Adult Swim April Fools 2025

[Toonamiguy321]

Let’s take a short break from bitching about how much Toonami sucks to instead bitch about how much this years April Fools prank will suck. The schedule for midnight 4/1 just populated on the AS website, and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. Perhaps the 2 week schedules will have a better hint. 
 

What, if anything, do we expect this year? Last year they raised the bar a little, two episodes of Smiling Friends redone completely with puppets. Amusing, but also extremely short. And the first year in a long time where they didn’t force R&M into the prank somewhere. Not great, but an improvement over 21/22/23.

Unfortunately, I don’t think we will go 2 years in a row without R&M as the focus. And with season 8 still sitting with an ambiguous 2025 release date, this seems like the perfect time to either stealth drop an episode like 2017, or somehow drop the actual premier date in between a joke episode. 

[Mr. Idea Box]

While this would make sense, I think a 10-minute sneak-peek at Lazarus might be a potential prediction, since we know it'll premiere five days afterwards.

[MasqueradeOverture]

Bukkake.

Every character's face gets incrementally more covered with cum as the night progresses.

[PokeNirvash]

Whatever they do, Smiling Friends will be involved in some way, I'm almost sure of it.

[OwlChemist81]

On 3/12/2025 at 8:04 PM, Mr. Idea Box said:

While this would make sense, I think a 10-minute sneak-peek at Lazarus might be a potential prediction, since we know it'll premiere five days afterwards.

Or maybe the entire first episode of Lazarus aired BACKWARDS.

Hell, maybe the whole Toonami Block from 4/5 aired from Midnight to 3:30 in reverse? With the screen upside-down?

THAT would be BONKERS!!

[KageRageX]

I'm actually not really expecting them to do anything this year...

AS as we knew it is dead.

[PokeNirvash]

4 hours ago, KageRageX said:

I'm actually not really expecting them to do anything this year...

AS as we knew it is dead.

Here you go.

For two weeks from now when it's time to eat your words.

[Jman]

We’re going to keep getting April Fools content till the channel is sold because it’s one of the few remaining avenues for creativity that the block seems to have.  The early Adult Swim counterculture environment is long gone, corporatized into another cog in the Max machine, but April Fools?  They get to spread their creative wings and have fun at the audiences expense.  An increasingly shrinking audience but an audience all the same.

[[classic swim]]

The year where they did remotely nothing at least captured in one promo how miserable “what are they gonna do next?” can overbite a gag that’s timidly fun in the first place.

They always have that in mind if and when they try less.