Adult Swim: Taboo fever dreams from my childhood

Non-gaming Movies / TV / Anime
#1

Whenever I see any content related to Adult Swim, mainly shows that aired in the late 90’s or early 2000’s, I can’t help but think “hey, I think I’ve seen this before”, but strangely these recollections always feel like they actually where dreams, and if I hadn’t gotten the confirmation that yes, these shows actually existed, then I probably would have just forgotten about them.

But boom, all of a sudden I see some post on Instagram or something and it all comes back.

Suddenly I remember staying past my bedtime, or sleeping the whole evening and waking up in the middle of the night to the weirdest things I saw on
TV. Talking about things like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken (especially Robot Chicken), 12 oz. Mouse, and being blown away by what I was seeing. For a kid it was scary, weird, but always interesting and out of the norm.

Anyone else have fond and not at all traumatic experiences with Adult Swim?

#2

Haven’t watched Adult Swim, but I remember seeing Ponyo on anime groups recently and wondering where I have seen it before. Then I remembered that I watched it a few times on TV when I was younger. The memories of that are indeed pleasant, but also kind of traumatising to remember the good old days when I had no worry about education or exams or jobs. However, Ponyo is in no way a traumatising story, it was a great story with a gorgeous art style. Man, I’ve watched many Studio Ghibli movies before, but Ponyo is kind of special. Don’t think I’ll ever have the same feeling I had when I was little though.
I’m sorry if I sounded too emotional or anything.
Anyway, maybe I should check out Adult Swim…