20 Crazy Adult-Swim Facts That'll Entertain Your Inner Geek
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08/31/2022
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The Adult-Swim of today is very different from what it was before. Here are some facts from the period of its evolution.
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"in 2007 Boston Police Department shut down waterways, highways, and bridges after mistakenly identifing battery-powered LED placards of characters from the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force as improvised explosive devices. The devices were being used as a guerrilla marketing campaign." -
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"the TV show "The Amazing World of Gumball" was originally conceived in 2008 as being a more adult program that would air on Adult Swim, but was rejected for looking "way too extremely mindblowingly cute". It was eventually retooled as a children's show for Cartoon Network in 2011." - u/coopatroopa117 -
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"Adult Swim put an entire episode of Rick and Morty (Rixty Minutes) on instagram using 109 15 second clips, in reverse order, so that viewers couldn't watch sequentially until the last clip was posted. "It's our latest frustrating excercise in audience engagement." - u/gmcl86 -
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"Adult Swim cartoon Moral Orel was cancelled for being too dark and depressing. The creator remembers submitting the script for the episode "Alone" and a proposed follow-up episode titled "Rape" and was told the show would end that season." - u/AnvilPro -
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"Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network." - u/Stolehtreb -
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"In 2001, Cowboy Bebop was the first anime to play on Adult Swim." - u/xFSUxBatman -
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"Tyler Perry stopped any future business with Warner Bros owned networks, finishing up his sitcoms "House of Payne" and "Meet The Browns" runs on WB owned TBS, partly out of anger from a episode of "The Boondocks" which lampooned and criticized him harshly, airing on WB owned Adult Swim." - u/Alec122 -
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"When Adam Reed quit Cartoon Network he stole the master tapes for Sealab 2020. Reed would later use these tapes to make the pilot for Sealab 2021 which was picked up by Adult Swim." - u/jamescookenotthatone -
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"the sound used behind the Williams Street logo on Adult Swim was originally from the Mark VII Limited "hammer" logo, a production company of actor and director Jack Webb." -
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"The Eric Andre Show" had a sketch flagged by Standards and Production at Adult Swim, who wrote "He can shit so hard that organs fall out of his anus, but he can’t make it look like he’s intentionally doing it." - u/Mr_A -
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"a Rick and Morty-Themed Pop-up Bar Shut Down After Threats From Turner Broadcasting. The pop-up bar --called The Wubba Lubba Dub PUB was initially supposed to open Aug. 9 and run through Oct. 6. Adult Swim was not approached in advance of the building of the Rick and Morty themed bar." - u/ChaseDonovan -
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"a show that used to be on Adult Swim called "The Oblongs" was based on characters from a book called "Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children" by Angus Oblong." - u/The2500 -
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"Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are considered by Nielsen to be entirely separate networks for ratings purposes." - u/oboewan42 -
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"Adult Swim had an original series reach it's 7th season (Aqua Teen Hunger Force in 2009) before a Cartoon Network proper series (Regular Show in June 2015 (narrowly getting there before Adventure Time))" - u/MikeDubbz -
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"CNN is owned by the same company which also owns Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TCM, Adult Swim, Toonami, TNT, TBS and others, Turner Broadcasting System." - u/zakawer2 -
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"producer Flying Lotus got his first big break by responding to a call out from Adult Swim for new music submissions." - u/Booms_Carson -
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"Mitch Hedberg voiced a fifth-grader named Mitch in the Adult Swim cartoon 'Home Movies' - u/the_girl -
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"three years in a row (2009-2011) Cartoon Network's Adult Swim aired Tommy Wiseau's The Room on April fool's day" -
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"the Adult Swim show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" changed its name every season, since 2011." - u/Twas_Inevitable -
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"Family Guy was cancelled from Fox at the end of Season 3. But Adult Swim, attracting very high ratings for their reruns, convinced Fox to renew the show for a season 4 several years later." - u/petitepotatoe
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"in 2007 Boston Police Department shut down waterways, highways, and bridges after mistakenly identifing battery-powered LED placards of characters from the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force as improvised explosive devices. The devices were being used as a guerrilla marketing campaign."
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