[Adult Swim] is full of dicks

[Aerozord]

Last night a friend of mine hopped back online to share that "TOONAMI IS BACK" thrilled that they were running it and all the old shows. So I confirmed, was thinking thats awesome and then... I realized they started it at midnight, making it April 1st:crying:

[Magus]

This is way better than the last one I remember (which was just to run the first episode of Fullmetal Alchemist with fart sounds throughout...though it did work pretty well, oddly enough).

[kyrtuck]

Dude, I knew they Adult Swim was fulla dicks as soon as I learned of the Drinky Crow Show. And Squidbillies.

Anyways, what's there to miss about Toonami? Its not like the anime they hosted can't be seen in a million different places.

[Ecks]

I've known they were dicks since Tim and Eric's Awesome Show. And sadly I missed the Toonami stuff last night on account of being so tired I passed out before midnight.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Dude, I knew they Adult Swim was fulla dicks as soon as I learned of the Drinky Crow Show. And Squidbillies.

Anyways, what's there to miss about Toonami? Its not like the anime they hosted can't be seen in a million different places.

But it's the first place that a lot of us saw it. I remember watching the shit out of Toonami until they started showing "SD Gundam" or whatever that piece of shit cel-shaded Gundam show was.

[Flarecobra]

Kyrtuck must be a young'n then to not have experanced Toonami.

Now, it was going on before the internet really took off like it did. Please keep that in mind.

[ZARAK]

This is undoubtedly Adult Swim's finest year ever, especially after last night.

Also, SD Gundam is the greatest of all Gundams. I don't wanna meet the man who doesn't love the Zako Zako Hour.

[Flarecobra]

That was the only good part of the show.

[kyrtuck]

Kyrtuck must be a young'n then to not have experanced Toonami.


I was born in 1990, of course I expirienced Toonami in its prime. My personal favorites were Thundercats, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Outlaw Star and Ronnin Warriors.

My point was that looking back, it didn't feel like it justified itself much outside of the shows it featured. I watch Svengoolie, which does a bunch of old ass black and white horror films. Yes, I can watch those same flicks in a million other places, but Svengoolie justifies itself with song parodies, interesting tidbits about cast and filming history, funny skits and commercial spoofs, and its own silly traditions, like rubber chickens being thrown at the host at the start and end of each episode.

Toonami didn't feel like it had much of its own memorable stuff. Did you honestly care about the drama of any of the Tom-bots? I didn't.

[Aerozord]

Toonami didn't feel like it had much of its own memorable stuff. Did you honestly care about the drama of any of the Tom-bots? I didn't.

Hey I liked tom

but the point wasn't toonami as "toonami", after all it evolved into adult swim. the point, and what we missed, is what it delivered. Do you think any of us would have given Reboot a second look otherwise?

Besides, these are tv shows, I want to watch them on TV. Whole reason I dont watch TV anymore is because programming blocks like toonami are gone, now TV is just a hodgepodge of shows organized more by ratings than genre or demographics. The only way I can get a good 2 or 3 hour run of TV shows anymore is to go online and mix up my own playlist, because I'm certainly not going to stop my day for a single show followed by an hour of crap I dont care about before something else comes on.

Unless its Adventure Time, that is totally worth the effort

[kyrtuck]

Dang, I forgot to mention Reboot as one of my favorites. And yeah, Adventure Time's good too. My standards with cartoons are pretty lax.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

To this day, I'm still bummed about not seeing the end of the Kyoto arc in Rurouni Kenshin.

[PCD]

I didn't get into the animays until Toonami was fading away, and even then it wasn't the stuff that usually got shown, so I wasn't as OMG EXCITED as some of my friends about this. Still, it was cute to have the nostalgia back. I also liked the The Room fakeout they had right at the start.

[synkr0nized]

Despite owning the DVDs, it was nice to be able to kick back and watch a bunch of episodes of some classics.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Adult swim is full of dicks. I thought everyone already knew this.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Part of the fun to having it on TV is because its just easier to watch these shows on TV. If I try to view it online then there are just a lot of other things to distract me and I don't really feel as invested I guess.

