Adult Swim on Cartoon Network is playing Cowboy Bebop again! After watching the first episode, I had an uncontrollable desire to hop on YouTube and find a video of my favorite Bebop moment. Ein, a Corgi, eats some funny mushrooms and hilarity ensues.

If you haven't watched Cowboy Bebop yet, you really should give it a try. It's a futuristic space western with a kick-ass bounty hunter, an ex-cop with a robotic arm, a mysterious lady who loves money, a super-smart hacker kid, and a cute Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Also, the soundtrack is one of the best I've run across in a TV series. What could be better than that?
--Amy
http://weeklygeekshow.com/2007/09/cowboy_bebop_is_yummy.php

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Product Description

Enjoy true Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 and be immersed once again with Jet, Spike and the rest of the crew of the Bebop as they travel around the galaxy in search for the wanted criminals one bounty at a time! Longest Anime Broadcast Series on Toonami. Completely Re-mastered and Remixed and newly animated scenes with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound! Genre: Action / Sci-Fi

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22591 in DVD
• Brand: Infinity
• Released on: 2005-09-13
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Tagalog
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 125 minutes

Amazon.com
Each of these two snazzy 20-minute installments is a self-contained and satisfying adventure tale about a futuristic hipster bounty hunter, from the most popular Japanese animated TV series of 1998. This is elegant action-comedy anime, with smoothly integrated CGI space-flight elements, gorgeous graphics, blues harmonica and sax riffs on the soundtrack, and a no-sweat post-Tarantino attitude. Despite occasional eruptions of gun-fu Asian-action violence, and some intimations of heavy-duty drug use (one especially noxious narcotic is administered as an aerosol spray, straight onto the user's eyeballs), the tone is surprisingly convivial. None of the generic tough elements are grim or mean-spirited. Lanky antihero Spike Spiegel is a planet-hopping bounty hunter with a cyborg sidekick and a genetically enhanced Welsh Corgi assistant, and as many wisecracks as punches get thrown. The emphasis is on clever twists of plot in an episodic short-story format. --David Chute

DVD features
The reissue of the first episodes of Shinichiro Watanabe's Cowboy Bebop, the series that set a new standard for cool in anime, offers English and Japanese voice tracks in both stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1. Viewers with sophisticated sound equipment can savor composer Yoko Kanno's blues-inflected score, which evokes wounded, sardonic bounty hunter/"space cowboy" Spike Spiegel. In a commentary by Japanese actors Kouichi Yamadera and Unshou Ishizuka, the original voices of Spike and Jet, Yamadera confesses he really wasn't sure how to play Spike in the first episodes. But Wendee Lee, the English voice of Faye, says she always felt completely at home with her character. While the numerous commentaries, trailers, promos, and other extras, will please the series' many fans, what people really want are new episodes of Cowboy Bebop. (Rated 13 and older: violence, nudity, profanity, alcohol and tobacco use, occasional ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon