The Ghost in the machine

 Here he comes to save the day...

Oh, that's Mighty Mouse. Sorry.

Uh... "smelllllllllssssssss liiiiiiiikkkkkkkeeee...."

No, that's not it either.

Hmmm...

(Click to hear Space Ghost sing...)

Everybody near and far.
Hey ma! Look at me! I'm on TV!
Everybody wants to be a star.
I'm Space Ghost, Mr. Space Ghost,
I've got big muscles and I can dance,
When Zorak tries to bug me,
I zap him with my power bands."

Well, something like that.

(Switch to real life...)

Actually, Space Ghost began in the '60s as a Hanna-Barbera cartoon created by Alex Toth. But saving the universe just wasn't enough for our yellow caped, black-hooded, white-tighted superhero.

As the talk show wars raged on Space Ghost jumped into action. Being a superhero also means never having to say you're sorry for blasting guests with power bans.

But that's not all kids!

Space Ghost also devised a prison reform plan simply because he needed indentured slaves to work for him. Now, Zorak, the Praying Mantis of the Apocalypse, leads his band, The Original Way Outs. And Moltar, the lavaman, directs Space Ghost while watching "Chips".

Seriously, though, what really happened, well... kinda... it was difficult to get particular people to talk... but somewhere in Atlanta a bunch of goofy folks at The Cartoon Network got together about three years plus ago and pulled the original cartoon from the depths of history and brought it to the late night talk show circuit. Hence, "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" was born.

Guests such as Judy Tenuta, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Michael Stipe, Fran Drescher, Jim Carrey, Bob Denver and many others have been subjected to questions about the oxygen levels as they're grilled by our ghost host with the most.

And as if all that weren't enough Space Ghost and his band of merry, evil men created "Cartoon Planet," a variety show of sorts that has nearly made ex-space pirate Brak, unbeknownst to himself, a universal star.

But to heck with what we think. Check out the interviews with Space Ghost, Brak, executive producer guy Keith Crofford, a few words from Andy Merrill (writer guy and voice of Brak and Locar) and George Lowe (voice of Space Ghost).

Space Ghost is copyrighted by the Cartoon Network, Inc. All rights reserved. Animated character TM and copyrighted 1966 by Hanna-Barbera Prod., Inc., All rights reserved. There... we said it.