8 & 9)
Audio format Stereophonic sound
Original release November 7, 2004 (2004-11-07) –
April 1, 2007 (2007-04-01)
Episodes 8 & 9:
April 1, 2014
Chronology
Preceded by Space Ghost Coast to Coast
External links
Website

Perfect Hair Forever is an American comedy animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. The series revolves around a young boy named Gerald Bald Z and his quest to find perfect hair.

Perfect Hair Forever premiered on November 7, 2004, and ended on April 1, 2007, with a total of 7 episodes. Two additional episodes premiered unannounced on April 1, 2014 as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools Day stunt. The series is a spin-off of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, due to a special featuring Space Ghost, Anime Talk Show, coming on right after the premiere of the series to help tie it together.

Premise

The series concerns a young boy named Gerald who is on a quest to find the perfect hair to remedy his premature baldness. He is joined on his wanderings by an array of strange companions. Gerald is opposed by the evil Coiffio and his minions for reasons which are never stated in the series.

Production

Perfect Hair Forever employs an ongoing serial format, a style that had been uncommon to previous Williams Street projects, due to their lack of emphasis on continuity. Each episode of the series featured different opening sequence music and visuals. The style and music of the end credits also varied from episode to episode.

Following the first six episodes, members of the Perfect Hair Forever creative team posted on the official Adult Swim message board that they weren't interested in continuing the show to a second season, and at the Adult Swim panel at Comic-Con 2006, the cancellation of the series was announced.

Space Ghost appears in every episode, either as a character with an actual role, or in the background.

In October 2006, Adultswim.com confirmed that Perfect Hair Forever was back in production with 16 episodes to be aired on its online streaming network "The Fix." However, this was apparently incorrect, since after episode seven aired, the series was never continued.

Episode 7 was aired April 1, 2007, as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fool's Day joke. It is also available on Adult Swim's "The Fix" website. In 2007 the Japanese noise rock band Melt-Banana recorded the song "Hair-Cat (Cause the Wolf Is a Cat!)" for Perfect Hair Forever.

Broadcast history

The Perfect Hair Forever pilot first aired on November 7, 2004, in the time slot that had been advertised as the premiere of the Squidbillies pilot. Unknown to the audience at the time, the existing Squidbillies pilot had fallen behind and wasn't ready to air.[2] Williams Street continued advertising the Squidbillies premiere up to and including the bump directly preceding the show, which talked about wanting to make the show "perfect" for you and your "hair" "forever", revealing the title "Perfect Hair Forever." The night's confusion continued when, instead of seeing the opening titles for Squidbillies, viewers were confronted with a title card for an episode of Space Ghost called "Perfect Hair Forever", thus starting the pilot episode.

After the ending credits ran, a bumper card appeared, apologizing for the apparent scheduling mixup only for it to fade out to a fake "Technical Difficulties" card featuring a selection of Perfect Hair Forever's characters. This was shown on screen for several seconds, accompanied by typical music before the card faded to static whilst the Action Hot Dog's "Do da la la la la!" echoed. The card returned and the music was replaced with a techno remix of Action Hot Dog's chant.[2]

The first season of Perfect Hair Forever premiered on Sunday, November 27, 2004 at 12:30 AM Eastern Standard Time with the airing of the second episode. The pilot re-aired on November 20, 2005, though without the Anime Talk Show discussion spoof.

Season 2 was supposed to contain 16 episodes, and was planned to premiere online on Adult Swim Video. On May 22, 2007, "Return to Balding Victory" debuted on Adult Swim Video,[3] officially ending the series. This episode had already aired on television on April 1, 2007, as part of Adult Swim's April Fool's Joke. This joke spanned the entire block, beginning with this episode and then airing all of season one in reverse order and in the style of old VHS fansubs, complete with Engrish subtitles on most episodes. Occasionally, instead of the Engrish subtitles, transcripts from other Adult Swim shows were presented instead. It replaced scheduled premieres of Bleach, Blood+, and Eureka Seven. The prank was hinted at though, as the schedule listed the same episodes that were to be shown that weekend for the next weekend ahead of time.

Seven years after the series conclusion, an eighth episode was produced and aired unannounced on April 1, 2014, as part of Adult Swim's 2014 April Fools Stunt. Two versions of this episode, "Muscular Distraction - A" and "Muscular Distraction - B," exist and were aired at 12:00 AM and 12:15 AM respectively.

