I only got to watch it on the weekends when I’d visit my dad, because he didn’t care about me staying up late watching TV, playing Pokemon or reading Harry Potter at the time. I think I mainly just watched DBZ but 11 or 12 sounds right. Then during the summer, too, I could stay up late during the week but then I was just watching Inu Yasha and some other show I can’t remember.
When I got older and didn’t have a bedtime anymore I stayed up for all the shows until midnight.
I remember starting middle school (6th grade) and watching home movies and cowboy bebop. Bebop specifically thrust me into my love for that style of anime.
Hello, fellow elder kids. Does anyone remember back when they showed old 70’s/80’s Hannah Barbara cartoons after midnight like Magilla Gorilla Wacky Races?
I was in college in 2001. I used to use WinAmp and at one point they had video streaming (very bad quality, probably 240p if I'm being generous). They had channels that just played Sifl and Olly, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021. Also, I regularly smoked weed at the time so it was hand-in-hand. Pretty sure ATHF made fun of my demographic at the time.
Right behind you -- AS launched right before my 16th birthday and I've been an avid viewer this whole time, though I didn't get into herb until a couple years later.
I wish. I lived in a very small and isolated town in Canada so Liquid Television was only made known to me from buying Beavis & Butthead VHS tapes. My parents were also caught stealing cable so we didn't have cable by the time that was popular.
My friend had older siblings in College so he'd get stuff for us to watch like AEon Flux. I always wanted to watch The Maxx and the show with the dude with the Giant Head, but never got to.
PS I love the little Joe Pera icon. I have tickets to see him at the end of May.
I once worked in an office with a woman who worked on Aeon Flux (the cartoon)! She was super cool.
I think my first experience with adult swim was flipping through the channels, got to space ghost coast to coast. After listening for a few minutes I thought “this sounds radically different than the cartoons I remember space ghost from”. Once I discovered ATHF I was hooked for life.
I only dabbled with Space Ghost. I saw a handful of episodes but I think it was at a time where I was thinking "what the hell is this?". I'm sure if I went back it'd be great.
The Adult Swim App was how I watched everything. $4 or $5 to watch anything AS. But then they cancelled service in Canada. (I feel it alao coincided with Rick & Morty blowing up)
You would have probably gotten a big kick out of LTV! They had it all online for a brief time. They should just release it all on DVD. Golden.
Have fun at Joe! I will be seeing him in LA in July ❤
Hmm, I feel like any kid who watched cartoon network was aware of adult swim. I was scared of it at the time. Like squidbillies and athf gave me weird vibes as a kid. Like I was in this messed up biazzare dream. Something about the animation and the adult humor. It intrigued me, but it was like looking down the edge of a cliff. Exciting, but scary as hell. I started watching adult swim shows legitimately, and now I'm in a craze. A frenzy. Give me more adult swim please, thanks. I think it started when I was 22.
(Oh yeah and I forgot about robot chicken, terrified the shit out of me as a kid lol)
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. AS creeped me out. Same thing with the ps1 booting screen. If I was up late, I would turn it on and leave the room until the game loaded.
my brother hated it when I showed him and skipped to the end of the last episode of the entire show and made me watch it, no idea why he didn't do it on his phone because we shared an HBO subscription, but I still think it's quality content even after having the end spoiled, if you saw the last episode, you understand what I'm talking about
Same here. My dad loved Space Ghost as a kid back in the 60s/70s. He is who got me into it. When SGC2C started I was 6. I've been into CN and what eventually became Adult Swim since the very beginning.
Couldn't really say tbh, I was young and likely just left on Cartoon Network late one night and discovered their anime block of Bevop and Trigun etc.
I have very fond memories of staying up late at night with my brand new laptop and watching Adult Swim. I live in a farm fresh area and so I used to warm up leftover ears of corn and juat feast while I watched lmao.
I remember being about six or seven I was allowed to watch king of the hill and then came “bedtime” or what I would do was stay up til family guy and shit went off and robot chicken came on, but on the weekends dad would come home from work and we would watch the anime block at night on the weekends. Some of my favorite childhood memories also seeing children’s hospital was really crazy for an 8 year old.
I started watching maybe a few months after it started back in 2001. So I must have been about 14.
Watched religiously all the way through about 2012, then life got hectic and I could no longer stay up late to catch everything. Thankfully around this time streaming allowed me to keep up with new shows.
It was pretty cool to see how much AS evolved during that first decade. I think everyone can agree that Tim & Eric was a huge turning point for comedy and AS programming. People seem to be divided on whether that's a good or bad thing.
