Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:03AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Adult Swim, Comic-Con

Seth Green and the
Robot Chicken: Star Wars team are taking a skate show on the road to promote the release of the sequel on DVD.
Adult Swim's Robot Chicken: Star Wars -- Episode II comes to DVD conveniently in time for San Diego Comic-Con, and Green will kick-off a national bus tour of roller skating rinks for two weeks to hype the disc.
It's a hip choice for
Robot Chicken: Star Wars, as the first DVD in the series included a funny
"Star Wars on Ice" segment.
Continue reading Robot Chicken Star Wars touring on skates across U.S.
Posted Jun 6th 2009 10:02AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free

A series of free music and comedy performances especially for fans of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim is coming to New York City.
The
Adult Swim Presents Summer at Santos Series includes six live shows featuring a different musical and/or comedy performance each night.
It's a great opportunity for fans of various Adult Swim series to see their creators and stars live and on stage. The casts and minds behind
Metalocalypse,
Aqua Teen Hunger Force and
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! were each asked to prepare their own unique show for their respective night.
Continue reading Mike check! Adult Swim concert series coming to New York
Posted Jun 1st 2009 12:25PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

(S06E10) "What?!? I'm re-hydrating!" - Shake
I remember when I first heard about the live-action episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I wasn't all that excited about it. Most of the ATHF DVD sets have had some sort of live-action Easter egg, usually of some fools dressed up in homemade Frylock and Master Shake costumes. They've never been funny and I just figured this episode would be like one of them. Then came news that it wouldn't be anything like that - T-Pain would be playing Frylock. That alone was worth the wait, but after all the hype... it just didn't do it for me.
Continue reading Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Last Last One Forever and Ever (season finale)
Posted May 27th 2009 9:03AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Children

I know that I'm not the target demographic for a cable channel like Cartoon Network. Although I still watch
Pokemon on Saturday mornings, the last non-Adult Swim original cartoon I watched was
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Recently,
Cartoon Network has announced a block of programming they're calling "CN Real." I'm already upset that a show like
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job isn't animated (don't get me started on
Delocated), but isn't getting rid of the cartoons turning the channel into just "Network"?
Continue reading Taking the Cartoon out of Cartoon Network
Posted May 15th 2009 5:03PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free

On Sunday night/Monday morning, [adult swim] premiered something called
Snake 'N' Bacon. What is
Snake 'N' Bacon? Well, I'm not entirely sure, actually. But I liked it. I think. Yes. Actually, I really liked it.
Like most [as] shows,
Snake 'N' Bacon is a fifteen minute program with its own distinct aesthetic, presenting an interesting mix of animated sequences with live-action bits. I never thought there would be a way to translate creator
Michael Kupperman's stuff on the small screen, but there we go. Weird, extra-funny, weird.
Continue reading Have you experienced Snake 'N' Bacon?
Posted May 11th 2009 8:00PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free

Blame the influence of friends; I do. Because we couldn't get the
Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie to play right, we ended up jumping into
Volume 2 of Squidbillies. Now I'd seen part of one episode of this (where Rusty makes his deal with the devil), but I changed the channel. I'm not sure why I resisted the Cuylers. I love
ATHF, so you'd think it would be right up my alley, considering it's by one of
ATHF's creators. Hell, it even features the voice of Master Shake as Granny.
Even when we first started watching it last night, with Season 3, Episode 1 I was reluctant to say I was enjoying it. Eleven episodes later and I was laughing out loud when Granny was transformed with road kill skin grafts and an udderly disgusting boob job. It's a tradition in our house to look at one another at the end of each episode of
ATHF and say "what the f**k did we just watch?!"
Squidbillies gives me that same feeling of ridiculous. Not to mention the characters remind me of some of the people who live in the small Midwest town I find myself now.
Posted May 1st 2009 9:04AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Casting, Reality-Free

The season finale of
Aqua Teen Hunger Force will involve a live-action episode in which real people will play the roles of Frylock, Master Shake and Carl. The role of Meatwad will be played by an exercise ball.
As with every other episode of
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, you'll probably have to be high to truly understand their sense of humor (which makes sense, since they're probably high whenever they write an episode).
Frylock will be played by rapper T-Pain. Master Shake will be played by Jon Benjamin. Carl will be played by first time actor Dave Long, Jr., the winner of Adult Swim's Carl look-alike contest. I'm so used to hearing Dana Snyder, Carey Means and Dave Willis as the voices of our intrepid heroes that if these actors try to do the same voices, it may feel "wrong" to me somehow. Here's hoping they can nail each character perfectly, or that the animated voices are dubbed over.
Photos are after the jump. Enjoy.
Continue reading Want to see what the live-action Aqua Teen cast looks like?
Posted Apr 15th 2009 4:35PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free

