Toonamiguy321 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 It’s March 1st, and you know what that means. Next month will probably be April 1st, so it’s time to kick around ideas and expectations for AS April Fools prank this year. The last couple years have been brutal disappointments, with AS barely even trying at all. Think they can right the ship this year? I don’t. But it’s still fun to speculate. This will also be the very first April 1st for Checkered Past. Think they will try to do some kind of prank for that block? April 1 is on Sunday night this year, so a lot of people going to bed early for the Monday grind. Will that influence their effort level on the prank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[classic swim] Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 7 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said: It’s March 1st, and you know what that means. Next month will probably be April 1st, No I think it’s gonna be May 1st. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 The Metalocalypse movie. With mustaches. In Portuguese. If they are feeling extra super lazy, whatever is playing on one of the other channels like TruCrime plays on [ as ] as long as it's technically appropriate for the time frame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Idea Box Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I have a few ideas for this year, some of them more likely than others: Sneak peeks of the 2024 premieres. Toonami airs a marathon. My personal choice? Attack on Titan Junior High. Checkered Past gets taken over by Screwy Squirrel. The nightly lineup of TLC replaces Adult Swim's regular programming. All of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KageRageX Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Nothing. It's that bad. Go home. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Oh, there will be something. But it won't be nearly as good as you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seight Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Hear me out. Venture Bros. marathon but H.E.L.P.E.R. is now voiced by Danhausen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Doing anything at all at this point would be commendable. Feels like companies have laid off April Fools' gags in the pandemic era... except for the ones in Japan. This is just a random idea I've been kicking around in my head: what if this year's gag involves The Amazing Digital Circus? Maybe you could air the pilot episode (because the only thing that could make this series better is a TV deal) and then have other programming be themed to it like the Pibby gag from two years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 15 minutes ago, Blatch said: Doing anything at all at this point would be commendable. Feels like companies have laid off April Fools' gags in the pandemic era... except for the ones in Japan. This is just a random idea I've been kicking around in my head: what if this year's gag involves The Amazing Digital Circus? Maybe you could air the pilot episode (because the only thing that could make this series better is a TV deal) and then have other programming be themed to it like the Pibby gag from two years ago. I don’t see Zaslav wanting to bother with the negotiations. Pibby was done in-house in the hopes of getting a show going (which it did not). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 3 hours ago, Otakuninja9000 said: Nothing. It's that bad. Go home. They already did that one in 2016. 19 minutes ago, Blatch said: Doing anything at all at this point would be commendable. Feels like companies have laid off April Fools' gags in the pandemic era... except for the ones in Japan. This is just a random idea I've been kicking around in my head: what if this year's gag involves The Amazing Digital Circus? Maybe you could air the pilot episode (because the only thing that could make this series better is a TV deal) and then have other programming be themed to it like the Pibby gag from two years ago. Pibby is a good example of why they wouldn’t do something like that. Morons will speculate and complain for years if the show doesn’t get picked up by AS. On 3/1/2024 at 9:35 PM, Mr. Idea Box said: Sneak peeks of the 2024 premieres. This is probably the one that is closest to being right. Last years big meme was AI which they did a lazy joke with. This years big meme is the election, which they probably don’t want to touch. 1. Smiling Friends S2 2. Superman S2 3. Uzumaki (lol) 4. Rick and Morty anime (the same clip they have shown already) Is there anything else we know is on deck for 2024? Primal S3 I don’t think will be. I can’t remember if Yolo next season was for this year or not. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 19 hours ago, Seight said: Hear me out. Venture Bros. marathon but H.E.L.P.E.R. is now voiced by Danhausen. thanks for expanding my knowledge. - google, for all the things and people, you really didn't want to know about - 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Hear me out... An announcement that Zaslav has been fired. Followed by a marathon of classic [ as ] as if celebrating. Think the equivalent of the old 'Have it Your Way' contest winner type random. Then an announcement that nope, Zaslav just had really bad gas followed by the old school end of broadcasting screen that sits there for at least 10-15 minutes to really get people worried. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Idea Box Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 2 hours ago, katt_goddess said: Hear me out... An announcement that Zaslav has been fired. Followed by a marathon of classic [ as ] as if celebrating. Think the equivalent of the old 'Have it Your Way' contest winner type random. Then an announcement that nope, Zaslav just had really bad gas followed by the old school end of broadcasting screen that sits there for at least 10-15 minutes to really get people worried. We may have a new low bar for Adult Swim pranks if this is it. Disappointing people is one thing. Fearing for the security of Williams Street jobs is another. