Episode
Metalocalypse: Snakes 'n' Barrels
Overview
Pickles decides to go on a reunion tour with his old band, Snakes 'n' Barrels. The government plots to use a new super-drug to erase Pickles' mind and 'reprogram' him, thereby destroying Dethklok from within.
Details
- Series
- Metalocalypse
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2006-09-24
- Runtime
- 15 min
Episode context
Snakes 'n' Barrels is Episode 8 in Season 1 of Metalocalypse. It aired on 2006-09-24. The runtime is 15 min.
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Episode 7: Performance Klok
Dethklok has a huge fight on stage, which prompts the record label to hire a performance coach to keep the band together. The band falls in love with therapy for all the wrong reasons.
Episode 9: Mordland
Mordhouse, the home of Dethklok, opens its gates to the public for the first time in celebration of International Dethfan Day. Will the band and their fans make it through the experience? Dethklok find themselves in potential trouble after two Internet geeks threaten to release the band's exclusive, one-time-only, fan song over the internet unless they give in to their demands.
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