We Need to Talk About Googoo.

Spinoffs! Let me tell you, Mister, the Star Warps has one or two - and not all of them are for grown up kids of all developmental stages. Nosiree, mister - there's stuff for the kids, too - like An Earwig Adventure, and Caravan of Carnage: the Bottle Vendor. So, lots. But all the more exciting is that there's a NEW kid-based spinoff coming soon from a galaxy near you - and it's called El Landolorian and Googoo, and it's about Mango the Landolorian and his cute sidekick Googoo, who is really Yoder's baby. I'm going to take you behind scenes on this new space epic....

Googoo. He's irrepressable!

Now, spoilers, but they released some of this during the Superbowler Sports Show last year, and it looks pretty good. It's based off the old TV series El Landolorian and picks up where they got off, with Mango the mysterious Landolorian (tm) collecting Googoo from a space orphanage on Tattoome. No sooner is the space scamp in Mango's ship when our helmeted hero says his immortal catchphrase "Don't touch that", and Googoo is all over Mango's knobs and levers and Whooosh! All hell breaks loose. It's comedy gold!

Whooosh!

Mango isn't having any of that, and so the two friends are soon jumping around from place to place in space and time, landing on strange creatures and meeting all sorts of outlandish worlds. It's retro, so it's great, and a lot of El Landolorian is so retro it uses designs from the original Star Warps designer Rate Myquarry. The effects are superb for television. But back to the story. Mango and Googoo go EVERYWHERE - Tattoome, the imperious world of Cormorant, and all places inbetween. They even visit other friends by jumping into THEIR series - it's like Forest Grump in space!

"You can't touch that!"

So then, they visit the junk-loving Jawers from Star Warps, the diminutive Oddnoughts from Clown City - and even Luke Sandhater, who tries to train Googoo. Chaos ensues!

"Help me, Opie-One!"

Eventually they land in Bobo Fett's series, which is pretty cool because he wasn't doing anything special, and it gives Mango a chance to bond with his father. Oh and Bad Cane from the Clown Warps cartoons shows up, but by then I was confused and switched over to some infomercials to settle myself down. But I'm ready for El Landolorian and Googoo coming this year. I am Hypped for more space mischief! I hope Mango gets some time alone with his girlfriend Ms Landloroian at last.

"You said we wouldn't be babysitting again, Mango!"

But with Googoo around, I wouldn't bet on it! As Hank says, "I'm feeling bad about this..."