Characters

Gerald Bald Z (left) and Uncle Grandfather

Episodes

Season 1 (2004–05)

No.TitleOriginal air dateProd.
code
1"Pilot"
"Perfect Hair Forever"		November 7, 2004 (2004-11-07)101

The first episode concerns a young boy named Gerald who is on a quest to find the perfect hair due to his premature baldness. He seeks help from his "Uncle Grandfather", a pervert who loves to eat and watch his young schoolgirl companion, Brenda, dance around in a short mini-skirt and thong. Also of no particular help is Uncle Grandfather's gift to Gerald, the "Action Hot Dog". Action Hot Dog is a hot dog which chants "do the la la la la!"

The hero soon enters a forest, in which he encounters Cat Man, an odd cloud, Space Ghost being mauled by a Bear, his Coiffio's robot companion, 'Model Robot', and his arboreal agent, the Inappropriate Comedy Tree.

The end credits are written in the Wingdings font and use the song "Love Theme" by Eddie Horst. The credits roll over live action footage of a "dancing clown" windsock.
2"TiVo Your eBay"November 27, 2005 (2005-11-27)102
The second episode featured an opening theme song by Brendon Small. This episode has Gerald walking through the forest where he left off with the "Action Hot Dog" following him as a companion. Meanwhile, Uncle Grandfather meets a young man dressed in a shiny purple coat who claims to be "King of all Animals". Uncle Grandfather gives him a hamburger necklace. He is then sent off to assist Gerald, accompanied by a group of loud animals crammed into an economy hatchback. Meanwhile, Gerald is confronted by a flame-like entity named Rod, who calls himself the "Anime God". Gerald continues towards his destination, Tuna Mountain, now followed by the Inappropriate Comedy Tree.
3"Cat Snatch Fever"December 4, 2005 (2005-12-04)103
The third episode featured an opening theme song by the band Melt-Banana called "Hair-cat ('Cause the wolf is a cat!)". The Inappropriate Comedy Tree joins Gerald and Hot Dog on their quest. They were then accosted by a tornado. Uncle Grandfather watches in amusement from his roof. Upon going back inside, Rod suddenly appears before him and tells Uncle Grandfather that Gerald and Co. are still alive. Uncle Grandfather summons a hot dog bun to ensnare him. Rod disappears, and Uncle Grandfather sends the bun to find Gerald and tell him a message. He then calls Brenda, proclaiming that he has news of the utmost importance, and drops some change on the ground. Brenda picks it up, with Uncle Grandfather watching. The tornado turns out to be a friendly, if somewhat unstable, creature named Terry/Twisty. Coiffio, in his spaceship is bathing in his hot tub. He goes on about how he needs his robe to cover his "hot bod", while mispronouncing words. He goes off to talk to Catman, and once again, achieves next to nothing. The Animal King, while arguing with his animal subjects, succeeds in driving right into a ditch. Gerald, while walking along, begins to hear voices in the stump of his severed ear and the scene shifts to Brenda in a dark room, whispering in Japanese, into Gerald's ear. Uncle Grandfather bursts into the room, accompanied by unidentified policemen saying that Brenda has caused the beginning of the Cat-Bun Wars! The last scene shows the armies of each side converging on each other, ready to fight. After the credits, Coiffio plays a tune.
4"Happy Suck Day"December 11, 2005 (2005-12-11)104
The episode begins with the Cat-Bun Wars in progress. The Young Man and his animals hear the battle from the ditch, which is in the middle of the battlefield. The Young Man tries to use the hamburger necklace, which is stolen by Astronomic Cat, along with his hand. The opening sequence plays, which shows neon-colored versions of all the characters flying around in the dark, with Gerald constantly walking. Space Cat takes the necklace and the Young Man's hand to Coiffio, who then demands Model Robot turn in into an A-Bomb. Model Robot does so, explodes, and sends Coiffio into space. He then sings a song about Model Robot. Coiffio drifts back to the ship, where Rod tries to buy his house from him. Coiffio commands Space Cat to run a background check on him. At the grocery store where Catman works, Catman sells a 12-pack of beer to a baby. Coiffio parachutes in to the front of the store, just to be run over by the drunk-driving baby and shot by Catman. The baby drives into the ditch with the Young Man and the animals. Uncle Grandfather tries to videotape a vacuum cleaner having sex with a cake, but is asked to end the Cat-Bun Wars. He does so by asking the leaders from the Cats and from the Buns to sign a peace treaty. The episode ends with the Young Man still stuck in the hole with the animals and the drunk baby. Coiffio is still after Gerald. Uncle Grandfather is still taping his porno about the vacuum and cake, when he is suddenly held at gunpoint by an MP. The credits roll, with neon Gerald walking far into the distance. The end theme is by DangerDoom.
5"Tusk"December 18, 2005 (2005-12-18)106
The ending theme song for this episode is performed by Widespread Panic. Twisty and Norman Douglas get into a knife fight while Gerald and Hotdog go off without them. Gerald runs into Catman and his trailer in the forest and is offered LSD by Rod. Coiffio shows up on an oversized motorcycle whose spokes are made of hot dogs, and challenges Gerald to a race to the death. In exchange for Coiffio agreeing to sell his house to him, and Gerald agreeing to buy Rod's Journey tickets, Rod magically transports the two (along with most of the other characters) to a racetrack, where buns and cats fill the stands, and the Young Man and the giraffe provide the commentary from the booth. Catman releases an alligator onto the track to attack Gerald, but it goes after Coiffio instead. Astronomic Cat lifts the alligator off of Coiffio's bike and onto Gerald's, but Hotdog transforms into a "wienercycle" and saves Gerald by dueling with the gator. Gerald appears to have the advantage when Coiffio's hair falls off, as it is actually a toupee, but he abandons the race when he sees a chance to launch his bike to Tuna Mountain.
6"Woke Up Drunk"December 25, 2005 (2005-12-25)105
Gerald and his companions come ever closer to Tuna Mountain after several musical and laughtrack segments along with a conference by worried corporate television executives over the poor audience reaction to "Japanese Bear Dad". The executives are interrupted by a drunken Space Ghost looking for work. Gerald and his companions continue walking toward Tuna Mountain. At the end, we see three military policemen in bed, apparently having sex though none of them move. The end theme is by Diplo.

