Has Adult Swim Become Too Mainstream?

[@ZeepAtomic]

Honestly, I wouldn't say Adult Swim is completely mainstream. Even though they became a top dog in cable in recent years, most of their best shows remain very obscure for some odd reason. Like yeah, I can find people out in the open who are familiar with Rick and Morty or Robot Chicken, but it's rare that you'll find someone who remembers something like Superjail or China, IL.

[@conradojavier7547]

If Adult Swim wants to Borden their Channel, They MIGHT Rename it to "The Swim" to Reflect that Change.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

They should just keep it as Adult Swim

[@conradojavier7547]

​@@ArtieRaccoonReviews The Swim means They'll Rename Cartoon Network to "Kiddie Pool".

[@nas0518]

I have concerns for Adult Swim. I just hope the mainstream and the occupation of Cartoon Network won't last too long so that CN can regain its ours again and Adult Swim can only sign on around 9 pm or maybe back to 10 pm.

[@nas0518]

*hours

[@allisoncurty650]

I like your idea and during the evening show more shows the do not come on that often or are currently not in Cartoon Network’s lineup, such as Steven Universe, Adventure Time, etc.

[@PANOZWAR]

Adult Swim has slowly started to become more mainstream, which isn’t bad at all. It’d be great if they still make weird ass low-budget shit (e.g. 12 oz. Mouse and Gemusetto), while having more than just comedies at the same time.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

They seem to balance it out okay

[@allisoncurty650]

I do not do adult cartoons! I also have never been able to get into anime. The only I like about Adult Swim is.Checkered Past. I am actually more into Cartoon Network and wish it would have more hours.

[@PANOZWAR]

@@allisoncurty650 Understandable, tho you can’t deny the fact that Cartoon Network’s audiences are mostly adults nowadays…

[@allisoncurty650]

@@PANOZWAR Who watch Regular Show and The Amazing World of Gumball!

[@gabriellogrado4488]

More cartoons clássics

[@daliceToons]

[adult swim] Schedule Idea: (7 Days A Week) 5/4c - Checkered's Past 6/5c - Toonami Rewind 7/6c - ACME Night [adult swim] 8/7c - Futurama 8:30 PM - Bob's Burgers 9/8c - King of the Hill 9:30 PM - American Dad 10/9c - The Boondocks 10:30 PM - Home Videos 11/10c - Smiling Friends 11:30 PM - Tuca and Bertie 12/11c - Rick and Morty 12:30 AM - Mike Tyson Mysteries 1/2c - Robot Chicken 1:30 AM - Moral Orel 2/1c - AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE 2:30 AM - Squidbillies 3/2c - Mr. Pickles 3:30 AM - Momma Named Me Sheriff 4/3c - The Venture Bros 4:30 AM - The Eric Andre Show 5/4c - Toonami

[@allisoncurty650]

I think Checkered Past needs more hours, but they should be taken out of Adult Swim and not Cartoon Network!

[@daliceToons]

@@allisoncurty650 You Do Know This Schedule Idea For Checkered's Past Would Air 2 Shows For Every CN 2000's Show Everyday And Not Just 2 Random Shows For 7 Days Back To Back To The First Show That Aired On The First Day

[@jayesinternetdude]

Such a shame Adult Swim isn’t as unironically unhinged as it was before, but I feel thankful for the risks it took. It feels great to wake up in the middle of the night to rot your brain out on shit like 12 Oz. Mouse or The Drinky Crow Show, which were absolutely SPECTACULAR hatewatches :)

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

Absolutely

[@ZeepAtomic]

I kinda like Drinky Crow. 12 Oz. Mouse is kinda hard to get into, though..

[@MichaelMixerMasonGASS]

I’ve noticed it a while back, and some of their recent shows are more “normal with some quirks” rather than being weird, but at least as of now, they seem to balance everything out well.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

Royal Crackers is the worst of the bunch, it's mean spirited (in a bad way, not in a funny way) and also boring.

[@DanielLave25280]

Man adult swim is going hard with their time slots 👑👑

[@Lunar_WaveYT]

What if.. ACME Night on Discovery Family?

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

That's not a bad idea... Discovery Family is obviously a family-oriented channel, so they can show the movies on there. Meanwhile Adult Swim can use the airtime for Futurama or something.

[@allisoncurty650]

Maybe for Checkered Past!

[@kevin10001]

They are actually airing summer camp island on discovery family

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

Short answer: Yes for being derivative on its own terms.

