Why You’ll Never Forget Adult Swim

[@michaelc5584]

God dude it is insane how this video just dragged some dusty old memories to the surface after they've been lying dormant in my smooth brain for just over TWENTY YEARS! Literally while watching this I remembered seeing Cowboy Bebop, YuYu Hakusho and Big O probably in the summer of 2000 or MAYBE 2001. To place it on a timeline these memories were from before and little while after Inuyasha first premiered on AS, which I also remember well! I kept stacks of blank or not so blank VHS tapes on hand to record the broadcasts of these shows onto and I'd watch these recorded episodes over and over again obsessively! Next time I visit my old hometown I'm gonna dig through some boxes at my mom's and see if I can find any of these tapes. It'd be great to see a piece of exactly what I experienced as I was essentially unwittingly being introduced to subculture and the wider world of art. Those late nights were like a world of their own with a feeling that's hard to describe. I'm genuinely glad you made this video dude!

[@InternetPitstop]

I'm not only honored I could bring those feelings back to you but I am beyond glad you made this comment they're could not be a more perfect comment thank you so much you said it perfectly with "those late nights were like a world of their own" you should see if you could upload some of those rips of vhs tapes if possible id be glad to check em out!

[@michaelc5584]

Okay so I took a few trips out to my mom's place and searched everywhere for those tapes.. unfortunately I was unable to find them. The only tape I found was a VHS copy of Night Of The Living Dead. I did find a few things I had forgotten about that are tangentially related like Tenchi Muyo CD's & manga and some Pokemon stuff, but that's not what I was after. Definitely a bummer that those recordings didn't turn up but if I ever do manage to find at least one of those tapes I'll pop back up here and let you know! Cheers duder!

[@frostfang1]

Honestly the only other experience I had similar to it was falling asleep late one night on a super random channel and waking up to Cirque du Soliel playing on it. And then longing to find that random unexplained circus performance fever dream again for a long time...till it happened again and I recorded it. My whole family was stunned and impressed by it. I felt like I got to expefience a magic thing before anyone else realized it's beauty and power and then it blew up so fucking hard. Because I'm sure, in the US a bunch of people also had the same experience and just enjoying the surreal storytelling and impressive feats.

[@dandyspacedandy]

I was born in the summer of 2000

[@Mosquito-balls]

@@InternetPitstop Adult swim was awesome for all the homophobic, racist, and stereotypes that they showed for our humor. Now we don’t have that culture cause woke culture destroyed and won’t ever allow it to happen again. I hate and despise the woke culture movement . The left are cancer

[@dpepinmarquette]

Watching Adult Swim in the middle of the night when you’re half asleep gave the shows this fever dream like quality. I don’t know how many times I would wake up and look at TV and go “WTF am I watching?”.

[@Mosquito-balls]

Adult swim was awesome for all the homophobic, racist, and stereotypes that they showed for our humor. Now we don’t have that culture cause woke culture destroyed and won’t ever allow it to happen again. I hate and despise the woke culture movement . Bring back real animations not like today

[@zachiga]

@@Mosquito-balls I don’t think shows like South Park, Boondocks and half of the other stuff Adult Swim held on their channel. It was so unique and I am thankful to have been old enough to enjoy and understand it before the internet had a million streaming services on it.

[@Mosquito-balls]

@@zachiga yea golden era of entertainment

[@jaynycha1705]

Bro, the first time I watched Aqua Teen when it aired I was like (who writes this stuff?). Been a fan ever since.

[@FlaccidFella]

No bro half those shows were legitimate fever dreams. Take "Off The Air" for example. A literal acid trip in TV show format

[@tannergriffin9130]

Adult Swim is absolutely timeless. You could easily air reruns of the channel from the mid 2000's with no context and it would STILL hit. The jokes would hit, music would vibe, and the shows would fit right in with modern internet culture. Such a timeless vibe.

[@cookiemonsta77515]

I would pay hard earned money for recorded tapes of adult swim

[@senLuno]

​@@cookiemonsta77515 I will work on this for you, I'm starting to become a historian for this magical TV channel that's been like plugging musicians and art and new animators for years

[@peterkefalos7430]

I attribute adult swim indirectly to the birth of internet culture and humour while still having such a timeless vibe to it.

[@woodensauce1063]

I once heard someone say "this entire generation has the sense of humor of tim and eric, but no one knows who tim and eric are" 🤣

[@dcta51]

Exactly, Vine was just family Guy cutaways and quick Robot Chicken skits.

[@IamSoEasy47]

@@woodensauce1063 This is so fucking true. I didn't even know Tim and Eric until I went to college (at the college they went to, Temple!)

[@woodensauce1063]

@@IamSoEasy47 hey man that’s pretty cool! And at least you found them and get to appreciate them 😁

[@FrogOf4Chan]

And practically all of AS's audience were 4chan/message board members, the connection to internet culture is strong.

