Why does AS make strange, pointless bumps that make no sense, is this random bullsh*t turning into a fad? (Wondershowsen, Andy M show, Stankervision)
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Anonymous2005-08-12 13:22
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Anonymous2005-08-15 7:39
just this sunday they made the most horrendously pathetic ayb spoof
we set us up the block? pff
welcome to 1999 now gtfo
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Anonymous2005-08-16 7:11
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lol adult swim = teen swim am i rite? Fucking fail.
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Anonymous2005-08-16 15:27
Man, how are these shows more "adult" just by inserting random Junior High swear words in every other sentence?
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Anonymous2005-08-17 2:42
action block is fucking wapanese failshit. Comedies are passable, but their inhouse stuff is pretty crappy.
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Anonymous2005-08-25 22:03
adult swim really needs to get it's shit together. sealab degenerated into a shitpile, athf (their one sure-fire hit) has no new episodes coming for quite some time, "ozmo" and stroker & hoop are awful.
ATHF is good. Harvey Birdman is good. Sealab was good. that's all their is to adult swim. I watch the CB dub whenever i see it come on because it's good and it's my favorite anime, and none of the episodes really get old though surely i've seen a few 20+ times. I just love it! All the other anime is pretty bad (dubbed, anyway. Full Metal Alchemist and FLCL are pretty good. I really don't mind the FLCL dub but only so many times you can watch those six eps!)
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Anonymous2005-09-02 3:20
ATHF is like a ghetto South Park wannabe but it's quite amusing.
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Anonymous2005-09-02 4:25
is it better or worse than Stargate-1? Stargate-1 is intellectual bankrupt, but it's still highly enjoyable.
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Anonymous2005-09-04 2:28
STROKER! HOOP! STROKER! HOOP!
is the new...
INUYASHA! KAGOME! INUYASHA! KAGOME!
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Anonymous2005-09-06 17:39
HI ADULTSWIM SUCKS
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Anonymous2005-09-11 22:27
more like teen to college-demographic swim
but seriously, they're a channel coasting on the ratings of reruns of shows that aren't theirs in the first place. i'd go so far as to say that no series they have started since AS began has been ANY good, save venture brothers, which effectively outclasses everything on the channel. athf is about all that's left, because it's setup is best at delivering the "random shit happens" plots. robot chicken has about thirty seconds of decent gags per fifteen minute episode. as such it ought to be reduced to an ad campaign. stroker and hoop was motherchristing terrible and i can't believe they aired it. is the other new shit this bad? have they shown any of it yet? i only watch family guy reruns on this channel noawadays!
side note: The bumps have gone from well-meaning idiot hipster (trying to sell you shit) to obnoxious full-of-self idiot hipster (trying harder than ever before to sell you shit), which is a really bad thing. they've completely dropped the comforting marketing illusion of "bumps written by human beings".
as for the anime, shit, when is non-inuyasha/CB anime ever on AS? KAGOOOOMEEEEEE etc.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 6:26
Liek, all the time? Scryed(which is certainly teen swim, it doesn't have the sophistication for college students outside the otaku-failure bracket to watch), GITS:SAC(okay, but just okay), and FMA.
Which is why it's Teen Swim.
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Anonymous2005-10-04 1:26 (sage)
More like Failure Swim, once people get sick of Family Guy they will already have done everything they can with ATHF (which isn't much) and have jack shit for people to watch.
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Anonymous2005-10-05 19:33
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Anonymous2005-10-05 21:11
if you think you can do better, they've got a contest right now where you can submit a short to them and win a car or some such shit.
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Anonymous2005-10-11 13:31
Am I the only one that LIKES stroker and hoop? It's actually one of the better shows in their lineup. Most of you are probably too young to remember detective shows like "Magnum P.I." or "Simon and Simon", but Stroker and Hoop is actually a pretty okay parody of that genre. Not brilliant, but watchable. Other good and pretty good Adult Swim shows are Aqua teen, Harvey Birdman, Space Ghost, Home movies (they badly need to make new eps of Home movies!), obviously family guy. Mission Hill was pretty good. Sealab used to be good, then became embarrassingly terrible. Robot chicken is really, really fucking stupid. Oblongs suck. I don't really like much of the anime they show, except Cowboy Bebop, which has been done to death anyway.
There's my 2 cents on adult swim programming.
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Anonymous2005-10-11 16:47
We don't get CN nor AS in Canada, but we do get a few CN shows mainly on Teletoon here and most of them are cheaply made crap. It's amazing that Canadian cartoons look to be higher quality -- which is saying a lot.
I would highly recommend that CN actually get the US licence rights for Canadian cartoons if it was not for the fact that every time in the past this has been done they get censored and cut-up due to being too risque. Even shows with absolutely no nudity get censored for sexual content. It doesn't help that many shows have lots of swearing to which would have to be beeped. Then there's the political incorrectness which we somehow get away with despite having hatred laws.
