Adult swim

[Tyjenks]

Am I just behind? I stumbled upon some great toons on the Cartoon Network on Sunday nights. Very funny stuff. Origianal cartoons as well as some spoofs of old Super Friends and Sealab 2020.

My personal fav is Harvey Birdman, Attorney-at-Law. He had to represent Apache Chief this past Sun., as he had spilled coffee on his crotch and could not use his super power of "growing large" anymore. He sued, but luckily the hot looking Coffee shop owner re-awoke his power.

Here's a link to the site:

www.adultswim.com

[Reeko]

Yeah, Adult Swim has been around for a while. My personal favorites are Home Movies and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

[Supertanker]

Futurama reruns might come to Adult Swim. http://www.gotfuturama.com/cgi-bin/newspop.cgi?ID=1028629605,87888,

[Tyjenks]

Hooray! Futurama!

While we are on the subject, does anyone know what Fox is doing woth "The Family Guy". I think it is hilarious, but can never find it. It would be a perfect candidate as well, if Fox has cancelled it.


Yeah, Adult Swim has been around for a while.

I assumed it had, but now that my child is around 1 1/2, she is getting into toons and I am getting back into them. I guess I just never perused The Cartoon Network before.

[Matthew Gallant]

No no, you are just in time. They got rid of Baby Blues the week prior (this time for good, I hope), replacing it with The Oblongs. The entire line-up are at the very least watchable shows now.

Birdman has gotten a little scattershot lately (Apache Chief's case is definitely the funniest of the lot, and it was one of the original two episodes. It went on a long hiatus after those first two, and it seems as if they've changed writers.)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, on the other hand, started out rough around the edges and has gotten better as it's moved along.

Sealab and The Brak Show have been consistently funny. Home Movies and Mission Hill are my favorites though.

[DennyA]

I think it is hilarious, but can never find it.

Wow. I remember life before Tivo...

"Finding shows..." If I remember, that's paired with "watching commercials." :-)

[Wholly Schmidt]

I'll bet your lymph nodes are the size of CATS!

Sealab 2021 is absolutely wonderful.

[Tyjenks]

I think it is hilarious, but can never find it.

Wow. I remember life before Tivo...

"Finding shows..." If I remember, that's paired with "watching commercials." :-)

Hey, no need to flaunt your little Tivo directly in my face. :P



Zan (while transformed into Wonder Woman's bathwater):

"Shape of: A wash rag!"

[Thierry Nguyen]

Will Wright is really into Sealab. It was kinda weird to totally geek out about Sealab with freakin' Will Wright of all people.

"I now declare Martian law!"

[Brad Grenz]

Home Movies and Mission Hill are my favorites though.

Yes, both are great. Did Mission Hill ever air anywhere else? Home Movies originally ran on UPN, but they're making new episodes for Cartoon Network now. The Star Boy and the Captain of Outer Space episode is one of the greatest half hours of television ever produced. Mission Hill is fantastic too. I'm glad they moved it's time slot up to 11:00 from past midnight.

The Adult Swim Anime block Saturday night has some good stuff too. Cowboy Bebop, of course, and the new Ghost in the Shell television series is coming this fall.

[Toddy]

Family Guy is dead, barring another change of heart from Fox. I liked the show, too, but Fox never gave it a time slot/chance. One cool thing about being in Canada--we get US network shows at weird times. CFSK in Saskatoon (channel 228 on the Bell ExpressVu dish) is showing Family Guy at 4am Eastern, Mon-Thurs. Been doing this for three weeks now. Great way to catch up on all the episodes I've missed because of Fox bouncing the show around so much.

By the way, Futurama's done too, I believe. They've got something like 13 episodes in the can that were preempted by the NFL, and those will be shown next season sometime, but production ended months ago. I'm not sure if anyone knows what Fox is planning with Futurama, really, though there isn't room for it on the fall lineup. Which is a fucking crime.

[Jason Cross]

Ah Futurama. Gotta love it.

See, Fox owns The Simpsons. But Matt Groening was smart enough to retain ownership of Futurama. Now it might kill the show: If they air enough shows, Groening can put it into syndication, and he'll get all the money while Fox gets squat. So Fox's little power-play is to keep from airing enough episodes for that to happen unless Groening gives up the syndication rights.

At least, that's the way I hear it.

Anyway, Adult Swim does indeed rule. It's worth watching the whole thing, particularly now that Oblongs is in there. Between that and Cowboy Bebop, Cartoon Network is probably my favorite channel in these crappy summer months.

[William Harms]

Family Guy is dead, barring another change of heart from Fox.

Thank goodness. That show was more than horrible; it was damn near an affront to humanity.

[Tyjenks]

Family Guy is dead, barring another change of heart from Fox.

Thank goodness. That show was more than horrible; it was damn near an affront to humanity.

Boooooo! Hisssss! :P

[Bub, Andrew]

I've gotta side with William. Aside from the sheer genius of having both a talking dog AND a talking megalomaniacal baby (a combo that almost always works), Family Guy was absolutely horrible. I think the kids would call it "ass". Worse, I think I've seen almost every episode. I was paid to review them for a local paper. 90% of their jokes fell flat and the other 10% were stolen from better shows.

(Ok, I did like the one where they were on a road trip and got hassled by Randy Newman).

[Alan Dunkin]

Futurama is long-term dead; they have enough episodes made in the hopper to last through 2003. Problem is, even if they *did* want to renew it, a lot of the folks at the animation company were already laid off and probably found other jobs, so they would be hard-pressed to have the same feel for the old show unfortunately.. but by a miracle somehow it does get help, I'm all for it :)

--- Alan

[Anonymous]

Someone asked about whether or not "Mission Hill" had aired elsewhere...

Yep. The WB. The network canceled it after only three episodes were shown, even though they had fifteen or so episodes completed. The rest of them premiered on Cartoon Network.

I didn't like it at first, but it's really grown on me. Like the characters a lot now.

The creators of the show are graduates of "The Simpsons."

Their next show, "The Funkhousers," suffered an even worse fate: canceled after one episode. It was apparently a modern entry in The Addams Family/Munsters vein, directed by Frank Oz (the puppeteer of Yoda, Ms. Piggy, etc. who incongruously directed that recent DeNiro/Brando/Norton gangster flick).