[@skullemojinumber1285]

Adult swim payed homage to alot of greats in chillhop, jazzhop, and lofi hiphop such as nujabes, dilla, doom, aswell as putting us onto a shit-ton of BEAUTIFUL shows. Adult swim is a timeless masterpiece

[@skullemojinumber1285]

also I had to instantly subscribe once I heard that "welcome to the show" intro. i love your channel man.

[@senLuno]

They put us on so much hip hop power, DOOM worked like hand in hand with them

[@BagelSquad-uh1dd]

I love Dilla and Doom! Yesterday by Jay reminds me of a Nujabees type beat. I’m glad y’all like those guys too, and adult swim is superior

[@CocoHutzpah]

The [Adult Swim] logo is absolute perfection. It's absolutely iconic, yet so simple that I just made it in this comment. There will never be a better TV channel.

[@Mosquito-balls]

Adult swim was awesome for all the homophobic, racist, and stereotypes that they showed for our humor. Now we don’t have that culture cause woke culture destroyed and won’t ever allow it to happen again. I hate and despise the woke culture movement . F$&k the left

[@beanprotein]

*[adult swim]

[@Billfra4]

Everyone know the symbol [adult swim]

[@rage_nt]

Something the bumps on [AS] usually contained as a theme was that they were liminal spaces paired with comfortable music. I remember always suddenly realizing how alone I was during them, like the feeling went away during the show but they had to remind you that you were sitting or laying in a dark room alone at 2am.

[@penti8345]

adult swim is like the anti mainstream tv channel. they put in the extra effort to cultivate a cool and creative aesthetic and most tv channels don’t go that extra mile which is why adult swim is the only cable tv channel i still care to watch and some of my favorite shows (aqua teen, harvey birdman, king of the hill) come from. it’s the only thing that makes me scared of the demise of cable tv. what if i never get to see a cool adult swim bumper ever again ??

[@dcta51]

Adult swim should make they're own streaming app

[@stealthisaccount433]

@@dcta51 most of their shows stream on HBO max now if you have that

[@JohnDoe-yd1cx]

@@dcta51 the have one lol

[@mrwess1927]

Its also the only network I knew of that had programming blocks as short as 15 minutes.

[@dcta51]

@@JohnDoe-yd1cx an app right?

[@elian958]

Im 37 and my brother is 27, we used to watch Adult Swim everyday at night. This brought tears to my eyes.

[@InternetPitstop]

I feel ya man! Me and my older bro also watched AS together

[@brypete]

37 here as well.. Man I miss the good old days..

[@anthonydiaz2185]

32 here.

[@rexcraptor2761]

Adult swim was weird and it wasn’t like anything else out there. It was so unique. Thank you for this video it’s crazy to think some people watching this video didn’t grow up with the early adult swim but the new adult swim is pretty similar so they get the gist

[@InternetPitstop]

It has lost some magic but it’s still very similar but especially with tv kinda dying out you won’t really see things like bumps anymore with like Netflix yanno

[@blissband3601]

Smiling friends is bringing back the magic

[@naufrage0]

The channel is similar but the era is different. It’s just not the same vibe now that KZbin and streaming is the primary source of media entertainment.

[@Mosquito-balls]

Adult swim was awesome for all the homophobic, racist, and stereotypes that they showed for our humor. Now we don’t have that culture cause woke culture destroyed and won’t ever allow it to happen again. I hate and despise the woke culture movement . I hate leftist for trying to censor anything that slightly offends them.

[@kz6713]

Liquid television from the 90s look it up it was kinda similar but not really

[@frozen9065]

The fact it came on after the second most popular kids channel and a channel that tends to attract 10-14 year olds instead of 3-9 year olds like Nickelodeon was a genius marketing move. Had a whole generation to watch it

[@bongwatertastey]

Nobody born after 2004 - 2005 will know how it feels to stay up late and catch this stuff or wake up in the middle of the night randomly and hear some crazy bump playing with some show you've never seen play. It'll never feel like that again. You made me nostalgic, good video.

[@michaeljames9548]

2006 kids just barely made it

[@woopoganntnt7379]

I’m 2007 and I definitely remember this I remember waking up at 3 in the morning to Robot Chicken and as a kid I was always to scared to watch it especially cause of how my parents didn’t want me watching Adult Swim at all which is a real shame cause now I watch Adult Swim and realized how much I missed out on

[@bongwatertastey]

@@woopoganntnt7379 It felt different. Cable was huge for 40+ years and suddenly in less the what seemed like 5, it was completely overtaken by streaming. I'm not bitter, time moves on. Growing up in the 90s and 00s just seems different than how kids are growing up now.

[@Redlegion.]