But if somehow such shows would make it without any edits, AS would be doing great.
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Anonymous2005-10-13 17:47
I've got a question, why is Venture bros. so good? how did Adult Swim get their hands on such a good show??
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Anonymous2005-10-14 19:15
im fairly sure you guys have heard of tv.com? their anime forum is literally filled with children that think their otaku because they watch adult swim and Dragonball lol
Disparaging someone for not being otaku enough is also pretty sad ^___^
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Anonymous2005-10-16 20:20
The pilot episode didn't do much for me. But I gotta admit... Stroker and Hoop is actually pretty good. Not Venture Brothers good mind you, but still not bad.
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Anonymous2005-10-16 23:09
adult swin is the funniest shit ever. sealab 2021, home movies, all that shit.
I hate stroker and hoop, squidbillies, tom goes to the mayor, 12oz mouse, and home movies. I wish AS would burn these programs.
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Anonymous2005-10-26 17:42
I like home movies because at least my brain is somewhat stimulated by it. 15-30 mins is the most I can watch though.
Pretty much every other AS show ever made sucks ass. Especially ATHF, it's pathetic how many people think that show is funny.
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Anonymous2005-11-05 17:06
ATHF pwns all.
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Anonymous2005-11-06 0:11
I never really watched Adult Swim except for the anime. About three/four years ago I started downloading fansubs so I haven't really seen much of AS since then. I tune in every once in a while just to see what's new and to awe at how horribly they dubbed Fullmetal Alchemist! And also to laugh at the fact that I actually used to watch Naruto (what was I thinking)?
As for their non-anime. I think the only thing I watched consistently was Futurama and that's only because I used to watch it when it was on Fox. I would once in a while tune in for Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Home Movies. I never liked Family Guy, though.
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Anonymous2005-11-06 23:53
The only problem with Adult Swim lies in the demographic. If it didn't have a festering cesspool of teenage miscreants watching it in order to consider themselves "outside the mainstream" while shopping at hot topic, we would get a lot of awesome shows.
But, since the kiddies do watch it, and they shop at hot topic, we are all fucked. Now would be the time to invest in some Beavis and Butthead, Duckman, The Tick, and Rocko's Modern Life.
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Anonymous2005-11-09 0:07
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Okay, what the fuck is so abysmal about the FMA dub? Life would be so much more enjoyable without you elitist anime faggots and your need to compensate for your small penises.
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Anonymous2005-11-14 8:45
I would probably not mind their anime block had they chosen Ranma 1/2 instead of Inuyasha...both repetitive formula's but Ranma just works for me, Inuyasha just pisses me off.
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Anonymous2005-11-17 0:16
I really like The Venture Brothers, but I guess it's not on anymore.
12 Oz Mouse is their worst yet. Jesus, the fuck are they thinking when putting effort in those episodes. I mean seriously. All it turns out to be is mumblings that you can't understand half the time and shit that doesn't tie to itself. It's like a dozen cheap jokes trying to sew itself into one big cheap joke. Lame =(
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Anonymous2005-11-20 22:11
>>35
Shows are made in seasons. The second one premieres in January, I think (they mentioned it on a bump).
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Anonymous2005-11-23 22:52
Stroker and Hoop is watchable, 12 oz. Mouse is shit, and with the exception of Big O and to an extent, Ghost in the Shell, Action is Generic Otaku fare. At least they don't air Evangelion....
I mainly watch it on Saturday. I like anime, but i'm not to much of a weaboo to hunt down fan subs.
37 was right. 12 Oz Mouse truly is utter crap. I really didn't think shows could get any worse than tom goes to the mayor. But Adult Swin supprised us all for their uncanny ability to find utter shit and put it on TV.
>>37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_oz._Mouse
apparently it isn't meant to be understood by anyone.
I think body snatchers who are only interested in avant garde and psychedelic rock took over without our knowledge.
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Thanks for the explanation, I figure this is why it goes over most of us young'ns. The only episode so far that seems to be really good without you needing to know what kind of show it's parodying is the one with the crazy gangland rapper who threw his cat a birthday party.
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Sorry, I would rate GitS as being otaku myself. Any fictional show whose most important dialogues rely more on dead people than live seem custom made for Starbucks-swilling yuppie 'ar-teests.'
But I'm glad I watched it to the end on the first run, because episode 25 was one of the funniest things ever.
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Anonymous2005-12-06 0:50
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This is an anime, I've seen a lot of animes in my AS time and you can tell from the little squiggles over there.
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Anonymous2005-12-06 23:51
Adult Swim says that they are NEVER going to buy Ranma 1/2.
Sucks, don't it!
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Anonymous2005-12-12 16:26
AS has been going steadily downhill, and that makes me sad.
