I was sure towards the end they would have run the episode where Carl plays Rock Your Body (till the break of Dawn) and have a bunch of coins around him so he could steal the win in the end
>Toonami going full weeb,
I had to recollect whether there was a time in OG Toonami's history that it had a daily lineup that was anime only, because I do remember there being plenty of days or months where it would be only anime (not including DBZ marathons). 2001-2002 specifically.
>The vast majority of people wanted it to be anime only. They just had some weird insistence to always trying to air western stuff
Yes, I'm well aware. I was one of those people in the targeted demographic of whom watched Toonami after schools (was in 4th grade in 98-99 when DBZ's Ocean Group dub aired). Anytime there was a Western cartoon shoved in usually very old shit from Hanna Barbera, Real Adventures of Johnny Quest, Thundercats ect, I'd just tune out to play outside, do homework, or play a videogame.
I think the insistence had to do with what they could obtain to air, clear it with network executives, ect ect. Once a run occurred of an OVA (Tenchi, Outlaw Star), reruns would usually only occur once in primetime afternoon hours. Dragon Ball was the exception since it surpassed everything else in popularity
In the earliest days, there were definitely limitations they couldn’t get around, namely just how little anime was dubbed. But even as time went on and anime became more accessible, they still insisted on western shows. Even today, while they usually are just movies to stall for time, they insist it’s not an anime block and would have more western garbage if they could get it
You're not equating a few factors: anytime you air something, the owners of that license are paid a portion of ad revenue, there's also specific hours that receive less viewership. 5pm will always have larger traffic ratings than 4pm and 6pm primarily because kids usually came home to do homework and 6pm-6:30pm is usually when families have dinner. Shows like Johnny Quest, HB, Batman, Superman ect were all owned by Turner Warner thus they had to absolutely share no ad income with licensed shows and were safe bets for usually the tailend or at the very beginning. That's why new episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball always aired specifically at 5pm. >But even as time went on and anime became more accessible, they still insisted on western shows
And some of this also has to do with the fact rise in popularity meant that Japanese studios wanted a bigger cut. Back when anime was practically unheard of in the West (inb4 acksuallies), it costed practically nothing to get ahold of rights for dubbing since it was not seen as lucrative in the West. Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and Sailor Moon changed all of that that and the Japanese animation industry took note and wanted a higher pay cut. Also there's only so many things you can air that were fitting for weekly afternoons on CN. It's why Adult Swim took over for what could be aired. Everything from Outlaw Star, Tenchi ect had to be censored up the wazoo and that costs money.
They got the original japanese voice of Spike Spiegel to dub Tom.
Steve Blum voiced Tom way before he voiced Spike in Cowboy Bebop.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Steve Blum voiced Tom way before he voiced Spike in Cowboy Bebop.
But most people know that he voiced Spike. The fact that they got Spike's japanese voice actor to voice Tom just shows how much the people at [as] really cared about the little details. They might still care but the higher ups don't let them do this stuff anymore.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The fact that they got Spike's japanese voice actor to voice Tom just shows how much the people at [as] really cared about the little details
Frick i miss Lazzo
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The fact that they got Spike's japanese voice actor to voice Tom
Ok maybe I'm confused. Was a there a Japanese version of Toonami that aired on Japan's CN?
1 year ago
Anonymous
That was the prank in 2018. Toonami went full Japanese and aired the lineup with english subtitles. They also premiered the first episode of FLCL Alternative and then Mind Game in Japanese as a present.
1 year ago
Anonymous
No dumbass. For 2018 April Fools all of Toonami was in Japanese. The shows were subbed and TOM/Sara got Japanese VAs.
Contrary to what that anon is saying though, that was NOT Spike’s Japanese VA
1 year ago
Anonymous
>No dumbass.
Well excuse me for not knowing of a 2018 april fools day. I should mention I don't own cable and haven't for roughly a decade.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>be in AS April Fools thread >don’t have at least a rough idea of all recent pranks
You only have yourself to blame here
I loved the parallel viewing experience with toonami and everyone having way too much fun with the Cinemaphile teams prank. If more people celebrated April fools this way then it could seriously become a holiday that competes with the popularity of Halloween.
Another half-baked thing that loops immediately that doubles for promoting something else (either a restaurant, movie, or any of their programming like with Birdgirl or Rick and Morty) for monetary gain.
>have Wendy’s foot the bill >barely a prank at all
Calling it, there just won’t be a prank this year. And not like that one year where nothing was the prank, like they just straight up don’t even bother
No. Toonami starts at midnight, so it’s April 2 when it starts. They could do some meme shit like have TOM host the fox trash that airs before Toonami starts though
No. Toonami starts at midnight, so it’s April 2 when it starts. They could do some meme shit like have TOM host the fox trash that airs before Toonami starts though
Well frick, next year th- >next Saturday April Fools is in 2029
Fug
My prediction(wish) for the AS prank is that Tom crashes the normal programming and does toonami a night early so the "prank" can be used to tease either Uzumaki or FLCL.
My prediction for the Cinemaphile prank is definitely something ChatGPT related. I could see them doing something like assigning each poster to a "team" that converts our posts into different typing styles (ex. pirates, indian, mafia boss).
>tease either Uzumaki or FLCL.
Why? So we can see the exact same clip of Uzumaki we have been shown the past 4 years? And who the frick cares about FLCL?
Toonami has kept MHA doubled up for the entire month of March. We currently don’t know what airs the next week. Could that be something? Or is that just part of Toonami being in crisis?
Unless they are going to move Toonami up to 11:30 or earlier, it’s nothing. And I highly doubt they would do that for one night only since the psyche or the average Toonami fan is so fragile they would go insane to lose the slot the following week
Why do I get the hunch that people who want to see pibby are the same kind of people who unironically watch mr enter and that autistic sonic youtube cartoon
>AS
Dana Snyder sits by the fireplace and slowly reads the entire script of the new ATHF movie. >Cinemaphile
Redirects everyone to Reddit. Mods were too lazy this year.