[@annamorearchives]

Adult Swim starts at *11am* for those in Hawaii... 💀 Adult Swim should launch as a brand new channel not replacing another one IMO, if WBD can do that with MeTV Toons in this decade. And hopefully in the mere future same with Cartoonito. WBD is also forgetting to equally prioritize CN and AS. Of course we all know Cartoon Network's website shut down while Adult Swim's is still vigorous, CN originals have moved to AS (MAWS, Unicorn and now Invincible Fight Girl) and Checkered Past exists for CN Cartoon Cartoons and other classics airing on Adult Swim (CKP is not a bad block, it's just something I'm pointing out).

[@allisoncurty650]

I like Checkered Past!

[@annamorearchives]

​@@allisoncurty650I like it, too. I'm just pointing something out.

[@DBTUni2024]

The fact that since the WDB merger, both CN and Adult Swim are dying with Jessica's Big Little World being the last CN OG series Cartoonito losing hours, at this point they got ro put their ass together

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

I feel the same way about the 24-hour adult swim channel as I do with a 24-hour Toonami. It should’ve happened 15 or at least 10 years ago. When cable television was still going strong.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

I'm surprised America doesn't have a 24-hour anime network yet

[@drewwisemanmusic424]

I don’t see Adult Swim becoming more mainstream as a bad thing. Far from it, actually. Whether it’s music or something else, I’ve had to learn that whatever seems cool and unique at first will eventually become more commercialized, which isn’t a bad thing. Chances are if you find out about something obscure and you really enjoy it, you’re gonna want it to be successful so it can keep going. The problem that some people have is, once something becomes more commercialized, it’s not as good. Maybe in some cases, but not everything. Mainstream doesn’t automatically equal bad. That’s pretty much the point I’m trying to make lol. Great video bro.

[@seeleunit2000]

I would have to disagree. Because if it does become more corporate than it is, it won't be Adult Swim.

[@kevin10001]

@@drewwisemanmusic424 I can be a bad thing going mainstream just look at the state of the comic book industry at the moment where they have gone more mainstream through the movies and how most people who say they are fans of characters only have like a 1% knowledge of the characters due to not reading the comics so they wouldn’t know all the times Batman has actually had superpowers cause it’s not really been depicted on television or in movies for example

[@hedgehogstatus69]

I personally think it’s ok for it to be mainstream if they give their original content an equal amount of chance as the FOX cartoons(even Rick and Morty & Smiling Friends don’t get as many time slots). I also agree that it would be smart for the syndicated content to include more underrated and unpopular shows so that they could get more attention or even revived. I understand what they did to Family Guy was particularly luck but it could happen again.

[@regulartime2325]

Adult Swim is great, though the schedule can still be better. Ex: Monday - Friday Air Checkered Past from 5-7pm. Next, air Toonami Rewind from 7-9pm. Then air Fox shows from 9-Midnight. Later, air AS originals from Midnight - 2am. On 4-5am air rare/weird shows. Have Saturdays air only anime/action shows.

[@Sometopcatfan]

to be honest I don’t really have a problem with adult swim at 5:00pm hour but they seriously need to give checkered past 1 more hour at 7:00pm same thing with toonami rewind and they need to give FOX only a hour at 8:00pm for Saturdays I think CN should get 5:00pm 6:00pm and 7:00pm hour back I’m keeping acme night on Sundays on adult swim but back to 6:00pm

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

They are overdoing it with the FOX cartoons

[@Sometopcatfan]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviews I know they need to stop doing that

[@yunglo9394]

They need to chill on the Fox shows especially since it airs on other channels (American Dad on TBS, Bob’s Burgers on FXX).

[@dontmindthischannel]

honestly i would like for someone to recreate cartoon network as a 247 streaming platform, like what Toonami Aftermath or that one CN 24/7 stream on Twitch was at, but more kid friendly, i say that because Toonami Aftermath is just Toonami with alot of blocks but still good, and the Twitch CN one had some adult ads at wrong times in the day.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

I really like Toonami Aftermath for their built-in guide and overall aesthetic, but the programming seems to be on autopilot and they repeat the same episodes and shows repeatedly.

