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Adult Swim kicked off the start of the month by making Michael Cusack's (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) & Zach Hadel's (Hellbenders) Smiling Friends the focus of this year's April Fool's Day broadcast event But before we were treated to a screening of the new season's first episodes, viewers had a chance to see how three of the[...]

With a move we're assuming was meant to honor the anniversary of The Man of Steel's first appearance in Action Comics #1, Adult Swim dropped a sneak preview of what's to come with the second season of Jack Quaid (The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Decks), Alice Lee (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) & Ishmael Sahid (Cousins for Life)-starring[...]

With today being the anniversary of The Man of Steel's appearance in Action Comics #1, what better time would there be for Adult Swim to drop a sneak preview of what's to come with the second season of Jack Quaid (The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Decks), Alice Lee (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) & Ishmael Sahid (Cousins for[...]

Adult Swim's Rick and Morty S07E05: "Unmortricken" (directed by Jacob Hair and written by Albro Lundy & James Siciliano) was clearly the best episode of an impressive seventh season – and could be one of the best episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series' run By the time the credits rolled, Rick brutally eliminated his Rick[...]

Boss shows up with a new case… Here's a look at a new early preview for Smiling Friends Season 2 that was released earlier this week (with the hit animated series returning with two Season 2 episodes on May 12th): Adult Swim, Cusack, and Hadel were kind enough to share the previous preview of the new[...]

Frog?!? With less than a month to go until its two-episode return, the Adult Swim animated series is sharing another preview of what's to come In the clip you're about to see, Charlie explains to Pim why they don't matter when it comes to presidential elections  – and that's why he doesn't like getting involved[...]

To mark the series' 30th anniversary, Adult Swim, CN's night-oriented programming block, is streaming a marathon of the show that ran for 11 seasons across 109 episodes from 1994-2008 on YouTube. "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" Cr: Williams Street How 'Space Ghost Coast to Coast' Started a Revolution at Cartoon Network Space Ghost Coast to Coast is a[...]

With less than a month to go until Michael Cusack's (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) & Zach Hadel's (Hellbenders) Smiling Friends returns with a two-episode Season 2 premiere, we've had a chance to check out the premiere episode (courtesy of Adult Swim's April Fool's Day) and an official trailer Picking up from their first season, Pim, Charlie, Zongo,[...]

Frog?!? Uh-oh Image: Adult Swim Screencap Adult Swim, Cusack, and Hadel were kind enough to share the preview of the new seasons and the puppet episodes online – both as individual episodes and a compilation video Here's a look – followed by a look back at our April Fool's Day coverage: Smiling Friends Season 2 Set for May[...]

CNS has also produced notable Adult Swim hits such as Genndy Tartakovky's Primal, Samurai Jack, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law For its work, CNS has been honored with multiple awards and accolades from around the world – including Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, GLAAD Awards, Annie Awards, the BAFTA Children's Award, Italy's prestigious Pulcinella Award[...]

If you didn't get a chance to check out Adult Swim's April Fool's Day 2024 special broadcast and you're a fan of Michael Cusack's (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) & Zach Hadel's (Hellbenders) Smiling Friends, then you missed out on some pretty cool stuff First up, we were treated to puppet versions of S01E02: "Mr Frog" (directed by[...]

Well, it looks like we're learning what this year's April Fool's Day is all about over at Adult Swim Yes, we got new programming from Michael Cusack's (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) & Zach Hadel's (Hellbenders) Smiling Friends – but then, we didn't Because, you know… April Fool's? When midnight hit, we were treated to S01E02: "Mr[...]

As excited as we were to learn that something new from Michael Cusack's (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) & Zach Hadel's (Hellbenders) Smiling Friends was set to hit Adult Swim screens on Sunday night, we could get past the date: March 31st at midnight – meaning that it would be April 1st… or, April Fool's Day. For those[...]

It's too good to spoil – but let me just say that every single one of the characters you see in the video above already deserves their own spinoffs (at least the ones who lived) – with "Soup Boy" and "A Squirrel with a Secret" tied for our top choice. Image: Adult Swim Screencap On Saturday, March[...]

We've got a look at a video compilation featuring the work of famed British clay animator Lee Hardcastle's (The ABCs of Death, Rick and Morty: Summer's Sleepover) Adult Swim ID shorts, a look at the second season coming up this weekend during WonderCon 2024, and the actual series return on Sunday, March 31st, at midnight[...]