Some people just prefer to watch shows on TV is all that there is to it! I have trouble watching movies outside of theaters for the same reason.

[kyrtuck]

Some people just prefer to watch shows on TV is all that there is to it! I have trouble watching movies outside of theaters for the same reason.

If there were more people like you Bard, the theater industry wouldn't be closing down left and right :cool:

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Plus it feels rewarding and much more special to catch a show on tv as apose to on the net where there's nothing special about it since you can watch it whenever.

[Premmy]

Toonami didn't feel like it had much of its own memorable stuff. Did you honestly care about the drama of any of the Tom-bots? I didn't.

I actually liked The whole set-up, thank you very much. And I fucking loved Tom.

It represented,as others have said, a frame-work of unique programing, moreover, it represented it as a separate entity from pretty much the rest of it's network and the rest of television. You can see this now with the Adult Swim/William Street line-up today, for obvious reasons.

It also had some awesome music, special programming events, and was one of the only Television programming blocks at least attempting something serious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFX9kCkfw0&feature=related) in it's presentation in a way that isn't really seen(as far as I know) these days. It had a brand but wasn't really selling itself. I cannot find any toys of Tom or the Absolution. There were toys for the properties they represented, yes, but not for the Setting itself, and Merchandising was pretty much just exclusive fan-things handed out at cons or through contests. Was the gritty truth that the marketing folks didn't think it'd sell? probably, but it meant your little brothers and sisters weren't doing the same thing. And that was a big part of it: it was Animated Programming for someone who wasn't five years old.

For me it was kind of a graduation from simple cartoons to ones with story. I can honestly say I wouldn't be into any of the things I am into now, comics, video games, cartoons even many types of music, if it wasn't for Toonami.

Further, it encapsulates and more often than not WAS in it's entirety, the Tail-end, if not the pinnacle, of the 90's era of Animation that included The Batman TAS, Samurai Jack, Reboot and shows connected to all of these such a Justice League, Beast wars, and Shows branching from the territory explored in these, such as Megas XLR, the Spider-Man series, And it's entire Anime block.

Toonami had a lot to offer, most of that wrapped up in it's Programming, yes. but Toonami had a style that hasn't been successfully emulated yet.

Edit: Also this is what you got?
My point was that looking back, it didn't feel like it justified itself much outside of the shows it featured. I watch Svengoolie, which does a bunch of old ass black and white horror films. Yes, I can watch those same flicks in a million other places, but Svengoolie justifies itself with song parodies, interesting tidbits about cast and filming history, funny skits and commercial spoofs, and its own silly traditions, like rubber chickens being thrown at the host at the start and end of each episode. I swear to christ I don't want a bunch of junk clogging up my TV if you were legitimately interesting enough for me to want to watch you, you'd be an actual TV show, not announcing other people's shit and talking about it. Toonami had just enough stuff to make it cool, but not so much that I had to sit and listen to a jackass for an hour before I got my cartoons.

[Flarecobra]

https://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/statuses/187004036824834049

If they do...

[Aerozord]

https://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/statuses/187004036824834049

If they do...

I dont know if I should be happy they asked, or sad that they felt the need to.

[Flarecobra]

If it's like what they showed on the 1st... I'd say happy.

[IHateMakingNames]

Everyone who watched Toonami are in their 20s. I really doubt many people on the movement to bring back Toonami will watch it past the first week or at any regular rate.

[Premmy]

That doesn't mean people NOT part of said group won't watch it.

[Aerozord]

Everyone who watched Toonami are in their 20s. I really doubt many people on the movement to bring back Toonami will watch it past the first week or at any regular rate.

but if it keeps its numbers up long enough for our generation to introduce the new one, good. Or atleast give them a reason to finally release some freakin Megas DVDs

Come on Cartoon Network, do I have to put on a little dance for you?

FINE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPu2Wq5QFHE)