Suckup

Suckup
Premiere date	November 14, 1997
Run time	11:36
Music composed by	Sonny Sharrock Eddie Horst Man...or Astro-Man?
Writer(s)	Matt Harrigan Alan Laddie
Animation director(s)	C. Martin Croker
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"Suckup" is the nineteenth episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast season four, and the fifty-second overall. It aired on November 14, 1997 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Matt Harrigan and Alan Laddie.

Space Ghost tries to get in good with Talk Soup's John Henson and Entertainment Tonight's Bob Goen, so he can get more famous on their respective shows.

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
The Sorcerer	N/A
Christy	N/A
Parko	N/A
John Henson	Himself
Judy Ghostal
Oprah Winfrey
Bob Goen	Himself
John Tesh

Organizations

• Hanson
• The Original Way Outs

Locations

• Ghost Planet
  • Studio
• Earth (mentioned)
  • United States (indirectly mentioned)
    • Texas (indirectly mentioned)
      • Dallas (mentioned)

Objects

• Power bands

Vehicles

• None

Production

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1997.

Music

The music was composed by Sonny Sharrock, Eddie Horst, and Man...or Astro-Man? The musicians were Sharrock, Lance Carter, Horst, Alfrieda Gerald, and Man...or Astro-Man?

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 14, 1997 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• Gag credits include Nathan Cook as Space Ghost's former male secretary, and Michael Lazzo for shoes.
• Another set of gags are included in the special thanks, which are given to John Henson, the entire Henson family, friends of John Henson, acquaintances of John Henson, that girl who was nice to John in 7th grade algebra class, Bob Geon, the entire Goen family, friends of Bob Goen, acquaintances of Bob Goen, Mr. Goen's hairstyling team, Bob's prom date, the fine people at Talk Soup, the fine people at Entertainment Tonight, and especially you the viewer. 😉

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • April 5, 2005: Warner Home Video releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Three: This Is 1997 on DVD.
• In Australia:
  • November 28, 2012: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: All Talk Collection on DVD.