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worldwright · 1 year ago

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The Trigun Gang Learns To Swim, AKA I Have Ideas But Do Not Know How To Write Fic

So my sister teaches adults to swim and has some fun stories, and I have wanted to throw these idiots in a pool for months so. here goes

- idk how they got a pool. maybe there's one on the Earth ships. we're not worrying about that

- Meryl sits at the side with her feet on the top step covered in three inches of water for half an hour insisting she's good no she's fine not going in this is good thanks

- Milly loses her footing as she walks in because she didn't expect the water resistance and needs to be rescued by the instructor because she can't figure out how to surface again

- this does not help Meryl's confidence

- Milly gets used to walking around and conspires with Wolfwood to carry Meryl into the water. this ends with Wolfwood being rescued by the instructor because he also did not expect water resistance and did not learn from Milly's mistakes. Meryl is desperately clinging to Milly like a koala

- Vash has at least seen large bodies of water in pictures and has perhaps seen videos of people swimming so he figures he's got this. he is also trying to show off. he slips straight into the deep end and immediately some plant instinct kicks in and he goes limp and just. floats on his back. it takes several minutes to shake him out of this, after which he is extremely embarrassed

- Vash has weirdly neutral buoyancy and can almost just chill upright without treading water. the only reason he doesn't outright float is his prosthetics increasing his density

- Wolfwood sees this and assumes it's learnable, much to the instructor's distress. much flailing ensues

- Milly is still being a ladder and refuses to move close to the walls to let Meryl off. she's slowly crouching lower and lower to try and get her senpai in the water. Meryl is now clinging to her head and shoulders

- Vash does some kicking exercises and picks it up quickly. he's the most at home in the water and is soon doggy paddling around. Wolfwood tries to push him under. they are giving the poor instructor a migraine

- Vash, suddenly underwater, quickly learns that he does Not have the normal human diving reflex of Hold Breath as he instinctually inhales a lungful of oh-shit-this-isn't-plant-tank-soup. Meryl dives straight in to save him. this goes as well as you'd expect

- Vash sits on the side of the pool for a bit after that

- now that Meryl has been fully submerged she insists that she's been fine this whole time and would quite enjoy standing here in the shal--niCHOLAS D WOLFWOOD GET AWAY FROM ME

- Meryl Stryfe Learns About The Deep End™️

- Wolfwood Is Temporarily Banned From The Pool

- Wolfwood Discovers The Snack Bar

- The Gang Discover Chicken Strips

- obligatory 30 minutes after eating before swimming. the instructor does an emergency safety briefing because these idiots are Something Else

- after the snack break, Vash works on consciously holding his breath and discovers he's pretty good at it. he swims back and forth across the pool underwater for a bit

- Milly tries to go upside down underwater and has a bad time. the instructor helpfully informs her that you have to exhale. or hold your nose. Milly develops the novel method of puckering up her face like a pug so that her upper lip blocks her nostrils. Wolfwood is in hysterics. Meryl finds it incredibly endearing

- after they have all sufficiently demonstrated that they are able to not drown under minimal supervision, the instructor cracks open a crate of pool toys and goes to have a fuckin cigarette

- they have an intense watergun shootout all around the pool deck. looney tunes style. do you see my vision

- Vash and Milly pretend to die dramatically at least three times each

- they all manage to fall into the water at once and decide to call it a draw all around. then they just float for like 20 minutes playing lazy bumper boats

- they are eventually kicked out of the pool because the staff are Not staying two hours past closing thank you

- sunscreen and pool water and evening light are washed off in the showers and they have their best sleep in years

#augh i need to go to a pool #chlorine up your nose really does make chicken strips taste better idk what to tell you #im. sleeby have my headcanons here. take them #trigun #trigun headcanons #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #silliesssss :3

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melis-hellis · 5 months ago

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cartoon network is dead, and i don't mean that in a "i'm a 22-year-old who has grown past the target audience" kind of way. i mean that in a literal "a mangled corpse resembling a once-thriving 'cartoon network' is being paraded by warner bros. discovery who seem to have taken inspiration from Weekend At Bernie's, and the thriving Adult Swim Channel is forced to share space with the aforementioned corpse" way.

i watched a shit ton of TV in the hotel while i was on vacation in florida last month. i would watch gumball and regular show on cartoon network and they would air the same commercials over and over again. there would literally be like 3 or 4 commercials and those would be the only ones they would play. the old navy commercial. a commercial for these boujee glasses. the inside out mcdonald's commercial would play 2 times a break. no commercials for cool nerf blasters, no other cool toy commercials, no oxi clean, no scary law firm commercials, no commercials for shows, no cool bumpers, not even any sugary cereal commercials. no commercials for kids stuff other than the mcdonald's commercial. the only promtions for shows would be the "we'll be right back/now back to the show" bumpers, and the bumpers had the extremely simplistic "pastel era" designs to them that look like they were made in after effects in 2 seconds.

but when it switched to adult swim? suddenly it felt like i was watching a normal network again. a wide variety of commercials (even though i still got that stupid 4imprint jingle stuck in my head). there are shows airing new episodes! they get their own cool promos!

cartoon network is dead. kids would rather watch brainrot garbage mush and that's one of the reasons why cartoon network is dead. however, the conglomerate did this to itself. they mistreated their workers by a considerable margin and killed their own network. the beautiful bastion of creative freedom, the one kids' network that had attitude after nickelodeon lost their attitude, the network for goofballs like me who wanted something with more of a kick to it then what the other networks offered...it's gone. cartoon network is dead.

a presumably Y7 show that was hyped up for two years and was believed to be cartoon network's last saving grace is moving to adult swim. this SDCC, adult swim will be having a massive party with tons of announcements. cartoon network is dead.

this was my fandom hometown. TAWOG was my first fandom. this is where artists thrived. i wanted to tour their studio. i wanted to work there. i wanted to have my show. when i was 10-11 i created tons of cartoon concepts, all of which sit in a large binder of drawings i put together.

cartoon network is dead.

#cartoon network #adult swim #mel rambles about animation

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adultswim2021 · 9 months ago

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Paid Programming: "Icelandic Ultrablue" | November 3, 2009 - 4:30AM | Infomercials

At this time I was a very diligent Adult Swim recorder. The idea that the network might, at any time, air something weird caused me to record entire blocks, “just in case” on my TiVo. I would then scan through everything and save anything that looked interesting or novel to a DVD-R. For a short time, I archived bumpers as completely as I could.

I would also pour over schedules and look for anything that seemed out of the ordinary. I can’t say this with certainty, but I feel like I must’ve seen “PAID PROGRAMMING” on a schedule or maybe on my TiVo program guide and thought “wait, Adult Swim doesn’t air PAID PROGRAMMING usually. I wonder if that’s going to be something?” And so, I recorded Paid Programming and, eventually, I watched it, and a few minutes in I heard what was clearly David Cross’s voice and thought “oh, okay. I get it. He’s trying to do something here.” And that was roughly how I’ve felt about this ever since.

This one is fairly auspicious for the fact that it's technically the first entry into Adult Swim’s celebrated (but wildly hit-and-miss) “Infomercials” series. The concept was that people watching at home would see “PAID PROGRAMMING” in their cable guide while flipping around and, of course, they’d turn right to it, awaiting an earnest infomercial trying to sell them the Phillips CD-I or something like that. But instead of that, you get something CRAZY and WEIRD and HILARIOUS! Is this crazy and weird and hilarious? Well, I guess those descriptors are in the eye of the beholder. But since this blog is about my beholding eye, I will answer: “nah, not really”.

The content is, roughly: an infomercial for what appears to be a miracle drug, whose applications are somewhat vague, other than it making you feel better or solving whatever terrible personal problem you have. This is hosted by a “doctor” (admittedly he’s just dressed as a doctor, and refers to his experience as “36 years” ”spent hanging out in the medical community”), who eventually introduces a jingle contest for the wonder drug. This leads into clips of various entries, which eventually leads to a video of the producer of the most professionally produced entry talking about the importance of air-filtration while producing music. This leads to an extended pitch for the Icelandic UltraBlue air-filtration system, which is illustrated with a cartoon where good air particles round up bad air particles in an over-the-top, Nazi holocaust-esque cartoon.

This is roughly how the rest of the show plays out: a commercial for one aspect of the Icelandic UltraBlue empire suddenly turns into a different commercial, usually for a different iteration of Icelandic UltraBlue. The previous sketch segues into a sketch about a cash-for-Nazi-gold place, which segues into a sketch about a medical office that specializes in removing splinters (the owner of this establishment casually wears a diaper, and it’s treated as a very normal thing. It’s one of two times I laughed), which segues into a commercial for an embalming fluid that keeps your beloved’s remains fresh for up to three months after passing, so you can continue hanging out with their corporeal form. This segues back into a jingle entry, which turns into a sketch about chest-rash cream set at a gay guy bar. There’s gross zoom-ins, awkward acting, macabre premises, sexual inappropriateness, transgressive invocations of touchy subjects, and, uh, well? Maybe two laughs. If you’re wondering what the other, non-diaper-related one was, it was the racial slur. I’m sorry.

The problem is, this very much feels like the writers (David Cross and H. Jon Benjamin) are trying very hard to approximate Tim & Eric’s entire carefully cultivated style of humor. The casting of awkward, borderline-amateur actors, the jokes about consumerism, the attention to verisimilitude, etc. There’s a little more Mr. Show-style satire thrown in, but the entire thing comes off as a pale imitation of either or both of those things. If one can glean a set of objectives from creating this (other than “it’s called PAID PROGRAMMING and it’s gonna MESS with people, man!!”) one could also easily observe Tim & Eric accomplishing those things much better, in a less forceful way.