I was born in 2007 and adult swim is 50% of my childhood when I was a kid so it should be 2004-2007

[@kearaeasley5732]

2007, woke up in the middle of the night about 5 or 6 years old to robot chicken, scared the SHIT out of me ran to my moms room and cried i tried to change the channel but the batteries weren’t in the remote. i had to sleep with my mom 😭😭

[@jotakori8266]

The connection of [AS] bumper music to lofi is honestly so freaking galaxy brain. I feel like my entire worldview has shifted with that realization and it suddenly makes so much more sense why I love lofi as much as I do -- especially the ones full of weird/obscure/anime dialogue sampling. I can't say I ever fully appreciated AS's vibes as a teen (smh @ past me), but it definitely left an impressionable mark that I've slowly become increasingly more aware of as an adult. Also, my dude, I just blasted through several of your videos tonight and holy jeez does your channel and aesthetic speak to me on such a personal, weeb of the 90s level lol. So much nostalgia, passion, and an intense love for aesthetics. Also can I just say I LOVE your fashion -- peak 90's anime cool kid fr. 🙏

[@superduper90210]

I love that kind of Lofi as well, samples of anime dialogue or oldies tunes. Couldn't figure out why it made me feel so nostalgic when I couldn't place where i'd heard it before. Let me know if you got any good spots for finding that kind of stuff, a lot of the spotify and youtube live channels don't quite hit that mark. Guess i'll start with the artists from the AS bumbs

[@REAPER3fitty]

Fuck yeah. That's a great comparison

[@burninsherman1037]

Bro, same. I can't believe it took me so long to find this channel, and now I gotta catch up.

[@senLuno]

​@burninsherman1037 you gotta bro this channel is actually magical I'm 2001 born, and I just can't describe how magical this channel is it makes me feel so like at home when I watch it

[@Segeric]

I made the Go To Bed bump and a lot of other ones. Seeing how it's helped others over the years has been inspiring and humbling. Thanks for the deep dive!

[@hauntedtroubadour8301]

It's absolutely one of my favorite beats ever thank u, whoever u are

[@weewoo5486]

bro made my childhood nostalgia

[@jeffalpha4526]

I just got the most euphoric feeling watching this video, specifically the bump you showed that showed Mt Fuji in Tokyo. I remember seeing it when I was a kid, never thought too much about it. The memory of it just faded away. Till I saw it just now, and realized that I had actually went there. I was in the Marine Corps from 2012-2017, around 2014 I went on a field exercise to Camp Fuji, which has an amazing view of Mt Fuji. At the time though, I had forgotten all about seeing it on adult swim. So when I'm already getting hit with childhood nostalgia, I see this picture and I got such a weird cosmic rush. Combining two separate memories into one. Thank you, never stop making content.

[@InternetPitstop]

Dude that’s really cool both the concept of two memories coming back and just your life on general thank you for dropping the comment and I hope you’re life is going well

[@juvedoo99]

Adult Swim is memorable because it simply didn’t care. It didn’t care what was cool, It didn’t care who watch it, or even if anyone did watch it. It existed just to exist. It was also keenly aware of pop culture outside of the US (mainly Japan) and that (at the time) was almost unheard of in the American pop culture mainstream. Basically, adult swim was like that one friend who is into manga/anime and jungle music who we don’t fully understand but totally understand their commitment to being unique.

[@BasicallyBreezy]

I’m 31 and this video has touched my heart man. The deepest memories of my early teens watchin animes for the first time and fallin in love and watching hilarious shows at night. Finding new fav music and beats from it. It was all glorious. Thank you for reminding me and thank you for making such a great video. This made my day ❤️

[@InternetPitstop]

Thanks man!

[@b3llydrum]

Damn yo I'm 31 too. We out here

[@Thespeedrap]

I'm 33 and I'm glad I got to watch all this stuff when my mom wasn't around to watch with me.Damn I miss my early childhood days what happened to me🙏

[@svetlanaawaken]

i remember being 6 years old watching king of the hill, family guy, american dad, and robot chicken all in that order. what a good phenomenon tbh.

[@_Devil]

I didnt know AS had King of the Hill and American Dad on it lol. I miss those days

[@svetlanaawaken]

@@_Devil it sure did, as soon as cartoon network went off, the first show they aired (majority of the time) was king of the hill

[@weewoo5486]

damn same remember that order but me and my bro would stay up extra late to catch toonami for anime, first ones being yu yu hakusho and soul eater, also my love for boondocks and cowboy bepop ((ik one doesnt count but it was that golden era))

[@svetlanaawaken]

@@weewoo5486 really was the good ole days, and i used to LOVE the boondocks. sometimes we had the dvds

[@magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374]

Adult Swim legitimately changed my life. When I was in high school I stumbled on a Zatch Bell promo from toonami. The editing and music blowed me away as did the programming they were showing. I discovered DBZ Kai, Hunter x Hunter, One Punch Man, and many more great shows and artists. I tried my hand at making my own Toonami promos which lead me into editing as well as graphic design, landing me an acceptance at my states best art school. I owe them a lot, and I’ll never forget them.

[@ultranovva]

That's really cool, I hope you succeed in what you're doing.

[@PMAN305]

I stayed up late one night when I was young and me and my dad stayed up watching one punch man specifically the ep where saitama smacked the shit outta that mosquito lady lol

[@garydaniel8096]

I'm almost in tears. Seeing this helps me remember why I enjoyed my life before I've completely lost my self. I've genuinely forgot about [AS], but now I remember being lucky enough to go to the Robot Chicken tour in NYC back in the day. I got to see Seth Green storm troopers and Gym class heroes! I needed this so thank you. It meant a lot to me!

