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“Adult Swim in a Box” Packs Emergency Cartoon Supply
Original at Wired
• Wed, Nov 4
By John Scott Lewinski Whether you need a dose of Aqua Teen Hunger Force or a slab of Sealab 2021, Adult Swim in a Box includes one season of each. You also get one series of Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Moral Oral. Clip courtesy Adult Swim
Dethklok and Mastodon Bring Metal’s Hottest Fall Tour To Boston
Original at zachshaw (WordPress)
• Sat, Oct 31
By zachshaw Next up was Dethklok in the flesh. The live incarnation of the cartoon metal band from the Adult Swim show Metalacolypse proved that the music wasn’t to be taken lightly. Show Co-creator Brendon Small (who took lead vocal and guitar duties) acquired a lineup of senior musicians that includ...
Review: The Venture Bros. - Handsome Ransom
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Oct 25
By Annie Wu Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force Online
Original at watchaquateenhungerforceonline (WordPress)
• Fri, Oct 23
By corneliuswelch44 Adult Swim fans have been hooked to Aqua Teen Hunger Force since they first saw a preview in on tv. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is now the longest running original series on Cartoon Network. The show is based around the rather ridiculous but funny journeys of three fast food items, which is sort of h...
Adult Swim picks up sitcoms from Conan O'Brien, Rob Corddry
Original at TV Squad
• Fri, Oct 23
By Danny Gallagher Corrdry's medical drama spoof web series Childrens' Hospital will also go to Adult Swim. The channel will show re-edited versions of the episodes that aired on TheWB.com as well as produce new ones. Corrdry originally pitched the show to Comedy Central, but negotiations broke down with th...
'Adult Swim in a Box' Nears Release
Original at Animation Insider
• Mon, Oct 19
A DVD Box Set containing select seasons/releases of Adult Swim comedy titles from 'Sealab 2021' to 'Moral Orel' and 'Robot Chicken,' the set release 'Adult Swim in a Box' boasts more than a dozen discs of mix-and-matched animation options for [as]-aficionados. Also included: pilots fo...
Turner Expands Adult Swim's EMEA Presence
Original at Animation Insider
• Wed, Oct 14
Adult Swim comedy brands should see some growth in the coming months due to an increased emphasis on the part of CN Enterprises Europe. Adult Swim merchandise and digital media licensing opportunities are on the horizon for various European and neighboring territories.
Black Dynamite may get animatedOriginal at liveforfilms (WordPress)
• Fri, Oct 2
By liveforfilms He said that like the end credits of the film they were planning on doing a Black Dynamite cartoon series for Adult Swim and the creators of The Boondocks may be doing it. I think this is great news as I am all for animation in all forms. A bit of blaxploitation style cartoon fun will be great.
Super Hero Squad: Marvel’s Tough Kid on the Cartoon Block
Original at Wired
• Tue, Sep 15
By Scott Thill Weeks after a merge with Disney, Marvel Entertainment has hit the kids demographic flying with The Super Hero Squad Show, which debuted Sunday in Canada. The new animated series, which lands on Cartoon Network this Saturday, could easily find a home on Adult Swim: Featuring pint-size ve...
Mecha-Goof Titan Maximum Gets Cleared for Takeoff
Original at Wired
• Thu, Sep 10
By Scott Thill Tom Root, Mathew Senreich and Seth Green’s nerdy love of sci-fi and pop-culture lore gave Robot Chicken its escape velocity. Their stop-motion flight continues Sept. 27 on Adult Swim with Titan Maximum, a spoof of popular robot anime series like Voltron, G-Force and Science Ninja Team Ga...
Major TV Grab Bag 2008-2009
Original at childrenofsaintclare (WordPress)
• Thu, Sep 10
By marcusandstevi Adult Swim (Xavier: Renegade Angel / Superjail! / Squidbillies / The Drinky Crow Show / Metalocalypse / Delocated / Robot Chicken / Etc.) So sue me, I liked Joan Rivers. And the addition of the phrase “Whore Pit Vipers” to the television lexicon. The Great American Road Trip
Poll: Favorite Adult Swim Cartoon?
Original at About.com Animated TV
• Thu, Aug 20
Adult Swim has offered quite a variety of animated TV programming through the years. There have been long and short-lived shows. What's your favorite cartoon on Adult Swim? Robot Chicken Aqua Teen Hunger Force The Venture Brothers The Boondocks Metalocalypse Squidbillies Frisky Dingo...
