What amazed me was who was attached to that Tom/Mayor piece o' junk. Odekerk, Jack Black, Kyle Gass, and I could of swore I saw Patton Oswald during one of the previews. These are all guys I think are hilarious, but I can't imagine why they waste their time with this crap.

Best thing about Adult Swim now...the bump music.

I thought some parts of Tom goes to the Mayor was funny. Like when they showed the clip of his stepkids throwing stuff at him and yelling "You're not our daddy!!" Everything else kinda made me sad, actually.

I've kinda gotten sick of Sealab and Inyuasha as well. It's just like the whole Dragonball Z thing again, where they restart so many times that it's not worth watching anymore. I'm only excited about Saturday's lineup, now. And I was really angry that they got rid of both Case Closed AND Lupin.

Adult Swim is almost like a small cult around here.

Warning: Opinions Ahead:

Family Guy and Futurama are always good for a watch, and Mission Hill and the Oblongs are solid too. Sealab has always seemed to be hit or miss, and ATHF usually just pisses me off. (same w/ space ghost, brak show, ...)
Venture Brothers seems pretty good, but I havn't watched enough to form an opinion yet, and Squidbillies is just horrid.
I watched 3 minutes of Tom Goes to the Mayor tonight, and I wanted to kill something.

and RE: anime,
tropple: yes, AN is probably better, BUT, it's a premium channel. you have to want (and pay for) it to get it.
Adult Swim has done a great job of getting some stuff out there where people who aren't fans can get ahold of it, albiet in a edited form.

Bebop is good, Trigun is good, Case Closed (Detective Conan, for you IRC people) seems fun, I nearly wet myself with glee when I saw that they were airing FMA, and Inuyasha is enjoyable, if slightly repetitive (I'm not sure where AS is, I've been watching the Jap subs as they come over)
I just wish they'd bring back Outlaw Star
:-)

Hiya,

AN is free for me with comcast's on-demand (NJ). Comcast has recently added what they call Anime Selects. It has a number of titles I've heard of before, mainly older things, judging from the art and animation.

I saw a few outlaw stars, I wish it would have been on at a better time for me.

Being a Canuck, i don't have an opportunity to watch Adult swim, but Teletoon, the canadian cartoon network, plays some Adult swim shows and from what ive watched, ive got two words for ya: Home Movies
season one sucked, and teletoon has a very limited number of episodes, but from what ive seen, its one of the funniest shows on tv. i believe that it puts seinfelds "show about nothing" idea to very good use, the way the characters mumble and studder for the whole episode is hilarious without being that obnoxious. in conclusion, I love Home Movies

dont have cable anymore so im behind on what adult swim shows now, but I really enjoyed sealab2021 (haven't seen any since capt murphy's voice died) some ATHF like the episodes with danzig or the mooninites

but my favorite is home movies, glad to see it come out on dvd, I can finally deleat the episodes on my hard drive

Home Mobies is in squigglyvision, right? just like that one show about the dentist..
I believe it originally aired on ABC saturday mornings in the kid block.
I find it quite humourous, but besides family guy and futurama.. I dont really watch Adult swim that much.
The anime i've already seen..and evem though i want to support english voice actors.. I cant stand the dubbing..
Though super milk chan is so retardulous, it doesnt matter what language it's in. Why didnt they pick up Excel Saga or something instead.. Warner Brothers has enough money..

Oh and the squidbillies idea was the CEO's brainchild.. that's the sole reason it got made. He's a big hick, and it's semi autobiographical (sp?)

Dammit, man, I'm telling you, there are some really good episodes out there. They're just well-hidden, or something.

you keep telling me that, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm at a hotel right now watching AS while on the hotels wireless net with my notebook computer. I don't usually watch TV but the internet was getting boring so I turned on the tube and flipped through channels. I come to AS playing a show called Robot Chicken.. Jesus, that show cracked me up! It's a stop-action type of cartoon, and it just has a whole bunch of stupid funny shit. It goes really fast too, for instance I just saw a scene with a Teletubbie smoking a joint and smiling which only lasted 2 seconds. It even says on AS's website that it's a show for the ADD/ADHD generation ;) :D :cool:

AS has some serious problems with how they are scheduling things right now i think.
they show family guy 7 times a week, and 6 and 7 are 15minutes apart. they need something more for sunday than family guy that chicken show and then family guy again. they have a lot of good cartoons but seem to save them for past 1 am.
and i really hate that milk chan shit. sigh

I used to watch Jonny Quest and the Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, so Venture Bros cracks me up.