The casting in particular is far less inspired than Tim & Eric’s; it runs the gamut of people who either seem like they themselves are trying to imitate pre-existing characters from Tim & Eric’s wack pack or at worst seem like they were poached from a low-level UCB class. Not that Tim & Eric are exactly pure in their intentions with their cast of “outsiders”, I sense more mean-spiritedness in hiring some guy, calling his character “Fatfuck” and having him wear a diaper.

This was retroactively deemed the first episode of “Infomercials”; a proof-of-concept that, for my money, exemplifies the worst aspects of the “miss” installments in the “hit and miss” tapestry of the Infomercials milieu. Wow, what a great, non-pretentous sentence I just wrote. Anyway, it feels especially pathetic to me that David Cross had previously put Mike Lazzo on blast for taking the concept of Paid Programming and running with it. I too, would feel wronged, but feigning any kind of pride over this is, well, I already used the word pathetic. But it’s pathetic.

David Cross is a person who I still respect and think can be brilliant. I even watched a few of his new video podcasts on YouTube. It was nice, like checking in on an old friend. Cross is one of those guys who, when many people discover him and become fans, seems impossibly funny and almost infallible. The more you become familiar with the whole package, the more you realize that he’s a pretty regular guy, who is capable of turning out bad work. He’s also not a particularly friendly person, and can rub people the wrong way very easily. I am not trying to damn him here; I find him to be uncomfortably relatable. Many of his flaws are also my flaws. I should basically be best friends with him. Unless he reads this, that is.

An illustrative example of his humor to me is the embalming fluid sketch. In it, a man uses it on his wife, who dies of a splinter. They both lay in bed, and he takes her hand, puts it in under the covers, and uses it to jack himself off with. I’m not knocking it for any other reason that I just found it to be not particularly funny; it’s an easy vulgar laugh.

A sketch from Mr. Show featured a similar gag; a riff on the song Monster Mash about a guy who is working through a traumatic mental breakdown from experiencing this horrifying monster party. While he’s confessing some sexual encounter or something, we cut to an “expert” who has been seen in talking-head segments watching this footage, furiously masturbating. I recall Cross proudly inserting this joke into the sketch, noting the big laugh it gets from the studio audience, despite apprehension from the other writers. Even as a teenager, I remember seeing that and thinking “I could do without that joke”. It’s too easy, and it just makes ME want to masturbate.

The episode ends (after a sketch set in a gay bar that already felt stale in 2009) with the “doctor”/host ominously talking into a wrist microphone that “phase one is complete”, and then it cuts to a “To Be Continued”. I reread the back-and-fourth between Cross and Lazzo, and he actually does mention his plans for the series arc: it’s aliens. Cool!

I don’t mean to minimize the Lazzo-theft accusations or imply that they aren’t valid. I also don’t mean to imply that David Cross is completely in the right, either. If I were in either of their shoes I’d feel like the other guy was slinging at least a little bit of bullshit at me. Cross’s specific gripe is that he pioneered the concept of airing the thing at 4AM with a deceptive title, which does make a little sense. Lazzo’s defense is tenuous at best, and sorta clouds that main issue.

But, I don’t know. It does sorta seem like the kind of idea a lot of people have had, but then deemed impractical. I’m sure other people have thought “wouldn’t it be cool to air a parody infomercial at the time actual infomercials air?” I guess I can’t think of anything else that’s really done that. The closest I could come up with were tongue-in-cheek infomercials that behaved like parodies of infomercials, but actually were unironically selling something. In 2003, The Ben Stiller Show came out on DVD, and they produced an infomercial called “Wake Up Your Smile”. The Beastie Boys did one in 1998 for Hello Nasty. Mystery Science Theater did one in 1996 hawking their mail-order VHS tapes. Hell, Adult Swim did actually produce an infomercial for Williams Street records, as noted on this blog. It sorta seems like the ingredients were all right there, man. You know?

Mr. Show did a fake infomercial too, as a best-of special for season one. Damn. I guess David Cross really did invent this shit.

MAIL BAG

handbananad writes:

I am so genuinely sorry you're stuck in titan maximum hell. At least it's almost over? Is it almost over? Was this one of those early 2000's shows with a 40 episode season and you're going to be here forever?

Thank you. The show is only 9 episodes (including a half-hour first episode), so that's a silver lining. But yeah, it feels much longer. But it is nice having a show that I can outwardly hate and gloss over defiantly. It also makes me appreciate Robot Chicken more, which is tough to do.

On the other hand, I'm real glad to be watching Venture Bros, but those write-ups are much more demanding. What's a blogger with readers in the single-digits to do?

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #paid programming #icelandic ultrablue

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sanderssidesfanfiction · 5 years ago

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We’ll Carry On - Chapter Thirty Two

We’ll Carry On Tag

General Content Warnings: Sympathetic Deceit Sanders, Substance Abuse, Abandonment, Minor Character Death, Transphobia, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociation, Bullying, Homophobia

July 30th, 2010

Roman looked at the scene in front of him with awe. The sun was beating down, but there were people with colorful umbrellas and blankets everywhere. Sand as far as the eye could see to his left and right, and directly in front of him, was a giant ocean. “This is cool!” he exclaimed.

“This is the beach,” his mom said. “Let’s figure out a place to go sit down and then you can play in the waves or collect shells, or build sandcastles to your heart’s content.”

Roman’s jaw dropped open. “And we get to be here all day?!” he asked with pure excitement in his voice.

“If that’s what you want, my little knight,” his mom said, smiling.

Roman nodded. He couldn’t believe it. The beach looked so magical!

August 4th, 2019

Roman was having the time of his life. Their whole family had gone to the beach for a vacation, and he was currently swimming at the edges of the ocean with Logan, who was floating on a cheap boogie board. “You really like riding the waves, huh?” he teased Logan.

Logan rolled his eyes. “It’s nice to float rather than tread water, and if I get to ride a wave to the shore, it’s just that much more fun.”

Roman turned to look at the shore. Virgil and Patton were building sandcastles, and Dee was drawing letters in the sand. They had taken the weekend off, and while it had only been two days, this had been some of the most fun Roman had the whole summer. Vanellope was being pet-sat by one of Logan’s friends in the neighborhood, so they really had nothing to worry about for these two days except what they wanted to do next.

A huge wave took Roman by surprise, and he and Logan were both tossed toward the shore. Roman rolled unceremoniously right up to Patton and Virgil, laughing his head off. Logan gently stood up with a smirk. “Not gonna diss my boogie board now, are you?” Logan asked. “It kept me from eating saltwater.”

Roman spat out what saltwater had made it to his mouth and he stood up, jabbing a finger in Logan’s chest, just above his sports bra. Roman was quickly proving that he grew faster than Logan, and would probably be the taller of the both of them. Already, Roman was only an inch shorter than his older brother. “I will always diss your boogie board. It’s a boogie board.”

“That doesn’t even explain what you have against it!” Logan exclaimed.

“It’s made for kids, Logan,” Roman said.

“So are cartoons, are you going to make fun of Dad for watching them?” Logan challenged.

Roman huffed. “No. But you still look like a dork.”

“He always looks like a dork!” Dee exclaimed, just a little too loud to be a normal voice.

Everyone turned to Dee in shock. He frowned. “What?” he asked, still using his voice over his hands.

“You’re speaking,” Logan said.

“Without being sarcastic!” Roman added.

Dee frowned and shrugged. “I can do it. It’s just harder than signing, so I usually don’t. But you guys weren’t paying attention to me waving, so I decided to talk.”

“Your voice sounds kinda flat,” Virgil said.

“I know,” Dee said, rolling his eyes. “One of the reasons I don’t like talking. Because I can’t use tone right. I can barely hear it unless you’re being sarcastic. That’s the only tone I can use and recognize.”

“But...but you can talk and it’s in full sentences! That’s...that’s like, really cool!” Patton exclaimed.

Dee frowned. “You guys did it when you were my age.”

“We didn’t sign almost exclusively until we were six and a half,” Roman pointed out.

“I’m still gonna sign most of the time,” Dee said. “‘Specially at school, ‘cause if I talk there the principal will take away my translator. But yeah. I can talk.”

Logan nodded and gave Dee a thumbs-up. “I resent you calling me a dork,” he said.

“I resent you implying that you’re anything but a dork,” Dee said, voice deadpan and without missing a beat.

Logan’s jaw dropped and Roman howled with laughter. Dee had a huge grin on his face, and fist-bumped Virgil when Virgil offered his fist out. Patton was giggling and Logan just stood there, shell-shocked. When he finally returned to himself, he said, “Well played, Dee. Well played.”

Dee signed, “Thank you,” and promptly went back to writing letters in the sand, and Roman recognized some very basic words, like “the” and “and” and a few nouns like “dog” and “cat” and one even went so far as to say “cookie.” Roman rolled his eyes at that. No doubt Patton had taught Dee that one.

Roman walked back to the edge of the water, wading in until he was about chest deep, and just let the water wash around him. Logan came up next to him and sighed. “Do you ever feel lonely?” he asked.

“What do you mean?” Roman glanced at Logan.

“I mean, Patton, Virgil, and Dee are about the same ages. Patton and Virgil are twins, and Dee is only two years younger. They could have been born into the same family. But between you and Patton and Virgil, there’s a five-year gap. And there’s an eight-year gap between me and the twins. I’m a whole decade older than Dee. Sometimes it just feels lonely, being the only one who’s close to where I am mentally, you know, developmentally. You’re the one who’s closest, and you’re just hitting puberty.” Logan shook his head and sighed again. “I don’t have anyone in this family who’s my age, who understands what I’ve been through. I’m the trail-blazer of our generation of the family. And it just feels...”

