King Dead

King Dead
Premiere date	December 17, 1999
Run time	12:00
Music composed by	Man or Astroman?
Writer(s)	Dave Willis Matt Maiellaro Pete Smith Jim Fortier Mark Banker
Animation director(s)	C. Martin Croker
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"King Dead" is the eighth and final episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast season six, and the seventy-sixth overall. It aired on December 17, 1999 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro, Pete Smith, Jim Fortier, and Mark Banker.

Zorak and Moltar walk out on the show when Space Ghost gets locked out of the studio, and start a band in Space Ghost's house, before making a list of unreasonable demands and somehow holding guest Jon Benjamin as ransom.

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
Brak	Andy Merrill
Tansut	Don Kennedy
Jon Benjamin	Himself
Unreasonable demands announcer (voice only)	Dave Willis
Zemvlox
Maiellaro
Willis

Organizations

• Freedom

Locations

• Ghost Planet
  • Studio
  • Space Ghost's residence
  • Burial Ground Apartments

Objects

• Power bands
• Inviso belt
• Snepponomicon
• Matt's Mind
• The Spells of Love

Vehicles

• None

Production

Filming

The clip of Catherine Bach was taken from "Urges."

It was copyrighted in 1999.

Music

The music was composed by Man or Astroman?

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 17, 1999 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• The episode title comes from bleeping Space Ghost's "fucking dead" line, so it comes out "--king dead."
• This is the first time the outside of Space Ghost's house has been seen.
• Moltar mentions Cartoon Planet.
• Snepponomicon is named after offline editor, Jon Schnepp.
• Matt's Mind is written by Maiellaro, as in Matt Maiellaro.
• The Spells of Love is written by Willis, as in Dave Willis.

Errors

• Space Ghost's house is referred to as an apartment, even by Space Ghost himself, but this is contradicted by the fact that the outside is a house building; his logo is on the garage door. The "apartment" is shown with a front door, but the outside of that front door is on the second floor.

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • September 11, 2008: Warner Home Video releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: From the Kentucky Nightmare DVD on DVD.
• In Australia:
  • November 28, 2012: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: All Talk Collection on DVD.