If you liked Robot Chicken it's done in part by the people who do Twisted Mego Theatre in ToyFare Magazine. The older Twisted Mego Theater was hillarious.

I used to be entertained, but after a while complete and utter randomness isn't as funny. It never seems clever to me, just wacky.

Who knows what people will like anymore. Yeah I watched Tom a few times but it just seemed painful to me. But who would've ATHF would have stuck? I mean 6 of one half a dozen of the other who knows?

I watched Robot Chicken the other day and was thinking "Hmm this isn't very funny" then next thing I knew I was laughing my ass off...partly due to "Most one sided fist fights" and the clumsy robot actors. Especially the final robot haha.

Asta!!

I watched Robot Chicken the other night, the only funny part was the star wars scene where they eliminated the need for the other movies. Other than that, very not funny.

Robot Chicken, the funniest show on tv, the darkest clip ever was extremely funny

Yeah I just watched the one where Darth took care of all the potential plot lines, overall a pretty good off-beat show.

The first episode of Robot Chicken had me rolling. Somehow the cylons falling on each other just got to me. Since episode one, it has been dissapointment after dissapointment. I wish they'd play the first one again.

The first episode of Robot Chicken I liked, some funny, some not, but I havn't been able to catch any of the recent ones. I can't see it lasting long though.

My biggest apprehension with Robot Chicken, after seeing all the blood-as-a-punchline stuff on the early ads, would be that the show would turn out like an average Newgrounds flash. It's still violent and crass, but a lot better than I expected. It's also awesome that Dom DeLuise and Burt Reynolds played themselves in the Cannonball Run parody. :thumbsup:

I no longer watch the first hour of AdultSwim as I've seen all the Family Guy and Futurama episodes they show. I don't think Futurama was that good to begin with, seriously formulaic. Futurama feels like an add for "bite my metal ass" merchandise that never hit store shelves because no one cared, hollywood team writing at it's most mediocre.

Sealab has been my favorite because of the dark humor, especially the "Stim-u-tac" and "Bizarro" episodes. "Bizarro I love you Bizarro"

A lot of the anime imports alienate me at first, but then once I figure out the characters I generally end up liking them. I've even come to appreciate Case Closed which I hated at first. That show features an adult in a child body who knocks out the detective he follows around to with a dartgun to solve crimes in his voice. That's great!

Inuyasha is probably one of the most creative shows I've ever seen. The arc of the plotline is amazing once you get in to it. The various characters and monsters that populate that world all seem so unique to me. It's sad that most Americans will never get beyond their knee-jerk reaction to the show's Japanese-ness (the names, quirks, etc.).

I agree that Tom goes to the Mayor is a little disappointing so far, but I still want to see more. Robot Chicken is hilarious-again really dark humor. Robot Chicken panders heavily to my inner geek.

Milk Chan hasn't really done it for me yet. I really liked the teaser ad for it and I was excited about it but turned out different than I thought it would. I thought it would be really spastic and fast-paced, like an anime-themed Madame Chao (epileptics beware, seriously). Instead it's more off-kilter and slow-paced. It should probably be a :15 minute show.

All ATHF episodes are awesome.

I love some Sealab (especially the Bizarro episode), haven't seen much the Oblongs.

Family Guy is great, of course... so is Robot Chicken.

I hate the Anime.

Adult Swim usually has something for everyone, though.

Fooly Cooly was an awesome little anime series.


I wish they'd shore more short series, like Hellsing etc.

The bumps keep talking about an all-adult swim network, which seems completely untenable. Their ratings for the first two hours are pretty solid, but guess what the first hour is? You got it, Family Guy and Futurama, which, as others have mentioned, they've run through about 15 times by now. I enjoy Venture Brothers and am looking forward to season two, but I never got that into ATHF, Sealab, Tom Goes to the Mayor and the other "let's just slap crazy shit together and maybe people like it" type shows. We'll see what the upcoming new shows are like, but Robot Chicken is generally pretty good, and that's the bottom line: most AS concepts work only as 15 minute shows (at best) and it's hard for them to fill the several hours they have, let alone 24 hours a day.