“Lonely,” Roman filled in, nodding. “I understand a little. You’ve already been thirteen, so you can help a little with some of what I’m dealing with, and we’re going through the male parts of puberty almost at the same time. But there is something about that three-year difference that feels like an invisible wall is put up. And with the twins and Dee, it’s almost like a physical wall. I definitely can tell it’s always there, though.”

“Yeah,” Logan sighed. “It’s less with you, but I still feel a certain degree of separation.”

“Yeah,” Roman agreed. “I don’t like it.”

Logan looked over and nudged him. “Eh. It’s not the end of the world, and we both feel the loneliness, so at least we can be alone together.”

Roman blinked. “That’s a song reference, isn’t it?”

“Fall Out Boy,” Logan confirmed with a nod. “Twenty thirteen. Save Rock and Roll. Good album.”

“You’re such a dork,” Roman laughed, shaking his head and turning to face the waves. As one crested and Roman jumped while Logan floated with his infuriating boogie board, he sobered a little. “But in all seriousness, I’m glad to have you as my brother.”

“Same here, Roman,” Logan said. “Same here.”

When they were done with the beach itself, they wandered the boardwalk. There were plenty of arcades to look through, and quite a few restaurants to try. Roman went for the infamous fries of the area, while Logan elected to try a piece of huge pizza. Patton got chocolate ice cream, Virgil got orange sherbert, and Dee tried his very first corn dog, and proceeded to eat the entire thing in the span of ten minutes.

There was a small amusement park area full of rides, and the younger boys were immediately looking around at it in wonder the second Dad and Ami said they could spend some time inside. Roman and Logan hung together, less interested in the carousel and the bumper cars than the others. “A haunted house,” Roman pointed out.

“Not open until five,” Logan replied, pointing at the sign hanging above the entrance to the line.

“Those swing things,” Roman offered, pointing at the giant swing that acted like a carousel.

Logan shrugged. “Those can be entertaining, but we both just ate.”

“I guess that means the Tilt-a-Whirl is out of the question,” Roman said with a grin.

“Completely,” Logan said.

“The Viking boat?” Roman asked, pointing at the swing in question.

Logan paled. “Those have a fifty-fifty chance of sending you completely upside-down, and I’d rather not find out that I’d be doing loop-de-loops by sitting in the ride.”

The swing picked up speed and Roman and Logan watched as the swing reached its peak height, before flipping completely upside-down. “Okay, maybe not,” Roman said, voice strained.

“Definitely not,” Logan agreed.

Roman looked around. “There’s not a lot of rides designed for older kids and adults,” he observed.

“Amusement parks rarely pander to adults, which is a shame, if you ask me,” Logan said, pulling at the drawstrings on his board shorts. “The bigger ones have rides that adults can enjoy, but smaller ones, especially at beaches like this, pander more towards children.”

Roman made an unamused sound in the back of his throat. Patton and Virgil started yelling and headed towards a small ferris wheel. Roman and Logan trailed behind Dad and Ami. “I just want to ride something that’s made more for adults,” he sighed.

Logan looked around and pointed to something a little to the left of the ferris wheel. “Would that be something you like?”

Roman looked at the ride. It looked like a Ferris wheel, except the seats weren’t enclosed, and there was a safety bar holding you in your seat, but that was it. The whole thing was tilted at an angle, also unlike the Ferris wheel. And it moved fast, both forwards and backwards, Roman realized, as it slowed down before spinning in reverse. “Could be fun,” he allowed.

Logan offered him a smile and dragged him over to the ride, calling to Dad and Ami that they were going to check it out.

The line was almost nonexistent, and they got to sit down almost immediately after the ride let the other people off. One by one, people got in the cars, and one by one, the ride moved them further and further up, until they were heading down the other side of the ride. Once every car was taken, as more people started forming a line once they saw the ride open, they started it up with a jerk and Roman laughed nervously.

Quickly, they picked up speed and went in circles, going forwards and then backwards as they got halfway around the wheel. Roman laughed as the wind swept at his face and the people waiting got bigger and smaller at near ridiculous speeds. Logan was laughing next to him, right until they stopped at the top of the wheel, and then started swinging in the reverse direction at the same fast speed.

The ride took maybe two minutes, but it left Roman and Logan breathless as they laughed and jumped out of the car when they were at the bottom and the technician undid the safety bar.

As they walked out of the ride and to the Ferris wheel, Dad waved. “Have fun?” he asked.

“Yeah!” Roman exclaimed.

“We could hear you guys laughing from here,” Ami chuckled. “It must have been a good ride.”

“It was fun,” Logan said. “The wind rushing through our hair and the quick change in scenery was amusing.”

Roman rolled his eyes. “You talk like a college student’s essay sometimes, you know that?” he asked.

Logan shrugged noncommittally. “Whatever,” he said.

They turned to look at the Ferris wheel just in time to see Virgil, Patton, and Dee wave at them. Roman waved back and Logan just laughed. They watched the Ferris wheel go around twice more before Patton, Virgil, and Dee were let out of the car and they bounded over. “We saw you guys on the really fast one over there!” Patton exclaimed, pointing. “Was it fun?”

“Yeah,” Logan said. “But probably not a good idea for you guys yet.”

“Yeah, no, we were just wondering if you liked it,” Virgil said. “We didn’t want to get on it ourselves.”

Dee signed, “Speak for yourself.”

“You were scared when they got on and you know it!” Patton exclaimed. “You’re the one who asked if they’d be okay!”

“Boys, play nice,” Ami reminded them. “Do you want to play in the arcade for a while?”

“Sure,” they all said.

Roman and Logan immediately gravitated towards the skee-ball games while Patton and Virgil played more with the lower-stakes games that still gave out toys and tickets. Dee played the crane games and quickly figured out he was surprisingly adept at it. He won all of the others small stuffed toys, and got one for himself as well.

Logan and Roman pooled their tickets together to get some of the larger prizes, a lava lamp for Roman and a teddy bear for Logan, which caused him to blush when questioned and mumble that he had won a bear exactly like this one at another arcade when he was younger, but his ex-father had made him get rid of it when he turned twelve.

Patton and Virgil got smaller toys, little wind-up animals and finger traps and a few other things that amused them to no end. When they got back to their hotel room, and packed everything up for the ride back home, Roman was already yawning. The second they were in the sun-warmed van on their way home, he was fast asleep, a small smile still on his face at the memory of the whole day.

#we'll carry on #sanders sides fanfiction #roman sanders #logan sanders #deceit sanders #our creations #danger gays

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anamorales · 6 years ago

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all those tucson things

Hi friends! Happy Monday! I hope your morning is off to a wonderful start.

What a weekend. Betsy and her fam spent a few days in Tucson with us, and we spent time together at the pool, checking out some of our favorite spots, and eating all the good stuff.

Friday morning, we hit the hotel pool bright and early. The kiddos played and splashed around for 3 hours (!) while the adults chatted, drank prickly pear margaritas, and we all snacked on nachos and quesadillas. It feels like summer is officially here, and after a full day of swimming, we came back home for nap time and quiet time.

Later that evening, we had a get-together with the neighbors from our street. I wish I would have gotten a pic of the entire spread, but it was a legit feast. Our contribution: Uncle Eric’s famous pasta salad (you need this in your life!), some brownies with peanut butter frosting, and a cooler of LaCriox. There was also an entire smoked turkey, BBQ ribs, beef with green chilies and homemade tortillas, three different types of salads, chopped fresh fruit, potato salad, handmade pork dumplings and mochi (!!!!), cucumbers in a red chili sauce that were out of this world, pies, cakes, and cookies. It was crazy!! We sat in one of the neighbor’s driveways, eating and talking, while the kiddos played tag in the cul-de-sac.

Needless to say, we’ve moved around A LOT, and we haven’t experienced anything like our neighbors in Tucson. I can’t even tell you guys how many times different people on our street saved the day while Tom was gone. One changed the lightbulbs on our porch with his enormous ladder, another put a fresh battery in my garage clicker when he saw me standing outside trying to get our garage to open, and we were constantly surprised by baked goodies and treats while he was away. It’s not unusual for me to get out of the car with the girls and a neighbor to run over with Fudgesicles for each of them. We try to share the love whenever I make fresh bread or enchiladas.

After our street party, we’d promised the girls we’d meet up with Betsy and the kiddos at Trail Dust Town, but by that point, they had headed back to the hotel, totally exhausted from a full day. We ended up taking the girls anyway to ride a couple of rides, and then back home for them to crash into bed!

Our Saturday adventures included an Orangetheory class,

miniature golf and bumper boats at Golf n’ Stuff,

and dinner at Commoner & Co. Of course, we got the Chef’s Tile and Goat Cheese Tart, the mussels,

and for my entree, I got the usual salmon. It has creamy mushroom risotto, crispy kale chips, and a lemon gremolata. I hope they never take it off the menu.

Even though we were pretty stuffed at this point, we headed across the street to Blue Ice for gelato. We enjoyed it outside on the patio, while the kids all danced around to the live music. It was perfect. <3

(Wy really wanted to photobomb us hahah)

The kids:

Sunday morning, Betsy and I caught an early barre3 class,

grabbed a green juice,

and then got ready to head to Ventana for their famous Blues, Brews & BBQ Sunday brunch. If you even visit Tucson over a weekend, this is a must-do. Just make sure to get reservations in advance. The spread includes the usual breakfast buffet fare (salads, omelet station, potatoes, Benedict, waffles, pastries, breakfast meats, etc), but they also have an outdoor BBQ with grilled fruits and veggies, mac n’ cheese, Sonoran hot dogs, cornbread, and mashed potatoes. Inside, there’s a full cold bars with shrimp, oysters, and sushi, and they have a giant dessert table with a chocolate fountain and any type of baked treat you could wish for.