[@dunpeal2064]

Man, I've always known I love Adult Swim, but I never realized just how much of an influence it had on me.

[@jcplays5831]

Adult swim is something you had to grow up with to understand. If you were a kid in the 2000s, you knew you weren’t supposed to be watching adult swim, but you still did because of how new and different and interesting it was

[@sober_katz]

early 2010s kid here. i still remember a few of the bumpers, but just barely. my dad would be up at night watching [AS] and he wouldn't care if i watched it with him, lol

[@susu_forever5237]

This video is amazing. How you nailed how adult swim and toonami made me feel as a kid. A kid who had no business being awake that late. Adult swim led me to anime that no one else knew /talked about and how I went on those journeys by myself from ghost in the shell, cowboy bebop, the boondocks. It’s awesome that you have actually brought people with similar experiences together with this video. Man I wish we all grew up together!

[@Mosquito-balls]

Adult swim was awesome for all the homophobic, racist, and stereotypes that they showed for our humor. Now we don’t have that culture cause woke culture destroyed and won’t ever allow it to happen again. I hate and despise the woke culture movement .

[@the-77-ronin7]

Me too bro

[@TheShipreckedVoyager]

Adult Swim was an art form in and of itself, and like you mentioned, waking up late into the night, and having Adult Swim there, was otherworldly. I miss it.

[@javirios3107]

I just don’t think any video essay will ever do the Adult Swim late night vibe justice. It’s too unique. It was too special. Everyone has they’re own experience. It’s just lost in pleasant memories.

[@deadjoey77]

Man, back in like 2007 i was super depressed and id stay up all night watching AS and playing video games. i remember seeing the goodmorning/goodbye bumps and feeling really bad.

[@Allplussomeminus]

I think waking up in the wee hrs hearing a bump on Adult Swim is a collective phenomenon. One time I woke up to Tim and Eric skit and immediately laughed my ass off.

[@InternetPitstop]

bro we must of lived the same childhood lol

[@NoneofYourBusiness667]

I clearly remember the very first airing of Adult Swim back in 2001. I was in 7th grade. I was a huge fan of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet (which was a slightly more kid friendly version of the show that aired during the day and featured more of the character Brak.) My parents had an issue of the “entertainment/TV” section of our town’s local newspaper sprawled over our kitchen table when I got home from school that day, and there was a black and white picture of Brak in it. The headline read something like “Cartoon Network Ventures into Adult Programming” and was talking about how Adult Swim was going to air (it was a paper from a few days earlier) on the exact night I was reading it. So that night, I tuned in at 10pm and caught the very first airing of Adult Swim, which kicked off with an episode of Home Movies followed by the first episode of The Brak Show. I was hooked and watched the block every single time it aired afterwards for as long as I could manage to stay awake. I’ll never forget that I actually tuned in live to the very first time something that ended up growing into a cultural staple was born. I was actually a part of history in that moment, and didn’t even realize it at the time.

[@RobbieStacks90]

Ah, that's a good story. I started watching it exclusively for Saturdays because I saw the commercials for Adult Swim Action on Cartoon Network (back when they were not separate entities) and immediately got hooked on Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, and Gundam 0083. Then, I started watching it on Sunday nights too when they first got Mission Hill because their TV spots for it were hilarious, and I was not disappointed. I already knew of Space Ghost from when it regularly aired on CN on Friday nights in the late 90s and because Moltar (one of its characters) used to host Toonami, which played the actual old old Space Ghost cartoon way back when, but everything else was so new to me and the pool clips were hilarious gave Sundays an air of levity. The night they showed Char's Counterattack remains my favorite memory of Adult Swim all these years later. THAT was an amazing movie.

[@Marzimus]

I was there for Sealab, crashing on a friend's couch after meeting a sad girl in a parking lot outside Taco Bell and going to a playground to cheer her up. Same for South Park. Came to school the next day and no one knew what I was talking about in reference to satellites and cows... 💖

[@NoneofYourBusiness667]

@@RobbieStacks90t the time, I hadn’t been watching CN so I had missed the TV ads I think. I was on an MTV/VH1/Comedy Central kick around then, so that article was my first hearing of it

[@majinshinsa]

Adult Swim came out when I started living on my own. I worked the late night shift at Mcd's and one night after work I turned on Cartoon Network and ATHF was on. It blew my mind and nothing beat it. It fell out of rotation when I joined the military since they require you to wake up at reasonable times (well stop drinking at like 4am or so) but nothing has ever matched Adult Swim qualitywise and it seems like it's up to KZbinrs to keep that alive. It's not something you can really reproduce with streaming services. Great video btw

[@Joshh-uk1ww]

Growing up with adult swim drastically changed who I was as a person. A lot of people called me gifted or smart as a kid because I knew a lot of adult things and even had some neat little philosophical ideas, and this plus old KZbin is really the reason why, I just repeated what I heard and people thought I was a genius, kinda funny looking back. Thank you for this amazing video that reminds me so much of my childhood.