Dethklok Announces Tour
Original at About.com Animated TV
• Wed, Aug 19
This fall, life imitates art when Grammy Award-winning metal band Mastodon hits the road with Dethklok, the world’s most brutal animated death metal band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse. They kick off a 34-city North American tour on October 2 in Portland, Oregon, to support the upcomi...
Cartoon Network gets animated with new series announcements
Original at TV Squad
• Thu, Aug 13
By John Scott Lewinski Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free Cartoon Network picked Thursday to announce a lineup of new, green-lit shows and the return of a couple successful 2008 outings. Permalink | Email this | | Comments
King of the Hill: The Final Three Episodes
Original at childrenofsaintclare (WordPress)
• Mon, Jun 15
By marcusandstevi There are, I hear, another six episodes out there in the ether, as yet unaired by Fox, and I hope that we can see those in some form or another, either over the summer on network, on Adult Swim or just on DVD. But if not, this was a great episode to go out on, one of American pride that nevertheless e...
Adult Swim Acquires Original, Better The Office
Original at Wired
• Wed, Apr 29
By Scott Thill There will be no such lag time with Gervais and Merchant’s Office, which is one of the funniest television shows of the 21st century. It’s only grown in stature since the much-less-funny U.S. version premiered in 2005. Are we wrong? Is the U.S. version of The Office worth watching? Is Gervais and...
HASBRO ANNOUNCES ONLINE AND BROADCAST AIRDATES OF G.I. JOE: RESOLUTE ANIMATED SERIES
Original at Newsarama
• Wed, Apr 15
By Julius Marx Episodes Of Highly Anticipated Series To Air Online Leading Up To Broadcast Finale On Adult Swim PAWTUCKET, RI – April 15, 2009 – Hasbro announced today that G.I. Joe: Resolute, an adult fan oriented animated mini-series, will be broadcast via Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on television a...
How to pitch a cartoon
Original at Examiner.com
• Mon, Apr 13
And hopefully you're submitting this material to a network that produces adult material, like Adult Swim for cartoon network or Comedy Central. Put all these fine ingredients together, and you've got yourself a pitch. Good luck.
Animated Short Reveals New York's Lost TribesOriginal at Wired News
• Sat, Apr 4
By John Scott Lewinski Cool DVD Releases Await 2009's Old Gift Cards The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo A pair of New York-based filmmakers have offered up an intimate look at some of the city's lesser-known and most neglected residents. The stop motion animation short, The...
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume One User Review 57055
Original at uk.video.yahoo.com
• Wed, Mar 4
My review of Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume One, Adult Swim Videopinions are product reviews and demonstrations by the people who use them - in ... uk.video.yahoo.com
Frisky Dingo/Sealab 2021 Production Studio ClosesOriginal at http
• Mon, Feb 2
• 4 related articles
By georgemcbain It was truly a sad day for myself, an old school Adult Swim fan, to learn that 70/30 Productions was closing its doors. 70/30 is best known for its shows Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo on the Adult Swim block of animation on Cartoon Network in the USA.
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Opinion: Adult Swim.
Original at http
• Mon, Jan 26
By darkautumn And not only is Adult Swim good at combining great music, they do an excellent job of influencing other facets of the media industry. Most of the music off of their first CD, Chrome Children, was originally intended for Adult Swim “Bumps”, their personal space in between shows and commerci...
Zac Efron Helps Tell the Blood-Soaked Story Behind Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”Original at Rolling Stone
• Wed, Jan 7
By Daniel Kreps Ever wonder how Billy Joel accumulated the stories behind his hit song “The Piano Man”? High School Musical star and Billy Joel biographer Zac Efron has the answer, with a little help from Adult Swim figurine show Robot Chicken. In the video, Efron voices the Piano Man as he “absorbs the sto...
Opinion: What Brad is thankful for
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Nov 23
By Brad Trechak South Park - The most insightful show on television. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are willing to take issues that the rest of the more liberal Hollywood view as simple and show their complexity by taking other sides. I don't think they're invited to a lot of Hollywood parties as a result, but it m...