I had hoped to post the
Tim and Eric interview from
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from last night, but
this is all NBC posted of the segment. Fallon introduced them by saying they had been eating chocolate since Sunday and hadn't slept, at which point they burst into the studio and threw candy at the audience and the band. They made a passing attempt at answering Fallon's questions, and gave a bit of their history, but mostly stuck to the premise of being hopped up on candy. No one sticks to a premise like Tim and Eric.
If you're not familiar with Tim and Eric, you probably look at these two guys in pink chocolate-stained tuxedos and wonder what the hell you're watching. Sometimes, even when you do know Tim and Eric, and watch
Tim & Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job every Sunday at 12:30 AM on
Adult Swim, you are apt to say, what the hell am I watching.
Continue reading Tim and Eric and Jimmy Fallon - VIDEO
Posted Mar 30th 2009 11:26AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

(S06E01) "I studied elevator repair!" - Carl
Yes, before someone says something - I know this episode isn't new. However, episodes being released via DVD prior to their broadcast premiere isn't entirely new. I for one didn't even know that the first four episodes of this season have been available on the volume six DVD since it came out back in December. That being said, it was new to me (and I hope for many of you too).
So... dumpster diving, anyone?
Continue reading Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Gene E. (season premiere)
Posted Mar 15th 2009 2:02PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Video, Commercials, Web, Adult Swim, Children, Dancing With The Stars, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free

It goes without saying that television from the 80's - as a decade - tends to stand on its own as having provided some of the oddest junk we may ever see: the glorification of cat-fights (see:
Dynasty), the existence of
Twin Peaks, and an alien as the star of his own sitcom (see:
Tony Danza Alf).
Of course, classically cheesy schmaltz like
Dancing With The Stars and
American Idol continues to thrive, keeping viewers fastened to their couches amid every note sung or dance move executed by someone in a fedora or boa, respectively.
Continue reading 80's sitcom intros that now look like self-parodies - VIDEO
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:00PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Programming, TV on DVD, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free

I'm a huge
Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan. It's one of the funniest shows ever created. However, for as big a fan as I am, I never know what's going on with it. Trying to interpret
the archaic grid schedule at Adult Swim requires far too much concentration and eye-squinting. I finally gave in, though, and it turns out that the show's sixth season returns on Sunday, March 29th at 11:45PM ET. Don't get too excited - there's one big problem.
Continue reading Aqua Teen returns to Adult Swim at the end of March
Posted Feb 1st 2009 1:15PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, News, Programming, Animation, Adult Swim, Children, Game Show, Super Bowl

If you're like me (you have my deepest sympathy), you don't have a dog in this Sunday's hunt.
Thanks to the Arizona Cardinals' first appearance this weekend, my hometown team, the New Orleans Saints, will now be one of only five left in the NFL that have never made a Super Bowl appearance. Three if you don't count the expansion clubs.
So if you're a Cardinals fan and don't have the stomach to endure their slow, agonizing and inevitable defeat at the hands of the Pittsburgh Steelers, here are some alternative shows you can watch instead of the Super Bowl.
Continue reading Sick of the Super Bowl? Here's a sampler platter of what else you can watch
Posted Nov 24th 2008 8:02PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Animation, Adult Swim, Children, Reality-Free, Comic-Con, Life on Mars, The Big Bang Theory
It's that time of year again, isn't it? That brief period between the humongous holidays of Halloween and Christmas that television and retail outlets have forgotten about. I talk about Thanksgiving, of course. The holiday of football games, unbuttoned pants, family arguments, and giant Snoopy balloons. It is also the time to give thanks.
Thanks for what? Well, we aren't trading chickens for a gallon of gas yet, so that's something. And, we still have television, which we can eventually trade in for chickens in order to get a gallon of gas. But, since our television shows are more important than driving in many cases, we may just start riding our bikes and eat peanut butter sandwiches instead.
With those happy thoughts, here is what I am thankful for when it comes to the flat screen idiot box.
Continue reading What Rich is thankful for
Posted Nov 23rd 2008 9:02AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Adult Swim, Doctor Who, South Park, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Chuck, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series

In an attempt to do something a little different this year, I'm going to list the television shows past and present (and even future) that I am most thankful for at this time. Some I review for
TV Squad and some I don't. Some I used to and some I would if I were asked. Some I will never review because government agents have come to my house and pretty much told me forthright that if I reviewed them, they would have me detained. So, here goes:
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 makes for great television.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles - it's been hit and miss story-wise, but the overall arc has been satisfying. Hopefully, the series will develop a reasonable ending to satisfy the fans once it is canceled due to poor ratings as a result of Fox moving it to the Friday Night Death Slot.
Continue reading What Brad is thankful for
Posted Nov 5th 2008 1:02PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Animation, Adult Swim, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Geez, for a show that was recently canceled there is sure a lot of news about it. First, we heard that King of the Hill was being canceled by FOX at the end of this season (though it will probably remain on the schedule through 2010 because of long-term production of episodes). Then, the lovely and talented Bob Sassone reported that the show could be picked up by ABC, who seems to be in the market for other network programs as of late. Now comes word that repeats (is that term now taboo?) of the Mike Judge series will be heading to Adult Swim's lineup.
That's right. Cartoon Network's older brother will be picking up the 11-year-old program, making it the next-to-last FOX animated series to air on its program schedule (The Simpsons would be the last, and I have no idea if it will ever make it to Adult Swim).
Continue reading Still more King of the Hill news
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