[@InternetPitstop]

Thank you for watching it!

[@yaglet7985]

As an avid watcher of video essays on KZbin, I can say this video deserves way more views. An overall really well put together video that unlocked a lot of core memories of staying up late when I was younger. Keep up the great work dude, you just earned yourself a new subscriber!

[@InternetPitstop]

Thanks man! Really appreciate that as also a avid watcher of video essays lol

[@DarkNeon27]

Adult Swim was how I found so many unique sounding artists Flying Lotus, and J Dilla were my first discoveries til I found Nujabes, Nomak, and, TOKiMONSTA. Both through the official bumps, and fan made bump beats.

[@SodiumWage]

MTV's Liquid TV could be argued as a forerunner to what Adult Swim did a few years later. For a lot of us Liquid TV introduced us to adult animation (Æon Flux, The Running Man : Neo Tokyo, Beavis and Butt-Head) and it also leaned heavily into the surreal and bizarre.

[@gamerkid2329]

Hey I’m too young to have experienced [as] in it’s prime I didn’t even know mtv had an adult animation block 😅

[@kraygh]

Came to the comments looking for a shout out to Liquid Television, as being the true forerunner.

[@Otokichi786]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I remember "The Maxx" (1995) unrolling on Liquid TV. Oh wait, a Wikipedia search says this was an MTV show. (Back when MTV meant something.;)

[@Mechanicoid]

Don't forget Night Flight. Videos, cult movies and animations. It all fed into each other and that was a good thing.

[@unamericano]

God I had forgotten about the absolute surreal quality of waking up super late night to Æon Flux half asleep on the couch and not sure what's going on. Not that watching it fully awake and stone cold sober is any difference.

[@barnuner]

Toonami midnight run and Adult Swim were one of the things I most looked forward to back in grade school. The commercials and bumps were just as memorable as the shows.

[@jamessoth1479]

I never had cable at my house but on weekends I’d sleep over at my friends house with cable and lord knows how late we’d stay up watching adult swim. The calm of the midnight streets mixed with trying to keep the tv volume low so we don’t get found out. Those bumps only added to the tense atmosphere as we’d sneak into the kitchen to grab a pop tart or two in between commercial breaks. I wish I got more time with adult swim but I cherish the few bits I had throughout my childhood.

[@makoman295]

Awesome, thank you for dragging "The Dawn is Your Enemy" out of my subconscious. That terrified me as a kid.

[@jaredsternberg]

I think this video perfectly encapsulates exactly why myself and others are drawn towards your content. I haven't seen all of your videos yet but jesus christ man I can feel every ounce of genuine passion and appreciation for everything you talk about. In a world where anything can have an impact on you, being able to pinpoint, analyze, and share the things that impact you like this is a blissful experience. I've never done hard drugs but it's like I'm taking a massive bump of pure nostalgia cocaine every video. Can't wait to watch the next one! KEEP FUCKING GOING!!!!

[@InternetPitstop]

Thank you so much my guy this comment means a whole lot i definitely got that serotonin boost just reading it lol Also pure nostalgia cocaine is hilarious I love that thank you for the comment my dude and thank you for the love ❤️

[@romanmgelman]

You encapsulated this part of our lives so well. Thanks for helping me dust off some old memories. ‘98 over here. I gotta get me an adult swim t-shirt now.

[@LordIronfist]

"I'm only kinda funny BECAUSE of adult swim" I feel you, man, I truly do

[@sectorseven07]

I was there in the long long ago. I was 11 when it came out. I remember when I would swap over from music videos on MTV and VHI to Adult Swim, and just flip through the three depending on which one had a commercial on. I had no idea those were the best days of my life.

[@contentcop]

i 100% wouldnt have my love for anime without adult swim. even more because i worked nights after school. so i could come home late and still have something to watch

[@frostfang1]

I at least had Rorouni Kenshin and YuYu Hakashu on toonami when I was in middleschool and just the....bundle of good shit (and inuyasha which I know think was terrible but then was a perfect way to wade in) on Adult Swim. I also had Kikis Delivery Service way before I knew it was an anime. But yes...it was the perfect way to show me a variety of real quality shows, not just Shonen.

[@scalderiso]

Same I was like 13 when toonami started

[@juvedoo99]

I remember feeling at home with adult swim when I came from Mexico two decades ago. Mexico has a pretty deeply rooted connection with Japanese pop culture and general avant-garde art, so adult swim felt comfortable. I miss those adult swim nights…

[@growingup15]

Im so glad we all grew up at the right time to experience this. and its so cool to see a collection of us all seem to have felt the same thing at those times. The early to mid 2000s Adult Swim watching as a kid cant be matched today.

[@Cliftonfontes]

Dude I'm in tears from this, I would've never thought a simple channel from TV could impact and shape the type of personality I have. I can't explain how grateful I am for stumbling across this video at like 3 when I should be asleep because I was like 9-12 but honestly it was worth it, thank you for the beautiful video

[@dorienhamilton7883]

We grew up in a perfect time for TV era and if life and time somehow resets, I’m down to experience those moments again!

