At the tail end of Betty Cohen's presidency, Cartoon Network announced their first initiative to appeal to the audiences that grew up watching their older cartoons, a designated block for more mature programming called Adult Swim. The block would feature surreal and trippy shows done in-house at Williams Street, but also serve as a proper home for shows that weren't treated well during their initial runs. In the years to come, it would become its own separate channel in regards to advertisers and ratings, and currently occupies a larger timeslot than Cartoon Network itself does.
This upload contains all the ads that aired during the first ever Adult Swim block in early September 2001, and a few ads that aired during the shows that preceded and followed the block. The first batch of ads, up until AS starts, were taken from this bdalbor upload and I couldn't have made this complete video without his lucky findings: • Cartoon Network & Adul...
Following the AS block are ads during Toonami premieres of Mobile Suit Gundam that aired during the following week.
Contents:
(9/2/2001)
- The Bob Clampett Show - "Show #12"
- The Tex Avery Show - "Droopy's Double Trouble / The Farm of Tomorrow / The Peachy Cobbler"
- Home Movies - "Director's Cut"
- The Brak Show - "Goldfish / Time Machine"
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - "Bannon Custody Battle"
- Sealab 2021 - "Chickmate"
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast - "Knifin' Around / Piledriver"
- Cowboy Bebop - "Asteroid Blues"
- Cowboy Bebop - "Stray Dog Strut"
- ToonHeads - "Director Robert McKimson"
- Late Night Black & White - "Nix on Hypnotrix / Porky and Gabby / I Likes Babies and Infinks / What a Lion! / The Impractical Joker / Porky's Prize Pony" (first short only)
(9/3/2001)
- Mobile Suit Gundam - "Breakthrough"
(9/4/2001)
- Mobile Suit Gundam - "Farewell in Side Six"
(9/5/2001)
- Mobile Suit Gundam - "A Fateful Encounter"
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