>Dana Snyder sits by the fireplace and slowly reads the entire script of the new ATHF movie.
Considering how lazy they have been with pranks this year, I’m surprised they didn’t save Plantasm to get its TV premier in a small box in the corner
What I do know is that we'll never have Plague of Madness drop right out of fricking nowhere in the middle of peak coof hysteria and be the best episode of the series for the first time ever again
And that hurts
This. Fun gags like coin hunter or randomly dropping subbed anime is good, but nothing beats Post Malone casually dropping one of the best animated things of the decade.
>but nothing beats Post Malone casually dropping one of the best animated things of the decade.
or saying "Seth Green is nice but he needs to grow up" after being baffled that Robot Chicken is still being made
I feel like they gave him free reign to do what he wanted and to react to things naturally based on his own opinions. Notice he didn’t have much to say about any of the pilots since he probably knew as much about them as we did.
Dream: They drop the Metalocalypse or Venture Bros movie
Hope: They drop a Smiling Friends episode or something else genuinely funny
Expectation: More Pibby
Fear: An ad
Worst fear: Anything Rick and Morty related
Enough time has passed and there has been radio silence on Metalocalpyse. I could see something like that. Maybe not the whole thing because shilling HBO Max will always come first, but something
Pibby didnt last. It caused a lot of outsiders to come to Cinemaphile, but they were quickly pushed out and the correct general consensus around here is Pibby is on par with creepypasta garbage from 2007
>Plantasm has its cable premier this Sunday
Seems like a wasted, easy prank of running it in a tiny box like they did for Colon Film all those years ago. While repetitive, it’s shockingly still more memorable than the crap from the past 2 years
Insider here, the entire prank has already been recorded. The main ATHF voices (Snyder, Means, Willis) and the midget pornstar Stella Marie watch the entire Plantasm film MST3K style, and they cap it off with some of Stella’s favorite episodes. Apparently she is a superfan of the show. They wanted to get T-Pain in to have those two bounce off each other but he wasn’t available.
I think when accounting for commercials the entire event clocks in at 3 hours
I'd believe this if the new Aqua Teen movie wasn't already premiering on Adult Swim this coming sunday. Still, I wouldn't mind this prank though. Good way to have a fun prank on a budget.
I treated last year's as a finale. Something technically underwhelming, but considering it was thrown together by one guy it was at least an acknowledgment.
I find it hard to believe they'd do NOTHING this year, but I think the series of high effort pranks are done.
The Pibby prank would have been a lot better if it actually built up to anything. If the prank ended with another trailer or announcement it would have been a great way to kick off marketing. But instead, the show still isn't officially picked up, the hype is dwindling, and it makes the teasers look so pointless.
>I'd believe this if the new Aqua Teen movie wasn't already premiering on Adult Swim this coming sunday. Still, I wouldn't mind this prank though. Good way to have a fun prank on a budget.
I actually kinda believe it more because that’s how the Discovery brass operates >oh you want to do a prank with that new movie? >well, money comes first, we have to air that movie properly to get the cash flow coming in >after that you can do your little prank, just be sure to stay under the $100 budget
Sounds exactly out of the Zaslav playbook to me
I'd believe this if the new Aqua Teen movie wasn't already premiering on Adult Swim this coming sunday. Still, I wouldn't mind this prank though. Good way to have a fun prank on a budget.
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The Pibby prank would have been a lot better if it actually built up to anything. If the prank ended with another trailer or announcement it would have been a great way to kick off marketing. But instead, the show still isn't officially picked up, the hype is dwindling, and it makes the teasers look so pointless.
To me it’s just seems super niche, is anyone even going to recognize who this b***h is? This isn’t a meme pornstar like Bailey Jay that anyone with an internet connection will recognize even if they haven’t watched a single second of her videos. She is from a very niche type of porn that I’d assume more people would learn about that night from googling who the frick she is.
Is the network that was able to get Post Malone in the studio 3 years really fallen that far?
It would be legendary. No promos, no hints, just >Screen goes black >Ominous clouds appear on screen, first notes of Carmina Burana play >AMV HELL >*beat* >SPEED METAL AND BOOBIES
History is made.
I treated last year's as a finale. Something technically underwhelming, but considering it was thrown together by one guy it was at least an acknowledgment.
I find it hard to believe they'd do NOTHING this year, but I think the series of high effort pranks are done.
Cinemaphile Risk. Everyone gets assigned a color/country/something like with the Easter event. Boards can be conquered and held to award bonuses, with 'continents' of boards awarding more bonuses.
What’s your guys favorite AS April Fools prank, (here’s a list in case you forgot them all)
2004: > All regularly scheduled episodes were aired with mustaches drawn on the characters. The next night, the same programming was played again, only without the mustaches.
2005: > Instead of Robot Chicken, an unfinished version of the Squidbillies pilot episode aired, followed by an announcement of the show's official premiere later that year.
2006: > Reruns of 1980s cartoons Mister T and Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos were aired, followed by episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex with fart noises added to the dialogue. The Spumco short Boo Boo Runs Wild was also aired in place of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
2007: > On March 31st, every episode of Perfect Hair Forever was played in reverse order in place of the Saturday night anime lineup, with the visual quality having been digitally degraded to look like old VHS tapes of a poorly fan subbed anime. One episode even had the subtitles for an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode instead. > On April 1st, the network followed up on promises to air Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters in its entirety, several weeks before its actual theatrical premiere date by showing the already available first two minutes... before airing the rest in a small, 1 x 1 inch corner of the screen with the sound played over secondary audio programming, as the block ran episodes of Futurama, Family Guy, and even Aqua Teen itself with loud commercial pop ups, bumpers, and actual advertisements promoting the ATHF film to boot.
2008: > Unfinished sneak peeks, pilots and stealth episode premieres of upcoming series were aired in place of regular programming.
2009: > The network aired The Room, with sex scenes obscured with black boxes.
