Added: 4 years ago
From: haikuhaiku
Views: 55,996
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (399)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • This should be its own channel

  • ahhh man look how time flies

  • No, really, do tell us more about how you were 5 or 6 or 7 years old and watched adult swim. I'm absolutely enthralled--riveted even.

    Signed, Someone actually old enough to remember these bumpers and the original shows as more than just "something weird i saw on tv when i was a small child LOL"

  • What is the name of this song played through the beginning? I've heard somewhere else before. Does anyone know? Thank you

  • Wish adult swim put Ranma 1/2 on their channel.....

  • Fuck Family Guy. It's on four times a night, every day, of every week, of every month, of every year. It's on every channel, and is played to death. They reuse the same jokes over and over and even on the new episodes. It just feels the same.

  • Betty needs to get her shit together.

  • No tea parties! XD That line has sticked with me since then. I miss THIS adult swim.

  • I miss this sooooo much <3

  • This was the first thing I ever saw of Adult Swim.

  • I think Cartoon Network should buy G4 TV, and combine it with Adult Swim and bring back Toonami! Could you imagine what an AWESOME channel that would be. Video games, new technology, and anime.

  • @johnathanlrussell1 Good one.

  • Back before Adult Swim was Seth Macfarlenes bitch. The golden days of adult swim.

  • I remember when this aired and I was like, aww no more Toonami.

  • I remembered this. I was like "thank god!" I thought TNT would never go away.

  • my lil sis begged me to record a show for her that came on adult swim and i was like...adult what...needless to say i became a huge fan of cowboy bebop and still do the "no eating in the pool" thing....adult swim kind of sucks now....i mean how many times can u watch the same stupid ass family guy eps. ....really....

  • I was 7 years old in 2001 when Adult Swim first came out. I was mad that those weird shows came on instead of my usual cartoons. I watched anyway, although I didn't understand anything really. I just stared blankly at "home movies". Little did I know I'd actually grow up and watch adult swim as an "adult". weird how things happen like that.

  • I was mad at first that these weird adult cartoons would come on a kids channel cartoon network (I was about 8) but that was before I started watching anime when I was 13.

  • Comment removed

  • What is that pimento cheese?

  • THE GLORY DAYS

  • damn what is the name of that song from 0:00 from 0:34 i really want to find that song

  • @OblivionWarrior97 D Code by dust devil. Good luck finding anything else by this artist.

  • I remember these, I was 7 when Adult Swim came around. They should bring back the old shows and the promo's.

  • This was when Adult Swim was more fun to watch. Now, Time-Warner thinks that all of Adult Swim's fans are college students.

  • I heard there was a streaming site that plays all the old adult swim shows. It's called something like "all the kids outta the pool" or something. But I can't find it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

  • Man this reminds me of freaking out in the middle of the night because I had to be up for school in 6 hours.

  • I remember when I woke up at and snuck into the living room to watch this :D

  • 2000's kids nostalgia

  • pools closed

  • whats this called... the song

  • ok... whats the real name of this bump

  • The minimalism in these promos always confused me as a kid. But as I got older, I started to see the humor in it all.

  • i 'member these... but I swear these were shown later than 2001.

  • I remember the first time i saw these intros......thats when i realized that my kid days were at an end lol

  • I remember this from like.. 9 years ? ago

  • wasnt the whole point of adult swim is that it was no longer kiddi shows it was time for some adult orientated animations? today most of adult swim. family guy, american dad. robot chicken king of the hill. is some str8 up childish goo goo ga ga booger kinda material content. i always thought of adult swim and thought of late night trip fest stuff to watch 3 4 in the morn when your blunted as fuck and need somethin weird to trip you out even more. king of the hill n AMERICN dad r not trippy!

  • damn! i knew once this came on some Space Ghost C2C was up! time to trip out! then after some weird ass o canada!

  • AS died when the guy who made awesome bumps got very ill and couldn't do it anymore.

  • I saw AS heading downhill the moment Robot Chicken entered the Line-up (sorry to RC fans, but that show induces terminal brain damage).