[@thefluffyteddybear8812]

Grew up with adult swim and I'll never forget the first time I saw Futurama and family guy in the same night Mike lazo will forever be in my heart for his awesome vision

[@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise]

Ayy, the Go To Bed Bump thumbnail! Probably one of the best bumps ever, if not the best outright. The _Vibes_ are just _Perfection._

[@MidnightDeerX]

Stating that this channel is underrated is a HUGE understatement. Good lord is this content amazing. The editing it brilliant. Your a hilarious creator. I really love this and i’m bingeing all the vids now. Leaving hella likes on them too. This a SS tier channel. Thank god i found it. Highlight of this month type beat. Please keep up the amazing work. -peace and love

[@InternetPitstop]

Thank you my guy! Peace and love

[@hellofrominside8524]

I know I’m late but you deserve to know I enjoyed that edit considerably and your investment was justified.

[@Swiss816]

Youre becoming one of my favorite channels on KZbin. Gonna binge your stuff. Thanks for taking me back to better times. I'll cherish these memories forever.

[@GravyRave]

Adult Swim & Toonami will always hold special places in my heart. So many fond memories.

[@Ciler7]

This vid is such nostalgia trip my guy adult swim and toonami really did have an impact on us at least in my experience I feel like not many people have acknowledged it but you hit the nail on the head keep up the good work

[@Klau5]

Randomly was recommended this in my KZbin feed after my night shift, and honestly made me realize I have more nostalgia for Adult Swim then I have for cartoon network. My mom legit let me watch all the adult swim stuff growing up in the late 00s and 10s, and honestly it shaped a large amount of my humor and art/music tastes. NGL this video makes me miss having cable and staying up late to watch robot chicken, aqua teen, boondocks, cowboy bebop reruns, and older seasons of family guy.

[@LavosTheOneEyedTick]

I hope this channel gets big some day. You totally deserve it

[@thorn9382]

I see you everywhere around this corner of the internet, I guess the youtube algorithm has funneled all of us here.

[@chiller_buds415]

You realize he just ripped off NakeyJakey

[@dcta51]

@@chiller_buds415 anyone that's Jakey inspired that can hold it down ever since Jakeys disappearance is a friend of mine. Been watching his vids since last night and can safely say he passes the vibe check enough for me at least.

[@chiller_buds415]

@@dcta51 damn.. Jakey would be proud!

[@FRIEDWINGZ17]

I remember waking up to some of the bumps in between Bleach and Zatch Bell and some of them were mad freaky. That “dawn is your enemy” one was one that i remember vividly. But thats what made me wanna watch AS as a young kid. I begged my Dad to let me stay up and give it a chance and thankfully he did. We would stay up until midnight on Fridays and watch Family Guy, King of the Hill and Aqua Teen while we waited for the Squidbillies block. Really enjoyed this video! Thanks for linking all the bumps too. Ab to take a trip back in time later haha. Keep it up!

[@alexchism5192]

Wow man, thank you for making this video. It reached into my heart and pulled out some deep emotions and memories. Adult swim was there for me to escape into late night in my teen years once upon a time when things were rough and this reminded me of that escape and how important media is sometimes even when we don't realize it at the time or take it for granted. I'll definitely be checking out your other content. Cheers mate.

[@InternetPitstop]

Yeah man no problem thank you for appreciating it makes all the work completely worth it, I love this video a whole lot meant a lot making it so again thank you much love

[@ahmadtrip4623]

It’s like they really knew how to catch the vibes of late night chilling. smoking a blunt coming back to bed listening to the bumps and shows were so relaxing

[@CaptainPetrov]

Out of all the "nerdy" KZbin channels out there, Internet Pitstop with his raw low budget videos are far more down to earth than a lot of other KZbinrs who try to come off as genuine, but to me seem corny or fake Great videos man! You are easily my favorite KZbinr

[@realwrighthill]

Thanks for introducing me to J Dilla. I'll never forget you.

[@sapphirelane1714]

Adult Swim is definitely why I got into lofi (even though my earliest memories of lofi come from the mid-90s when my parents put on their mixtapes). [AS] definitely shaped my teen/college years!

[@SloopJohnB91]

born 1991. shout out to Adult Swim for many awesome memories staying up late, watching cool shows with my older brothers. this video unzipped me. ITS ALL COMING BACK

[@themanwiththepan]

adult swim bumps (2008 and before) are the highlight of my childhood nostalgia I've had a playlist of them for the better part of a decade now because they were so nostalgic to me and it's funny to see someone ELSE felt it too

[@JoshJr98]

Me and my bro shared a room and adult swim was always on our tv at night, even if we weren’t watching it, the vibes in the backround and the music was the best

[@RaphisAnime]

amazing video, you needa blow up man! Keep grinding and don't worry your hard work will pay off! This is amazing

[@TSNP12]

Wow! Imagine my surprise when I see the playlist I made ages ago pop up on screen at 12:17. I remember making a copy of someone else's for private use (adding some more to it), but at some point they deleted theirs. Made mine public after that; glad it is of use still! Thanks for making this video man.