2010: > The Room was aired again, this time with bumpers featuring director Tommy Wiseau being interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
2011: > The Room was aired once again, this time followed by a 15-minute special titled "Earth Ghost", a version of a pilot shown on [adult swim]'s website a few years prior, with the main actor (George Lowe) replaced by a CGI version of Space Ghost.
2012: > After a Fake-Out Opening utilizing The Room, the screen switched to TOM, the host of the defunct Toonami animation block, who noted the date and revealed that he is Back from the Dead for one night only, with the channel airing episodes of older anime associated with the "Toonami" block and [adult swim] AcTN for the rest of the night.
2013: > Cats. Everywhere. Every show and bumper had images or videos of cats, while live-action programming had cat faces covering those of the actors. The [adult swim] logo was even replaced with "[meow meow]".
2014: > Two new episodes of Perfect Hair Forever were aired, eight years following the series finale in reference to a gag from said finale episode. This was followed by a Space Ghost Coast to Coast marathon featuring creator-chosen episodes (including the uncut version of "Fire Ant", which had until then not been seen since its original premiere), which had outtakes and commentary from the writers and staff aired during commercial breaks.
2015: > An Aqua Teen Hunger Force marathon that featured a version of the "Coin Hunt" game from Adult Swim's online series "FishCenter", where the characters got points by hovering over coins that had been added to the episodes.
2016: > After a series of advertisements were shown, hyping up that year's broadcast by recapping previous years of pranks and claiming this one will be just as grand... there was no prank.
2009: > The network aired The Room, with sex scenes obscured with black boxes.
2010: > The Room was aired again, this time with bumpers featuring director Tommy Wiseau being interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
2011: > The Room was aired once again, this time followed by a 15-minute special titled "Earth Ghost", a version of a pilot shown on [adult swim]'s website a few years prior, with the main actor (George Lowe) replaced by a CGI version of Space Ghost.
2012: > After a Fake-Out Opening utilizing The Room, the screen switched to TOM, the host of the defunct Toonami animation block, who noted the date and revealed that he is Back from the Dead for one night only, with the channel airing episodes of older anime associated with the "Toonami" block and [adult swim] AcTN for the rest of the night.
2013: > Cats. Everywhere. Every show and bumper had images or videos of cats, while live-action programming had cat faces covering those of the actors. The [adult swim] logo was even replaced with "[meow meow]".
2014: > Two new episodes of Perfect Hair Forever were aired, eight years following the series finale in reference to a gag from said finale episode. This was followed by a Space Ghost Coast to Coast marathon featuring creator-chosen episodes (including the uncut version of "Fire Ant", which had until then not been seen since its original premiere), which had outtakes and commentary from the writers and staff aired during commercial breaks.
2015: > An Aqua Teen Hunger Force marathon that featured a version of the "Coin Hunt" game from Adult Swim's online series "FishCenter", where the characters got points by hovering over coins that had been added to the episodes.
2016: > After a series of advertisements were shown, hyping up that year's broadcast by recapping previous years of pranks and claiming this one will be just as grand... there was no prank.
2017: > On March 31st, after midnight, each show was given new audio mixes that replaced the regular audio with auto-tuned speaking voices, laugh tracks, Seinfeld strings, and various sound effects. > On April 1st, the evening portion of Adult Swim was replaced with the unannounced and unscheduled premiere of the first episode of Rick and Morty's third season ("The Rickshank Redemption") airing repeatedly until midnight.
2018: > Toonami was broadcast in Japanese with English subtitles for the entire night from the dialogue spoken by TOM and Sara during the bumpers to the programming itself being in the original Japanese. Even the logo and the bumper text were in Japanese. At midnight, the first episode of FLCL Alternative premiered without any announcement, five months before its official air date, followed by Masaaki Yuasa's film Mind Game. > The following evening, in place of a scheduled Rick and Morty rerun, a parody cartoon called "Bushworld Adventures", created by YouTube animator Michael Cusack, was aired for the remaining hour before midnight.
2019: > The network premiered a new Mind Screw series, Gemusetto (unannounced, but leaked by trademarks and Hulu), a tennis-related anime-esque series with six hour-long episodes. Also without announcement (as its launch was scheduled later in the morning there), the new Adult Swim channel in Canada soft launched at midnight to air the same programming (interrupting The Visit, the final program of its predecessor Action).
2009: > The network aired The Room, with sex scenes obscured with black boxes.
2010: > The Room was aired again, this time with bumpers featuring director Tommy Wiseau being interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
2011: > The Room was aired once again, this time followed by a 15-minute special titled "Earth Ghost", a version of a pilot shown on [adult swim]'s website a few years prior, with the main actor (George Lowe) replaced by a CGI version of Space Ghost.
2012: > After a Fake-Out Opening utilizing The Room, the screen switched to TOM, the host of the defunct Toonami animation block, who noted the date and revealed that he is Back from the Dead for one night only, with the channel airing episodes of older anime associated with the "Toonami" block and [adult swim] AcTN for the rest of the night.
2013: > Cats. Everywhere. Every show and bumper had images or videos of cats, while live-action programming had cat faces covering those of the actors. The [adult swim] logo was even replaced with "[meow meow]".
2014: > Two new episodes of Perfect Hair Forever were aired, eight years following the series finale in reference to a gag from said finale episode. This was followed by a Space Ghost Coast to Coast marathon featuring creator-chosen episodes (including the uncut version of "Fire Ant", which had until then not been seen since its original premiere), which had outtakes and commentary from the writers and staff aired during commercial breaks.
2015: > An Aqua Teen Hunger Force marathon that featured a version of the "Coin Hunt" game from Adult Swim's online series "FishCenter", where the characters got points by hovering over coins that had been added to the episodes.
2016: > After a series of advertisements were shown, hyping up that year's broadcast by recapping previous years of pranks and claiming this one will be just as grand... there was no prank.
[...]