Season 2 (2007)

No.TitleOriginal air dateProd.
code
7"Return to Balding Victory"April 1, 2007 (2007-04-01)201
Gerald wakes up after his crash and continues his journey to Tuna Mountain. Soon the forest and all surrounding areas fall victim to a friendly flood named Wetsy.

Season Bald (2014)

No.TitleOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
8"Muscular Distraction - A"April 1, 2014 (2014-04-01)1.463[4]
After eight years, Gerald's quest continues. Gerald feels anxiety about Brenda getting married.
9"Muscular Distraction - B"April 1, 2014 (2014-04-01)1.274[4]

After eight years, Gerald's quest continues. Gerald feels anxiety about Brenda getting married.

Note: This episode marks the final formal appearance of C. Martin Croker playing the role of Zorak.

Home release

On October 27, 2009, Adult Swim and distributor Warner Home Video released Adult Swim in a Box, a seven disc DVD box set of a variety of different Adult Swim shows, the pilot episode of Perfect Hair Forever is featured on this box set on a special DVD along with Welcome to Eltingville, Korgoth of Barbaria, Totally for Teens, and Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge.[5] In June 2010, the bonus DVD, from Adult Swim in a Box, was made available for separate purchase through the store on the Adult Swim website.[6]

The entire first season was released on iTunes.[7] The entire series has been made available for free streaming on the Adult Swim website.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Perfect Hair Forever episodes
  2. 1 2 Squidbillies, Vol. 1 DVD commentary
  3. ↑ "Return to Balding Victory" – Full episode at Adult Swim Video
  4. 1 2 Bibel, Sara. "Monday Cable Ratings: 'WWE Raw' Wins Night, 'T.I. and Tiny', 'Black Ink Crew', 'Bates Motel', 'Archer', 'Being Human', 'Dallas' & More". TV By the Numbers. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Perfect Hair forever pilot episode DVD release on Adult Swim in a Box, 2009".
  6. ↑ Adult Swim Pilots DVD overview at adultswimshop.com
  7. ↑ Perfect Hair Forever season 1 at iTunes.
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