Metalocalypse (season 3)

Metalocalypse Season III:
The Dead Man

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Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 10
Release
Original network Adult Swim
Original release November 8, 2009 (2009-11-08) – October 24, 2010 (2010-10-24)
Season chronology

The third season of the animated show Metalocalypse originally aired on Adult Swim from November 8, 2009 to October 24, 2010 with 10 episodes. The show follows virtual death metal band Dethklok. This season featured a 21 minute runtime (30 with commercials).[1][2][3]

In May 2015, this season became available on Hulu Plus.

Guests

This season featured guest voice actors from musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Slash, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Ace Frehley, Matt Pike of High on Fire, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, and Troy Sanders of Mastodon, and Grutle Kjellson, Arve Isdal, and Herbrand Larsen of Enslaved. Actress Frankie Ingrassia and comedians Laraine Newman and Andy Richter also appeared as voice actors.

Special features

Disc One
Disc Two
Blu-ray Exclusives

Music videos:

Production

Every episode of this season was 21 minutes long, as opposed to the 11 minute episodes from season one and two. Show creator Brendon Small wanted to use this extra air time to focus on character development and giving several main characters an episode dedicated to them. This was also the first season to be upgraded to the HDTV picture format and to be released on Blu-ray.

Comedian Brian Posehn helped write an episode this season; he would later go on to become a main writer for season four.

This was the first Metalocalypse home media release to be uncensored.

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
401"Renovationklok"Jon SchneppBrendon SmallNovember 8, 2009 (2009-11-08)301

Dethklok faces life without Offdensen, who has died as a result of his injuries at the hands of the Metal Masked Assassin. Mordhaus is now a floating fortress and is undergoing heavy renovations to repair the damage from the Revengencers attack, but due to the band's inability to manage their finances they find themselves in a financial crisis. The band plans the most expensive concert in history to herald their return. But their plans run afoul as their record label's president falls gravely ill, and his son (voiced by Steve Vai) is put in charge, and wishes revenge for an incident at the beginning of Dethklok's career. The concert begins as planned, but the plug is literally pulled on Dethklok, and are unable to continue unless they renegotiate their contract on terms much more favorable to the label. Just as Nathan prepares to sign the new contract, Offdensen appears, apparently back from the dead, and tells Dethklok that they should continue with the show and that he will take care of the contract. After the band finishes their concert, Offdensen explains that he had himself pronounced dead at the scene (at the end of Season 2), and that there was something he had to do, and that he will tell Dethklok about it when the time is right.

Guest voices: Scott Ian of Anthrax, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai

Songs included: "Hatredcopter" and "Crush the Industry"
412"Tributeklok"Jon Schnepp & Mark BrooksBrendon Small & Mark RiversNovember 15, 2009 (2009-11-15)302

Facing public scrutiny following brash statements made by Murderface at a press conference, Dethklok decides to lift their worldwide ban on Dethklok tribute bands. While exercising their right to approve or disapprove of any tribute act, the band discovers that Toki has been posing as Skwisgaar in a tribute band called Thunderhorse. Trying to distance themselves from celebrity status and re-connect with normal people, Dethklok decides to join Thunderhorse, in the process kicking out all the original members. They learn the enormous amount of suffering regular bands go through, from starvation to sleep deprivation. They finally crack when Ofdensen asks them to return to Mordhaus.

Guest voices: Slash, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Laraine Newman, Steve Vai

Songs included: "Thunderhorse", "Face Fisted" and "Starved"
423"Dethhealth"Jon SchneppBrendon Small & Kristofor BrownNovember 22, 2009 (2009-11-22)303

After a near-death experience, Dethklok must face the brutality of going to a doctor. They attempt to get good checkup results by cleansing their bodies by drinking bleach, thinking it will "cleanse" them. Nathan visits a dentist while the rest of Dethklok goes to the doctor, and during his visit, Murderface accidentally ejaculates on a doctor's face. Afterwards, the checkup results show that Pickles has a terminal illness. Murderface then confronts the doctor about his experience, and finds that the doctor is flirting with him, establishing that the doctor is gay and thus nullifying any possibility that Murderface is. More lab results come back and reveal that Pickles is not dying as he switched his urine sample with Murderface who switched his pee with Skwisgaar who switched his pee with Nathan who switched his pee with Toki who switched his pee with his cat, which is actually dead. After the credits, Nathan and the doctor go out hunting, but as fate would have it, the doctor shoots himself in the mouth.