2017: > On March 31st, after midnight, each show was given new audio mixes that replaced the regular audio with auto-tuned speaking voices, laugh tracks, Seinfeld strings, and various sound effects. > On April 1st, the evening portion of Adult Swim was replaced with the unannounced and unscheduled premiere of the first episode of Rick and Morty's third season ("The Rickshank Redemption") airing repeatedly until midnight.
2018: > Toonami was broadcast in Japanese with English subtitles for the entire night from the dialogue spoken by TOM and Sara during the bumpers to the programming itself being in the original Japanese. Even the logo and the bumper text were in Japanese. At midnight, the first episode of FLCL Alternative premiered without any announcement, five months before its official air date, followed by Masaaki Yuasa's film Mind Game. > The following evening, in place of a scheduled Rick and Morty rerun, a parody cartoon called "Bushworld Adventures", created by YouTube animator Michael Cusack, was aired for the remaining hour before midnight.
2019: > The network premiered a new Mind Screw series, Gemusetto (unannounced, but leaked by trademarks and Hulu), a tennis-related anime-esque series with six hour-long episodes. Also without announcement (as its launch was scheduled later in the morning there), the new Adult Swim channel in Canada soft launched at midnight to air the same programming (interrupting The Visit, the final program of its predecessor Action).
2020: > The night begins with another Fake-Out Opening, this time involving a second season of Gemusetto. Post Malone cuts off the show, leading into a night of stealth premieres. Bumpers surrounded around a beer pong game Post was playing with his friends. The premieres include new episodes of Primal (2019), Dream Corp LLC, Tigtone, The Shivering Truth, Robot Chicken, the trailer for the back half of Rick and Morty’s fourth season, and the series premiere of JJ Villard's Fairy Tales, along with the Smiling Friends pilot and YOLO Crystal Fantasy.
2021: > The format was changed into a kids block spoof called adult swim jr., possibly spoofing the then-upcoming preschool block for Cartoon Network, Cartoonito. The shows were dubbed over using children's voices (with some adult language replaced with more child-friendly terms), the bumpers were written in a child's font, the logo was done up like a preschool channel's, the theme songs were rewritten like a preschool show's, the titles were changed to things like 'Aqua Teen Child Force' and 'Rick and Morty Babies', and the advertisements were done in childlike animations.
2009: > The network aired The Room, with sex scenes obscured with black boxes.
2010: > The Room was aired again, this time with bumpers featuring director Tommy Wiseau being interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
2011: > The Room was aired once again, this time followed by a 15-minute special titled "Earth Ghost", a version of a pilot shown on [adult swim]'s website a few years prior, with the main actor (George Lowe) replaced by a CGI version of Space Ghost.
2012: > After a Fake-Out Opening utilizing The Room, the screen switched to TOM, the host of the defunct Toonami animation block, who noted the date and revealed that he is Back from the Dead for one night only, with the channel airing episodes of older anime associated with the "Toonami" block and [adult swim] AcTN for the rest of the night.
2013: > Cats. Everywhere. Every show and bumper had images or videos of cats, while live-action programming had cat faces covering those of the actors. The [adult swim] logo was even replaced with "[meow meow]".
2014: > Two new episodes of Perfect Hair Forever were aired, eight years following the series finale in reference to a gag from said finale episode. This was followed by a Space Ghost Coast to Coast marathon featuring creator-chosen episodes (including the uncut version of "Fire Ant", which had until then not been seen since its original premiere), which had outtakes and commentary from the writers and staff aired during commercial breaks.
2015: > An Aqua Teen Hunger Force marathon that featured a version of the "Coin Hunt" game from Adult Swim's online series "FishCenter", where the characters got points by hovering over coins that had been added to the episodes.
2016: > After a series of advertisements were shown, hyping up that year's broadcast by recapping previous years of pranks and claiming this one will be just as grand... there was no prank.
[...]
2017: > On March 31st, after midnight, each show was given new audio mixes that replaced the regular audio with auto-tuned speaking voices, laugh tracks, Seinfeld strings, and various sound effects. > On April 1st, the evening portion of Adult Swim was replaced with the unannounced and unscheduled premiere of the first episode of Rick and Morty's third season ("The Rickshank Redemption") airing repeatedly until midnight.
2018: > Toonami was broadcast in Japanese with English subtitles for the entire night from the dialogue spoken by TOM and Sara during the bumpers to the programming itself being in the original Japanese. Even the logo and the bumper text were in Japanese. At midnight, the first episode of FLCL Alternative premiered without any announcement, five months before its official air date, followed by Masaaki Yuasa's film Mind Game. > The following evening, in place of a scheduled Rick and Morty rerun, a parody cartoon called "Bushworld Adventures", created by YouTube animator Michael Cusack, was aired for the remaining hour before midnight.
2019: > The network premiered a new Mind Screw series, Gemusetto (unannounced, but leaked by trademarks and Hulu), a tennis-related anime-esque series with six hour-long episodes. Also without announcement (as its launch was scheduled later in the morning there), the new Adult Swim channel in Canada soft launched at midnight to air the same programming (interrupting The Visit, the final program of its predecessor Action).
[...]
[...]
2020: > The night begins with another Fake-Out Opening, this time involving a second season of Gemusetto. Post Malone cuts off the show, leading into a night of stealth premieres. Bumpers surrounded around a beer pong game Post was playing with his friends. The premieres include new episodes of Primal (2019), Dream Corp LLC, Tigtone, The Shivering Truth, Robot Chicken, the trailer for the back half of Rick and Morty’s fourth season, and the series premiere of JJ Villard's Fairy Tales, along with the Smiling Friends pilot and YOLO Crystal Fantasy.
2021: > The format was changed into a kids block spoof called adult swim jr., possibly spoofing the then-upcoming preschool block for Cartoon Network, Cartoonito. The shows were dubbed over using children's voices (with some adult language replaced with more child-friendly terms), the bumpers were written in a child's font, the logo was done up like a preschool channel's, the theme songs were rewritten like a preschool show's, the titles were changed to things like 'Aqua Teen Child Force' and 'Rick and Morty Babies', and the advertisements were done in childlike animations.
