[ADULT SWIM] PADDLES YOUR WAY!
For those animation lovers who are in the Vancouver area, this week's Animation Night will be lead by Katie and will be an introduction to the world of Cartoon Network's [adult swim]
Adult Swim is a programming block on Cartoon Network that is geared toward the 19-24 age group. It debuted on Sunday night, September 2, 2001. The programming included cheap looking animated shorts that relied on absurd humour and innuendo. To everyone's surprise it was a big enough hit that Adult Swim was split apart from Cartoon Network so that Nielsen Media Research could monitor separate ratings.
The original shows consisted of old Hanna Barbera characters that were given new personalities and it reused animation from the old shows to create new situations with new dialogue. This concept was made popular in 1994 with Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast in which retired superhero Space Ghost (from the 1966 show Space Ghost and Dino Boy) had his own talk show and would interview celebrities.
This show and its spinoff Aqua Teen Hunger Force became the mascots for the Adult Swim as it added more shows to its line up including Sealab 2021 (taken from 1972's Sealab 2020), Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law (taken from 1967's Birdman and the Galaxy Trio) and another Space Ghost spinoff, The Brak Show. It also incorporated non-original shows like Family Guy and Futurama and many different anime series such as Cowboy Bebop and InuYasha.
It now runs Monday-Thursday at 10:30pm, has an anime block on Saturdays at 10pm and all new episodes every Sunday night at 11pm. New shows include Robot Chicken, Moral Orel, Squidbillies, 12 oz Mouse, Boondocks and American Dad.
Update: Thanks to all who came out last night! See you in two weeks!
Last night's program:
Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast - Batmantis
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - The Cloning
Sealab 2021 - Stimutacs
The Brak Show - Mother, Did You Move My Chair?
Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law - SPF
Robot Chicken - Vegetable Funfest
6 comments:
I wouldn't mind if you gave away the evening... then I'd know what the heck I'm presenting. That would really help me out. :P
Have fun with your presentation, Katie :D
Hey I should watch the one about the lawyer...didn't even know it existed...
I would really love to see more Harvey Birdman.
Cartoonsecrets, your site is really terrible. You are only concerned with grabbing peoples' money and you don't put any thought into your content.
The Batman: TAS page only briefly touches on the last season and features pictures from various Batman comicbooks, not cartoon stills!
The SWAT Kats page has better content but has phrases like "SWAT Kats pictures and SWAT Kats Radical Squadron DVD releases" right in the middle of sentances to boost the number of searches!
The Captain Caveman writeup looks like it was run through Babblefish. Here is a sample paragraph:
Them drives/abilities: The capable, superhuman force to fly - was saved the air by its club. The end of its club would be able to open also to produce virtually any apparatus that needed. The Bird of the cave lived in the club, and appeared to maintain these devices. At least in modern times that its powers have an unfortunate tendency to distribute in the worst possible moments - Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels cartoons this can be a side-effect of its long frozen hibernation. The shouts of its name was seemed to help it renews its abilities. The skin of the brute seemed also to serve as a space of storage for an incredible number of things, inclusive larger distant alive dinosaurs than he was -reaching in the hair of chest that would be able to produce almost something.
I haven't even touched on the ads and banners that litter every page.
cartoonsecrets, your site is really awful and I can't say that I will be supporting it.
the programming of adult swim is the best they could do for me! the step really well watching TV! I love the programs!
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