    P.S. They could've at least finished Lupin III and maybe air some movies (at least Cagliostro or Marmo) & a few specials...

  • @capnbarfy you don't have to be sorry to RC fans. Robot Chicken is fucking garbage, and Seth Green is an unfunny talent-hack.

  • @rumbazz Thank you. That show is seriously designed for people ("adults") with A.D.D...I honestly tried to watch one of the new episodes last night, and had to tune out after hearing unfunny Star Wars reference #8162 amongst all the random unnecessary bleeping (if you're gonna swear, then be funny about it).

  • I cannot believe it's been 10 years already. Wow.

  • Adult swim lineup should start at 10 and be Family Guy10 Family Guy10 30 Home movies11 Sealab 2021 11 30 Robot Chicken 12 Robot chicken 12 15 Harvey Birdman 12 30 American Dad 1 Blackboard Bumps 1 30 Replays til 4 Space Ghost Coast to Coast until 5 and an Hour of ATHF
  • I remember when adult swim was 1 night out of the week where we could stay up late without our parents knowing and watch some kick ass anime and inappropriate cartoons.

    Now when adult swim starts all I can think is "God dam it. More Family Guy?!"

  • thumbs up if you watched adult swim when you were still a kid

  • I remember a bump that involved some people hauling the day time cartoon characters away lik e Fred from scooby doo.

  • Now adult swim sucks....except for family guy..

  • @TehUltimateSnake sadly that sucks too now.

  • Aww I remember this

  • Haha, I used to feel like such a rebel sneaking around and watching adult swim even though my parents would tell me to go to bed. What really sucks is how it was really good with a lineup full of good shows when I couldnt watch it, and now that I am in my 20s and can watch whatever I want and have no bedtime adult swim has to suck. Its just not fair.

  • I was 6 Years Old When I First Watched Adult Swim In 2001.

    When I First Saw It I Thought It Was a Bunch Of Old People Swiming Back and Forth In The Water And I Thought It Was Gonna Be Boring To Me. But I Stayed On The Channel And I Watched These Diffrent Shows On Adult Swim And I Started Like It And Also They Played These Diffrent Kinds Of Music. And I Started To Like It. I Want The Old Adult Swim Back. :(

  • By request of colleen4ever

    | | | |

    V V V V I hereby announce that Cowboy Bebop is in its 10th year on [adult swim]!!! Congratulations Bebop!!!

  • Oh my goodness, please! Someone invent a machine which will allow you to re-experience your past! I remember staying late just to watch Adult Swim! It was a big part of my coming to age from childhood to the teenager years! I have a bunch of videos cassettes filled with Adult Swim Promos. AS needs their own channel!

  • Why does it seem that once something becomes really popular it always sells out and becomes lame. I mean, when adult swim first started, not alot of people were aware of it, mostly because it was on the cartoon network. Their whole lineup was awesome show after awesome show. Then they got popular, although they stayed good until around 2005 or 2006. Basically when they stopped playing sgc2c, home movies, and sealab 2021 is when they really started going down hill. 

  • I remember watching this commercial after ed,.edd,and eddy and watching my first family guy episode when peter was watching a sex tape my mom cough me and hit me with her sandals ahaha god times

  • The best years!

  • remember when you watched this when you were 9 and felt naughty for doing so? lol i sure do

  • I remember staying up to watch cowboy beebop and big 0, I was nine, I miss my childhood, =(.

  • I remember when adult swim premiered, I was eight and used to stay up and watch cowboy beebop, I miss my childhood!

  • I remember these! I was the kid that didn't get out

  • No diving in an empty pool.

    No Diving.

  • I was 8 when Adult Swim first premiered, and I remember watching the very first night

  • I remembered when our cable network brought Cartoon Network in 2001 and I really enjoyed staying up Sunday nights watching new episodes of Home Movies and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I was so happy when I found out Netflix has all the episodes of Home Movies on instant. That made me want to find the promos of old adult swim.

  • the good times

    

  • truthfully, i dont remember half of these bumps, but they sure do bring back alot of memories.

  • The other day someone asked if they would show it again and they did around 11 pm. It was only about 5 seconds, but I felt so happy.