2022: > The stunt started with the first few seconds of the Learning With Pibby short released in October 2021 before cutting to the outside of the Sanchez house, where Pibby and Bun-Bun briefly remained on screen before being chased away by the glitchy blob-like substance that predominantly features in the short. This kicked off a regular enough schedule featuring reruns of Rick and Morty, Smiling Friends, The Eric Andre Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Birdgirl, and Joe Pera Talks With You, but with cameos from Pibby and an increasingly corrupting Bun-Bun inserted throughout alongside glitches directly interacting with the characters and locations. This even extended to the bumpers and nature interludes. After the stunt came an hour of regular programming, which was then followed by a re-airing of the stunt. Later, when Adult Swim signed off, they aired the 2020 sign-off bumper, but with the audio replaced with Pibby singing a goodbye song.
Ok hear me out. The Smiling Friends go to Brazil plays again. BUT this time there's no fake out and they actually do Brazil stuff so the fake out was you expecting it to be a a rerun of the original fake out.
Them doing a bit with Rick and Morty on getting Space Ghost, Meatwad, TOM, and Seth Green’s voices to voice them before announcing the real recast; like with Squidbillies
Something shitty.
Nothing will top Toonami returning, Toonami going full weeb, and Bushworld Adventures.
The year where they turned ATHF into a coin-collecting game was fun.
A bit unfair though. Shake took up half the screen, and Frylock is always the most mobile. Carl is almost always static.
I was sure towards the end they would have run the episode where Carl plays Rock Your Body (till the break of Dawn) and have a bunch of coins around him so he could steal the win in the end
>Toonami going full weeb,
I had to recollect whether there was a time in OG Toonami's history that it had a daily lineup that was anime only, because I do remember there being plenty of days or months where it would be only anime (not including DBZ marathons). 2001-2002 specifically.
The vast majority of people wanted it to be anime only. They just had some weird insistence to always trying to air western stuff
>The vast majority of people wanted it to be anime only. They just had some weird insistence to always trying to air western stuff
Yes, I'm well aware. I was one of those people in the targeted demographic of whom watched Toonami after schools (was in 4th grade in 98-99 when DBZ's Ocean Group dub aired). Anytime there was a Western cartoon shoved in usually very old shit from Hanna Barbera, Real Adventures of Johnny Quest, Thundercats ect, I'd just tune out to play outside, do homework, or play a videogame.
I think the insistence had to do with what they could obtain to air, clear it with network executives, ect ect. Once a run occurred of an OVA (Tenchi, Outlaw Star), reruns would usually only occur once in primetime afternoon hours. Dragon Ball was the exception since it surpassed everything else in popularity
In the earliest days, there were definitely limitations they couldn’t get around, namely just how little anime was dubbed. But even as time went on and anime became more accessible, they still insisted on western shows. Even today, while they usually are just movies to stall for time, they insist it’s not an anime block and would have more western garbage if they could get it
You're not equating a few factors: anytime you air something, the owners of that license are paid a portion of ad revenue, there's also specific hours that receive less viewership. 5pm will always have larger traffic ratings than 4pm and 6pm primarily because kids usually came home to do homework and 6pm-6:30pm is usually when families have dinner. Shows like Johnny Quest, HB, Batman, Superman ect were all owned by Turner Warner thus they had to absolutely share no ad income with licensed shows and were safe bets for usually the tailend or at the very beginning. That's why new episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball always aired specifically at 5pm.
>But even as time went on and anime became more accessible, they still insisted on western shows
And some of this also has to do with the fact rise in popularity meant that Japanese studios wanted a bigger cut. Back when anime was practically unheard of in the West (inb4 acksuallies), it costed practically nothing to get ahold of rights for dubbing since it was not seen as lucrative in the West. Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and Sailor Moon changed all of that that and the Japanese animation industry took note and wanted a higher pay cut. Also there's only so many things you can air that were fitting for weekly afternoons on CN. It's why Adult Swim took over for what could be aired. Everything from Outlaw Star, Tenchi ect had to be censored up the wazoo and that costs money.
Steve Blum voiced Tom way before he voiced Spike in Cowboy Bebop.
>Steve Blum voiced Tom way before he voiced Spike in Cowboy Bebop.
But most people know that he voiced Spike. The fact that they got Spike's japanese voice actor to voice Tom just shows how much the people at [as] really cared about the little details. They might still care but the higher ups don't let them do this stuff anymore.
>The fact that they got Spike's japanese voice actor to voice Tom just shows how much the people at [as] really cared about the little details
Frick i miss Lazzo
>The fact that they got Spike's japanese voice actor to voice Tom
Ok maybe I'm confused. Was a there a Japanese version of Toonami that aired on Japan's CN?
That was the prank in 2018. Toonami went full Japanese and aired the lineup with english subtitles. They also premiered the first episode of FLCL Alternative and then Mind Game in Japanese as a present.
No dumbass. For 2018 April Fools all of Toonami was in Japanese. The shows were subbed and TOM/Sara got Japanese VAs.
Contrary to what that anon is saying though, that was NOT Spike’s Japanese VA
>No dumbass.
Well excuse me for not knowing of a 2018 april fools day. I should mention I don't own cable and haven't for roughly a decade.
>be in AS April Fools thread
>don’t have at least a rough idea of all recent pranks
You only have yourself to blame here
They got the original japanese voice of Spike Spiegel to dub Tom.
That was debunked
Okay so who did dub tom in Japanese for that April Fools?
Masa Kanome
The Japanese toonami block was one of my favorite viewing experiences. Probably the last great thing toonami will do
I loved the parallel viewing experience with toonami and everyone having way too much fun with the Cinemaphile teams prank. If more people celebrated April fools this way then it could seriously become a holiday that competes with the popularity of Halloween.
I liked the sneak peek prank from 2020 where smiling friends premiered
All of Chainsaw Man redubbed with the cast of Adventure Time.
