Andrew W.K. has a new gig involving metal: The rocker will host Cartoon Network’s live-action reality competition Destroy Build Destroy, EW.com has learned. Each week two teams of teens — with the help of experts, wrecking balls, and explosions — obliterate some sort of large-scale vehicle or machine, then create something entirely different out of it. The winners get to annihilate the losers’ work. Destroy Build Destroy will debut this summer.
Apr 22
2009
11:00 PM ET
Andrew W.K. to host 'Destroy Build Destroy' on Cartoon Network
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This sounds so ridiculously awesome that I’m willing to forgo my usual rant about CN trying to compete with Nick and Disney with live action shows. (You’re CARTOON network! Just be that! Okay, mostly forgo.)
okaaay… when CARTOON network starts having live-action shows, and reality at that, something’s wrong. can’t they just bring back the old hanna-barbaras and looney toons? or do some original stuff like powerpuff girls and dexter’s lab back in the day? what happend to good cartoons, anyway?
dude, are you serious? dexters lab and powerpuff girls are good? you’re jacked! those two shows alone marked the beginning of the end for animation. PS, Andrew W.K. is an amazing host. You’ll see my friend. You’ll see.
Furthermore, Adult Swim is totally different than Cartoon Network… Get real. You think Cartoon Network is going to turn into MTV??!! That’s rediculous. Get behind Andrew and he’ll take you to the future.
NEW CARTOON NETWORK STUFF SUCKS ASSSSS WHAT HAPPENED TO ROCKOS MODERN LIFE
i think andrew has this kind of correct mentality and he will bring glory back to what cartoon network should be.
Rockos modern life was aired on nickelodeon, moron.
But anyways, Anybody remember the old radio adverts for cartoon network? In case you don’t all cartoons all the time 24/7, What a crock of shit.
And why in the hell would anybody want andrew W.K. to host a childrens show, and hell, a knockoff childrens show at that, Irrefutably ridiculous.
Where has this guy been – I luv his music, so original – http://www.movielovematch.com
This is andrew w.k. and you have won to be on destroy build destroy!!!!!So just call 587-5862 im just playing haha u felt for it im 10 years old and i tricked you
Kid, me thinks you need to go back to school, nobody fell for it (area code?) second off we adults have something called common sense, You still haven’t had the time to develop that.
So please if you kindly would do us all a favor, and STFU AND GTFO MAH INTERNETS.
haha dude this is gonna kick ass Andrew is oerfect for this show hell I may only watch adult swim but ha I guess ill watch cartoon network for this show
how do I sigh up
I love this show, and I want to be on it. How do I sign up.
this show is pretty kwl
how do i sign up
i would soo win
PARTY HARD!
plus this new cartoon network sucks but DBD is more entertaining than that other gay show with Les Stroud
i want to sign up…..to win..that show is awesome
I LOVE THAT SHOW MAN I NEED TO COME I NEED TO SHOW MY MOM WHOS BOST MAN GIRLS RULE
if i could join this show when working with a car or with an engine i would dominate this show
how do u sing up its the coolies show on tv…..i want to join
The explosions aren’t the option choices picked, they are from secondary explosions made to “mimic” the picked option. As in the second episode (since I just saw it) the remote control car used to blow up the other teams rig wasn’t real. A real explosion was triggered when the car got underneath the vehicle. You can easily see it in slow-mo as well as they show the end of the car (t-n-t bundles and all) in one of the scenes of the flaming wreckage.
I don’t really know that I expected it to be real, but I wish it would have been better faked – I wasn’t even trying to spot it and I noticed the explosions didn’t fit the option given.