Swim, Viewers, Swim!

So, you're interested in smoothly going through the night with Adult Swim, eh? Here's a brief guide to some of the hits of the 2008 season.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force (ATHF) - the classic, the deranged, the I can't talk about this cartoon, as it's so bizarre, show. This is a long-running, puppy-love, bloody popular show here, a force of the lunchroom meets the force of media broadcasting, in cel format. Frylock, Shake, Meatwad, and their neighbor Karl take on South Jersey. Watching this show, and its developed, although, slightly selfish and violent, characters, will help ease a person through empathetic moments among peers that might otherwise turn pathetic.

Tim and Eric - I watch this? Do my neighbors know this? Do you know that your neighbors watch this? This is truly a twisted live-action show, from opening credits, where Tim and Eric die, to the very end of the broadcast. This show is a wry talk show gone amuck, oops, no, now it's a soap opera, wait a second, now it's an adventure movie, Tim and Eric seem to be changing genres every few minutes during the show. We're looking forward to the anniversary show - bring flowers, stay home, don't get involved.

Robot Chicken - media lauded, bizarre, cool, everyone watches it, the stop action figures are hep, hip, happening, the whole show is like the whole station - whatever. Learn what is causing the stir. The soundtracks are funny, it's a great show to watch whilehanging out and laughing, it's so stupid, it's funny. I love this show. If you don't get enough of this show, there are DVD's for sale that you will adore, too. The opening part of the show is dedicated to the creation of the "Robot Chicken", and makes for hours of viewing fun in itself, especially, late at night.

More about Robot Chicken! Doing very important research about Robot Chicken! Look at the miracles of modern science. I wonder what federal government agency funded this project? Was it the National Academy of Science, the National Endowment of the Arts, the National Institute for Mental Health, or what?

Robot Chicken is not something you cook, nor is Robot Chicken something to show to your children. In fact, none of these shows are recommended for children, which is why they are on after 11 o'clock in the evening. Yes, these television shows are being broadcast in the United States, in Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom, on the same channel that the children's shows are being broadcast on. What's worse, there's a layer of reality under all of the surrealism.

Superjail! - This is cartoon at its most surreal, in some ways. The metaphor of the entire planet being one entire huge jail, with Superjail! being its capital city, as proposed by somebody at some cocktail party in San Francisco, comes to mind. Actually, this is just ugly, uglier, and ugliest, however, its one way of dealing with overpopulation by acking the best to a prison called Superjail!, yucch, that sounds bad, so bad that it's funny. I'm beginning to think about maybe working in a prison, someplace. It looks like a fun place to work, if you can bounce back from any situation. Now I know where the neighbors are moonlighting now that the aerospace industry has been marginalized locally (joke). Maybe your neighbors work part-time at Superjail! too.

The warden, the chief administrator, and the chief warden play well with the prisoners; Superjail! - it's one id asylum worth watching. The cartoons are slightly memorable, even if you are working while the television is on, and you are not going to fall asleep during this broadcast.

Metalocalypse - This television show about a mythical band called Dethklok should be very inspirational to the troops in Afghanistan, especially the Home for Wayward Kitties idea. I'm glad that it only is broadcast for a half-hour per night, as there's just too much bloodshed in it. Don't worry, though, it's just red ink, so, don't take it seriously, it's supposed to be an animated comedy cartoon. No guitars were harmed during the production of this cartoon, I suspect. The soundtrack is pretty cooking, beats thwacking your head into the computer desk for relaxation. Metalocalypse, as a cartoon show, - 15 minutes is enough, lots of dead bodies and blood in each episode. There is just so much ridiculous death and violence in this, avalanches, firecrackers, mechanical and natural disasters, it's hard not to laugh, while watching this show.

Actually, like it or not, this is my favorite show, and too bad if you don't like it, because I enjoy it. Go watch something else. It's a moral tale about why us out here in TV Land need to do our own thing and let rock and roll bands do their own thing. The humor is slightly less slapstick than that of the movie Spinal Tap.

If you've ever composed music, been a union musician, or in a recording studio, you know what some of this material being covered on Metalocalypse is about without watching the show, and, unfortunately, fan behavior, employee behavior, and musician behavior does reflect this. If you don't like it, stay home.

If you are wanting to do something other than watch television, there's more. Viewers can "bump", or comment on the shows, and compete for high scores on t the terrible games on Adult Swim, which are interesting. "Kill Thy Neighbor" (not a good idea), "5 Minutes to Kill Yourself 2 (a really bad idea)", and "Amateur Surgeon 3" (looks like fun). Well, I'm not very good at surgery, and did not recognize all of the tools, it was interesting, and helped me with my mouse skills, a bit. This is a very cool website, a great place to relax at the end of the day without falling asleep at the wheel. Get into the swim of the 21st century with adult swim.