Last years prank was in total, about 5 minutes long, hidden in 2 hours of dogshit. My expectations are not high
Another half-baked thing that loops immediately that doubles for promoting something else (either a restaurant, movie, or any of their programming like with Birdgirl or Rick and Morty) for monetary gain.
Good point, Wendy’s can’t hijack the prank this year
>have Wendy’s foot the bill
>barely a prank at all
Calling it, there just won’t be a prank this year. And not like that one year where nothing was the prank, like they just straight up don’t even bother
BAG ALERT
That spawned one of my favorite Toonami memes
Is this year a Toonami year or not? I have gotten conflicting answers
No. Toonami starts at midnight, so it’s April 2 when it starts. They could do some meme shit like have TOM host the fox trash that airs before Toonami starts though
Midnight on the east coast, 11 for central aka THE ONLY CORRECT TIME ZONE FIGHT ME Black folk.
I mean it doesn’t matter, they are going to use the timezone where AS is at, which is Georgia. So Toonami is at midnight
Anything but East Coast is fanfiction. Flyover homosexuals need not apply.
*laughs in no state income tax or corporate tax*
Yeah, flyover deez nuts
No. Unless toonami starts on sat for some reason
Well frick, next year th-
>next Saturday April Fools is in 2029
Fug
Something cool
I’m glad Zaslav put an end to this dogshit
Can we make him the punchline this year?
He got a 7 figure bonus a few weeks ago for saving WBD. Only punchline here is you
They already did Pibby though
They might do an actual pilot instead of just a cameo
The unfunniest shit ever.
Bushworld 2
and "joke" announcement that Cusack and crew are taking over rick n morty with this new direction which is permanent
Red Manic pops onscreen and every anon watching is killed in an instant
You know what is probably will NOT be? Fricking Rick and Morty dominated for once.
I wouldn't be so optimistic.
Holy shit talk about a silver lining.
Smiling Friends Season 2 premiere
Royal Crackers, which is the only piece of new content Adult Swim has for 2023, premiers on April 2. Pretty good chance it’s tied to that
My prediction(wish) for the AS prank is that Tom crashes the normal programming and does toonami a night early so the "prank" can be used to tease either Uzumaki or FLCL.
My prediction for the Cinemaphile prank is definitely something ChatGPT related. I could see them doing something like assigning each poster to a "team" that converts our posts into different typing styles (ex. pirates, indian, mafia boss).
>tease either Uzumaki or FLCL.
Why? So we can see the exact same clip of Uzumaki we have been shown the past 4 years? And who the frick cares about FLCL?
The easter teams was the best prank
All hail Queen Creme
All of the attention whoring by shitty femanons and artgays was painful though.
>no porn of Creme's mommy milkers
This was the real tragedy
>AI bullshit for Cinemaphile prank
Frick this will be insufferable but I can 100% see them doing it
My least-favorite April Fools jokes are the ones which make the entire site unusable for >24 hours.
I actually like the shitpostier ones.
>good years
board mergers
easter candy
google+
/s4s/
>shit years
upvotes
emojis
day of the rake
covid
>upvotes
>emojis
>day of the rake
>covid
These all made every board unusable.
Not day of the rake, everyone got bored of it after a few hours making it the worst Cinemaphile prank.
It was just a reskin of the corona one.
This year everyone is going to have their IP addresses public
Of course everyone with a Cinemaphile pass is exempt
>t. leaf
Toonami has kept MHA doubled up for the entire month of March. We currently don’t know what airs the next week. Could that be something? Or is that just part of Toonami being in crisis?
Unless they are going to move Toonami up to 11:30 or earlier, it’s nothing. And I highly doubt they would do that for one night only since the psyche or the average Toonami fan is so fragile they would go insane to lose the slot the following week
>First post-Lazzo prank was an ad for Wendy's BAG ALERT MAJOR BAG ALERT
>Second was an ad for Pibby
I dunno, it's probably gonna be an ad.
A Rick & Morty episode, with all of the voices dubbed over with AI recreations.
They don’t have the balls to do anything with R&M. They didn’t even want to fire Roiland. If this show goes under they have nothing else
Are you forgetting the upcoming masterpiece that is Royal Crackers? and their other flagship shows Robot Chicken and Smiling Friends, they'll be fine.
I don't care how lazy the idea is. All I ask is that it is active throughout the entire block. Past few years they have only been a few hours long.
>pibby trailer releases
>Cinemaphile has another seethe-fest while pibby chads stay winning yet another year
What if autists start getting into the industry, like deviantart autists
>What if
Zaslav cancelled your middle school fanfic
source?
Why do I get the hunch that people who want to see pibby are the same kind of people who unironically watch mr enter and that autistic sonic youtube cartoon
>AS
Dana Snyder sits by the fireplace and slowly reads the entire script of the new ATHF movie.
>Cinemaphile
Redirects everyone to Reddit. Mods were too lazy this year.
>Dana Snyder sits by the fireplace and slowly reads the entire script of the new ATHF movie.
Considering how lazy they have been with pranks this year, I’m surprised they didn’t save Plantasm to get its TV premier in a small box in the corner
What I do know is that we'll never have Plague of Madness drop right out of fricking nowhere in the middle of peak coof hysteria and be the best episode of the series for the first time ever again
And that hurts
This. Fun gags like coin hunter or randomly dropping subbed anime is good, but nothing beats Post Malone casually dropping one of the best animated things of the decade.
>but nothing beats Post Malone casually dropping one of the best animated things of the decade.
or saying "Seth Green is nice but he needs to grow up" after being baffled that Robot Chicken is still being made
I don't know how Post Malone made it so goddamn entertaining but it really was one of the best pranks ever.
I feel like they gave him free reign to do what he wanted and to react to things naturally based on his own opinions. Notice he didn’t have much to say about any of the pilots since he probably knew as much about them as we did.
To bad that Genndy fricked another ending for a great show
I have the entire post broadcast saved that was a good prank year
I’m kinda glad Toonami will never see a prank again, I don’t think there is any way they could top having the block subbed for a night
FRICK MIGGERS! CREME PRIDE WORLD WIDE!