  • @MacLovered23 i was the same age as you. it seems like we are the only 5 years old who watch it. back in 2001

  • @andrewusa14 count me as one too my friend.

  • i was 5 and i remeber the first couple nights

  • I was 7 when I first seen these. I never understood any of the shows and I hated Adultswim . But now that I'm 22 I pray it never goes away (again).

  • @Cj1932

    you jsut didnt understand the adult humor lol, i was 19 when these cam out and i thought they were the most brilliant cartoons ever made, the jokes were so over the head out of the ordinary not too many people understood them, they were directed at a very specific audience lol best shit ever on tv.

  • They did one of these old intros the other day and I had to look it up on youtube...ah the memories.

  • They should really bring back this intro during the summer time when kids aren't in school. ALL KIDS OUT OF THE POOL!! ADULT SWIM!

  • @ 1:40.... does that guy's swim shorts look like weed leaves to you?

  • Wow, back when adult swim was actually explicit

  • i never noticed the song they played was this mambo song from the mambo kings movie! lol these were the days space ghost coast to coast use to weird me out!

  • 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 straight legs! Thanks everyone for watching.

  • i wish theyd bring this back

  • Yeah, me and 1,000,000 other people. Adultswim sold out and everybody knows it. Obviously. And nobody's living in the past, it's called nostalgia.

  • @haikuhaiku The problems I have with Adult swim is the two shows that are live action. Childrens Hospital and Tim & Eric, yeah I get that their adult shows, but they are disgusting,poorly scripted, and not funny. Oh did I mention their live action? Another thing that it's on the air too early, down here in Texas it's on at 8:00pm when the sun still out and the kids are still awake.

  • I was 8 when Adult Swim premiered. I still remember the first night. Home Movies followed by The Brak Show and "THREE HAMS WILL KILL HIM!!!!"

  • Memories.

  • home movies had to be one of my top 3 shows on adult swim.

  • I hear people bagging on adult swim now...it saddens me cause I feel it's still great to me at least, but these adverts are very memorable thank you for sharing

  • real talk [adultswim] should have a throwback month fck this bs nowdays or change their direction atleast and kids nowdays dk jack shit about the real [adultswim] smh

  • reminds me of sitting up at night wondering what the f**k a frylock was

  • Ah yes the good old day's

  • lol they should ave kept making these the promos now SUCK

  • Can we get THIS Adult Swim back? I remember being 4 or 5 and my mom getting pissed @ me for watching the Brak Show and SpaceGhost. Bring it Back!!!

  • Ahhh Classic Adult Swim. I wish they kept it like this. Also, it was better when it was on once/twice a week instead of nightly all the time....

  • I love this music!!! I wish it went to a song

  • My first memory of Adult Swim was seeing SGC2C on Cartoon Network in the UK in the late 90's. I could only see Adult Swim in the USA, but we had shows like Home Movies, ATHF and SGC2C on CN each night. Ahhh the memories!

  • oh man reminds me of my childhood go adult swim!!!!!

  • man i remember when i was 5 yr's old watching this when my mom was asleep it brang back lots of memory's. They used to have cartoon cartoon before this and then the lifeguard came on saying "all kids out of the pool for adult swim." Man the new AS sucks ass (except venture bros.)

  • @MacLovered23 I know right! The old stuff is always the best!

  • I think it's funny that the first audience for AS was mostly people that are ages 16-21 today.

    I used to stay up so late watching, and I still do. Though it's not as good...

  • I was 9 when adult swim i had windows 2000 so i went on the site

  • Does anybody know what the name of the song @ the beginning is?

  • The true original fans of adult swim are all either in there late teens or early 20's.... we are the OG's ... I remember watching tsunami just for space ghost cuz all that anime crap sucked... then adult swim came and I almost crapped my pants... please adult swim get back to your roots!!! no more of this hipster tim and eric crap... you owe me I've been there since the beginning... not even seth green can say that beeeoootch

  • @jemkox I'm an original fan and I'm 14.