[@dontmindthischannel]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviews yea, its sucks, but i dont blame them

[@daliceatniTe]

Atleast [adult swim] Is Not A 24/7 Network Owned By Paramount Replacing TV Land With The Schedule Starting Off Like TBS (Of Course...) With The Golden Girls From 8am-12:30pm American Dad From 1pm-7:30pm Smiling Friends From 8pm-10:30pm Rick & Morty From 11pm-5:30am And Some Big Bang Theory & Young Sheldon To End It Off From 6am-7:30am Paramount Also Sucks With The Current Day TV Land Schedule With Paramount Overairing Mike & Molly Every Weekend On TV Land And Everybody Loves Raymond Being Bigger Thing On TV Land Than Friends On Nick@Nite

[@charlesm5218]

I want cn to be 24 hours again like it was in the early days

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

1992-2001

[@gabriellogrado4488]

Me too friend

[@diandremosley]

That would be great to see again, but CN would seriously need to increase the number of Shows they create AND air instead of their shows being foddder for [as] or m@x

[@LouisPicard-2]

Thomas and Friends all engines go should return to Cartoonito USA or it could be on PBS kids because PBS kids hasn’t had Thomas and friends since late 2017

[@nintendofan365]

I think Saturdays at least should give Cartoon Network the 5 and 6 o clock hours back since none of the 3 blocks air on that day. Just my opinion, though, maybe have Adult Swim start at 6PM to even it and Cartoon Network's start times out similar to Noggin and The N back in the day.

[@LD-xn8jj]

Adult swim need there own channel in my opinion i don't understand it ran over 20 years

[@luchoruiz95]

Actually, they already did that in Latin America. At daytime, they show some old fashioned anime and CN's 90's and early 00's cartoons and at 9 p.m the real adult swim takes over. It's not as important as in the US, but it's refreshing to see a 24 hour channel with that kind of content after almost shut down the original block 18 years ago in our region.

[@mafeuk]

Adult Swim went downhill the moment the people who grew up watching it started working there

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

It seems like everyone has a different vision, so the current state of Adult Swim is a mish mash of all sorts of genres and ideas

[@unisangalaxystudio]

Adult swim started to be main stream after Rick and Morty around 2016 and post pandemic it's as main stream as marvel

[@allisoncurty650]

I can not grasp Adult Swim being on in the broad daylight during the winter.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

It depends where you live in the country. Where I live, the sun sets around 4:30 PM during winter

[@allisoncurty650]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviews I live in North Carolina closer to Virginia than South Carolina and the sun does not set until after 5 PM even on December 21. To be more specific I live in Trinity, North Carolina, which is a 45 minute drive northwest of the geographical center of the state. Have you said that you live in Massachusetts?

[@Arthriticus353]

I wish they’d air futurama more

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

Agreed, they should air it right after Checkered Past

[@kevin10001]

I feel them going from being just a Sunday night block of shows to being on all week wasn’t a good idea because it took some of it’s charm away from it cause it wasn’t this special thing on Sunday nights anymore and the content stared to suffer cause of it cause it felt like for a while they were greenlighting every idea that they got pitched just to have content to fill a full week giving us garbage shows like Saul of the Mole Men fat guy stuck in the internet Tom goes to the mayor The Heart, She Holler and The Eric Andre Show for example which fora while made the lineup completely unwatchable especially during the week

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

I have to admit that most of Adult Swim's live-action content sucks except for The Eric Andre Show, Tim & Eric, Infomercials, and Off The Air

[@allisoncurty650]

Have you ever see the two same Fox shows on two different channels simultaneously? Now I think that is a little too much!

[@charlesm5218]

Adult swim still needs its own channel so Cartoon Network can have its hours back

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

Why can't they just do that already?

[@charlesm5218]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviews I know right

[@yunglo9394]

Unless HLN’s contract is ironclad, I would rebrand that as [adult swim]. TruTV getting a rebrand is likely, but WBD is likely turning that into “TNT Sports” (don’t ask)

[@trebhum_]

I'm not gonna give this video my time when only 3 characters on the thumbnail are actual adult swim original characters 😂

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

That's the point of the video, you gotta see and then it'll make sense. Don't be so ignorant.