Dream: They drop the Metalocalypse or Venture Bros movie
Hope: They drop a Smiling Friends episode or something else genuinely funny
Expectation: More Pibby
Fear: An ad
Worst fear: Anything Rick and Morty related
Enough time has passed and there has been radio silence on Metalocalpyse. I could see something like that. Maybe not the whole thing because shilling HBO Max will always come first, but something
>Dream: They drop the Metalocalypse or Venture Bros movie
that certainly would be a dream since they canceled both of those
They confirmed movies for them.
It'll be a livestream of Justin Roiland committing suicide
TCM Special screening of Song of the South
3 hours of the OG first broadcast of Adult Swim with OG commercials included in honor of it's 20th anniversary
https://archive.org/details/giant-robot-week-evangelion
Probably more Pibby content
Pibby fans are some of the stupidest morons on the internet. It’s Zaslav time now, wasteful pet projects like that are cancelled
some other one off thing that Cinemaphile will hyperfixate on for all eternity like Pibby
Pibby didnt last. It caused a lot of outsiders to come to Cinemaphile, but they were quickly pushed out and the correct general consensus around here is Pibby is on par with creepypasta garbage from 2007
2nd trailer for Pibby before it ends with it saying that it's cancelled
Now that would be a good prank. That’s like a classic AS era prank
>Plantasm has its cable premier this Sunday
Seems like a wasted, easy prank of running it in a tiny box like they did for Colon Film all those years ago. While repetitive, it’s shockingly still more memorable than the crap from the past 2 years
Learning with Pibby realease date.
They tease it for 6 hours, then at the end of the block reveal the date is never
Three Busy Debras / Tuca and Bertie marathon.
Teenage Euthanasia season 2
Insider here, the entire prank has already been recorded. The main ATHF voices (Snyder, Means, Willis) and the midget pornstar Stella Marie watch the entire Plantasm film MST3K style, and they cap it off with some of Stella’s favorite episodes. Apparently she is a superfan of the show. They wanted to get T-Pain in to have those two bounce off each other but he wasn’t available.
I think when accounting for commercials the entire event clocks in at 3 hours
nice fanfic
nobody with insider knowledge gets a squirt out of spoiling a surprise two weeks in advance
Of course they do, Internet (you) is more addictive than heroin
Sounds awfully specific enough that it might be legit. Sounds like a solid prank, I like me some ATHF.
>look her up
Why do I feel compelled to jerk off to a lumpy dwarf with a can I see the manager haircut? Is there no hope for me?
I'd believe this if the new Aqua Teen movie wasn't already premiering on Adult Swim this coming sunday. Still, I wouldn't mind this prank though. Good way to have a fun prank on a budget.
The Pibby prank would have been a lot better if it actually built up to anything. If the prank ended with another trailer or announcement it would have been a great way to kick off marketing. But instead, the show still isn't officially picked up, the hype is dwindling, and it makes the teasers look so pointless.
>I'd believe this if the new Aqua Teen movie wasn't already premiering on Adult Swim this coming sunday. Still, I wouldn't mind this prank though. Good way to have a fun prank on a budget.
I actually kinda believe it more because that’s how the Discovery brass operates
>oh you want to do a prank with that new movie?
>well, money comes first, we have to air that movie properly to get the cash flow coming in
>after that you can do your little prank, just be sure to stay under the $100 budget
Sounds exactly out of the Zaslav playbook to me
To me it’s just seems super niche, is anyone even going to recognize who this b***h is? This isn’t a meme pornstar like Bailey Jay that anyone with an internet connection will recognize even if they haven’t watched a single second of her videos. She is from a very niche type of porn that I’d assume more people would learn about that night from googling who the frick she is.
Is the network that was able to get Post Malone in the studio 3 years really fallen that far?
They will never do this, but my dream Toonami April Fool's prank:
AMV Hell. All of them (except 0 and Divided By 0).
I learned what this is due to some obscure anime YouTubers talking about it. Would be based.
It would be legendary. No promos, no hints, just
>Screen goes black
>Ominous clouds appear on screen, first notes of Carmina Burana play
>AMV HELL
>*beat*
>SPEED METAL AND BOOBIES
History is made.
Stanley Kubrick's e-girlta with all voices dubbed by Justin Roiland.
I treated last year's as a finale. Something technically underwhelming, but considering it was thrown together by one guy it was at least an acknowledgment.
I find it hard to believe they'd do NOTHING this year, but I think the series of high effort pranks are done.
Cinemaphile Risk. Everyone gets assigned a color/country/something like with the Easter event. Boards can be conquered and held to award bonuses, with 'continents' of boards awarding more bonuses.
they should air the room again but i don't think zoomers could handle it
The prank always making Cinemaphile unusable for 24 hours is annoying.
>royal crackers
>smiling friends teaser
>a bait and switch
>ads
Toonami is playing a weird movie
Toonami ain’t doing shit, it’s on April 2
What’s your guys favorite AS April Fools prank, (here’s a list in case you forgot them all)
2004:
> All regularly scheduled episodes were aired with mustaches drawn on the characters. The next night, the same programming was played again, only without the mustaches.
2005:
> Instead of Robot Chicken, an unfinished version of the Squidbillies pilot episode aired, followed by an announcement of the show's official premiere later that year.
2006:
> Reruns of 1980s cartoons Mister T and Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos were aired, followed by episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex with fart noises added to the dialogue. The Spumco short Boo Boo Runs Wild was also aired in place of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
2007:
> On March 31st, every episode of Perfect Hair Forever was played in reverse order in place of the Saturday night anime lineup, with the visual quality having been digitally degraded to look like old VHS tapes of a poorly fan subbed anime. One episode even had the subtitles for an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode instead.
