Korgoth of Barbaria

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Korgoth of Barbaria
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Genre Action Comedy
Running time 22 minutes approx.
Creator(s) Aaron Springer
Genndy Tartakovsky
Executive producer(s) Aaron Springer
Starring Diedrich Bader
Corey Burton
Craig Raisner
Tom Kenny
Country of origin United States
Original channel Cartoon Network (US)
Original run June 3, 2006–present
No. of episodes 1
IMDb profile

Korgoth of Barbaria is an American animated television series created by Aaron Springer. The pilot episode first aired in the United States on June 3, 2006 at 12:30 AM (EST) on Adult Swim. On June 18th, Adult Swim ran a bumper announcing Korgoth was officially picked up as a series. As of Comic Con '06 the show has been scheduled to release sometime in Spring of '07.

The series follows the exploits of the title character Korgoth (voiced by actor Diedrich Bader), and parodies Conan the Barbarian, as well as the sword and sorcery subgenre in general. The show is set in a post-apocalyptic world where sorcery and science exist simultaneously, similar to Thundarr the Barbarian. The Heavy Metal/Thrash Metal musical theme is composed by Lee Holdridge.


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[edit] Summary

From the Adult Swim website:

   
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 In a dark future wasteland, the great cities have risen and fallen, primordial beasts have reclaimed the wilderness and thieves and savages populate sparse, dirty towns. From the frozen north emerges a warrior known as Korgoth, and his merciless savagery may be his only key to survival. Korgoth of Barbaria is an animated fantasy-action-adventure-comedy from Aaron Springer. The half-hour pilot aired on September 25th at 11:00PM EDT.
   
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Springer has also been a storyboard writer and director for Dexter's Laboratory,The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy and Spongebob Squarepants.

[edit] Characters

"They call him Korgoth."
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"They call him Korgoth."

[edit] Episodes and Brief Synopsis

[edit] Season 1 (2006)

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
  • Pilot - Korgoth is infected with a deadly parasite by Gog-Ma-Gogg and extorted to steal an item known as "The Golden Goblin of the Fourth Age" from the wizard Specules. He journeys with a group of Gog-Ma-Gogg's henchmen to Specules' castle. Many random fights take place during his journey and at some point he saves a girl chained to a killer tree. He makes this girl his own and continues on. The group reaches the castle, considerably smaller than when it had left. The wizard is not at his castle and is presumed dead according to information provided by Gog-Ma-Gogg. Korgoth's posse begins to plunder the castle while Korgoth goes to find the Golden Goblin. In the middle of their plunder Specules returns explaining he was on vacation. Specules uses his magic and kills many of the men and incapacitates the rest. Then Specules creates a monster made out of gum to kill Korgoth. Korgoth defeats this monster with a little bit of difficulty. Specules uses his magic as a last resort against Korgoth, however he accidentily misses and kills Korgoth's girl. Korgoth takes a two-pronged candle stick holder and impales Specules through the eyes. However Specules survives this by transferring his head onto the dead girl and proceeds to fly out the window. Korgoth returns to Gog-Ma-Gogg with the Golden Goblin and gets the elixir for the deadly parasite, though the elixir comes with a prescription of many more and he is informed the elixir will take many seasons to take full effect.
Spoilers end here.

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