[@LouisPicard-2]

Cartoonito America should move to 6 am to 7 am instead of a ring from 7:30 am to 8:30 am and they’ve only got three shows Bugs Bunny builders batwheels and Jessica‘s Little Big world and coming soon to Cartoonito is Barney‘s world as well

[@dragonhead99]

I'm still for another Primal and/or Samurai Jack. For company that bring back old shows. They not giving the best animated shows that make watch CN/Adult Swim in the first place.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

I believe Primal isn't cancelled

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

I haven't watched Adult Swim and Cartoon Network in years, but they seem to have a lotta more shows and mainstream BIG shows these days.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

When Adult Swim began in 2001, they only had an amount of shows in the single digits, and they were brand new originals or obscure shows that failed on other networks such as The WB

[@rocky.rocks1445]

My perfect schedule for Adult Swim: Weekdays: 5:00-7:00 Checkered Past 7:00-8:00 King of the Hill 8:00-9:30 Bob's Burgers 9:30-10:30 Futurama 10:30-11:30 American Dad! 11:30-12:30 Rick and Morty 12:30-1:00 The Boondocks (this show would change periodically) 1:00-1:30 Robot Chicken (this show would change periodically) 1:30-2:00 American Dad! 2:00-2:30 Futurama 2:30-3:00 King of the Hill 3:00-4:00 Rick and Morty 4:00-4:30 Birdgirl (this show would change periodically) 4:30-5:00 Tuca & Bertie (this show would change periodically) 5:00-6:00 Bob's Burgers Saturdays: 5:00-7:00 Toonami Rewind 7:00-8:00 King of the Hill 8:00-9:00 Bob's Burgers 9:00-10:00 Futurama 10:00-11:00 American Dad! 11:00-12:00 Rick and Morty 12:00-3:30 Toonami 3:30-4:00 The Venture Bros. / Unicorn: Warriors Eternal / Primal (it would switch between these shows) 4:00-5:00 Black Jesus (this show would change periodically) 5:00-6:00 King of the Hill Sundays: 5:00-7:00 ACME Night 7:00-8:00 Futurama 8:00-9:30 Bob's Burgers 9:30-11:00 American Dad! 11:00-12:00 Rick and Morty 12:00-12:30 Rick and Morty: The Anime (this show would change after the season ends) 12:30-1:00 PSI Cops (this show would change after the season ends) 1:00-1:30 Mr. Pickles 1:30-2:30 American Dad! 2:30-3:30 Rick and Morty 3:30-4:00 Rick and Morty: The Anime 4:00-4:30 PSI Cops 4:30-5:00 Mr. Pickles 5:00-6:00 Home Movies

[@seeleunit2000]

I'm gonna say that naw, having Adult Swim going against what made them popular is going to bite them in the butt. Just like with cartoon Network proper, and the time they went to live action in 2007... This will not end well

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

We'll have to wait and see for the long term effects

[@Angelmunoz_19]

3:21 They already did in Latin America

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

I'd didn't think Adult Swim is Mainstream

[@dinkyrobb9993]

What's going on adult swim

[@Stickboy321Go]

Honestly, my idea is to get rid of cartoonito, make adult swim it’s own channel and give checkered past to Cartoon Network and Toonami for Cartoon Network.

[@Lunar_WaveYT]

It’s meant to be a mainstream brand tho(?)

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

Watch the video and find out

[@johnthechoochooaddict796]

I feel like Michael Ouweleen has done more harm than good to Cartoon Network.

[@catanwolfjoefan9286]

What about the Canadian version

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

This video is referring to the US channel

[@catanwolfjoefan9286]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviewsFamily Guy is on adult swim in Canada

[@catanwolfjoefan9286]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviewsI want American dad back on syndication

[@davidthebest3443]

Adult swim isn’t even to mainstream yet Ok nvm

[@SpyYoshi]

I don’t think it matter if their programming is good then it’s good

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

Good point

[@SpyYoshi]

I do kinda wish they played more recent obscure shows​ like how they used to do@@ArtieRaccoonReviews

[@elmorehairston-ne4mp]

As much I love adult swim just don't seem right to make cartoon network second filled without cartoon network there won't be toonami adult swim and boomerang cn in my opinion has rich history theb adult swim don't get me adult swim has made some really amazing shows like aqua teen primal smiling friends but cartoon network gave us amazing and wonderful shows dexter's laboratory the powerpuff girls billy and mandy ben 10 adventure time regular show

[@kascnef]

They copied a fox

[@christopherblue2004]

Get more original shows like KOTH.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

King of the Hill wasn't originally produced by Adult Swim. Also it's still airing reruns.

[@christopherblue2004]

@@ArtieRaccoonReviews i know, I meant get more original shows that are similar to KOTH.

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

@@christopherblue2004 So more or so tame TV-PG and light TV-14 shows such as Home Movies and The Oblongs