[@ayceeonethirty]

Thank you for mentioning DOOM. Im an underground rapper, he was my idol growing up and he didnt get the love he deserved while he was here. My first tattoo was the helmet on my arm where i can always see it for inspiration. AS did a lot to help people find him and the whole network definitely shaped my humor as you said about yourself. Great vid and random fact; one of my friends played in a skit on Loiter Squad back in the day. The one where they arrest the bench.

[@omgmat]

she’d a tear watching this, thank you for sharing this.

[@AnimatedKadenMusicAndCartoons]

This is my first time watching your channel and i do have to say that your video captures the essence of early 2000’s adult swim pretty damn accurately, I Love It, keep up the great work!

[@joshuaashton1929]

They make some pretty funny KZbin posts. It’s really charming how much they still pay attention to their older IPs.

[@custkyle4560]

I loved watching Adult Swim throughout the 2000's. My whole life as a pre teen and teenager, this was perfect to grow and experience late nights with my friends as we matured throughout Junior and Senior High. Man, this brings back memories. I'd love to go back in time and watch a legitimate week or so of classic adult swim again. Family guy, Futurama, Inu Yasha, Bebop, SeaLab 2021, ATHF, Robot Chicken are some of my all time favorites.

[@ricecooker7037]

Adult swim bumps are amazing. Also “your best friend Jippy” is the embodiment of bump music.

[@neontoastanimations]

Because it didn't suck like 95% of television nowadays.

[@NGEvangeliman]

I think people forget that the bumps and hype videos were like half of the entertainment, you get that cool ass space man to say something thoughtful and then ask if you think goku or whoever could overcome whatever they were facing lately all to some vine jams, I absolutely got hyped for super mix music videos with gundam wing, dbz, inuyasha, etc.. clips and sampled audio... dude so damn nostalgic...

[@Djdbdndkdk8971]

As soon as I heard welcome to the show I knew I'd like your channel dude keep it up.

[@SpokeInNoise]

"The dawn is your enemy" that bump resonated with me

[@mikerobytes]

I was in 8th grade in 2001 when I first started watching adult swim. It had such a big influence on me throughout high school and introduced me to different music, shows and anime that I still enjoy today. I haven’t had cable in over a decade but at least hbo has a lot of their shows, although I do miss the bumps and music

[@rzta8209]

I can talk about how formative its TV shows are for my childhood all day, but just like you summed up in this video their bumps were arguably just as important in the [AS] experience. Whether it was some beats that went hard, or some weird nightmare fuel bump you saw at 2 in the morning J Dilla, Nujabes, Prefuse 73, Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus, Madlib, Battles, Bibio, DANGERDOOM & many more, the first time I heard all these great artists were through Adult Swim. Im forever in their debt for the TV shows & bumps. Not even joking when I say it, but one of my biggest life regrets is not staying up regularly to watch AS until late 2010 lol. Thankfully I had KZbin to go back & see all the bumps I missed before then, Ive almost pretty much seen it all at this point

[@RaverRacer]

I love this video a lot and come back to it occasionally because its one of the only videos on youtube that really encapsulates what a TV *channel* (not the programmes or content) can provide. The bumpers, continuity, promos, it all contributes SO much to an identity and helping FORM identities and a relationship with viewers. Its not a parasocial relationship the way social media personalities are. Youre not projecting onto a singular person - its a whole community. You dont get that with streaming and TV is forgetting what makes it great!

[@Densoro]

I feel like there's some serious Toonami DNA in there too. The secret in both cases was using bumps with a consistent art direction and excellent music to tie the whole programming block together. Create a whole _atmosphere_ people want to be immersed in. Difference is, where Toonami had TOM, SARA, and the ship as familiar faces, [as]...got rid of familiar faces entirely. Just disembodied text, and snippets of some hole-in-the-wall corners of real life. It felt like a more mature spin on the concept. 'We got you to connect with some marketable character. Now let's see if we can cut out the character, but keep some abstract connection.' I feel like all the programming was 'more challenging' this way, and running into it as a kid made you feel both respected and mesmerized. Sonder -- peeking into complex and private parts of another life. Liminal -- setting up camp in transitory places you were never meant to linger in. Timeless. This pulled together to really _capture_ the surreal sense of connection you feel with other people who are awake just past 4 am for no good reason...like me rn.

[@sixthdynamic9078]

All the anime that AS made raw, unfiltered nostalgia, a high I will never reach again.

[@thorn9382]

I didn't realize until watching this just how much of my personality and interests like the music I listen to and the shows I watch are directly influenced by adult swim without me even realizing it.

[@ClassicBentobox]

Painfully nostalgic and important to my childhood. Thanks for the video.

[@Tamikimaru]

I'm no expert, but I'd say this is a pretty accurate essay on why most of us like Adult Swim the way we do. Great vid!