  • Ah I was only 8 when I first saw adult swim... and these promos take me back... And had to hide the fact from my parents that I was watching those shows :D

  • Man, I remember this. I was in 7th grade and my parents wanted me in bed by 11:00 pm. Well, I would always stay up and watch adult swim until 1:00 am or so and be tired at school the next day, but it was totally worth it. Life was so much simpler back then, all I had to worry about was school, eating, sleeping, and which of my firends houses we were going to be hanging out at that night. I guess that old song by cinderella is right "you dont know what you've got, till its gone". *sigh*

  • I'm glad everyone enjoyed the video. I concur - old [AS] was the best [AS] : Brak Show, Spaceghost Coast To Coast, ATHF, Sealab 2021, Home Movies and Harvey Birdman and blackboard bumps. Absolute Legends.

  • @haikuhaiku yea but now they got the dumb dvr therter. i rember this on it every time i whatched it. tell me some orthergood shows that were on

  • @haikuhaiku Hey, don't forget Cowboy Bebop! The only original adult swim show that's still on today! It's the 10th anniversary of THAT show, too!!

  • This opening is the best and the most intelligent of all the Adult Swim openings. It's adults.. swimming lol. Bizarre, but witty nonetheless. They should have kept the bizarre humor!

  • 1 person is a kid

  • Man, I loved watching this as a kid. I always felt I was doing something bad because I was so young. Always dark so my parents wouldn't catch me up so late.

  • back when AS wasn't a pile of shit

  • There's actually a site that plays all old school Adult Swim 24/7. It's pretty fucking awesome actually. It's allkidsouttathepool(dot)com

  • the announcer sounds like brad pitt

  • This brings a tear to my eye. When I was in 7th grade in 2002 I had a friend tell me about adult swim. I thought "ok, I will see what its all about". I instantly became hooked on shows like ATHF, home movies, and harey birdman. Now sadly, adult swim has taken a step backwards with their stupid live action shows like tim and eric (fags), and other shit shows like that. I want to see new home movies and listen to the never ending wisdom of the great coach McGuirk.

  • old adult swim better than new one!!!! when adult swim came on i was about 9 or 10 and my ass was on the fucking floor watchin that shit...home movies and cowboy beebop!

  • Man i miss the good old days

  • i remember this!

  • I was 5 when i first saw adult swim. THese promos must have been around sept 8 or 9

  • When I first heard about Adult Swim back in 6th grade, I was a little pissed off because it had replaced "Late Night Black And White"

    But then I saw the very first episode of The Brak Show over at my Aunts house, then I didn't miss Late Night Black And White anymore

  • You now realize that all the old people in these promos are long dead. :(

  • watch "tom & jerry kids" in the morning.

    go to school just to talk about what happen in Voltron & Thundercars.

    get home to watch toonami.

    play some "megaman x-5" & "sonic adventure 2".

    watch "cartoons cartoons"........then watch adultswim late at night...space ghost, home movies, sealab....etc

    *repeat*

    i remember everything as if it was the other day....now i'm grown and got to worry bout this grown-up BS...bills, credit, a job, a car, career....DON'T EVER GROW UP TOO FAST!

  • Comment removed

  • so old school!!! I miss it!!!

  • When watching promos isn't enough...Adult Swim.

  • When Adult Swim aired... we all were like 11.. soooo kids were only watching this not kids. lol

  • When Adult Swim was good.

  • I love the old ones since they used to play propeller heads (the music you are hearing) during them, and they didn't show crappy shows. Sealab 2021 for life.

  • One Sunday night in 2001 at 10 PM, I happened upon the first night of what we call Adult Swim. I was nine, and my brothers were six and one. Staying up late and watching these shows are some of my fondest memories of late childhood. Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Space Ghost, The Brak Show, Harvey Birdman, and Cowboy Bebop, from 10 PM to 1 AM every Sunday.

    My life has never been better than it was when I was staying up late watching Adult Swim when I was 9 to 11.

  • if only they could do these and the black screen.

  • Aquateen.. Sealab, Harvey Birdman.. epic times..