(Living their very best lives all weekend)

My first plate usually looks something like this:

They also have endless mimosas, Bloody Marys, beer, and coffee.

After brunch, we went to the pool the spend the rest of the day swimming. The water was too cold for me and P – we’re more hot tub kinda girls – so she napped on my lap in the shade. I could have spent the entire day out there, watching Livi swim like a mermaid, and the weather was absolutely perfect.

It was a great weekend with wonderful friends, and I’m pretty pumped that we get to see then again in a few weeks for our cruise!

For now, it’s back to work for this girl. I’m starting to get everything together for Summer Shape Up and can’t wait to share it with you in June.

Happy Monday, friends!

Gina

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“Everything, every word, every thought that you know is wrong! Aku...Aku is the one that has laid waste to the beauty of this world. He has destroyed mother nature. Where do you think we are? Aku has unleashed these monstrosities upon our world and they feed off his carnage. Believe what you may, but if you open your eyes and let go of the hate, you [Ashi] will see the truth.”

- Jack, Samurai Jack, (Season 5, Ep. 04)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for April 8-9, 2017. Following the events of last week, it’s back to business as usual for the better cartoon show, as Jack tries to convince Ashi, the last surviving daughter of Aku, that Aku’s ways are not the righteous ones, while JoJo saves Lisa Lisa from falling to her death, and Kars undergoes a transformation putting on the stone mask and conbining it with the Red Stone and the ultraviolet beams, and Marida is found to be brainwashed by the Vist Foundation and Banagher tries to snap her out of it, among other great moments.

On Twitter, every show from Samurai Jack to Gundam Unicorn (with the exception of Sand Whale and Me) successfully trended in the US during their respective East Coast airings, and Samurai Jack briefly trended worldwide. In addition, both Samurai Jack and Dragon Ball Super would also trend on Tumblr.

This week’s feature was another set of throwback bumpers, including a promotion for Robotech which aired back in 1998, as well as a rerun of the classic reruns speech by Moltar.

The Naruto franchise has played a pivotal role in the growth of Toonami and the anime industry overall over the years, and those keeping up with the latest simulcasts might know that the next chapter to the Naruto series, Boruto has begun its run in Japan. I can’t say much about this series here due to obvious spoiler reasons, though depending on how things go, we could likely see this down the line on the better cartoon show. Of course, unlike many of the shows lately that we’ve been keeping an eye on for a potential Toonami run of their sequels, we still have several more years of Shippuden left to go, so unless they air Boruto and Shippuden at the same time (much like for DBZ), or if Shippuden is pulled in favor of airing Boruto, we could be waiting a while for this one to occur. As we’ve seen with One Piece’s cancellation among other things, things can easily change and anything can happen, so it’s pretty hard to predict what could happen regarding the future of Naruto’s Toonami presence ahead. All I can really recommend for those that want Boruto at some point is to keep supporting Toonami and Naruto overall and as with all potential shows, let Toonami know you want it. In the meantime, if you are caught up with Naruto and you wish to check out the sub now, it’s available on legal streams such as Hulu and Crunchyroll.

In Ghost in the Shell news, it was announced on Friday by Production IG & Kodansha that a new Ghost In The Shell anime is in the works. Kenji Kamiyama, who previously directed Stand Alone Complex, and Shinji Aramaki, who previously directed Appleseed, will serve as the new show’s co-directors. No further details have been released as of yet. With Stand Alone Complex being a Toonami classic along with Toonami’s good relations with Production IG, no doubt this will also be one to watch out for depending on how things go ahead.

Next week, JoJo’s will be completing the Battle Tendency story arc with a bang as Toonami will be showcasing the final two episodes from 12:30-1:30am Eastern. As this move is made in part to fast tracking the Attack on Titan season 2 dub premiere in 2 weeks, Tokyo Ghoul will have the night off to make way. In addition, next week will also showcase the finale of Super’s Battle of Gods arc while Samurai Jack will reach the halfway point of season 5, among other great moments. Until next week, we wish all those celebrating a Happy Holy Week and a blessed Passover, and we’ll see you again next week for another round of the better cartoon show.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#8]

#SamuraiJack [#2]

#DragonBallSuper [#24]

#DBZKai [#9]

#JoJosBizarreAdventure [#10]

#TokyoGhoul [#7]

#HunterXHunter [#8]

#GundamUnicorn [#4]

Worldwide Trends:

#SamuraiJack [#19]

Tweet Counts:

Toonami [8,147 tweets]

#Toonami [4,915 tweets]

#SamuraiJack [7,523 tweets]

#DragonBallSuper [4,149 tweets]

#DBZKai [1,848 tweets]

#JoJosBizarreAdventure [1,960 tweets]

#TokyoGhoul [2,257 tweets]

#HunterXHunter [1,812 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#samurai jack

#dragon ball super

Notes and Other Statistics:

#SamuraiJack: @WhoTrendedIT reported that @ericvdunn started the trend in the US.

#DBZKai: @WhoTrendedIT reported that @FUNimation started the trend in the US.

Special thanks to @coreymbarnes and others I forgot to mention for spotting some of the trends on this list.

Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

#Toonami #Adult Swim #Cartoon Network #Toonami Trending Rundown #Samurai Jack #Dragon Ball Super #Dragon Ball Z #DBZ #DBZ Kai #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #Tokyo Ghoul #Hunter x Hunter #Gundam Unicorn #Gundam

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all those tucson things

Hi friends! Happy Monday! I hope your morning is off to a wonderful start.

What a weekend. Betsy and her fam spent a few days in Tucson with us, and we spent time together at the pool, checking out some of our favorite spots, and eating all the good stuff.

Our Saturday adventures included an Orangetheory class,

miniature golf and bumper boats at Golf n’ Stuff,

and dinner at Commoner & Co. Of course, we got the Chef’s Tile and Goat Cheese Tart, the mussels,

and for my entree, I got the usual salmon. It has creamy mushroom risotto, crispy kale chips, and a lemon gremolata. I hope they never take it off the menu.

(Wy really wanted to photobomb us hahah)

The kids:

Sunday morning, Betsy and I caught an early barre3 class,

grabbed a green juice,

(Living their very best lives all weekend)

My first plate usually looks something like this:

They also have endless mimosas, Bloody Marys, beer, and coffee.

It was a great weekend with wonderful friends, and I’m pretty pumped that we get to see then again in a few weeks for our cruise!

For now, it’s back to work for this girl. I’m starting to get everything together for Summer Shape Up and can’t wait to share it with you in June.

Happy Monday, friends!

Gina

Looking for a workout? I’ve got you, boo.

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While we are promised that this broken world-wide will be paved with adversity and hardship, few misfortunes can compare to the sudden death of a spouse.

Nobody could be more familiar with that heart-wrenching loss than onetime NFL player Tommie Harris, who opened up about his wife Ashley’s death on BET’s Super Bowl Gospel Celebration earlier this month.

Just 41 short-lived eras after saying “I do, ” his' forever’ was chipped tragically short-lived when Ashley suffered a fatal ability aneurysm.

“About five years ago, I lost my partner to a mentality aneurysm, ” Harris told the crowd. “And I retain sitting in an auditorium just like you were in Indianapolis, and me and her were sitting there and I was watching a adult come up there likewise talking here how he lost his wife. As I was sitting there in the public, I was merely marriage for 30 epoches at that moment ... and I didn’t know 11 days later, I would lose my wife.”

That moment has been permanently seared into his mentality, as he reflects on just how prized our times on this dirt is, and just how little we are all familiar with how much of it we have.

Not even Harris’ millions of dollars worth of savings from his NFL career could buy his wife one more second.

“I had something like $25 million in the bank when I lost Ashley, and not one dollar had been able to help her, ” he wrote in The Players’ Tribune. “If it could have, I would have given every last penny to save my wife.”

“She showed me that a Christian is more than a word it’s a way of life. The whole season "were in" together I conceived I was teaching her but I’ve realise I was the student she was the coach.( Facebook) ”

“Life is short” and “live life to the fullest” often sound like nothing more than cliche bumper stickers ... until the moment you watch the passion of your life breathe her final breather. Then it’s real, then it’s tangible--and somehow more worthy of being roared at the top of your lungs for anyone willing to listen to the truth they were so sure they already knew.

And that’s exactly what Harris did, as the auditorium of observers sat transfixed on his tale :P TAGEND

“Death is a stuff that happens in life, it’s not a thing that happens to life, so my work is to go and tell everyone that is living to procreate life count, ” extol the former NFL star. “I don’t care what it is. As you express today, when was the last meter you took a big deep live? As I drew my wife’s observer off and she took her last one ... Right now, take a deep one. Give it out. As long as "youve had" that in your torso, you’ve got the Brady effect. At a few moments, I’ve got era on the clock, I can come back at any moment! I know situations has occurred in my life, but I can make a change at any moment.”

After opening up about his Greatest Loss in a feature floor with The Players’ Tribune last year, one may have is hoping that Harris’ speech would be marked by a hue of overthrow and woe--but the outspoken Christian took fairly the opposite posture as he handed his powerful take-home letter :P TAGEND

“I came here to encourage all of you that are going through a difficult time, that perturb doesn’t last always. I’ve never seen a cloud sit over one person’s house for a long time- this too shall guide- it has to! ” he ejaculated.