[@TheRockofEasyCo]

I remember the old adult swim “get out of the pool” ad! Man was I really confused by adult swim when I was 4!

[@fhettiK]

I know im a bit younger, but in the early 2010s I remember when I was little and I would watch cartoon network I would always watch it with my mom while we was eating dinner and when it hit about 9 I think cartoon network would always do that goodbye skit and then say adult swim was airring and I would have to go to bed. But, I remember I always wanted to see it, and I remember around the age of problably 6 I was in my living room and I purposely acted like I was asleep so I could turn it on and see what it was for the first time and...it opened my eyes to the beginging of the like this sorta rebbelious and internet culture side of the world. I would remeber sneakly watching it all the way till I was about 12 and I remebered the bumps and the scary ones that had me under my covers. I would remeber randomly waking up at like 2-5 am just so confused at what I was watching, but I loved all of it. Seeing this video really brought back some childhood memories and I thank you for that bro💯❤.

[@laurencraigels]

I remember being in like 3rd grade and seeing the bedtime bumper after watching Scooby-Doo or KotH or someshit. I had no idea what adult swim was and wanted to see, and low and behold robot chicken aired. The first experience I have as a kid w adult swim was witnessing yogi bear and boo boo being shotup. Literally traumatized me for years, should’ve listened to the bumper. Thanks seth

[@stevocon8521]

They had a bump with the track Constants are Changing by Boards of Canada a long while ago which blew my mind when I first heard it. Hit my soul lol

[@robbieb.9287]

I must've watched this video 5 - 10 times in the past few days. Thank you for bringing back our nostalgia. The golden age is gone boys, but it lives on in our memories.

[@elyi2405]

I really wish I could go back to when I was a kid discovering adult swim for the first time

[@fireaza]

1:57 Uh, "frames" and "cels" are two *veeery* different things. Re-using the cels from the old Space Ghost cartoon would involve them tracking down the original painted celluloid sheets that were used in the filming of the show, assuming they were even kept at all! Re-using the frames on the other hand, just involves editing the final animation footage, which would be SIGNIFIGANTLY easier, so that's probably the option they went with. But if they really did use the original cels to make Coast to Coast, then I'm very impressed!

[@Go.el_Hadam]

I remember the 1st time seeing adult swim with anime. It was DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho, those commercials(bumps) really did something special.

[@linojvni2038]

Thank you so much for linking to all the songs you use! The second to last one (devon avenue 5:34 am) brought me back to a time when i used to be a massive old school hiphop fan, and really struck a chord with me. My music taste has evolved a lot over the last few years, so its a nice feeling to come back to my roots and see how much i've grown.

[@InternetPitstop]

No problem! And that one in particular is a great track!

[@anshuchoudhary5081]

Not to mention, I love how Flying Lotus, Madlib, and J Dilla and other artists use samples from Bollywood songs and movies. As a South Asian. I love to see it.

[@MrSkeltal268]

Those surreal bumps were perhaps the precursor to internet “cursed images” or stuff like “the back rooms”

[@Sn4fu]

Damn dude, just adult swims music influence is so amazing. I don’t think we’d have stuff like lo fi girl without it

[@frostfang1]

I honestly never made the connection myself or remembered why Lofi seemed familiar to me and not alien when I first heard it. I thought it was just inherently nostalgic.

[@engitions]

Man!! Well done my dude, well done video. The bumps were just......you just had to be there.

[@theartofjayden1761]

Rewatching this video is my comfort zone

[@niketa8360]

Beautifully done! Cant believe I forgot where my original love for lofi/jazzhop/triphop and underground originated!! Well Done!!

[@shinra05]

Damn brother, excellent video like always, you keep one upping yourself with each video, can't wait to see you blow up. I think Adult Swim goes under the same category of you're video on "Why 90s Anime Just Look Better", Adult swim just has that aura of cracked out cool uncle.

[@InternetPitstop]

Cracked out cool uncle is the best thing I’ve read in a while lol thank you bro 🌊

[@shinra05]

@@InternetPitstopKeep it up my man! By the way you any other social media’s?

[@InternetPitstop]

@@shinra05 atm I do not but it’ll be in the works for the future

[@brendanfinnegan3615]

I wish I could go back to seeing my first bump. And realize what it was I was seeing and how important to me it really was. I remember being a flying lotus fan for a minute and then hearing it on adult swim for the first time blew my fucking mind, I felt like they really were connected to the viewers in a tangible way

[@ravenna6543]

"It wasn't the shows that aired on the program... It was the program itself." There it is. That's it right there. Adult Swim was to me what talk radio used to be to kids before television was wide spread. Me and my cousin would stay up all night during summer breaks just to watch as much of the program as possible. We loved the shows it aired but it was the program itself we loved.

[@osamabindiesel3389]

Ah man I wish you showcased my favorite bumps, the ones with an angry ball shaking a fist with Japanese text bubbles. Still loved this video and I just subbed too, god this brought back good memories and it’s wild that something as iconic as adult swim would probably never happen again the way it did now that cable tv is practically dead. See You Space Cowboy