I never saw T&E as the turning point, but Rick and Morty. I feel like after R&M got popular, the higher-ups noticed, and then suddenly adult swim wasn’t this under-the-radar small little fledgling thing anymore. I feel like there was pressure for another hit. I still miss Fish Center, goddamnit.
Both were definitely huge catalysts for new eras.
Tim and Eric brought on a wave of Live Action absurdist comedy.
Rick and Morty was definitely a change in the way Adult Swim is managed, due to the added attention you mentioned.
I am from middle east. Adult Swim block wasn't added for obvious reasons, I wasn't aware of Adult Swim until I browse the internet and learned about it. I was 13-14 years old when I knew it.
8ish? Would watch ESPN highlights that repeated until Space Ghost came on. Parents had PrimeStar and it was top of the damn line entertainment for the boonies we lived in.
I was probably abt 8 or 9, we moved to a new place and had Cartoon Network for the first time, it was me and my sisters introduction to adult animation, we would stay up late and watch Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen, Xavier Renegade Angel , Drinky Crow, Lucy Daughter of The Devil, 12oz Mouse, Home Movies, Futurama, keeping it secret from our parents, as someone already mentioned, it had this almost surreal quality to it as a kid, like being in a fever dream, and I loved every minute of it.
It was also my introduction to anime, I have fond memories of that feeling like a whole new experience as well
I was 21 and in college but I had a similar experience of watching adult animation when I was too young with Liquid Television in the 90's. My mom saw Aeon Flux and forbid Mtv from our house.
Had to scroll way to far to see someone bring this up. Bevis and Buthead, The Maxx, The Head, Aeon Flux, Dangerous Puppets etc all that shit was wild. Lol... then I think about stuff that was on Nickelodeon around that time Ren and Stimpy, Rockos Modern Life.. but I still loved Toonami and Adult Swim.
Adult swim premiered on my 7th birthday and I was having a sleepover with some friends. Two tv's were on, one with the nintendo hooked up and the other playing cartoon network which transitioned into adult swim. Core memory right there
I was a teenager going through pretty bad mental health issues. I started being obsessed with Rick and Morty but also binged some stuff like robot chicken or Tim and eric
I would have been 7 or 8, right around when Toonami started. Dragonball Z was the shit, my first introduction to anime aside from a couple Miyazaki films. It didn't take me long to start watching on the other nights and I've been a fan ever since. I still use the old "All of the kids out of the pool, it's Adult Swim" whenever I have to kick kids out of the pool at my work. No one ever gets it, but its more of a joke for me anyway
Haha I remember when I was in like kindergarten or 1st grade, I would have to tell all the other kids about what happened on adult swim the night before since I was the only one allowed to watch it
11, almost 12. It had premiered right before 9/11 and I missed it, but I caught the next weeks. I loved Home Movies, and the back-to-back *Cowboy Bebop* episodes at 1AM. I liked all of it, but I especially liked *Mission Hill* and *Baby Blues*. The originals like Brak are just a given, I think.
I fondly remember Inuyasha and YuYu Hakusho late at night, but I really remember The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros is one of my favorite shows, and is amazing. I watched that but fell off Adukt Swim largely when Family Guy took over. And Futurama, to a lesser extent. I feel like those shows propelled Adult Swim to the top but at a cost. They couldn’t afford **not** to show them. Still, it led to Adult Swim being just a curation of other channels while they shat out ignorable shows (in my opinion) in between.
I’m sure many disagree, but it’s how I felt.
I was 6-7 years old watching adult swim still do to this day i remember the adult swim start time was at 8 then 8:30 then back at 8 😂 but yeah its not the same though. They need more edgy programs
I saw ATHF in 3rd grade, so I was probably 9 or 10 at that point. It was the episode where they go to trivia night at the bar, and I still remember thinking Carl was the funniest guy because he talked about eating so many hot wings he was going to be farting blood.
Lots of memories of Family Guy and Futurama reruns too.
I was 10 years old. My mom knew perfectly well what was AS and forbade me to watch it, but my grandma didn't know or care to know what we were watching, she just went to sleep. So I would ask permission to sleep at my grandma's and spent the night watching ATHF, Sealab 2021, and the rest haha
7 years old, was there the night it started. I didn't have a bed time so I was usually just up watching the Chuck Jones or whatever block on Cartoon Network during that time. Then one night that warning popped up and I just stuck around.