Harris closed by echoing the bold promise of Psalm 30:5 :P TAGEND

“We’ve been made to endure the night, but our exultation will come in the morning.”

His controlling commands of help have obligated beckons in all the regions of the Internet, amassing virtually 10 million views since they were posted on Facebook. Watch Harris’ potent send of determination and hope in the video below :P TAGEND

After being married for only 41 Epoch #3XProBowler #BearsLegend Tommie Harris lost his Wife ... LISTEN to what he has to say #SuperBowlGospel ......# MakeLifeCOUNT The Tyra Hill Show Approves THIS MESSAGE

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The “Last Hour” With My Wife

“My Wife Had Enough”: Husband Lets Wife' Go to Heaven’ After Giving Birth to 6th Child, Shaping the Ultimate Sacrifice

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Xavier: Renegade Angel #7: “Bloodcorn” | December 17, 2007 - 12:00AM | S01E07

Xavier sees an ad for a popular mass-produced cookie which is advertising cookie-tampon combos. Xavier takes the ad’s claim that there was a “mix-up” at the factory, at face value, and becomes overly concerned. He travels there and when he realizes how much pollution comes out of the plant he plugs up a drainage pipe. Toxic sludge backs up into the factory and causes the plant to close.

Xavier decides to help one of the now jobless workers by going to his farm to perform various dances (a rain dance, which he forgets, a memory dance, which he also forgets, and an irony-neutralizing dance that only works if it’s raining). Fed up, the farmer shoots into the air at god. Blood pours from the sky, which invigorates his crops but turns them into monsters. Xavier saves the day by launching copious cookie tampons into the sky, plugging up the blood rain.

This one is only hampered by the fact that two episodes ago we had blood Indians and blood cowboys fighting in a similar blood-meets-soil vein. It’s no big deal, really. Both episodes are very strong. It really only makes things confusing in conversation if you were trying to recall which episodes were which. It’s a shallow complaint. For my roommate and myself this was appointment television for us, and I still remember the parts where we laughed hardest. Xavier’s panic when the ad’s “mix-up” claim happens had us in hysterics. I’m not sure if the “mix-up at the factory” trope has aged any since this episode aired. Just in case it has: please know it was a thing. Um... look it up!!!!

There’s another moment that’s notable for perhaps requiring additional context: a sequence where Adult Swim style text supposedly replaces a dream sequence that is too mind-blowing to render. It looks a little bit like the Adult Swim bumpers of the era. The text looks rather large here, and I’m guessing that’s because I’m watching this on HBOMax. The show originally aired letterboxed in a 4:3 image, so I’m guessing the font size was effected by that in the conversion. NOTE: Nobody is allowed to make fun of me for typing the previous paragraph.

There is an early part where Xavier is watching “Darfur Doodles”, a presumably tasteless/wacky program starring malnourished war orphans. An announcer says “Darfur Doodle will be right black”, a joke that I love so much. It’s the kind of thing only a nihilistic POC could write and get away with. This is why we need more nihilistic POC writing comedy.

Another incredible joke that I think often: I didn’t even really remember that it was in this episode or scene: During one of the cookie ads, they are showing a montage of people giving various testimonials about the new product, and among them is just some dude in a red convertible saying “what do I care?” and driving off while flipping the bird (some of you know what I mean!!!!). So fucking funny. This another joke I can remember bustin’ up laughin’ at. Lookin’ glorious.

More jokes I liked, only because I’m in a mood to remember about jokes: “she’s 14” “nice and legal”. Also the part where the evil blood cloud uses a smokestack to blow cigarette-style smoke onto a bunch of people, causing them to become soot-covered, immediately causing them to be beaten by police officers. Also one last last thing: there is a brief bit where they use a small bit of footage of a dog-faced humanoid looking anguished. This is from the 1981 Clash of the Titans, and this clip was repeatedly over the course of Wonder Showzen, so much so that I almost consider this to be a cross-over.

MAIL BAG

Your Katrina/Soda Pop joke would have cost you your job if you were the Aflac Duck.

If I were the aflac duck I would’ve contracted terminal angel wing from eating all the popcorn and euthanized by the haven humane society (the same people who forced us to kill our dog for being too noisy)

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #xavier: renegade angel

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Sealab 2021 #52: “Legacy of Laughter” | April 25, 2005 – 12:15AM | S05E08

Well, here it is: the final Sealab. The show finally puts itself out of it’s misery. This episode has the Sealab crew on stage during a Sealab 2021 retrospective, where they tease a new season of the show, and a second TinFins film. It’s hosted by the TinFins lady, whose dress changes frequently as part of a subtle editing joke (as though they had to film this over the course of a few nights to get 11 minutes of material). I remember watching it at the time on TV? The hoax aspect of this episode (wherein it billboards a new season that’s never coming) would lead one to believe that nobody knew that the show was ending, but I must have because why else would I have watched this on television? Anyway, I remember feeling underwhelmed at the time, and I don’t have particularly fond memories of this finale. Did it hold up this time around? WELL:

First of all I should say that season five/four of Sealab is sort of an interesting mixed bag. There are a few subtle ways the show shook itself up as though longevity were around the corner. There is even one last pretty good episode (Cavemen). The show did get *sorta* better. The complete lack of caring that previous seasons had seems to be tamped down a bit here. The show as a whole, and this final season is still shockingly amateurish, but I can sense a silent desire for the writers to mature into people that don’t make complete crap. In other words, they sorta tried. Sorta.

This one isn’t particularly inspired, but as a celebration of the show it works. As a finale, it’s fairly unique. There’s jokes about Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as though audience members (made up of gross animator cameos) didn’t know that they were at a Sealab taping. There’s a fake [adult swim] bumper at the beginning and end (the former of which not only promises a new season of Sealab but also mentions a “Whiskey Tango” pilot; the show that would eventually become Frisky Dingo). There’s the Feng Shui doctor not voiced by Dave Willis. There’s Tornado Shanks demonstrating that he does black Debbie’s voice as well (reasonably funny bit; predating Loqueesha by over a decade).

The thing ends as it should, with a tribute to Capt. Murphy. Man, what a loss. I’ve often complained that people cite the “Captain Murphy” years as the “good” era of Sealab despite the fact that the show got bad far before Harry Goz passed away. The show throws to commercial, but instead of actually coming back from it we get another fake [adult swim] bump saying the show is actually cancelled and thanks for watching (Quick Programming note: I have word that the opening fake bump is not on HBOMax; but it is on DVD. Keep your DVDs, folks).

Okay, I never have to watch Sealab ever again. So, what better way to celebrate than to give you my Top Ten Sealab episodes. Actually, I think I’ll also give you my bottom ten as well. Hell, the bottom 20 would be abysmal. I’m going to list them in chronological order rather than ranked order, because I need to save my precious rankings for a later date. Please, ignore the seemingly negative review for “All That Jazz”, I ranked it higher after somebody yelled at me, and I’m as surprised as you are that it made my top ten. HERE WE GO:

TOP TEN SEALABS:

S01E03: “I, Robot” S01E04: “Chickmate” S01E05: “Predator” S01E06: “Lost in Time” S01E09: “All That Jazz” S01E10: “Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch” S02E04: “Der Dieb” S02E09: “Tinfins” S02E10: “7211” S03E04: “Article 4”

BOTTOM TEN SEALABS:

Actually, I won’t be doing the Bottom Ten Sealabs. This was the last Sealab post. Ever. Thanks for four great posts. Love, Jixby Phillips and the Mail Bag cast. : )

MAIL BAG:

It’s a shame you hate American Dad so much… Maybe give the show another chance at least, most people agree it’s better than Family Guy because IT IS. And no, it’s not because of the lack of cutaway gags, it’s because the characters are more interesting and likable as are the plots, and the writing is consistently clever and the jokes are fucking hilarious. Again I suggest giving it another shot, the newer episodes are better than the older ones, ranging from decent to excellent.

Bro, I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve seen dozens of episodes and none of them do anything for me. Trust me, the fact that there’s over 300 episodes of it of course makes me want to like it. Can you imagine discovering you like a show that has over 300 episodes you can watch? Wouldn’t that be amazing? But I would estimate that I’ve seen around 30 or so episodes, mostly from random seasons, some of them specifically highly rated, and it mostly just annoys me. SORRY! BYE BYE AMERICAN DAD I’M KILLING YOU

#adult swim #sealab 2021 #adultswim2021

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12 oz. Mouse #3: “Rooster” | October 31, 2005 – 12:30AM | S01E03

Episode 3 is sorta the first episode that takes a big leap into the idea that there’s somehow more going on than meets the eye in the world of 12 oz. Mouse. We see Mouse having nightmares about what appears to be a past life, married with child. It appears he’d been kidnapped, possibly into his current life. Who really knows for sure? Well, this fella named Roostre (pictured above [yes, he spells his name differently than the episode’s title which is presumably named after him]) seems to have some idea. He sends a “homing corndog” to Mouse and Skillet, and they meet him at a corndog farm he runs (shoutout to my wife’s various community gardens that she named “corndog ranch” after this show). Roostre talks what sounds like nonsense, but it turns out it’s nodding towards the future of the show, naming specific stuff like Q109, a thing that will be explained later, I guess.

More continuity: Shark convenes with a bunch of characters to teach them about aspirin. They seem to be hatching some kind of scheme. A recurring gag where man-woman appeared in the last episode to release a loud horn-sound out of his/her’s mouth were actually some kind of nefarious “signal” being used by Shark to signify... something. As much as I (mostly) dislike the deep lore of 12 oz. Mouse, this episode is sorta okay, because most of it just sounds like the nonsense I crave. Also this episode has one really great scene that might be my favorite scene in all of 12 oz. Mouse: last episode’s “New Guy” comes back, kidnapping Skillet and tying him up. He dances a seductive dance with a hula hoop while a creepy song plays. It’s fucking art, man. I love it so much.