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Anonymous2005-12-15 18:20
I hope the onslaught of shitty new shows is to prove they have enough content for their own channel, in which case they'll have more freedom and probably better shows.
I hope.
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Anonymous2005-12-15 20:44
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Hmm your right, 4chan makes perfect sense pretty much 24/7. No random shit goin on around here.
Adult Swim sucks. Stop watching this shit, you jackasses.
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Anonymous2006-01-02 23:01
They cater to the audience that watches it. If more anime fans watched adult swim, there would be more anime. Unfortunately, more "general audience" type people watch adult swim, and they like don't have the patience for anime. They want easy, disposable humour, and they've got it.
I like Venture Brothers. I hate all those shitty, badly-animated shows they make. I watched NGE last night and it pissed me off. IT had a really shitty quality and the dub is horrible. The one I downloaded has a way greater quality. IT bothers me that they show Inuyasha all the time. It's so boring, they should add new shows. Not stuff they've shown a thousand times like Cowboy Bebop and Furi Kuri. The bumps are annoying and stupid. Luckily I stopped watching it when I started to DL fansubs. :D
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Anonymous2006-01-12 18:18
AS sucks and will always suck, including any other channel that airs dubs
I love AS, but it is unfortunant that they don't play very much anime. I actually like most of their choices though. I also love their comedy blocks with Family Guy, ATHF, The Boondocks, etc.
What's up with that one show.. Minoriteam?? That was beyond gay.
>>55
PROTIP:Any channel that wants rating shows anime dubbed,
people hate to read.
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Anonymous2006-01-21 2:03
>>PROTIP:Any channel that wants ratings shows anime dubbed, people hate to read.
It took me a full 2 minutes to figure out what you typed. That one s just fucked the whole sentence up for me. XD
I liked adult swim back when they were just starting up, then I got cable, started downloading anime, and found out just how bad they'd been butchering it.
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Anonymous2006-01-24 18:21
did anyone realise that the OP posted this way back in 12 Aug 2005
???...
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Anonymous2006-02-18 3:44
Go to bestbuy or bittorrent for anime and leave AS to the truly wacked shit you can't get anywhere else like 12 oz. Mouse. The only excuse for watching five year old dubbed versions of anime on AS is if you are like 12 or fucking homeless or something.
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Anonymous2006-03-03 18:42
Captian Murphey sealabs are the only worth while thing williams street has made. Any of the anime or Family Guys that are good are still good on AS.
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Anonymous2006-03-13 21:36
I think Fma is and host in the shell family guy, and sealab thats about it and aqua team but they need to make more new episodes of sealab. There anime is all that bad its a good line up of shows if you dont have satilite t.v (I dont :( ) I wish i had somthing like direct t.v for the ANime networl or somthing *tear*
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Anonymous2006-03-19 20:14
They's showing the Area 88 TV series on that now. Avoid it. Totally incompetant storywriting, it's like a horrible 1980's flightjock movie. All it's missing to be complete are a couple of gay pilots dodging the issue by pursuing a girl, Danger Zone in the soundtrack, and Ice T flying a stealth bomber. The three OAVs are so above it in quality you'd think it were a completely different show.
also Bishounen Shin > British underwear model Shin
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Youwantbeef214?2006-03-20 2:11
FMA, ATHF,FAM-Guy, Futarama, Ghost..,and squidbillies.....these 6 shows are the shit. Fuck 12 ounce mouse.
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Anonymous2006-03-22 20:37
MTV hosted some good shows... Aeon Flux and Daria. I'd suggest that Adult Swim should pick up some of the old MTV stuff. Even The Maxx or Downtown would be an improvement.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 10:47
Adult Swim gets a 5th of the ratings that "Fridays" gets. It makes me feel warm inside that Billy and Mandy and Fosters Home garner five times as many viewers on any given day than ATHF or Sealab.
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Anonymous2006-03-24 19:26
Morel Oral, Family Guy, Futurama,ATHF,Harvey Birdman, Stoker and Hoop, and Venture Bros. Are the only good things on AS...Period.
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Anonymous2006-03-24 21:55
Here in LA (Latin America) we are watching Cinderella Boy in the Toonami segment. It is very cool. It's like Cliffhanger (Lupin the Third) mixed with Ranma 1/2 and AS is only transmitted Fryday and Saturday from 11pm to 3am of the next day.
Family Guy, Futurama, Home Movies, Venture Brothers, ATHF, boondocks...I wouldn't mind them bringing back the old Super Mario brothers cartoons with the real live actors and the Real Ghostbusters from back in the day...Oh well just childhood cartoons.
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Anonymous2006-04-13 1:52
>>40 Too late. Evangellion has been airing for a LONG TIME.
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Anonymous2006-05-21 2:51
I think it's interesting how many people have show crossing opinions. For example, some like ATHF and Sealab, Stroker & Hoop, and Venture Bros. Some like some of those shows while hating others. I am astounded that anyone likes 12 oz mouse, but I saw at least 1 person say they liked it.
