1. The history and impact of Adult Swim. I was born in 1985. This means that I was in my teens and early twenties when Adult Swim first came on the scene. Cartoon Network was starting to hit its stride, and then they introduced this mature block of cartoon and wacky comedies at night. Let's just say that is you smoked marijuana, you knew every show on Adult Swim by heart.
Soon after they got into a groove, they started playing Japanese Anime. One show that first came out onto Adult Swim was Cowboy Bebop. I was into a Japanese Anime that was on earlier in the day on their Toonami block called Dragonball Z, but Cowboy Bebop at me at their opening theme song. The music in the show was not just a good soundtrack for the show, it was enough for me to jam in my car on a sunny day. Adult Swim kept bring on more anime and even more comedies that complimented each other quite well.
Below is the history of Adult Swim and how late night television has been radically changed by a couple people with almost no budget.
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How the original Superman shorts in the 1940's shaped the modern superhero. Decades ago, the saying "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" it meant exactly that. Superman was just that fast, that strong, and could ONLY jump higher than a tall building. Meaning that he couldn't fly. In the original Superman series by Max Fleischer, Superman could only jump high, which meant to get around the city to save people, he was jumping from building to building. Each episode was already hitting around $500,000 in today's dollars for a 10 minute episode, so they decided to just have Superman fly to save on costs of drawing all of that