The Weirdest Adult Swim Cartoon - 12 Oz. Mouse 

oh yeah, spoilers I suppose

The voice acting sounds like two people in a discord call improvising a skit for their friends

And then he turned himself into a poorly drawn sketch of a mouse, funniest shit I've ever seen

Bro that’s the most realistic mouse I’ve ever seen

Don't mind me, just waiting for Mark to find something even weirder and go "Forget how I said this was the weirdest, THIS is the weirdest."

*sigh* Mark hating on ANOTHER masterpiece. Can't believe you, LoSer Mark. smh

Next weird adult swim shows for ls mark to cover: The drunky crow show Assey McGee Xavier renegade angel Tim and Eric awesome show

I remember seeing my little brother watching this show and I was like “what the hell are you watching ?”

Wait that’s a real cartoon , i thought it was mark doing his best to draw

I love how the first two seasons felt like an acid trip with no colour and in the third season, the colours coming back represents the fact that we've come off of the acid trip.

You don’t understand. He don’t give a damn.

The characters look like the pictures my dad hang in his office after I drew them for him at age 4. Maybe that's sorta their origin story...

Honestly what I like about 12 oz mouse is mostly why I love adult swim They love to experiment and have strange shows/anime on their block They don't shy away from it. Compare their catalog to other channels and it's night and day. Sure not every show is a hit or even good but for every Mr Pickles we have a venture Bros or a smiling friends

8:25 Funny enough, the original DVD version of this show edits the entire show together presented as a full movie.

This show has one of the best openings I know. That is actually what originally made me check out the show, just creative opening with the cardboard city (maybe that's where most of the animation budget went). I like the fact how it hypes up the first-time viewer with this opening, making you think that you'll see lots of action in this show and then... you see the actual show, and that is not a bad thing, it's making fun of itself there.

I first saw this by accident when I was really high and I genuinely couldn't tell if it was real.

For some reason, on Latin america this show was called "Ratón esponja" (spongemouse) and it was sell like a adult versión of spongebob (maybe because both were dubbed by the same studio) i dont understand it then and i dont undestand it now

12 oz. mouse is the definition of acquired taste

I cringe every time I think about how much I loved mr. enter’s content growing up

Me who's afraid to animate my (better but still bad) art: **salutes**

I love 12 oz mouse. The slow pace and bizarre drawing just really enrich the comedy. It really pushes the boundaries of what could be cartoon.

Fun fact: Shark first appeared in a season 1 episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force as a background prop.

honestly, I find the crude animation oddly... charming? I can't explain it. I just like looking at it.

This is my favorite show ngl. I was not expecting season 3 to come out in 2020. Btw there was also a 12 oz. Mouse reference in ok ko 🤨

I like how in the beginning of the video the he's like, 'the animation is awful, I don't even want to call it animation', but in the end of the video the cartoon has kinda won him over and he's like 'personally, I like the animation, but I see how it would put off other people'

Yes

I remember smoking a LOT of weed and watching AS around 2005. I always thought this show was a fever dream I'd imagined up in a haze

Me when Im in class "I get it but I don't get it" 2:05

I genuinely loved this show as a kid. At first I liked it for the surreal humor, but the story in it is actually pretty good. I was a weird kid. I grew up watching horror movies and stuff by Quentin Tarantino and Stanley Kubrick at way too young an age. I would make these god-awful home made comics as a kid, and the kind of stories I would try to craft were actually really similar to 12 oz Mouse. A weird blend of surreal, childish humor and dark existential drama. I think that's why I liked the show so much. I could sort of see myself in it.

Personally I always love this show and adults swim in general because this is the type of stuff you will never see on TV other than Adult Swim and that's why I love them for it

Therapist: Yeah, it was brought back for a third season. silence Ad: *LIGHTEN THE L O A D*

As a Tool fan, that "Third Eye" quip really resonated with me.

12 oz. mouse has the energy of a weird-ass yt video

Season 3 is legitimately great. They don't even stand around doing nothing. It's kind of like its successor Gamusetto Macchu Picchu, but instead of making fun of anime affectionately, it's more like a commentary on the way humans act when they interact with each other.

Im not joking: 12 oz. mouse is a work of pure modern genius. Amazon doesnt have the full disc set anymore, making it also in excess of 300 dollars to watch with special features. My take is that its the anti-hero of its peer cartoon shows of the day. Empty, quiet, slow, challenging, poorly drawn. The main draw is the ASMR of the voiceovers which mixes the environment and skinny plot into a yummy yummy brainshake salve to soothe you from the scalding animation mainstream. that is its only purpose. "Man that soothes. I could do with just the gel"

*Adult Swim:* Try too hard to be weird and we'll give you a show it doesn't even have to be funny.

