WORST ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL PROGRAM

fat guy stuck in internet

this is the type of poll i can get behind

Too hard to pick a worst.

shortlist, based on what i have seen:

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! 2007–present
Squidbillies 2005–present
Superjail! 2007–present
Xavier: Renegade Angel 2007–present
12 oz. Mouse 2005–2006
Assy McGee 2006–2008
Minoriteam 2005–2006
Stroker and Hoop 2004–2005
Tom Goes to the Mayor

whiney i thought you would get first post honors in this tbh

I am an adult swim superfan from before it officially began. Yet I still have a special loathing for Tim and Eric Awesome Show! I'll wait to vote, to see if others can convince me one of the others was worse.

my gf talked me into liking tim & eric

never thought it would happen

I think I am gonna vote aqua teen not cause I really *hate* the show, but because I hate that it got so big when it's basically pretty mediocre and joke-less as far as adult swim goes

I will beat up anyone who votes frisky dingo

It's easy for me to pick the best, but I'm not sure what the worst is. Maybe Aqua Teen for the reasons iatee said.

frisky dingo is DOPE, but man does it unsettle people that arent ready for it. ive gotten a lot of weird looks during the puppet scene

stop hating on Aqua Teen just because it got popular - there are plenty of much worse shows on this list deserving of your bile

i mean pretty much everything i've seen on this list is shit besides Home Movies and Boondocks, so i assume there's some real clunkers once i stopped giving this channel a chance

the worst i've seen is squidbillies, but there's prolly worse

squidbillies is great wtf are you even

i remember the one episode i saw had a character talk about her "front butt" which is like such a horribly formed "joke" that it sticks with me today as an example of how never to do comedy

wish i could vote twice for both tim and eric shows.

Squidbillies is def the worst of what I've seen. SBing anyone who votes for Metalocalypse btw.

Or Venture Brothers.

There have been a lot of really crappy adult swim shows, it is hard to pick just one.

Robot Chicken

wish i could use my vote to retract one Tim and Eric vote because it's a good show, fuck you guys

pfft.

Squidbillies is flat-out terrible until you realize that the only point of the show is to invent even more ludicrous ways to torture someone, at which point the pointlessness of it kind of becomes funny in an "I can't believe someone got paid to do this" way. It is not very good, though.

Superjail is pretty much the exact same thing only with people instead of squid.

My wife actually can't make it through an episode of Assy McGee without having an incapacitating laughing fit at the premise, plus Assy as a character is kind of amazing.

There have been a few decent episodes of Stroker and Hoop but as a whole we would be a better nation had it never existed.

Xavier had a ton of promise but forgot to actually be funny to people who aren't stoned.

Tom Goes To The Mayor is fucking fantastic at times, which makes the full-on failure of Tim and Eric even worse.

Minoriteam is a massive shit sandwich.

I think I've seen two episodes of 12 oz. Mouse, which paled in comparison to Perfect Hair Forever so pairing the two didn't do Mouse any favors.

Honestly though, I have to vote for Delocated because IT IS AMAZINGLY TERRIBLE, LIKE WORSE THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE NOT MATTER HOW MUCH YOU HATE ANY OF THESE OTHER SHOWS

I don't think I've even seen that one. These days I just record Venture Brothers and Metalocalypse, I usually don't watch the adult swim line up.

I watch WAAAAAAAAY too much of this shit

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/delocated/indexpage.html#video

the horror, the horror

(although of course now I'm second-guessing because Minoriteam is pretty wretched AND unfunnily racist AND ugly)

I don't even have to watch the clips of Delocated -- just looking at that page has convinced me.

jesus christ "Minoriteam"

i'm really pumped that the whole mid-00s Carlos Mencia "AYOOOOO MEXICANS ARE LAZYYYYYYY" screeching of racial stereotypes as the horribly formed "joke" has kind of died down as a thing save maybe Family Guy's JEW JEW JEW JEW JEW stuff which is still around

I haven't seen too many of these, but I actually got depressed about life and civilization after watching Squidbillies.

Squidbillies is basically a drawing of a premise

of what i've seen it has to be assy mcghee. but there's probably four others on here i've either never heard of or certainly don't remember.

Robot Chicken may not be the worst, but it's the most bizarrely rated.

It's the Scrubs of Adult Swim.

re squidbillies - usually pretty hard to watch, but every once in a while they hit upon some phraseology or inflection that is absolutely pitch perfect (and often hilarious) that I can't help but give them their due.