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 20 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said: We may have a new low bar for Adult Swim pranks if this is it. Disappointing people is one thing. Fearing for the security of Williams Street jobs is another. Considering that they keep cutting people and things all over the place because everyone has forgotten what 'investment purchases' are, there could very easily be someone on the way out who would be more than willing to take the proverbial bullet over an April Fool's bump. Hell, I'll do it for free and they know it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 On 3/17/2024 at 5:54 PM, katt_goddess said: Hear me out... An announcement that Zaslav has been fired. Followed by a marathon of classic [ as ] as if celebrating. Think the equivalent of the old 'Have it Your Way' contest winner type random. Then an announcement that nope, Zaslav just had really bad gas followed by the old school end of broadcasting screen that sits there for at least 10-15 minutes to really get people worried. Add periodic fart sounds over the end of broadcast screen and you have a real winner here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 On 3/19/2024 at 10:55 PM, Toonamiguy321 said: Add periodic fart sounds over the end of broadcast screen and you have a real winner here. Fund it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 Not that distant online schedules ever tell us much, but nothing seems out of the ordinary for AS that night. Hard to say if Checkered Past is doing anything. They are not curating prank themed episodes, so either they are doing nothing or if that’s a sign they have a grander plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 New update to the schedule. Perhaps the “new” Smiling Friends episodes aren’t actually S2 and are utilizing the old episodes with some type of edit or something. It does seem that there will be something small that happens during the commercial breaks as the schedule gets offset during the 12:30 episode and does not correct until 3am. Perhaps some type of 5-7 minute Smiling Friends short? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgamer Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 I just woke up from a dream of me watching some weird Toonami mashup special.. kinda like that DBZ x One Piece x [that other show] thing.. but zanier, broadly Toonami focused, lots of characters, some incomprehensible plot.. I distinctly remember the music having a bunch of old callbacks to some absolute classic [as] bump tracks. So.... if they ever pull something like that off, I'm going to start calling myself a psychic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[classic swim] Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 It’s cool that they’ll be doing the livestream again this year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Agreed, also saves me the trouble of having to record it on my own DVR. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Directv thinks season 1 is airing *shifty eyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Puppets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[classic swim] Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Guess I’ll have to wait a few more minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Different puppets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[classic swim] Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 This is funnier than the actual show itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Metalocalypse promo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[classic swim] Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 YT feed’s not getting the bumps, if there are any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerfectFlowingHair Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 On 3/1/2024 at 5:43 PM, katt_goddess said: The Metalocalypse movie. With mustaches. In Portuguese. If they are feeling extra super lazy, whatever is playing on one of the other channels like TruCrime plays on [ as ] as long as it's technically appropriate for the time frame. Wait, hang on hang on hang on. There's a Metalocalypse movie? And there's a version with Portugese mustaches? Where and how do I see this? (Or the non-mustached version. I'm not picky.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 So yep, it's Smiling Friends re-imagined as a puppet show! Of course it's using the same vocal track so Gilbert Gottfried's voice is still here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Well damn, they remade the S1 episodes in different styles. I actually wondered if they were going to do this only with new episodes, but I guess this isn't as convoluted. Cute gag. It's not going to rank very high in the history of [as]'s April Fool's, but it's probably better than last year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 New ep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 As of 11:45, Smiling Friends returned to normal, mostly... ...Gwimbly as a 64-bit avatar is different though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Super Smiling Bros 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[classic swim] Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Pretty good, and it’s nice that they technically still premiered season 2 anyway. It’s an immediate step-up from the last two pranks, which isn’t much of an accomplishment since Pibby was fucking shit. Still, nicely done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 16 hours ago, PerfectFlowingHair said: Wait, hang on hang on hang on. There's a Metalocalypse movie? And there's a version with Portugese mustaches? Where and how do I see this? (Or the non-mustached version. I'm not picky.) Everything has a Portuguese dub. EVERYTHING! The non-mustached/mostly English version of the Metalocalypse movie will be airing this Friday night at midnight Williams Street time/11p Central. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 I liked it, it blew the past 3 years right out of the water. Unfortunately, we probably are never going to see a prank longer than an hour again, but if they actually put effort into that hour it feels good. Was nice to have one with no sponsor and no R&M. Wasn’t surprised about the premier date for S2, that’s a week after Royal Crackers wraps up. Did they do anything for Checkered Past? I haven’t seen anything so I assume no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PerfectFlowingHair Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 2 hours ago, katt_goddess said: Everything has a Portuguese dub. EVERYTHING! The non-mustached/mostly English version of the Metalocalypse movie will be airing this Friday night at midnight Williams Street time/11p Central. You have doomed my sleep schedule for the coming weekend. You will now have to live with this fact for the rest of your life. Maybe. IDK how this stuff works. Me? I am going to enjoy me some Dethklok again. I can already feel the nostalgia. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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