Remember Time Squad? No? That’s okay I barely remember it myself. I know it came out when I was in high school and I was more interested in Powerpuff Girls, Daria, and the Justice League cartoon (did you ever watch the Justice League cartoon? It was soooo gooooodddd). Tangent over.
Anyway, this was a short lived series about three time cops, Otto Osworth (Pamela Adlon), Buck Tuddrussel (Rob Paulsen), and the robot Larry 3000 (Mark Hamill) who are supposed to fix mistakes in the timeline. They are summoned back to 1845 and visit Edgar Allan Poe (Paul Greenberg) who has become a lavender suited fancy man with a collection of stuffed animals and a garden full of tacky statues. The team is appalled when they hear this Poe’s verse about a bear returning his fanny pack (hehe fanny).
The Time Squad takes Poe to a series of depressing places in hopes of bringing him back to his dark and sinister works. Instead, the happy-go-lucky man passes out party hats, dresses as a clown, and takes advice from greeting cards one assumes he wrote himself. Side note: Best joke comes when he changes into his clown costume behind the curtain of an invalid man.
Spoiler alert: The mission is finally accomplished when Poe’s baking skills are criticized. He goes postal, becomes a depressed shell of a man, and the Time Squad finds their victory hollow. Although this whole concept makes for a darkly funny cartoon, when you think about it, it’s truly awful. They broke a man trying to get his metal health in order. I don’t . . . I don’t have a joke for that.