Robot Chicken may not be the worst, but it's the most bizarrely rated.

It's the Scrubs of Adult Swim.

So... it's a funny show that attracts vocal haters?

I mean it's a lame, disjointed show that attracts ridiculous DVD sales.

If that weren't a factor, I'd probably vote for 12 Oz. Mouse. Apparently I'm never high enough when I watch that.

There are probably worse shows, but I might have to vote for Robot Chicken, if only because I can't stand that lazy thing that it and Family Guy do of constantly riffing on LCD pop cultural stuff without doing anything interesting or particularly funny with it. At least the other Adult Swim stuff has the balls to be dementedly mediocre.

I haven't seen too many of these, but I actually got depressed about life and civilization after watching Squidbillies just about anything i've seen from adult swim

Aren't pretty much all of these variants of the same show. The same dry sub-humour in different "quirky" clothes.

WHAT A BUNCH OF SHIT

Aren't pretty much all of these variants of the same show. The same dry sub-humour in different "quirky" clothes.

Yeah, The Boondocks is pretty indistinguishable from Tim and Eric: Awesome Show! Great Job! and Moral Orel.

They're all animated, aren't they? See, they're the same.

nah, i meant theres like a billion miles between "Venture Brothers" and "Superjail". i think sometimes people get into the sorta mcsweeneys "ALL OF THIS IS CRAP BAH" mentality when looking at adult swim.

some of it is def crap tho, dont get me wrong, but its not all stoner laffs

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Can someone point out any shows that aren't stoner laffs besides Boondocks and Home Movies?

Venture Brothers is fucking garbage. Half these goddamn shows are just Space Ghost style juxtaposition humor

it's a superhero cartoon... BUT HE HAS A TALK SHOW WHERE PEOPLE HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS

it's a superhero cartoon... BUT HE'S A LAWYER AND PEOPLE HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS

it's mystery solving adventure kids cartoon ... BUT EVERYONE'S WEIRD AND PEOPLE HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS

it's a DC-style sealab cartoon... BUT PEOPLE HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS

like give it a fucking rest with that being "funny"

congratulations on not understanding Venture Brothers

btw the other shows here that aren't "stoner laffs" besides Boondocks and Home Movies:

Metalocalypse
The Venture Bros.
Moral Orel
Saul of the Mole Men
Stroker and Hoop (note: not being "stoner laffs" does not automatically make you funny)

its a group of "friends"... BUT THEY GET INTO SITUATIONS AND HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS
its a bunch of people in a bar... BUT THEY GET INTO SITUATIONS AND HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS
its a bunch of people that work in an airport... BUT THEY GET INTO SITUATIONS AND HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS
its a flashback to when dad met your mother... BUT THEY GET INTO SITUATIONS AND HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS

it is a messageboard...BUT THEY GET INTO SITUATIONS AND HAVE AWKWARD CONVOS

I think you can describe not only every comedy and every drama, but every single experience in life in these terms.

Dan, Ive def seen Metalocalypse and The Venture Bros. and can def say they are "not my thing"

'meant playing against traditional narrative expectations all the "weird" meandering plots and overlong pauses and lack of coherence.'
Yeah, that's what I mean! I don't mind it so much when I feel like it's a good natured goof, but a lot of the time, they're just rubbing your face in it, just being plain lazy but with the attitude that if you don't appreciate their laziness, then you've somehow missed the point (that being lazy is "cool"). It'd be hard for Moral Orel to pull those often -- it would just break the stop motion animators' hearts!

Delocated is excellent -- it's like House with a ski mask!

I think I'd go for ATHF because it did nothing for me. I really found it irritating - and I love Harvey Birdman/Spaceghost etc.

Also Tim & Eric is great, but I dont apologise for having a completely retarded sense of humour.

12 oz mouse ssn 1 was great

"12 oz mouse ssn 1 was great"
explain, please!

How do you pitch a show that can be described as "House with a ski mask" and not get fit in the face with a brick, is what I would like to know.

They probably have friends in the industry.

"House with a ski mask" must be some other show I haven't seen.

whiney:comedy::dr.morbius:film

no, i think morbius understands how film works

hahahahaha

man kinda unbelievable how much of this crap there is

Saw bits of Robot Chicken in a bar last night and suddenly realized that it's essentially a stop-motion adaptation of latter day Mad magazine.

i don't get the point of 12 oz super mouse. and i will rep for both tim & eric and xavier.

though i like xavier, i still heart this dan post:

"Xavier: Renegade Angel" is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on television, and I've seen "Manimal".