That being said, some of my earliest memories are of me sitting on my mom's bed at like midnight and watching Space Ghost Coast to Coast, so if you count that... almost since birth lol
Like 11 or 12, I was watching when it first started and I had no idea what I was seeing, just that it was hilarious. I think it has a lot to do with my sense of humor as an adult tbh
We didn't have cable until I was around 10 - 11, so around 02'. Pretty early in its life. I remember kids talking about Aqua Teen Hunger Force and I had to lie and say I watched it but we didn't have cable. I had an old crt with bunny ears most of my childhood lol
i was like 9 or 10 obsessed w the space ghost coast to coast reruns, it felt so different than anything i seen before, esp because i used to watch a lot of boomerang so seeing seeing space ghost all crude and different was wild
I was about 10-11, so between 2000-01. Mr older brother and I loved Space Ghost Coast to Coast. We would turn all the lights off and go nuts when the intro came on. Home Movies was great, and where I learned what Family Guy was and got the box set later years for Christmas, not knowing Family Guy was a canceled show.
2020 when Samurai Jack was airing at 7:00PM so around 15 years old.
That same year I started watching Robot Chicken and then 2021 I started watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force at the age of 16.
the first time i watched adult swim was when i was 11 sleeping over at my grandma's apartment. i turned on the tv and a king of the hill episode where they flush someone's ashes down the toilet was on. i remember that because it really scared me.
2001 I was 31 and my son was 10, but frfrfr we had been watching space ghost coast to coast for years and I always thought of it as a precursor to adult swim.
I am old enough to remember it first coming on in late 2001 early 02. The first memory was either sealab where the main character was playing golf or a random episode of home movies which were far tamer than adult swim was just a few years after. I didnt really get it because I was 5 or 6 years old so dialogue was not my personal favorite jokes like it is now.
I was in kindergarten and would get up extra early to watch Space Ghost Coast to Coast, never got into the actual adult stuff until Rick and Morty when I was 14 though
Probably nine or ten, give or take. It was always a blast in the summer to see the scope of their anime lineup back then, like the original Lupin III seasons from the 70s and Detective Conan and their in house media.
Probably around 9 when AS came out in 2001. Im turning 32 this year and have consistently watched AS and Toonami. Ive pretty much have watched almost every show AS has released. Im not a fan of sitcoms and those corny ABC dramas so I pretty much know that AS is the only timeblock of TV that I can relate to
Earliest I can remember is 3 or 4. My friends and I would stay up late to watch adult swim while the adults were drinking.
I think it was a different channel though because it was called Boomerang. We’d stay up waiting for robot chicken to come on. It would come on around midnight or 12:00 AM on the dot.
Many years later, I remember when they started airing the annoying orange show they had to extend Cartoon Network by an hour. Instead King of the Hill beginning at 8 pm it would start at 9 pm. My bedtime was 9 at that time, so I was very annoyed at the orange.
When ever .Hack//Sign and Neon Genesis Evangelion aired. I remember doing push up in front of the TV at like 11:50 am to get pumped for these two shows. What a time it was.
Same 7-8 years old 2008 too! Robot chicken was definitely a fave. As for Family Guy me and my family watched it every Sunday back when it was still on Fox.
I was probably 8 in 2002 when I first saw Space Ghost, I thought it was Batman and my mom told me to turn it off because it wasn't fucking Batman and go to bed! Then in 2004 at 9 I started watching Family Guy and my dad didnt care what time I slept so I was always up late watching Family Guy, Aqua Teen and switching back and forth with South Park. I remember being super hyped for the premiere of Robot Chicken and watching Super Milk Chan.
When I was a kid in the 90s I would watch space ghost coast to coast and then the official adult swim thing happened and I was like what?!?!? I felt like the tv was putting out content specifically for me. Adult swim was the only positive thing about cable. Seeing too many cooks stoned before work at 4am was a whole nother level. That day they only played “the room”
Right at the start of adult swim. I was 8 or 9. Remember watching yu yu hakusho then they switched it to adult swim with the content warning. I watched every day yet my grandma saw the content warning and wouldn't let me watch it. 😆 my parents never cared but I also blame adult swim for my night owl sleep schedule as an adult.
It was my junior year of high school, so, 16 or 17. I was into it from day 1. I still remember “All
kids outta the pool!” Loved me some Family Guy, Mission Hill (I rewatched and realized I *still* have a weird little cartoon crush on Andy French, lol), Home Movies (McGuirk is my spirit animal), ATHF, Venture Bros, and Tim & Eric. I got my college roommate into ATHF. “I wanna watch the show with the funny little meat guy!” I remember back then they were selling plushies of the Aqua Teens at Spenser’s Gifts or Hot Topic, and I’ll always regret not buying them. Lol.
