Everyone. Everyone listen up. EVERYONE LISTEN UP.
Apparently…apparently… apparently… there’s an animated Hanna-Barbara style TV show where Mike Tyson solves crimes? Like, it’s in the style of Scooby-Doo. It aired on TV. It aired on TV for SIXTY NINE episodes from 2014-2020. Did you know this? I didn’t know this! I DIDN’T KNOW THIS.
What is it about? Well, as I said, I had NO idea, so I went to IMDb. This is what the description says:
“In this macabre comedy, retired boxing champion Mike Tyson, his brainy adopted Asian-American daughter, a friendly but wimpy gay gentleman ghost and a cursed perverse mean-spirited talking pigeon solve weird mysteries together.”
I’m… I’m speechless. (Actually, the pigeon part makes sense because Mike Tyson actually LOVES pigeons.)
So, okay, it seems to exist for ADULTS, like as a funny weird pastiche of midcentury kiddie mystery shows. It’s produced by Warner Brothers for Adult Swim, and was created by Mike Tyson, Hugh Davidson, and Lee Stimmel. The daughter’s name is Yung. The ghost’s name is Marquess. The pigeon’s name is Pigeon. Mike Tyson voices himself. Jim Rash voices the ghost. Norm Macdonald voices the pigeon.
And although I normally have an aversion to cartoons-intended-for-grown-ups, I will be watching this.
- Here are some episode descriptions:
- “Author Cormac McCarthy asks Mike and his Mystery Team to come to his ranch and help him find an ending for his latest novel. Mike discovers that the ranch is being haunted by the El Chupacabra – and rival author John Updike.”
- “A terrified widow asks Mike and the gang to catch the chainsaw killer who dismembered her therapist husband and is now coming for her. Horrified, Marquess suggests that they call the police but Mike’s too busy trying out his merchandise.
- “While Mike goes to give a commencement speech at Miami University in Ohio, NOT Miami, a human trafficker takes Yung as compensation for Pigeon’s gambling debt. Can Marquess and Pigeon save her before Mike gets home – or find another Yung?”
- “After Wayne Brady drops out of a show for the military in Afghanistan, Mike is asked to fill in. Mike’s manager Deezy agrees to take over the mystery solving business while they’re away and catch a mummy on the loose in a museum.”
- “When a guest goes missing from the set of the late night interview show [Charlie Rose], Mike and the team are off to New York. But more importantly, will anyone remember it’s Marquess’ birthday?”
- “The team takes the Pigeon to his old lakeside home to see his hot ex-wife Sandra, who turned him into a bird, and sign their divorce papers. A kooky old Native American warns the team of something called Ogopogo that lives in the lake.”
- “Mike disbands the team under the belief that they have solved all the mysteries in the world. Snoop Dogg has assembled his own mystery operation. However, when a member of Snoop’s team disappears, he summons Mike for help.”
I don’t know what to say.