This is literally one of my favorite shows I've ever seen 😂 the first few episodes feel completely insulting, then suddenly you realized you've been played, and there is in fact a story the whole time

Gotta agree with you on Season 2 being a disappointment, but I’m really glad the Season 3 reboot came and picked up the pieces. It fixes a lot of the issues and plot holes and general disappointments from the original run, and gives it a much more satisfying finale.

For me it’s aqua teen hunger force Where i saw myself saying How did a show this bad looking managed to be picked up? But than i watched the actual show it became my number 1 favorite adult swim show ever

We were all mr.enter fans at one point or another. He's a legend

The best character is the peanut cop. And there’s definitely a deeply existential higher consciousness higher dimensional meaning but not everyone gets it🤷‍♂️

I think that the combination of adult humor and the childish art style is hilarious, and I liked the show for how strange and laughable it looked, and how it kinda feels like one of those "so bad it's good" shows. I gotta admit the old theme song kicks ass and I really enjoy rocking out to it tbh

I went to Stanford Med School with a little green mouse who drank beers. He's an Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon now

Y’know what? It’s not for everyone. But I really appreciate the fact that you watched the entire series and gave it a good shot instead of complaining about the animation (like one infamously terrible review did).

Don’t worry we all found out about 12 oz mouse through Mr Enter

This looks like something a kindergartner would draw as a comic book with papers and stables

i didnt realize the therapist was voiced by peter knetter until he said "well yeah it was brought back recently for a third season"

This show is honestly a testament to the fact that adult swim will greenlight damn near anything, for better or for worse

I remember seeing this show as a kid at like 2am at my friend's house. It was so straaange - Like finding an obscure item

I absolutely love this cartoon. It somehow manages to be for doomers like me and at the same time contain some really post modern type humour. Pure David Lynch on drugs.

i’m pretty sure that 12 oz mouse is at the base of my entire personality

"I'll drink to that"- Petter

I'm glad someone else remembers this show.

The 12 oz Mouse theme kicks ass, that’s all I know about the show

Really this is the most bazaar thing you’ve seen What about Xavier the reneged angel

"It's cool everybody! I'm drunk!"

The long pauses remind me of the stuttering kid meme

Fritz does not kill anyone! Literally every character in the show is bullet proof (but not arrow proof) Also, I quote this show a lot.

Hi from the future ... as a voice from the past: I was there for this show from day 1. Found your video on a random search for something related, watched and liked it and decided that while you probably don't need my take ... here goes: I've watched it sober, then high, then sober. While it's a solid NO for me, I can explain the praise it was getting: It's the animation crowd version of hipsterism - the show was aggressively and intentionally inaccessible, breaking most rules of commercial animation all in the first episode, and some people found that daring and exciting. And that's the big clue and explanation: 12 oz Mouse is the anti-"Mickey Mouse". The whole first episode was just basically a salvo against the animation industry with its laser focus on creating high-production fare for kids and taking no risks. You can see why this would make it a darling for those that immediately keyed in on that. A troll of the animation industry. But then a weird thing happened - Matt (who I presume half-expected this thing to get pulled after episode 1) saw potential in it as a legitimate ongoing show. The challenge then was to take the chaotic elements he'd thrown on the screen and forge a cohesive show from it. (note: my personal pick for worst AS show was "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" A show I also 'got', but deeply disliked. While I'm not a fan of 12 oz Mouse, I at least respected it for what it was).

I'm pretty sure mark has either dementia due to his old age or short term memory loss due to his brain damage to make him forget stuff he says after 10 seconds of saying it.

Xavier renegade angel could be a good pick next, since its funny as shit, has surreal animation, and aired on adult swim. It also has its good bunch of fans, and to be honest, its the funniest crap I've ever seen. Not because it's bad, but because it's actually hilarious.

first time I saw this, I thought "that's just a shitty forced "random" cartoon", then I watched it again, with a different mindset, without trying to understand or anything, and found it to be really, really interesting. it's one of the strangest, but most amazing shows I've ever watched

I’m so happy you put in the line, “it’s ok everybody! I’m just drunk!” I must say, I used this line A LOT in college :p

Holy shit I'm so glad someone is actually giving ozmo a chance! This show is easily one of my favorites of all time. Besides the enter the sandmouse episode, I would easily sit through all of these episodes over and over again. Even the one where shark and RBM are in sharks new car! Great video!

