Jacksonville

Jacksonville
Premiere date	October 16, 1996
Music composed by	Sonny Sharrock Eddie Horst
Writer(s)	Andy Merrill Dave Willis
Animation director(s)	C. Martin Croker
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"Jacksonville" is the eleventh episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast season three, and the twenty-ninth overall. It aired on October 16, 1996 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Andy Merrill and Dave Willis.

With Moltar gone AOWL, Space Ghost hires the inept Tansit as his new director for an interview with the heavy metal band Metallica.

Memorable quotes

Tansit: Guest coming up, fresh off the griddle.

Zorak: Bite me, Metallica!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Space Ghost	George Lowe
Zorak	C. Martin Croker
Moltar	C. Martin Croker
Announcer (voice only)	Ken Osborne
Martin Quin
Black Widow "Charo"	N/A
Commander Andy	Andy Merrill
Craig McCracken (photo)	Himself
Tansut	Don Kennedy
Metallus	N/A
Adrienne Barbeau
Kirk Hammett	Himself
James Hetfield	Himself
Creature King	N/A
Brak	Andy Merrill
Lokar	Andy Merrill
Umberto Malzone
Tori Spelling
Bus driver	Unavailable
Bus passenger #1	Unavailable
Bus passenger #2	Unavailable
Passenger 12 (photo)	Dave Willis

Organizations

• Metallica

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Washington, D.C.
      • The White House
    • South Carolina (indirectly mentioned)
      • Myrtle Beach (mentioned)
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Pebble Beach (mentioned)
    • Texas (indirectly mentioned)
      • Houston (mentioned)
    • Florida (indirectly mentioned)
      • Jacksonville (mentioned)
• Ghost Planet
  • Studio

Objects

• Power bands

Vehicles

• Bus

Production

Development

This episode was supposed to have an interview with Paul Westerberg of The Replacements, but he stormed off after five minutes after he didn't like it because he wasn't informed beforehand what the show was about. This is even talked about in the audio commentary, but his name has been bleeped out.

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1996.

Music

The music was composed by Sonny Sharrock and Eddie Horst. The musicians were Sharrock, Lance Carter, Horst, and Alfrieda Gerald.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 16, 1996 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• Adult Swim's website skips this episode.
• After the recap, the episode opens up as the opening theme music to Charlie's Angels would.
• Even though he's not supposed to be there, Moltar switches his monitor onto the episodes "Freak Show," "President's Day Nightmare," and "Surprise," with Commander Andy in his bedroom, Craig McCracken celebrating in his swimsuit, and Judy Tenuta playing her accordion, respectively.
• The scene with Creature King is recycled footage from the Space Ghost episode "The Space Ark."
• The announcer is a parody of the announcer from the TV series Dragnet, which is most evident in the ending when he says that the names have been changed to protect the innocent, except it was in the opening for Dragnet.
• Dave Willis, Andy Merrill, and Jay Edwards provide audio commentary for this episode on DVD releases.

Everlasting influence

• Following this episode's airing, the scene where Metallica makes up a song was lampooned on E! network's Talk Soup.

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Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 16, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Two on DVD.
• In Australia:
  • October 2, 2007: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Two on DVD.
  • November 28, 2012: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: All Talk Collection on DVD.