> On April 1st, the network followed up on promises to air Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters in its entirety, several weeks before its actual theatrical premiere date by showing the already available first two minutes... before airing the rest in a small, 1 x 1 inch corner of the screen with the sound played over secondary audio programming, as the block ran episodes of Futurama, Family Guy, and even Aqua Teen itself with loud commercial pop ups, bumpers, and actual advertisements promoting the ATHF film to boot.
2008:
> Unfinished sneak peeks, pilots and stealth episode premieres of upcoming series were aired in place of regular programming.
2009:
> The network aired The Room, with sex scenes obscured with black boxes.
2010:
> The Room was aired again, this time with bumpers featuring director Tommy Wiseau being interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
2011:
> The Room was aired once again, this time followed by a 15-minute special titled "Earth Ghost", a version of a pilot shown on [adult swim]'s website a few years prior, with the main actor (George Lowe) replaced by a CGI version of Space Ghost.
2012:
> After a Fake-Out Opening utilizing The Room, the screen switched to TOM, the host of the defunct Toonami animation block, who noted the date and revealed that he is Back from the Dead for one night only, with the channel airing episodes of older anime associated with the "Toonami" block and [adult swim] AcTN for the rest of the night.
2013:
> Cats. Everywhere. Every show and bumper had images or videos of cats, while live-action programming had cat faces covering those of the actors. The [adult swim] logo was even replaced with "[meow meow]".
2014:
> Two new episodes of Perfect Hair Forever were aired, eight years following the series finale in reference to a gag from said finale episode. This was followed by a Space Ghost Coast to Coast marathon featuring creator-chosen episodes (including the uncut version of "Fire Ant", which had until then not been seen since its original premiere), which had outtakes and commentary from the writers and staff aired during commercial breaks.
2015:
> An Aqua Teen Hunger Force marathon that featured a version of the "Coin Hunt" game from Adult Swim's online series "FishCenter", where the characters got points by hovering over coins that had been added to the episodes.
2016:
> After a series of advertisements were shown, hyping up that year's broadcast by recapping previous years of pranks and claiming this one will be just as grand... there was no prank.
2017:
> On March 31st, after midnight, each show was given new audio mixes that replaced the regular audio with auto-tuned speaking voices, laugh tracks, Seinfeld strings, and various sound effects.
> On April 1st, the evening portion of Adult Swim was replaced with the unannounced and unscheduled premiere of the first episode of Rick and Morty's third season ("The Rickshank Redemption") airing repeatedly until midnight.
2018:
> Toonami was broadcast in Japanese with English subtitles for the entire night from the dialogue spoken by TOM and Sara during the bumpers to the programming itself being in the original Japanese. Even the logo and the bumper text were in Japanese. At midnight, the first episode of FLCL Alternative premiered without any announcement, five months before its official air date, followed by Masaaki Yuasa's film Mind Game.
> The following evening, in place of a scheduled Rick and Morty rerun, a parody cartoon called "Bushworld Adventures", created by YouTube animator Michael Cusack, was aired for the remaining hour before midnight.
2019:
> The network premiered a new Mind Screw series, Gemusetto (unannounced, but leaked by trademarks and Hulu), a tennis-related anime-esque series with six hour-long episodes. Also without announcement (as its launch was scheduled later in the morning there), the new Adult Swim channel in Canada soft launched at midnight to air the same programming (interrupting The Visit, the final program of its predecessor Action).
2020:
> The night begins with another Fake-Out Opening, this time involving a second season of Gemusetto. Post Malone cuts off the show, leading into a night of stealth premieres. Bumpers surrounded around a beer pong game Post was playing with his friends. The premieres include new episodes of Primal (2019), Dream Corp LLC, Tigtone, The Shivering Truth, Robot Chicken, the trailer for the back half of Rick and Morty’s fourth season, and the series premiere of JJ Villard's Fairy Tales, along with the Smiling Friends pilot and YOLO Crystal Fantasy.
2021:
> The format was changed into a kids block spoof called adult swim jr., possibly spoofing the then-upcoming preschool block for Cartoon Network, Cartoonito. The shows were dubbed over using children's voices (with some adult language replaced with more child-friendly terms), the bumpers were written in a child's font, the logo was done up like a preschool channel's, the theme songs were rewritten like a preschool show's, the titles were changed to things like 'Aqua Teen Child Force' and 'Rick and Morty Babies', and the advertisements were done in childlike animations.
2022:
> The stunt started with the first few seconds of the Learning With Pibby short released in October 2021 before cutting to the outside of the Sanchez house, where Pibby and Bun-Bun briefly remained on screen before being chased away by the glitchy blob-like substance that predominantly features in the short. This kicked off a regular enough schedule featuring reruns of Rick and Morty, Smiling Friends, The Eric Andre Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Birdgirl, and Joe Pera Talks With You, but with cameos from Pibby and an increasingly corrupting Bun-Bun inserted throughout alongside glitches directly interacting with the characters and locations. This even extended to the bumpers and nature interludes. After the stunt came an hour of regular programming, which was then followed by a re-airing of the stunt. Later, when Adult Swim signed off, they aired the 2020 sign-off bumper, but with the audio replaced with Pibby singing a goodbye song.
i remember the 2006 fart noises and was very confused at first.
Ok hear me out. The Smiling Friends go to Brazil plays again. BUT this time there's no fake out and they actually do Brazil stuff so the fake out was you expecting it to be a a rerun of the original fake out.
Randomly redubbed episodes of Rick and Morty using AS VA's dubbing Rick.
That’s not a prank, it’s a necessary change
Rick and Morty ep with AI generated voices.
Among Us adult cartoon.
pibby 2
They'll have Justin Roiland cleared of all charges, and air a premiere pilot for his new AS show: House of Cosbys.
Them doing a bit with Rick and Morty on getting Space Ghost, Meatwad, TOM, and Seth Green’s voices to voice them before announcing the real recast; like with Squidbillies
Does anyone know what became of Pibby?
bunbun got her
Best AS April Fools is either old school Toonami or the premieres of multiple things like Primal, Tigtone, and Smiling Friends.