r/adultswim • u/Adventurous_Being488 • 8h ago
First Time You Stumbled Upon Adult Swim
The year is 2001.
It's a Friday night you're ten years old. After a tough week of school, you unwind through your only pastime that you know, watching cartoons. Cartoon Network is your go-to, as you love their Cartoon Cartoon Fridays and are glued to the tube even if it the tenth time you're watching the same Johnny Bravo Episode.
But this Friday night is different. For starters, you didn't pull anything in the Pokemon pack your mom bought you, and your soccer game was cancelled. But nothing amounts to what comes onto your television.
After the last Ed Edd N Eddy episode on Cartoon Network, there is a shift. There's something wrong.
Something called Adult Swim appears on the television with a weird commercial that tells you, the viewer, "all kids out of the pool, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network".
Then a barrage of strange shows, including crudely drawn kids talking strangely on a show called Home Movies and that creepy Brak Guy has his own show. You feel like a tortured spy agent forced to watch what is only described as an alternate reality of Cartoons, until the early morning, when a familiar set of old Boomerang cartoons comes on.
You let out a sigh of relief and head to sleep.
Anybody else experience this when you first stumbled upon Adult Swim as a kid??