I actually remember catching this episode around the time it first aired, and I made note of that scene. I didn’t know what was going on, felt like I wasn’t supposed to know what was going on despite 100% lacking any would-be context from being a “regular” viewer, and it still made me feel a certain way. THIS, to me, is the essence of 12 oz. Mouse, just feeling slightly uneasy and not being sure why. This is where I feel like Matt M’s attempts to tap into the Lynchian vein really work. It’s just great.

EPHEMERA CORNER:

Gigantor: “Struggle at the South Pole!” (November 1, 2005, 5:30AM)

I’m not trying to cover all the anime that aired on Adult Swim; I see it as a separate thing, honestly. But Gigantor is a little different, the same way Super Milk Chan, which I also covered, is different. Milk Chan was a comedy, so I decided it counted. Gigantor could qualify as a comedy, I guess; it seems like it was made mostly as a children’s program, and most children’s shows use humor to keep kids entertained. Speaking to the show’s place in the history of American television, I quote this passage from Don Markstein’s Toonopedia:

Critical acclaim was nonexistent. In fact, the show business trade publication Variety called it "loud, violent, tasteless and cheerless," adding that its only value was as a babysitter, and then only for mentally deficient children. But the kids, even those showing no signs of mental deficiency, loved it, at least as much for its empowered juvenile hero as for the loudness, violence etc.

This is tacky children’s programming from the 1960s. In other words: it’s kitsch. Adult Swim was about to get into the kitsch business with some other acquisitions like Saved by the Bell & Pee-wee’s Playhouse. These shows were met with mixed reviews from Adult Swim viewers; the most literal-minded autistic minds despised these additions to the block since they do not meet the textbook definition of “adult programming”, not understanding high-minded concepts like irony, or being extremely stoned.

I do remember watching a little Gigantor; I must’ve taped it out of curiosity. I wasn’t exactly a regular viewer, but I do remember bumpers pumping it up, ironically touting it’s virtues as a quality program. The reason it was was because it wasn’t.

The show is currently very available on various free streaming platforms, like tubi or pluto. If you like cartoon junk, it’s worth throwing on.

MAIL BAG:

Me and a bunch of my friends have had a long-standing tradition of rewatching 12 oz mouse around once or twice a year and I’ve loved and defended it since long before then! But there’s a fine line between recognizing how pointless a lot of complaints about it are and just being like ‘SEE? It’s DEEP! It’s like TWIN PEAKS!’ and this blog has kinda made me come to terms that I’ve definitely crossed that line before. I’d like to believe I’m better than that now. But I’ll never know

I’m honestly trying to keep an open mind about it the lore stuff, because I’m not sure if I’ve fully accessed the situation myself. I only ever saw the first two seasons in the DVD “movie” format, and I was on painkillers and felt like I lost the thread at some point. I can’t tell if it’s arrogant of me to brush aside most of the show as being first-thought nonsense or if by paying closer attention I’ll discover there was deep meaning to every little thing this whole time. The show actually does make me feel like I’m supposed to be paying really close attention to it, but it also feels like a prank. Ideally I would be rewatching all the previous episodes before embarking on a new one. But I don’t have that kind of time, as far as any of you know.

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #12 oz mouse

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Ephemera Week (2002)

It’s still ephemera week, and we’re still talking about John K. I said most of my piece on him in the last post, so don’t expect there to go full bore on this one, except I forgot to say he’s animation’s Jerry Lewis. His current stuff is basically Hardly Working. I will not elaborate, because I’m being mean to you0.

MARCH SPECIALS!

In March, Adult Swim advertised a run of one-off specials. A couple of them were already covered because they fell under the parameters of “Adult Swim original production”. They were Welcome to Eltingville (March 3rd) and Saddle Rash (March 24th).

Day in the Life of Ranger Smith | March 10th 2002 - 11:00 PM (Originally aired on Cartoon Network in 1999)

This was one of two specials commissioned by Cartoon Network re-imagining Yogi Bear. The artist what took this assignment was John K, who I REEEAALLY skewered in last night’s post, didn’t I?

This is about Ranger Smith harassing animals and writing them up for violating park rules, basically. It’s short! I remember liking it at the time! Okay, maybe I’m going crazy here, but I distinctly remembered a part at the end where Ranger Smith is in bed and he solemnly confides in the viewer that the noises of wilderness give him nightmares and then it just ends. Did I imagine this? It does end with him in bed, but this doesn’t happen in the version on YouTube (which is from the Adult Swim airing). Huh.

Boo Boo Runs Wild | March 10th 2002 - 11:15PM (Originally aired on Cartoon Network in 1999)

Boo Boo Runs Wild was another one of these stand-alone Yogi Bear John K specials. This one was 30 minutes long. The Ranger Smith short was a brief 7 minutes; I’m guessing they aired a couple Capt. Lingers or something to fill time.

This one is about Boo Boo reverting to his feral nature and causing BIIIIG problems! This special would later go on to be kind of a weird trolling thing Adult Swim would do where they aired it every Sunday for a few months, even promoting regularly. This was like 2006, I think? They’d also air it as part of April Fools. Is that Adult Swim admitting this special sorta sucks? Does it sorta suck? Again, I liked these at the time and REFUSED to actively rewatch these for this write-up. Sorry.

The Jetsons: Father and Son Day/The Best Son | March 10th, 2002 11:45PM (Originally aired on CartoonNetwork.com in 2001) Our John K rock block ends with a pair of Jetsons shorts, Father and Son Day and The Best Son respectively. This is kinda the same deal as his Yogi Bear shorts, but these were exclusive for Cartoon Network’s website. I remember watching them on there. They are as bad as you’d expect late-period John K internet shorts to be, though the second short is a superior version of Spielberg’s A.I. (in that it’s shorter).

Night of the Living Doo | March 17th, 2002 - 11:00PM (originally aired on Cartoon Network, 2001)

Night of the Living Doo originally aired as wraparound segments during a Halloween Scooby Doo marathon on Cartoon Network. It’s kinda like an episode of the Scooby Doo Movies, which shoehorned in a guest star each episode. Suddenly my man Dick Van Dyke be running a carnival and shit. That’s the Scooby Doo Movies. At the end of the night they played all the wraparound segments in one uninterrupted sitting, so the viewer could appreciate it as an actual full-on Scooby Doo episode. Night of the Living Doo functioned both as an extension of that series as well as a parody. The guests were Gary Coleman, David Cross, and the very cool band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It was all very self-deprecating and had jokes about the absurdity of Scooby Doo tropes. Well trod territory by this point, sure. But this is better than most irreverent Scooby Doo things. It didn’t hurt that I was a HUGE David Cross fan when this aired. Is this where I tell the stupid-ass story about getting mad at a message board guy for not liking David Cross? Sure. Okay, yeah. When this aired on Adult Swim a guy on Kon’s (hi Kon) message board posted something about not finding David Cross funny, shrugging that he didn’t get the hype. He cited this and his appearances in the Men in Black movies, and nothing else as proof for his lackluster comedy skills. It’s kinda like deeming Eddie Murphy as a bad comedian after watching Dr. Doolittle.

The point of this special is that David Cross is a little wooden and stilted, like in the old Scooby Doo Movies episodes. This poster revealed that he never heard David Cross’s stand-up or seen Mr. Show, explaining “I don’t watch puppet shows” A response that still baffles me to this day. Why Mr. Show isn’t a-- WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? I’m not even sure if there was EVER a puppet on Mr. Show*. David wasn’t even a guest on Crank Yankers at this point! SO WHAT THE FUCK? To this day whenever mutual pals from that board get together and watch a movie or show and a puppet appears we make a joke about this guy. Good story? No? Fuck you.

Other stuff about this show: When it originally aired on Cartoon Network it was a little bit longer than the Adult Swim version. There’s a missing scene. I think it’s David trying to play an improv game with a mummy or something. At one point I had it on tape, but I’m not sure I kept it. Sorry.

*sorry to be coy here, but I do know of at least one puppet on Mr. Show, episode 204 there is brief footage of Grass Valley Greg putting on a puppet show for his staff. This CAN’T be the source of the confusion, can it? It’s literally like, 5 seconds.

MAIL BAG

This’ll teach me to skip a day cuz this really piled up. Thanks, guys. I love all the attention. It is my favorite thing.

I never really saw oblongs as something for the hot topic set. They had Invader Zim and Squee for that kind of shit. Oblongs feel like it was always directly targeting me: the shut-in comedy nerd who would appreciate will ferrell and the sklars being in a thing. Since they ended up doing the exact same show with Janeane Garofalo and David Cross a few years later it seems like that was the goal.

Yeah, I guess that also makes sense. There were a few elements that were kinda gothy but this show was mostly just Angus Oblong ahem, clowning around (puckering mouth to stifle laughter like Chris Elliott in Cabin Boy)

What are your thoughts on the other adult animation blocks of the past couple decades? Spike's notriously failed attempt. Animation Domination. Apparently Syfy has had their own going?

Spike was irredeemably bad. People think this shit is easy. Animation Domination is sorta legit, but it’s anchored by mostly crap. That ADHD thing was kinda good and underrated. Is that still going on? I wish I were more diligent about watching/recording that. Some of them bumpers were good. Also, we mustn’t forget MTV’s oddities. They were kinda the first cable network to court Adult Animation as their thing. They deserve some kind of credit for that. I’m sure they’re doing fine.