This looks like something really traumatizing and it still freaks me out and I don't know why

This is the first time i’ve heard about this show

I would say that the main deep plot of the show isn't the "it's all a simulation" moment, but rather all the different little moments and plotlines coming together in one picture. Moments like Shark and Cube just driving in his car while weirdly comforting music is playing, or Peanut cop becoming a firefighter, Rooster playing some nice original country songs. The show is never fixed on just Fits, and through it's characters, it becomes deep.

If I am not mistaken, the first two seasons of 12 Oz. Mouse was released as a movie. That is how I watched through the show and I enjoyed it immensely. The vibe hit me just right

golden joe the most powerful character in non-fiction and fiction.

The only time I’ve seen 12 Oz Mouse when I wake up super early in the morning.

Dude I swear I just started binge watching your vids and decided to see if you made a video on 12 oz mouse, your vids are awesome. About to see if you made one on squid billies next

Oh my, I remember seeing this a few years ago. One day I had to wake up really early in the morning, and the first thing I saw on TV was this. All I thought was "shit, did I wake up dehydrated again?" (Btw before someone asks why was an Adult Swim show airing early in the morning, here in my country we don't have AS, but there's one channel that airs some of their shows when they don't have anything else left)

Let's Riot so Mark has to add 12 oz. Mouse to the background for all of time.

I probably have the lowest I.Q on the planet and I loved this show. Not because the story at all, it was the funny dialogue with a delivery taken so seriously that does it for me. xD "He works at Cheese industries. You don't even know where that is, that's why we picked you, everyone else knows." Why is that a good thing? 😂

This is the best anime ever

I wish Peter Knetter was my therapist...

I think people are too dismissive of things at face value. I genuinely enjoy this show.

This show was basically a wannabe Home Movies or Dr. Katz.

I was scared of this show when it was out when I was a kid, but I can appreciate it and love it now! 😂

This is what makes adult swim so unique , they're ready to experiment with new things and do stuff that's not aesthetically pleasing. They can do weird and confusing stuff , if you really want to look into adults swims creative process I Reccomend watching adult swims devolpment meeting where people pitch tv shows to adult swim executives. Also the art style grows on you

I absolutely love this show and tongo hiti princess cruiser is something I want played at my "death bed"

Alright but WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW PETER KNETTER IS THE THERAPIST- IM FANGIRLING SO HARD WTFFF

This show is like one those RU-vid videos where they animate over audio of a live stream

i watched your video and i was like oh wow this is interesting i’ve got to see what’s so bad about this and now i’m obsessed with this show so thanks!

I've been a fan of the show since 2009 and it's nice to see a video like that on ozmo from a big youtuber

Are we not going to talk about petter knetter being the therapist

I remember as a kid I would wake up in the middle of the night with my tv still on, and this show would play. I tried watching it but found it difficult to process (mainly because I was at an age where I didn't understand bad words very well and became really confused at what they were)

I honestly love the show. That's it.

You should talk about Clone High, that underrated MTV show from 2003 where Lincoln is a Simp

If you truly want to get this show, watch it drunk. *very, very drunk.*

"deep" is such a useless buzzword. if you can't explain why something is "deep" then you obviously can't understand and articulate the media you just watched properly and therefore aren't in a position to pretend you have some profound understanding of something you can't even prove is there. meanwhile shit that everyone says is "deep" and can explain, like evangelion for example, is so obvious and surface level for anyone who has ever thought seriously for 5 seconds. and when it isn't obvious and surface level its baseless conjecture the creators never even meant to have mean anything. very few pieces of media are actually "deep." just because something makes you feel smart or has unexpected plot elements doesn't make it special.

The rest of the show I can take it or leave it (I left it) but man I absolutely LOVE the first episode. It’s extremely quotable, surprising, and exciting. That first conversation between Fits and Shark is unforgettable, and I still hear that quiet, gravelly mouse voice whispering, “Kiss her… squeeze her…”

If Liquid Television was still on, this would be right up there with other wacky, wild skits.

I remember watching this show when I was like 13 or so and thinking: _"Gee! I can't understand what's going on, but I'll keep watching."_

7:49 the Aftons or the men behind the slaugther

Thank you i started watching it after this video and now its one of my favorite shows ever

OMG he's Going to talk Trash about the Best cartoon to ever come to adult swim with the best 12 oz Mouse intro quick shield your eyes

i also used to love mr enter as a kid now i'm a senior in high school and forget why i subscribed

I remember watching 12 Oz mouse as a kid a loving it

Ls mark: *12 oz mouse breaking him* Also ls mark: *able to binge through the entirety of the Simpsons*