Guest voice: Ace Frehley

Songs included: "I Ejaculate Fire"
434"Dethmas"Mark BrooksBrendon Small & Janine DiTullioDecember 6, 2009 (2009-12-06)304

As Murderface and Knubbler prepare for their upcoming Christmas special (funded by the Christian church), Dethklok's mothers arrive for the festive season. Meanwhile, Toki goes gift shopping for his band mates only to discover that Dr. Rockso has found a job as Santa Claus in a mall. Toki takes Rockso back to Mordhaus. Murderface (tired of the band telling him that the Christmas special is going to suck) lies and says that it will be full off blood, gore and tits. Rockso finds the presents Toki bought and sells them to buy cocaine. Christmas Eve arrives and Murderface and Knubbler host the Christmas special. Nathan becomes enraged upon the lack of brutality and goes to the studio. Simultaneously Dethklok's moms get drunk and Toki, who finds a few balloons in place of where his gifts used to be, sets off to kill Rockso. Rockso, the drunk moms and Dethklok crash the Christmas special and the credits roll as Toki gets crushed by a large, wooden cross, Rockso gets a handjob from Surfetta and Murderface gets brutally beaten by the head of the Christian church (voiced by Enslaved's Grutle Kjellson) in front of a live audience and aired on TV.

Guest voices: Grutle Kjellson, Arve Isdal and Herbrand Larsen of Enslaved, Laraine Newman

Songs included: "The Cyborg Slayers"
445"Fatherklok"Jon SchneppTeleplay: Brendon Small
Story: Brendon Small & Brian Posehn		December 13, 2009 (2009-12-13)305

After many paternity lawsuits, Skwisgaar decides that he should find his father. Several thousand men come forward, claiming to be Skwisgaar's father as they had sex with his mother, but DNA testing finds no match. Meanwhile, much to Pickles's jealousy, Murderface steps up to be a father figure to Skwisgaar. Skwisgaar then receives a message from his mother, Serveta, saying she found his father and quits the band and moves back to Sweden. There, he discovers that Serveta was referring to his new stepfather, as opposed to his biological father. Back at Mordhaus, the band seems to crumble without having Skwisgaar there, and they decide to go to Sweden and get Skwisgaar back. In Sweden, Skwisgaar apologizes to his stepfather, and begins working in a lumberyard with him. Later on that night, the other members of the band attempt to convince him to return, but to no avail, as he is "finally happy". Before they leave, Nathan tells him that he is a god and he won't be able to live with regular people. When returning home with his stepfather, they walk in to find Serveta having sex with two men; Skwisgaar's stepfather runs away, and when Skwisgaar feels that he is without a dad again. He realizes that what Nathan said is true, that he isn't a regular person, but he is a guitar god.

Guest voices: Laraine Newman, Matt Pike of High on Fire and Sleep
456"Fertilityklok"Mark BrooksBrendon SmallSeptember 26, 2010 (2010-09-26)306

After playing in Tokyo, Dethklok kidnaps and threatens to kill Toki for his birthday party as a practical joke. The band gives him several women to sleep with, but Toki declines and instead begins the search for a soul mate using a dating service. After realizing looks do matter to him, instead of just "what's inside", he returns to having sex with numerous women. Meanwhile, Murderface, fed up with his sexual performance, bets Skwisgaar that he can sleep with more women than Skwisgaar can. Murderface loses the bet, ends up with his penis broken and splayed by a bat-wielding husband, and faces a sexual harassment suit after harassing a female Klokateer. In the episode's epilogue, Toki slept with more women than Skwisgaar can, and he pronounced that he can pull out his "dick".

Guest voices: Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Frankie Ingrassia, Andy Richter and Laraine Newman

Songs included: "Biological Warfare"
467"Dethsiduals"Mark BrooksBrendon Small & Kristofor BrownOctober 4, 2010 (2010-10-04)307

Toki and Murderface are put on probation after their frivolous lawsuit against the other band members regarding residuals is dismissed and their contribution to the band is called into question. While on probation, Toki and Murderface act as celebrity guest judges on "American Super Talent Havers" to make some extra money. On the show, they judge a nu metal band known as Get Thee Hence (voiced by Mastodon's Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, and Troy Sanders and Kiss' Ace Frehley) and like the group so much that they decide to start their own record label called MurderTooth Records and sign Get Thee Hence as their first and only band. While Toki and Murderface learn the horrors of managing a band, Pickles, Nathan, Skwisgaar, and the audience are unhappy with their new 47 songs because it lacks negativity. In the end, the band realizes that they liked the band the way it was and reconcile.