I'm having a nice big thing of spaghetti for dinner with some chicken parm? Jealous?

I’ve never had those are they good

What does Ephemera mean? Why is this happenening? Why aren't you talking about 10 Home Movies episodes in a row like a good boy.

In dude time, my friend. In dude time

What would be your Adult Swim dream come true?

Having a complete archive of Adult Swim blocks on a harddrive like Don Giller has with his Letterman archive. Even the commercials and shit. I know of a guy who was a regular taper of the entire block from night 1 but I’m not sure he kept up with it when they went nightly. I should ask him if he still has his tapes, huh?

That or they bring back the BUILD YOUR OWN DVD thing but with blu-rays and you can make your own bumps, which was a different thing they had. THEY SHOULD COMBINE THEM. And you can master it in SD if you wanna put 10 hours of stuff on a disk.

All this is archival bullshit dork shit. Real answer: Clay Croker comes back from the dead and every block is hosted by Space Ghost. That’d be it, right?

If anyone has genuine/better answers please write in with them I wanna keep this conversation going. ‘kay?

McDonalds reintroduces limited edition Adult Swim Toys. You can get them all (plus an extra to keep wrapped for collectors purposes) but you have to spend 20 dollars at McDonalds to grab them all. This is the last day of the promotion. You have to personally eat everything you buy but you can take it home. You can only buy one of each food item. What are you getting? I know the longer the mailbag message is the quicker you are inclined to give some glib remark but indulge this one for once.

Oh wow. I’m literally going to take this seriously. I’d roll in as breakfast was ending. Get myself a McChicken Biscuit and a Bacon Egg & Cheese McGriddle, hashbrowns and a Coffee. Gobble that knob on down. Wipe my mouth with a napkin. It’s lunchtime, bitch. Big Mac, Large Fries, BIG ass soda. You feel me, dude? Lemme tally up. Okay, probably need more. 20 piece nugget. Take that home cuz I’m probably gonna have to save some for dinner. That’s probably 20 bucks right there, especially if you go to the McDonalds on Burnside where all the menu items are more expensive because of the amount of security they have to hire (did you know that different McDonalds have different prices even in the same city? I didn’t until very recently). If this somehow doesn’t satisfy my price point I get a Vanilla shake and eat it anally DURING my BIG D squirt sesh, so it’ll spend as little time in my body as possible. Wait, do I get something for this? I might do this tomorrow just cuz. It sounds like a funky thing to do

Do you think you'll open an Adult Swim mueseum at some point? You seem to be the only steward of its history.

Unless I’m hired to by a large corporation, probably not. Also I don’t think I actually have much in the way of merch other than DVDs. I stopped being a DVD completist at some point around Freaknick The Musical. Oh, I never EVER bought a Robot Chicken DVD, EVER. I literally had a nightmare once that one appeared in my collection.

Hey! Please keep us abreast any time you put more of your garbage on eBay. Maybe you can put your wedding dress on there, you big girl.

Fucking sexist/trasphobic behavior.

Check out my eBay auctions I got season 18 of NCIS up there and some other things :)

The Ripping Friends blow chunks. I don't care if a rapist or the opposite of a rapist (a virgin who volunteers, lol) made it. It sucks a high hard one like when Ozzy banged the Cheiftan's Wife in that Black Sabbath TV Funhouse cartoon. Tell me more.

Tell you more?

Name one rap song you tolerate lol. You can't say anything by weird al or marky mark.

I guess I like the song the pest sings from the motion picture The Pest

Are there any good podcasts on adult swim?

The official one hosted by Matt Harrigan is good, but I’ve only bounced around on it. I don’t know if there’s any formal recap ones. I simply don’t know!

HE'S GIVING HIGH HARD ONE TO CHEIFTAN'S WIFE? UH OH!

Buddy, you are BANNED for LIFE from my MAIL BAG! You drive me CRAZY!

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EPHEMERA WEEK

[adult swim] Reviews the Message Boards (September 14, 2003)

The weird thing is I’m about 70% sure that I have this somewhere on a DVD or VHS tape or something, but I’ve never bothered to dig it out and digitize it for YouTube. You’d think I would after all these years.

[adult swim] acknowledged our existence with a bumper where [adult swim] reviewed the message boards. I posted on The Adult Swim Message Board, popularly known as “The ASMB”. It was a message board founded on ezboard, a free-with-ads service that about anyone could use. Started by my pal Kon weeks, perhaps MONTHS before Adult Swim’s debut. He got in on the ground floor. They summed our userbase up with one word: “youngsters”. I remember we took issue with it. We weren’t youngsters! We were old men! We were all like, 19! What the hell, man! I’m 37 now. Jesus fucking CHRIST. But they were basically right, we were immature douchebags mostly.

Toonzone (now animesuperhero.com or something re-re like that) was called a “gated community”, which they took as a compliment, which is hilarious. And then they referred to their own message boards in complimentary terms. That was the punchline, I guess. I sure wish I could remember the wording.

Later that night, ASMB operator and occasional-blog-writer-inner Kon was mentioned by name. They were shilling their “anime is teh s uck” t-shirt and addressed Kon directly, telling him that if he bought an “anime is teh s uck” t-shirt that he’d be rewarded with a rough cut of the then-upcoming William Shatner episode of Space Ghost. Kon, unwavering in his hatred for all things “teh s uck” said “nah man” and wrote an incendiary article on his website where he called the shirt gay. My hero!

LETS HEAR IT FROM THE HORSE MOUTH: Here’s my boy KON with an OFFICIAL STATEMENT

Happy Friday to all!! My convictions in 2003 were sincere and hold up; as much as I love Space Ghost, I truly had no interest in getting a “sneak peek” at an upcoming episode, I wanted to experience it in its final form, fresh, along with my brothers and no sisters of the Adult Swim fandom. I think I also thought that if I was enough of a jerk about turning down the rough cut offer I’d become a “heel” of Adult Swim, with years of acknowledgement by bumps to come. Well in hindsight the rough cut would be pretty cool to have but let’s face it not THAT cool. A fun thing to watch once. Put it on the volume 6 DVD if it’s that good. Oh wait, you don’t have a volume 6 DVD.

(as of press time we still do not have a volume 6 DVD)

MAIL BAG

I recently remembered and paid tribute to Harry Goz’s passing here on the blog. He was the voice of Captain Murphy on Sealab 2021. Here’s a nice message about him that I’ve been saving.

Hey guys I heard the blog creator is donating a dollar every time you send him an e-mail about popeyes chicken to the Save The Children Foundation. Dont know what the foundation does but it's a nice gesture. So let's keep the good times going: I had the chicken a popeyes. It was crispy. It was tender. It had a cajun style seasoning. I liked it. What do you think? Thanks again for all you do.

HEY WHAT THE FUCK. How did I get pranked with this??? This is maddening! PLEASE Don’t tease me about Popeyes Chicken I simply do not want to give money to children. I don’t care if they’re getting beheaded or whatever’s happening to them. They are nasty and I relish their suffering. nothing but net

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Ephemera Week (2002)

I really wonder how effectively I’ll be able to do this in 2003. In 2003, Adult Swim started doing the black and white text bumps, where they give max sass and NO EFFS (fucks), so every week had unique content. I definitely don’t have the resources to catalogue every bumper or even come up with a decent “best of”. Ephemera Corner 2003 may look very different. To quote my good friend Zorak, “Brak, do you ever think about the future?”. To this I say, yes. Yes, Zorak, I do.

BROADCAST ANOMALIES AND SPECIAL NIGHTS!

Adult Swim Action (and other stuff) | February 23, 2002

February 23rd was the first installment of Adult Swim Action. Up to this point, Adult Swim aired a block of mostly comedy capped off with Cowyboy Bebop. This was the first formal separation of Action and Comedy. I remember the bitter rivalry between the two fandoms on various message boards I posted on. It really did seem like a venn diagram with almost no overlap; action fans hated the comedy shows (maybe they liked one or two but hated the rest) and the same went for the comedy fans, except most of the comedy fans I knew were devout anime haters.

At the height of my anime animosity an internet ex-friend of mine started a message board called ANIME SUCKS. It was an experience I’ll always remember fondly. At it’s peak it had over 1000 members. All but about a dozen of those members were actually ANGRY anime fans who just stumbled on the board and were FURIOUS at us for being anti-anime, and we’d just act like obtuse dickheads about it. Like, we’d act stupider than they were and just wind them up.

We developed a few tricks to really set somebody off. For example: they’d write an impassioned defense of anime as an art form, and say something like “it’s not all like Pokemon or Dragonball Z”, to which we’d reply “actually those are the only two animes I like”. This really got them. There was a special thrill to just replying “miyazaki is an idiot” to a guy’s 6-paragraph essay about why anime was “good, actually”, prompting an even longer response. It was really fun! We didn’t have to harass people online, they’d just come to us to get abused. I’ve never seen bait get taken so effortlessly. One day that guy just closed the message board, locked everyone out, and disappeared forever.

That was some aside, huh? Anyway, the arrival of Adult Swim Action meant that Adult Swim stopped airing the Thursday night repeats of Adult Swim Comedy, which was a shame. It Also meant Adult Swim’s Sunday night had an extra hour to fill, which they did with Rocky & Bullwinkle and the Popeye Show. People complained. I didn’t. Vintage animation is just a different take on the “adult” label. Besides, I was used to tuning out by 12AM anyway, so even if I didn’t like those shows (I did!) I wasn’t missing anything, really. But yes, if it were a full hour of Space Ghost repeats I guess that would’ve been better.