Aqua Teen Wants You! (To Be Carl)
Original at Wired News
• Wed, Nov 12
By Scott Thill See also: Adult Swim Expands, Adds King of the HillFuturama Animators Roll 20-Sided Die With Bender's GameAdult Swim's Superjail Skewers Surveillance StateThe Ratings Force Is Strong With Cartoon Network's Clone WarsRobot Chicken: Star Wars Sequel in the WorksFamily Guy Creator S...
Adult Swim Expands, Adds King of the Hill
Original at Wired News
• Wed, Nov 5
By Scott Thill I won't dispute that Adult Swim has ruled late-night television since 2001, when it first dropped -- along with Underwire's jaw -- after screening the first few episodes of the brilliant Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. But calling King of the Hill and Family Guy two of the greatest animat...
"Superjail": Visually Insane But Comedically Average
Original at Toon Zone
• Sat, Sep 27
By Karl Olson Adult Swim originals, even to this day, are often exceedingly low-budget affairs with stiff-as-a-board, Flash/After-Effects animation. Sure, there are a few highlights like the visually rich Boondocks and co-productions like Family Guy and American Dad, but the 11-minute shows do...
Adult Swim's Superjail Skewers Surveillance State
Original at Wired News
• Fri, Sep 5
By Scott Thill Adult Swim has also been known for merging animation and music, in the form of DangerDoom, Chrome Children, Definitive Swim and other collaborations with indie rock and hip-hop greats. Superjail continues the tradition in its third episode, which includes a live-action sequence shot...
Gays and Dolls
Original at PinkKryptonite.com
• Fri, Jul 4
By Elf Girl Kidrobot put out their Adult Swim line tomorrow, which includes little soft vynil toys of characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Frisky Dingo, The Venture Bros., Metalocalypse, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, Moral Orel and Assy McGee. What's kind of irr...
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Hoppy Bunny
Original at TV Squad
• Tue, Feb 19
By Jonathan Toomey Blame the President's Day holiday weekend, but I completely forgot about Aqua Teeen Hunger Force on Sunday night. If anything, it was a pleasant surprise when the lightbulb went off in my head this morning and I realized I had something funny to watch. Then... I watched it. Not so funny. To be hones...
Net-Bashing 'Boondocks' Banned
Original at AdAge.com
• Sun, Feb 3
By cbrodesser@adage.com (Claude Brodesser-Akner) LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has tossed away two brand new episodes of Aaron McGruder's animated series, "The Boondocks," possibly for over-the-top mocking of network executives at BET.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Sirens
Original at TV Squad
• Mon, Jan 28
By Jonathan Toomey Wait a second... I'm going over this whole series in my my mind. Did we just get a continuation of a story line? An actual episode that picked up where last week's installment left off? Is ATHF going serial? This is madness! Sure, there are recurring characters that come back now and then, but the...
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Robots Everywhere (season premiere)
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Jan 20
By Jonathan Toomey The return of everyone's favorite talking fast-food crime fighters. Except... they weren't in the episode at all, save for a brief phone conversation Carl had with Frylock. Many may have already seen this episode. It was a special feature on the recently released "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombi...
Four Futurama Movies Coming - Cinema Blend
Original at Cinema Blend
• Wed, Nov 7
Four Futurama Movies Coming - Nov 7, 2007 The show was cancelled several years ago, and has lived on in late-night re-runs shown on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim every since. ...
15 New Episodes Of 'The Boondocks' To Air Beginning Oct. 8
Original at Starpulse.com
• Sat, Sep 29
The Boondocks The second season of Aaron McGruder’s series The Boondocks will premiere Monday, Oct. 8 at 11:30 pm (ET/ PT) on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s late-night sister network showcasing animation and live action for adults. ...
Opinion: Animation news: a look at the Aqua Teen Movie DVD, G.I. Joe flick gets a writer, and more
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Sep 2
By Adam Finley Filed under: OpEd, Family Guy, Animation, Web, Adult Swim, Children, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Continue reading Animation news: a look at the Aqua Teen Movie DVD, G.I. Joe flick gets a writer, and more Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Robot Chicken Season Two Uncensored - DVD review
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Sep 2
By Adam Finley I realized while watching it that Adult Swim hasn't had a series with that kind of substance in a long time. Series like Baby Blues and Home Movies have been replaced by weird post-modern fare like Aqua Teen Hunger Force* and the works of Tim and Eric, with very little programming left with an...