Guest voices: Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, and Troy Sanders of Mastodon, Ace Frehley

Songs included: "Killstardo Abominate"
478"Rehabklok"Mike RoushBrendon SmallOctober 10, 2010 (2010-10-10)308

After an accident at a show in Mozambique that seemed to be caused by Pickles' drinking costs millions of dollars in damage, Pickles is into rehab. While in rehab, the band replaces Pickles at practice with a high tech, sentient drum machine named X2P1158 which is inexplicably armed with a 10,000 megaton self detonation device. In the style of a musical, Pickles walks away. At the rehab center, Malevolent Creation, Pickles tried to escape, but is stopped. The doctor and his friends asked Pickles why did he drink. He answered the truth. His brother lied to Pickles, because he burned down the garage and blamed it on him when he was a kid, which is the only reason why the Drummer drank, leaving the doctors to command Pickles to forgive Seth. He is rehabilitated through steps 1 through 11 leaving only step 12 which requires him to forgive his brother Seth whom he hates because he blames his brother for his drinking. When Pickles returns to the band, he discovers that he has been replaced by X2P1158 until he finishes the 12th step and forgives his brother. In the meantime, X2P1158 becomes self-aware through alcohol, drugs and sex with groupies, an event its creators warned against. Pickles forgives his brother while at dinner at Outback Steakhouse, who immediately extorts 5 million dollars from him. When the band informs X2P1158 who they have recently come to dislike, the drum machine goes haywire and kidnaps the band, locking them in a van and starts its self detonation sequence while attached to the vehicle. Pickles, deciding to save the band, drinks alcohol and consequently gains a Popeye-like strength which allows him to bust out of the room that X2P1158 has locked him in. Pickles saves the band, destroying X2P1158 in the process. In a scene after the credits, Dethklok relaxes in a sauna and grants Pickles for saving his bandmates' lives from X2P1158. In the end, Pickles vomited.

Guest voice: Kirk Hammett of Metallica

Songs included: "Skyhunter" and "Killstardo Abominate"
489"Dethzazz"Mark BrooksBrendon Small & Janine DiTullioOctober 17, 2010 (2010-10-17)309

Toki tries to reunite Dr. Rockso's band, and make his life more successful by investing into the ultimate Zazz Blammymatazz reunion. Dethklok becomes actively engaged to the success of the concert due to the fact that Toki wasted all of the band's vacation fund for their trip to Disneyland on the concert. It is revealed that this is at least the 4th attempt to reunite Zazz Blammymatazz, and the other reunion concerts were canceled for a multitude of reasons, usually revolving around Rockso's drug addictions. The band tries everything to get people to go to the concert, including putting up posters, setting up interviews with the media; but during one final interview, Dr. Rockso's past is revealed, that his fall from fame was caused by a love affair he had with a 14-year-old girl named "Dory McLean" in 1981. This causes Rockso to run away, and hide in a crackhouse. Toki as a result, falls into a deep emotional depression. Rockso attempts suicide by snorting a powerful drug, but the band manages to find and revive the clown. Rockso plays the concert; everything runs smoothly until Murderface shows Toki all the money he got from scalping tickets (consisting mostly of quarters). Toki's irrational fear of quarters makes him panic and accidentally sets fire to the stage. Many die, but in the end Dethklok recoup their money thanks to an insurance claim, and Rockso is reunited with McLean, who is now middle-aged with a young daughter named Chastity (who Rockso becomes interested in).

Guest voice: Laraine Newman
4910"Doublebookedklok"Jon SchneppBrendon SmallOctober 24, 2010 (2010-10-24)310

Growing annoyed with Offdensen's neglecting them in favor of work, Dethklok unwittingly double-books a gig in both Israel and Syria, putting the two countries at risk of starting a war. Offdensen gets visibly angry and yells at the band for the first time in the entire series, going so far as to order them out of the room while conducting a planning session trying to fix the mess the band has created. The Tribunal initiates its "FalconBack Project", and it is revealed that Offdensen witnessed Mr. Selatcia brainwashing General Crozier in "Dethrelease" and may know not only of the Falconback Project, but Selatcia's true identity. The band runs away, but Offdensen goes after them and they reconcile. Dethklok plays the show, using Offdensen's plan to use 3D holograms to play both concerts and avert a war. In the final scene, Offdensen is hinted to have some connection to Selatcia as Edgar Jomfru is revealed to be a prisoner in Mordhaus for Offdensen's own plans.

Guest voices: Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, and Laraine Newman

Songs included: "The Galaxy"

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dethklok - "Metalocalypse Season III: The Dead Man" (DVD)". MetalUnderground.com. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Metalocalypse: Season 3 [Blu-ray]". Amazon.com. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Metalocalypse: Season 3". IGN.com. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
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