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then there are moments when i think that this ad is the best thing that's been on adult swim in years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ukuKP0nlQ

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someone might want to change this to a more accurate title, like "Adult Swim original program you have heard of / seen enough of to think sucks"

I did not vote in this, but I hope it is the same single person who voted for superjail as best and worst because that is how I feel about superjail.

It's weird to think that the Collegiate Stoner demographic is now catered to so thoroughly by popular culture. The world has come so far from the days where people had to wait for the geometric overhead shots in Busby Berkeley musicals.

This is true. I do not know what they must look at to make them go 'that is f*cked up they must have been high when they made this' when there is a swathe of culture designed to produce the weirdness effect.

stuff that didnt get a vote that deserved at least one:

Stroker and Hoop 2004–2005
Xavier: Renegade Angel 2007–present
Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil 2005–2007
Fat Guy Stuck in Internet 2007–2008

the Collegiate Stoner demographic i

is that who all this garbage is aimed at?

no but its the easiest way to stereotype and dismiss the whole lineup

(not saying that some of it doesnt fit that mold, but it certainly isnt all that way)

I kind of have to applaud Xavier: Renegade Angel which is in its own way the Moral Orel of the new age crowd, but their approach is pretty self-defeating.

I'm not trying to dismiss it -- I've watched a few of these (and actively love Home Movies) -- but the style, humor, format, and general ethos of almost all of them fit pretty squarely into my conception of "collegiate stoner" type stuff. This is not a demographic I'm criticizing. I, umm, watched a lot of Cartoon Network in college.

Outside of collegiate stoners, what kind of adults would watch cartoons, though?

xpost - I mean you're talking to a guy who remembers being psyched when Pavement were on Space Ghost back in the day, don't doubt my cred

since when is 'collegiate stoner' automatically an insulting demographic to be a part of

It's kind of inevitable that I'd get that particular vibe from Adult Swim, given that even the aesthetics and music used on their bumpers have always been a dead match for collegiate-stoner-animator-geek types of exactly my vintage. I guess part of what I mean is that as time's passed what used to be a very "collegiate stoner" segment of pop culture has become a broader sensibility in general -- not that this stuff is watched solely by stoners.

To be honest I have total faith that today's serious Collegiate Stoners are just watching "How It's Made" and "Yo Gabba Gabba" on DVR

It is all about Baby Einstein.

If Adult Swim ran nothing but old Speed Racer and Brothers Quay cartoons, it would still be collegiate stoners watching.

Squidbillies wuz robbed.

Wow you guys hate Robot Chicken that much? Damn. I can't see as anything worse than harmless fluff, and it does get me to laugh at least once per episode. Really there are so many more deserving entries on the list, but I guess RC's probably one people actually saw as opposed to 12 Oz. Mouse or Saul of the Molemen.

If Adult Swim ran nothing but old Speed Racer and Brothers Quay cartoons,. they would have programmed Abbott's Dream Channel.

"Tonight on ADC: A wooden doll with feathers and antlers glued to it moves very slowly around the interior of a rotting, hollowed-out book – but do we reveal the secret identity of Racer X, Speed Racer's long lost brother?"

WHO VOTED FOR MORAL OREL

yeah I actually like catching Moral Orel

i like "flipping" on the tv "set" and "catching" my favorite "program"

oh hey btw i would pay for whatever cable tier included fine ADC programming per that description

If Adult Swim ran nothing but old Speed Racer and Brothers Quay cartoons,. they would have programmed Abbott's Dream Channel.

would rather watch those than half-assed "parodies" of them. the aesthetic of so many of these shows is just to parody/ape stuff that was on TV when I was a kid, only with even more nonsense and occasional "political incorrectness". there are no actual jokes most of the time, its just "lol Rankin Bass animation" or "lol Hanna Barbera" etc. very tiresome.

What are the world's halfassed Bros. Quay parodies?

Wait, I made one once, where I zoomed in and out, slowly, on all my parents mounted deer heads interspersed with footage of myself pretending to cry, in a pioneer dress, under running water.

I wish people would stop saying that jokes they don't think are funny aren't jokes.

"What are the world's halfassed Bros. Quay parodies?"

Have you seen those Tool videos?

I wish people would stop saying that jokes they don't think are funny aren't jokes.

eh, jokes have punchlines. most of these shows are all premise/setup and no delivery.

maybe you just dont get jokes

do the shows have lolz

Wait if we're gonna argue about humor on the internet I'm gonna need a drink.