Animation news: Powerpuff Girls DVD review, a toon quiz and Wayside heads to Nickelodeon
Original at TV Squad
• Sat, Jun 9
By Adam Finley The first season of The Powerpuff Girls comes out on DVD June 19. The series, created by Craig McCracken (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), debuted on the Cartoon Network in the late '90s, first as occasional shorts on such showcases as What A Cartoon and then later developing into an a...
Opinion: Moral Orel: Geniusis
Original at TV Squad
• Tue, May 29
By Adam Finley Filed under: Adult Swim, Episode Reviews Major apologies for being late with this review. I've had a bit of a pain in the gulliver the last few days, but I'm doing better now, thank you very much. Continue reading Moral Orel: Geniusis Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Opinion: Moral Orel: Turn the Other Cheek
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, May 20
By Adam Finley In my last review I said that Moral Orel would benefit tremendously by being a half-hour, rather than an eleven-minute, show. Creator Dino Stamatopoulos has said the same thing in interviews. There's simply too much subtext to cram into such a short amount of time.
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Special EventOriginal at The Movie Blog
• Wed, May 2
Robot Chicken is one part of the Adult Swim that I just LOVE. The jokes sometimes take a second to sink in, but they are really funny, and with the unique stop motion animation of action figures and toys you wish you didnt trash when you were a kid, creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are pu...
Opinion: Moral Orel: Praying
Original at TV Squad
• Fri, Apr 27
By Adam Finley Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews S02E11) Note: This is an early review. The episode airs Sunday, or you can watch it here now. Continue reading Moral Orel: Praying Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Adult Swim + Zune = Upfront presentation envy (and a seventh night of programming)
Original at Seattle Post Intelligencer
• Thu, Apr 26
By tvgal@seattlepi.com (Melanie McFarland) Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job." "Saul of the Mole Men." " "Assy McGee." "Frisky Dingo." "Harvey Birdman." "Metalocalypse." "Moral Orel." "Robot Chicken." "Squidbilillies." New to Adult Swim: Also: "Family Guy" will be slowly making us dumber on Adult Swim through 2015.
Moral Orel: The Unholy Version, Volume One - DVD review
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Apr 15
By Adam Finley A simple search on this site for the words "moral" and "orel" should provide you with all you need to know about my feelings for this Adult Swim series, but in a nutshell: I've been a fan since the first Christmas episode aired back in December of 2005. Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Opinion: Amanda's Blog: Adult Swim makes April fools of us all
Original at Tallahassee.com
• Sun, Apr 8
This year, my favorite joke was played by the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim (a nighttime showing of made-for-adult cartoons and anime.) One very special cartoon is called Aqua Teen Hunger Force. On April 13, the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters" will play.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters - an early review
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Apr 1
By Adam Finley If you weren't watching Adult Swim last night at 10:00 p.m., then you really missed out. I didn't believe it when Adult Swim said they'd be premiering Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters on television, but there it was, right on my TV screen. Anyway, here's my review for those of...
Opinion: Tom Goes to the Mayor: Zoo Trouble
Original at TV Squad
• Mon, Aug 14
By Adam Finley However, I can't completely neglect the blogger/writer part of me that knows he's going to be typing out something about the show once it's over, and some things I would normally ignore get stuck in my craw because of it. For instance, I thought this recent episode of Tom Goes to the Mayor was...
Opinion: Metalocalypse: The Curse of Dethklok (series premiere)
Original at TV Squad
• Sat, Aug 5
By Adam Finley Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim Are you metal? I don't mean are you made of a durable alloy of some sort, I mean do you RAWK* in every conceivable way that one can RAWK? I think I used to be slightly metal, but my frail body couldn't take it so I had to give it up for folk music. Sad, really.
Opinion: The Venture Bros: Escape to the House of Mummies Part II
Original at TV Squad
• Mon, Jul 17
By Annie Wu S02E04) Reason #528 to love Doc Hammer: He wrote the most bizarre Venture Bros. episode ever. Oh, man. I think I have a new favorite episode. The weirdness of the priorities in storyline and all the adventure show clichés were totally hysterical. Plus, what other television show can beautiful...
Podcast: Up a Paddle - Episode 11 - Grab your Water Wings, We're Going to the Deep End
Original at Up a Paddle
• Tue, Jun 13
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