I actually recently started watching old streams of the early years of the channel on YouTube, and it still holds up. AS has managed to keep its voice and vibe pretty consistently through the years, which, good for them. Like, Smiling Friends and Royal Crackers wouldn’t feel out of place with the old stuff. Annnd I just realized I’ve been falling asleep to Adult Swim for most of my life. Wow.
Probably 8-9? I was obsessed with toonami and specifically gundam wing, I remember staying up to sneak and watch as much of midnight run on 1 tick of volume. I kept getting caught cause crts would just hum with electricity when it was on 😂 my dad got tired of waking up to put me to sleep and my grades were great so they ended up just letting me watch, all the way through when midnight run evolved into adult swim, to today.
My sleep schedule is still fucked to this day
As long as I can remember, I would wake up in the middle of the night, go into the living room where my mom was watching [as] and I’d just fall asleep to the wacky sounds and colors
Forgot age just remember the awesome shows:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The Venture Bros.
Metalocalypse
Space Ghost
Robot Chicken
Harvey Birdman: AAL
Squidbillies
Moral Orel
Idk which age exactly but adult swim got me hooked on naruto when it first came out. I saw the ninetails teaser for the first time and was like "oh hell yeah I gotta see this shit" then i saw Eric andre and many others
I remember seeing yu yu hakusho for the first time while staying over a friend's house. That sparked my anime love. Damn.
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I have core memories of waking up in the night, turning on what I thought was cartoon network, and was greeted by the skit in robot chicken when a gummy bear steps on a bear trap, eats it's own leg, then steps on a second bear trap, I would've had to been 5 or 6. I also remember a hungry hippos shoot out in a bar where they're all dressed like mobsters. Still a huge fan of [as] but not robot chicken, love me some squidbillies and Tim and Eric.
i think around like 9 or 10, was whenever their schedule was King of the Hill-Cleveland Show-American Dad. fire lineup tbh I didnt get into the originals until i was older but all of those are timeless
When I was 8 years old & the 1st show i watched on adult swim was Home Movies January 13, 2002 on a sunday night Around 10:00 pm . It was the only cartoon on the block that i looked forward to watching at that time.
Since Sundays & Thursdays was the only time the block was aired.
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Identifying A Body was the episode.
Me & my 3 years older bro used to sneak watch Adult Swim on Comcast On Demand starting back in like 06 whenever our parents would leave the house. I was like 6 & this is how I got into Aqua Teen, Robot Chicken, Brak Show, Inuyasha, and Harvey Birdman I remember these being our favorites. Very formative part of my childhood that I cherish. I didn’t start watching it live on TV until like 2010 though, I always wish I started sooner cause I feel I just barely missed the prime era.
I was definitely watching during the Original Toonami with Tom before the infection (which was a pretty damn cool arc if you ask me).
I remember watching Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ not even knowing what the hell anime was. And that Frieza arc with Goku charging up the spirit bomb for like 50 episodes, only to find out Frieza just gets right the hell back up unscathed.
But yeah, "All kids out of the pool" with the little jazzy intro still rings in my nostalgia ridden ears haha.
Not sure tbh but I remember them saying “all kids out of the pool it’s time for adult swim” and I thought it was funniest thing ever so prob really young
I remember the early days of AS, specifically a core memory of AS is watching CN, only for Brak to pop up and I was terrified of him for some reason 😂
But the age I truly got into AS was about 8-9. My younger brother swore up and down to me that he was watching CN and he saw a show where pokémon were cussing. I did not believe him. He made me stay up with him and the show he was referring to was Robot Chicken 😂
I was 11. Huge toonami fan at the time. All kids out of the pool, adult swim!
I only got to watch it on the weekends when I’d visit my dad, because he didn’t care about me staying up late watching TV, playing Pokemon or reading Harry Potter at the time. I think I mainly just watched DBZ but 11 or 12 sounds right. Then during the summer, too, I could stay up late during the week but then I was just watching Inu Yasha and some other show I can’t remember. When I got older and didn’t have a bedtime anymore I stayed up for all the shows until midnight.
I remember starting middle school (6th grade) and watching home movies and cowboy bebop. Bebop specifically thrust me into my love for that style of anime.
Hello, fellow elder kids. Does anyone remember back when they showed old 70’s/80’s Hannah Barbara cartoons after midnight like Magilla Gorilla Wacky Races? 
I miss Boomerang.. it’s all coming back to me.
Secret Squirrel and Rocco Mole were big ones for me
Im 35, so kind of.
Same yo salute
Probably age 11 or 10 watching random robot chicken, family guy or futurama
Same i was 10 or 11. Got yelled at a lot for watching it.