For my part, GITS:SAC is the only anime I have any interest in. I buy every DVD of it. Nearly everything else is tiresome repetitive drivel that is of the same vomit quality you would get if you converted Will & Grace into cartoon form.
OTOH, I love ATHF, Sealab, Stroker & Hoop (I actually met the voice of Hoop in person yesterday in San Francisco! He's hilarious in real life too!), Home Movies, Minoriteam, and Robot Chicken (love it!).
I used to try to record individual shows, but AS switches around schedules like crazy, so for a while now I've just been recording from midnight to 4am Monday morning.
I always skip over 12 oz mouse (unbearable to watch) and Boondocks. I usually skip over Tom and then go back and watch it later when I rewatch the entire lineup again at a later date.
Venture Bros is almost a good show. If they do another season I hope they leave the brothers dead. Brock and the magician are kick ass characters. The brothers are just pansy losers who irritated me.
I guess AS has strange shows, so lots of people have crosscutting interests in the shows.
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Anonymous2006-05-28 20:39
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Area 88? Aren't you confusing AS with ADV's Anime Network?
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Anonymous2006-05-31 23:45
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Anonymous2006-06-01 21:34
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I think most people have varying opinions about their non-saturday stuff, but most people I talk to really don't enjoy their Saturday block. Without Venture Brothers, it's anime that everyone has already seen. I mean yeah it's cool to watch an episode of FMA or GITS if nothing else is on, but if something else is on.......
Also my favorite Adult Swim show is 12 Oz. Mouse.......yeah.
At first I didn't really like it at all, but then I watched it with a big group of friends and we all sort of "got it" at the same time.
Other shows I enjoy on AS: Home Movies, Venture Brothers, Mission Hill, and Boondocks.
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Anonymous2006-06-10 5:25
More Mission Hill needs to be aired! MISSION HILL ROCKS! so Does Aqua Teen Hunger force, but Tom goes to the mayor is gay
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Anonymous2006-06-14 0:00
*fart*
AS will go on because CN has nothing better to show on those nights, and people are still watching. im sorry to say it, but you anime snobs can keep downloading your fansubs and quit bitching about dubbing.
now, take those heads out of those asses and live your lives! you dont have to be so critical about what other people choose to watch. AS is just filling some small nich market thatll eventually fade away and be replaced with the next generational fad. cest la vie!
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Anonymous2006-06-14 0:38
Oh snap, random shit being funny is a new fad? Alert the fucking media and tell /b/ they've sold themselves out.
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indainboy2006-07-06 19:13
i agree with the guy likes ranma 1/2 and anime is better than this american shit we have to watch i mean its OK but it kinda sucks
wonder showzen fucking fails most of the time, its nothing more than jerkoff material for ultra-liberal hipster faggots who think all of the world's problems are caused by christianity, america, and white people
"Ok Please post which charater you would like to marry and also I will need help with making the banners so if anyone has photoshop or anyother softweare that you can make a banner on please help me out ok."
"I would marry Sailor Venus"
"I'm marrying Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion!!"
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Anonymous2006-07-18 8:46
The only show I watch on Adult Swim is Tom Goes to the Mayor. As I am a fan of Tim and Eric comedy.
As for the rest, it's either the type of stuff that Hot Topic teenagers enjoy, made up almost entirely of pop culture referances or jokes that are only funny once. That are only funny because of the reference, or it's gook toons, enjoyed mainly by weaboosi The people who are into it piss me off the way they act. You can tell who they are because they wear Full Metal Alchemist clothes. I would rather watch Foster's Home than FMA. The problem with the people who are into act like it's so much cooler than anything else, especially if it's not Japanese. Plus they enjoy being "otaku". They're just cartoons.
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Anonymous2006-07-18 18:06
Tom is the lamest show on Adult Swim.
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Anonymous2006-07-20 3:02
Robot Chicken is enjoyable. So is Harvey Birdman. That's all.
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Anonymous2006-07-30 9:34
>>99
Anyone who likes Tom Goes to the Mayor is in no place to criticize otaku.
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Anonymous2006-07-30 13:23
TGttM is incredible sorry!
That, Futurama, ATHF, Robot Chicken, and sometimes the Boondocks are awesome.
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Anonymous2006-07-30 16:30
ATHF FOR THE FUCKING WIN
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Anonymous2006-08-01 15:50
Tom is the coolest show on adult swim.
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Anonymous2006-08-01 22:47
TGttM is an incredible story! Don't you want to know how it all turns out in the end for Tom?
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Anonymous2006-08-02 15:15
Bleach and Trinity Blood debut on Sept 9
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Anonymous2006-08-04 14:03
>>106
No. I can't wait until that crappy-ass show is cancelled.