The Lewis Lectures | May 19, 2002 - 12:45 AM

A repeat of Lewis Lectures? IT HAPPENED! But what was so different about this broadcast of Lewis Lectures? Well, they accidentally scrambled the SAP audio with the default English audio, causing the Spanish soundtrack to play in tandem with the English one. It was bloody well fucked mate. This is simply no longer England.

I remember becoming an Adult Swim completist and taping this, considering it some kind of void in my collection. Part of me wishes I saved the recording, so I could combine it with the inferior YouTube rip currently up and have a closer-to-pristine copy than the one that’s available. But also, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THIS IS LEWIS LECTURES WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. How much pain can I inflict on myself?

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law Mini-Marathon | September 15, 2002 - 11:00 PM

On this night they aired a little Harvey Birdman marathon of the 4 episodes. This was kinda baffling, as Birdman had 6 episodes to its name and they’d been repeated into the ground by this point. I guess it goes to show that Adult Swim kinda considered Birdman to be their prestige program. I’m hard-pressed to call any one Adult Swim show “smart” in a way that’s apparent on a shallow level. Birdman is set in a courtroom, animated the most competently out of all their other shows, and involved cultural references in a showy way. Like, Space Ghost having Dave Willis absurdly shout “UP THE CHAIN” in the background of a Space Ghost episode is almost just a weird easter egg. But Birdman? Birdman was name-dropping Hanna Barbera characters the same way Frasier would talk about whatever gay shit Frasier talked about.

They aired The Dabba Don, Shaggy Busted, Shoyu Weenie, Very Personal Injury in that order. I would’ve swapped Shaggy and Shoyu and for Bannon Custody Battle and Death by Chocolate, but that’s just me, I guess.

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Adult Swim New Years Bash hosted by Carl and Brak | December 31, 2002 - 11:00 PM

Adult Swim officially ended 2002 with this: a night hosted by Carl and Brak in Times Square, watching the ball drop (which was FREAKING MEATWAD!!!!). I remember this night fondly. Unfortunately I can’t find the whole thing, but here’s a single segment I found on vimeo to give you some idea. I think I had it up at one point and Turner very annoyingly had it taken down.

I used to have this massive physical media collection; stuff on VHS and DVD and DVD-R that was meticulously catalogued. I ditched a lot of it in favor of digitizing stuff like this, eternally keeping it on hard drives that I meant to back up but never did. It seems more convenient, but it isn’t. If this were 2003 and I needed to show you this, I would be able to retrieve it from one of my many shelves. I might still have this, but would have no idea where to look for it and it would probably involve me getting in my car and going out to my storage unit and pulling every single box out. I turned it into ones an zeros and stuck it on a nondescript black box that could very well be dead. And now it’s not even on YouTube. Sad? Sure, it’s sad.

PEAK EPHEMERA

(phrase stolen from Grifthorse podcast)

Hey, here are some videos I found on YouTube in case you wanna go down a wormhole of watching old Adult Swim commercial breaks. May the gods of posterity keep them online forever:

February 4, 2002

Spring 2002

June 16, 2002

June 30, 2002

July 27, 2002

August 2002

November 17, 2002

November/December 2002

MAIL BAG:

This ends EPHEMERA WEEK. We’ll do actual episodes soon!

What's the scariest thing you seen on adult swim?

I don’t know if I have a real answer for this. I don’t think I actually get scared by stuff in movies or TV shows. I can’t even come up with a funny answer. Remember the end of that Metalocalypse episode where the little sick girl is dead and her eyes turn into maggots and you hear that screechy voice was like I’M DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I’ll just go with that even though it made me laugh really hard

Ever watch Limmy's Show

I am content just being vaguely aware of Limmy (no, I never watched his show. Seems good).

Please don't do such a big mailbag. I couldn't believe how many r-words wrote inane bullshit to you. Let keep this blog about the real stars: Master Shake, Space Ghost, Brak, Zorak, Meatwad, Frylock, Debbie, Black Debbie, Carl, Sparks, Stormy, Hesh, Moltar, Harvery Birdman Captain Murphy, Dr. Quinn, Paula, Marco, Brendon, Jason, Melissa, The Mooninites, the Plutonians, Peanut, Coach Mc Gurk, Mentok the Mindtaker, Virjay, Antoin, Colby, Trotter, Adair WE ARE THE UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE :)

I can’t believe this IDIOT doesn’t get that by typing such a long message he very IDIOTICALLY contributed to the length of the Maili Bag... LMFAO, what a IDIOT

This is maybe the funniest blog on tumblr. You really think these nasty little cartoons are special, huh?

Hey than-- oh :( Yeah, I guess so :(

would you like master shake if he did the whole thing

I’m sorry what

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Ephemera Corner (2001)

Happy Space Ghost’s birthday, everyone! I’ve finished all of Adult Swim’s shows for 2001, so now I’ll do a little recap post here to touch on all the programming I didn’t formally do a write-up for. I think I mentioned some of this stuff in passing in certain posts, and I’m not gonna go quite as ALL OUT as one could for something like this. Unfortunately a lot of my more valuable resources for Adult Swim promos and bumps and stuff are mostly missing, so I’m just reaching for what’s handy. So, here we go.

Adult Swim Bumpers

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These are the bumpers that Adult Swim originally aired with back in the day. I don’t know if this is *actually* all of them, but if you’ve never seen them, this is a good place get acquainted with them.

Captain Linger

Capt. Linger was a series of shorts starring a superhero who saved the day, but hung around awkwardly afterwards. Here’s my own personal episode guide. I know for a fact I saw the first cartoon air on Cartoon Network BEFORE it aired on Adult Swim, but these are just the Adult Swim air dates. The noted times are approximated. They usually aired directly after the post-show Adult Swim bumper during what would normally be the commercial break:

Stranger In Town (September 2, 2001 - 11:27ish)

She Wore a Veil of Sorrow (September 9, 2001 - 11:27ish)

Water! Ship! Down! (November 25, 2001)

Smoke in the Stacks (December 23, 2001)

Train On Our Parade (December 23, 2001)

Trouble If It’s Fair (January 13, 2002 - 10:25ish)

A New Flame in Town (January 27, 2002)

Grieving on a Jet Plane (Unaired on Adult Swim... I think.)

Aquaman Dance Party

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Aquaman Dance Party were these short little promos that consisted of brief stock footage interludes where Aquaman walks into the foreground and shakes his butt to cool dance music. Linked above are a sample; it’s not ALL of them, so feel free to go hunting on your own. I believe the source for the above video is the producer’s own YouTube page. This is my guide I compiled myself, please send corrections if you have any:

Drive-Thru (September 2, 2001)

Taj Mahal (September 16, 2001)

Outdoor Cafe (September 16, 2001)

Cattle Ranch (September 23, 2001)

Grocery Store (October 18, 2001)

Times Square (December 13, 2001 - 11:27ish PM)

Car Impound Lot (December 16, 2001 - 11:12ish PM)

*note: at some point I downloaded a pack of these and they were numbered in such a way that implied there were at least 8 of these, so my guide may be incomplete. Get in touch if you know what’s what.

Aquaman & Friends Action Hour

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This was a series developed for Adult Swim in America that didn’t go. It eventually aired in 2003 in Latin American countries (which is why the on-screen title is not in English). As you can see, it’s not that good, and on a network where half the shows were based on old action hero properties it’s not such a bad thing to lose out on this one. Above is just a segment, and there are more segments to be found here and there, but I have no idea how much of this show there actually is to be found? One episode guide suggests that there’s 7 episodes of this show. Yeesh!

Second-Run Theater

Finally, a paragraph acknowledging that Adult Swim also aired second-run/acquired series. In 2001 it was basically just classic (Cartoon Network) episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast usually paired with newer ones, episodes 1-5 of Home Movies (from UPN), and the anime Cowboy Bebop which is when I tuned out cuz 2001 me really hated anime. I’ve since watched an entire episode of Cowboy Bebop. It’s pretty good. Maybe I’ll watch it properly sometime.

I found this really terrific resource called swimpedia, which has supposedly complete schedules for all of Adult Swim since the start. Not sure how accurate it is, but I haven’t found anything that contradicted my own records. So, it’s probably pretty accurate. Click that link if you really wanna get into the weeds of which Space Ghost episode aired on which night.

Peak Ephemera

To borrow a phrase from the Grifthorse podcast. Here are some commercial breaks I found on YouTube! Some of these are more “complete”, some just focus on Adult Swim promos and bumps. Probably lots of overlap. May the gods of preservation protect these from being randomly deleted. Presented in list form, because apparently tumblr won’t let you embed a certain number of videos in your post:

September 27, 2001 (bumps/promos)

November 4, 2001 (bumps, promos, commercials - LONG!)

November 11, 2001 (bumps, promos, commercials)

December, 2001 (features a series of backwards promos, and Brak & Zorak singing Christmas carols that I don’t think I ever saw... not sure if it’s Adult Swim specific)

According to the November 4 video, that’s the first night Adult Swim switched to a revamped onscreen bug. When it debuted it was ADULT SWIM in all caps, red and fuzzy. I think they might have changed it at one point so there was a line break between ADULT and SWIM. In November they changed it all lower-case letters, white with line break between the words and I think a black border. I believe they’ve consistently used the font Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold.

Adult Swim originally ran with extensive warnings, telling you that the content you were about to consume was “adult” in nature. A friend of mine pointed out to me that the first couple weeks of Adult Swim they actually kept the TV-Rating onscreen for the entire episode of each show. And that was 2001′s Ephemera Corner! See you next year.

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