Adult Swim’s mockumentary special drops three synthesizer “lords” — Xangelix, Carla Wendos, and Morgio Zoroger, thinly disguised as Vangelis, Wendy Carlos, and Giorgio Moroder — into a sports-broadcast parody of Yanni’s Live at the Acropolis, framed as a newly unearthed 1986 concert. Halley’s Comet is bearing down on Earth, and only a synth battle graded on “sheer coolness” can stop it; Gerald Ford hands out the medals. It aired on Adult Swim in May 2016 and is still up on the network’s own YouTube channel.
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