I love Adult Swim for the most part. Like everyone here (or so it seems) I've seen most of the Family Guy/Futurama episodes so the first hour can be hit or miss for me. I LOVE Venture Bros.!!! I can't wait for Season 2! I also really enjoy ATHF and Sealab--especially Sealab. I like some of the anime but not much. I don't know how I feel about any of the new shows--I haven't had much time to watch television lately what with school and all. It's hard to stay up that late!

I'm slow evidently.

I just saw Robot Chicken for the first time the other night, and laughed my ass off. Great, great show!

As far as all of Adult Swim, I don't really like it. I love the same ones that everyone seems to love; Family Guy and Futurama, but I have all those episodes on DVD too, so I don't usually bother watching TV for them.

I love ATHF, and The Venture Brothers, and sometimes can get into Tom Goes To The Mayor, but sometimes it's terrible as well.

I don't like the anime they show at all. I had a friend that told me I had to watch Cowboy Bebop, so I did, and I didn't like it at all. At least I tried it out, I guess.

Also, I never got into Brak, Sealab, Space Ghost... I tried, believe me, but they just aren't for me I guess.

Okay, after settling down into their latest schedule there's not quite so much crap.

Family guy and Futurama (meh? Entertaining, but I've seen a lot of them)

Of the new stuff, I really like Full Metal Alchemist and have watched the last few episodes of Ghost in the Shell and was pleasantly surprised.

Robot Chicken is pretty much hit or miss. Just like ATHF and Sealab.

The milk chan shit still has to go as does Tom.

Please Cancel:
Milk Chan
Tom/Mayor

Worthless:
Futurama

Great:
Full Metal Alchemist (best anime series I've seen)
ATHF
Sealab
Harvey Birdman
Family Guy
Cowboy Beebop (although it is time to move on to another series)
Trigun
Inuyasha

Still Not Sure:
Venuture Bros.
Ghost In The Shell (getting better though, loved both movies)
Robot Chicken

I personally enjoy Futurama, Family Guy, Sealab2021, ATHF, Home Movies, The Venture Bros, and then some of the anime shows they have, but the ones i hate the most are Super Milk Chan and Tom goes to the Mayor. absolute pile of steaming pony loaf if you ask me.

Some of the episodes of the Brak Show were ok.

Only real show I tune in to on Adult Swim is Aqua Teen Hunge Force, lol. I absolutel loved the episode with the Happy Time Harry doll.

Heehee...

On World of Warcraft, my guild is called the Happytime Harriers. :D

We even have action bills.

Was that David Cross doing happy time harry's voice? If not, whoever did sounds just like him. When he convinced the hillbilly doll to kill himself was freakin hilarious, as morbid as it sounds.

Yes, it was David Cross performing under a pseudonym.

Lol yes, Happy Time Harry convinced Jiggle Billy to shoot himself, and it was funny. I also enjoyed the whole thing with Shake wanting to become a Highlander at the end of that episode. Another good one, I think, was the one about the Bus of the Undead, where Shake was talking about reverse vampires and such lol. Yes, Aqua Teen is a great show indeed.

Boxy Brown is quickly becoming my favorite on that show.
Nothing funnier than a jive talking Box with a fro that only Meatwad can hear.

ATHF is definitely top notch. Two of my favorite quotes came from the Bus of the Undead episode.

Master Shake: When did you get a cloning machine? I command you to answer me!Wait, no, clone me, and answer my clone!

(Carl is all tied up and hanging upside down from the ceiling)
Frylock: What did you do to our neighbor?!
Mothmonsterman: Oh, yeah, I laid my eggs in his esophagus. You know, I gotta propagate my species and... he's being a real baby about it.

Really there are some good episodes, they are well hidden, very well hidden. I don't like many of the episodes they have done except for the Mooninites, a good episode is called "The Last One", it is the episode with all the vilians on the moon.