Looks like we won't have to wait until WonderCon 2024 weekend for some breaking news regarding the second season of Michael Cusack's (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) & Zach Hadel's (Hellbenders) Smiling Friends. With the release of an epic mini-teaser, it was confirmed that the show will be returning on Sunday, March 31st, at midnight to Adult Swim. But then again…[...]

Here's the official overview for the session: "Adult Swim's SMILING FRIENDS – Get ready for the return of Pim, Charlie, and the rest of the gang dedicated to bringing happiness to their bizarre and colorful world in the second season of SMILING FRIENDS! Join series co-creators and stars Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel for a[...]

While we might not be getting a new season of the Emmy Award-winning animated series until 2025, Adult Swim and Takashi Sano (Tower of God) will be unleashing Rick and Morty: The Anime across our screens later this year Stemming from Telecom Animation Film, the 10-episode animated series touches upon any number of themes, events & concepts[...]

But right now, things aren't looking too good… Image: Adult Swim screencap With a second season so special that Father Time created an extra day in February just so that its return could receive the special attention that it deserved, here's a look back at the official trailer for Adult Swim's Royal Crackers – with the first[...]

During a recent update, we reported from an interview we had with the show's creative team that they were already moving ahead on Season 9 – and now, Adult Swim is giving fans a chance to pitch in and help with the artwork Okay… not really But what Cartoon Network's late-night programming block did do[...]

But we are patient folk – especially when we get treated to a creative Adult Swim promo starring Charlie & Pim, where we see what can happen when you trust a penguin a little too much What sets this one apart is that it was created by famed British clay animator Lee Hardcastle (The ABCs[...]

Poopybutthole has not been having a good run in Adult Swim's Rick and Morty – so much so that Cartoon Network's late-night programming block has released a look at his downward spiral It's also shining a brighter spotlight on a theory that a lot of us have regarding Poopybutthole's eventual endgame – and it was[...]

By the time the smoke cleared on last weekend's episode of Adult Swim & Director Sunghoo Park's (God of High School, Jujutsu Kaisen) Ninja Kamui, Higan, Emma & Mike barely survive one serious case of "road rage," leading to Higan having to reduce the world's ninja population by quite a few But even as all of[...]

Like when Stebe calls out Rob for his DVD collection not being manly enough – think American Psycho… Image: Adult Swim Screencap In this previously-released preview, Deb & Stebe get invited onto a right-wingish news program to discuss how Royal Crackers has been taken out of school cafeterias – replaced with… kale chips?!? While Deb is ready[...]

If Adult Swim's Rick and Morty Season 7 finale "Fear No Mort" (directed by Eugene Huang and written by Heather Anne Campbell) felt like closure in a number of ways for our dimension-hopping duo, you would be right As series co-creator Dan Harmon and showrunner Scott Marder have discussed in the past (and in an[...]

And if this is the case, then maybe MacFarlane could take a page of out of the playbook of… yes, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty. Image: Hulu/Adult Swim Back in November 2023, Adrianne Palicki (Commander Kelly Grayson) was speaking with Michael Rosenbaum on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast At one point during the interview, Rosenbaum[...]

While promoting his guest role on Night Court, the actor spoke to Bleeding Cool about his recent bold decision to go into voiceover work with TBS's American Dad! and Adult Swim's Rick & Morty, his returns to STARZ series Party Down and the UPN/CW/Hulu series Veronica Mars, and if he thinks Warner Bros will revive[...]

It's f***ing hysterical! Image: Adult Swim Screencap With a second season so special that Father Time created an extra day in February just so that its return could receive the special attention that it deserves, here's a look back at the official trailer & previously released preview for Adult Swim's Royal Crackers – set to start hitting[...]

It's two chapters down and three still to go for Adult Swim & Director Sunghoo Park's (God of High School, Jujutsu Kaisen) Ninja Kamui After an episode that saw a brutal death by fire, Joe's back on the run, Mike's left with a whole ton of new questions, and Joe's old ninja clan master Yamaji[...]

When we last checked in with Adult Swim's Jack Quaid (The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Decks), Alice Lee (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) & Ishmael Sahid (Cousins for Life)-starring My Adventures with Superman, Quaid was expressing his appreciation for all of the fan support and dropping some good news about the second season: "We already have a[...]