  • @skyguy15 I used to watch adult swim, totally baked. Now I am a responsible adult. epic times indeed,

  • @falcons12345 Adult Swim baked, good god and, I thought it was funny sober lol

  • Man, I remember these like yesterday, my parents would tell me to go to bed at 10 but I always stayed up to watch shows like ATHF and sealab 2021.

  • "What is that? Pimento cheese?" Hahaha genius!

  • dude i miss those days when i looiked forward to finishing my homeworkk to watch some good programming

  • wow......10 years already

    luv adult swim.

    I would sneak to stay up late nd watch sealab, brak show etc. good times

  • Watching this is bittersweet. This is when Cartoon Network started to drown..... but i still liked it. lol

  • The only Adult swim show I watch which is really Cartoon Network's show is Space Ghost Coast To Coast.

  • what is the song playing

  • i loved these intros 

  • man, this brings me back to the good ol' days of 2001

  • Love this intro, adult swim intros have never been better than this!

  • Everything is good when it's new, but if it lasts too long it eventually falls into mediocrity.

  • Wasn't it nice? You know.. Back when adult swim was actually good. Futurama Family Guy Sealab homemovies Trigun Cowboy Bebop Ahhh.... The good Ol days.. Hell I'll even take back tom goes to mayor and, Eureka7 anything besides the crap they play now.

  • what is the song playing?!??

  • back when it was ADULT 'SWIM'

  • hehe i used to have to sneak to my tv to watch adult swim

  • These were great times . I remember being a young kid and hearing 'all kids outta the pool' and being in the dark, up late night watching aqua teen, home movies, sealab and spaceghost :)

  • @YukiChazz  Lmao same here damn why do the good times hav to roll

  • @YukiChazz Tell me about it. When he said "All kids out," I made sure that my butt was firmly glued to the couch.

  • @SonicStantz I remember watching it with the door shut, lightsout and turned SLIGHTLY down lol best shit ever, once I was done with dexters lab n shit I watched Adult swim :3

  • I remember my sisters watching O Canada in the early days of [adult swim].

  • Comment removed

  • I remember when I was 2 and I would come back from swimming I'm not kidding and I would watch this my dad thought the seen were the guy is eating in the pool was funny and I alway thought he was eating a burger good times good times

  • DAMNIT BETTY!

  • the thing i liked about old adultswim was that they didn't talk to their viewers nor did they encourage viewers to be a member of their gay ass forum.

  • wow, this video brings back a SHT load of memories!

    i loved the old people swimming!

    I loved Sealab2021, The Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Home Movies

    "No eating in the pool, sir? sir, what is that?! No eating!" LMAO

  • I had just graduated high school when adult swim first came out, I was so excited.. I was upset when they changed over to the "bumps." I first shouted "You bastards! black screen with white text!." and "That is the cheapest shit I have ever seen!" I guess at this point they have finally somewhat redeemed themselves.

  • WIN!!! dude...they need to have this [Adult Swim] back...i dont like the adult swim they have now..its just boring and black...this is more epic

  • that's fuckin old hahah

  • I remember watching the first adult swim ever on Cartoon Network when i was just a kid. I had no idea what it was, but I knew I wasn't allowed to watch it :P.

  • "no more good anime on Saturdays, no mor- oh could somebody get that kid a tissue or something? No- he- hes crying- hey you! Stop crying.

    ADULT SWIM"

  • "ALL RIGH...NO....NO TEA PARTIES.....NO TEA PART.......SOMEBODIES GONNA GET HURT....COME ON...GROW UP" XD LMAO

  • "No peeking Betty."

  • Brak and sealab and home movies :)

  • @brav0shifter

    the greatest!

    rip to old skool adult swim & more importantly cartoon network as a WHOLE!

    luckily we have youtube & dvd's of the great series to re-live are child-hood moments & memories.

  • Man I remember watching brak and all that wen I was little. I miss it so much

  • I remember I once told my older sister to see what Adult Swim was when i was 5 years old back when it first launched and she said it was a bunch of old people swimming and that she ended up getting in trouble for staying up 'till 11:00PM on a school night. I believed the getting in trouble part but not the old people part. Now I know O_o

  • Classic!