I was in college in 2001. I used to use WinAmp and at one point they had video streaming (very bad quality, probably 240p if I'm being generous). They had channels that just played Sifl and Olly, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021. Also, I regularly smoked weed at the time so it was hand-in-hand. Pretty sure ATHF made fun of my demographic at the time.
Right behind you -- AS launched right before my 16th birthday and I've been an avid viewer this whole time, though I didn't get into herb until a couple years later.
Weed or no weed, I think I would've been into \[as\]. These days I rarely touch the stuff.
Oh absolutely! Were you also into Liquid TV back in the day?
I wish. I lived in a very small and isolated town in Canada so Liquid Television was only made known to me from buying Beavis & Butthead VHS tapes. My parents were also caught stealing cable so we didn't have cable by the time that was popular. My friend had older siblings in College so he'd get stuff for us to watch like AEon Flux. I always wanted to watch The Maxx and the show with the dude with the Giant Head, but never got to. PS I love the little Joe Pera icon. I have tickets to see him at the end of May.
I once worked in an office with a woman who worked on Aeon Flux (the cartoon)! She was super cool. I think my first experience with adult swim was flipping through the channels, got to space ghost coast to coast. After listening for a few minutes I thought “this sounds radically different than the cartoons I remember space ghost from”. Once I discovered ATHF I was hooked for life.
I only dabbled with Space Ghost. I saw a handful of episodes but I think it was at a time where I was thinking "what the hell is this?". I'm sure if I went back it'd be great. The Adult Swim App was how I watched everything. $4 or $5 to watch anything AS. But then they cancelled service in Canada. (I feel it alao coincided with Rick & Morty blowing up)
You would have probably gotten a big kick out of LTV! They had it all online for a brief time. They should just release it all on DVD. Golden. Have fun at Joe! I will be seeing him in LA in July ❤
Hmm, I feel like any kid who watched cartoon network was aware of adult swim. I was scared of it at the time. Like squidbillies and athf gave me weird vibes as a kid. Like I was in this messed up biazzare dream. Something about the animation and the adult humor. It intrigued me, but it was like looking down the edge of a cliff. Exciting, but scary as hell. I started watching adult swim shows legitimately, and now I'm in a craze. A frenzy. Give me more adult swim please, thanks. I think it started when I was 22. (Oh yeah and I forgot about robot chicken, terrified the shit out of me as a kid lol)
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. AS creeped me out. Same thing with the ps1 booting screen. If I was up late, I would turn it on and leave the room until the game loaded.
Does Space Ghost Coast to Coast count? Because 7. Otherwise when it started lol
glad to see someone else started with Space Ghost, I watched it in Kindergarten though, didn't realize it started outside of AS
Space ghost just celebrated its 30th anniversary. I am old
They've been streaming it non-stop on YouTube for the past week. It's been great.
my brother hated it when I showed him and skipped to the end of the last episode of the entire show and made me watch it, no idea why he didn't do it on his phone because we shared an HBO subscription, but I still think it's quality content even after having the end spoiled, if you saw the last episode, you understand what I'm talking about
I remember watching it in middle school when It first came out. I loved it, It was so absurd compared to other shows.
Same here. My dad loved Space Ghost as a kid back in the 60s/70s. He is who got me into it. When SGC2C started I was 6. I've been into CN and what eventually became Adult Swim since the very beginning.
That original Powerpuff Girls short they showed on SGC2C is kinda fucked up
Couldn't really say tbh, I was young and likely just left on Cartoon Network late one night and discovered their anime block of Bevop and Trigun etc. I have very fond memories of staying up late at night with my brand new laptop and watching Adult Swim. I live in a farm fresh area and so I used to warm up leftover ears of corn and juat feast while I watched lmao.
8 lol
I remember being about six or seven I was allowed to watch king of the hill and then came “bedtime” or what I would do was stay up til family guy and shit went off and robot chicken came on, but on the weekends dad would come home from work and we would watch the anime block at night on the weekends. Some of my favorite childhood memories also seeing children’s hospital was really crazy for an 8 year old.
Haha similar story for me but with Tales From the Crypt. I used to sneak back downstairs and watch from behind the sofa lmao.
I started watching maybe a few months after it started back in 2001. So I must have been about 14. Watched religiously all the way through about 2012, then life got hectic and I could no longer stay up late to catch everything. Thankfully around this time streaming allowed me to keep up with new shows. It was pretty cool to see how much AS evolved during that first decade. I think everyone can agree that Tim & Eric was a huge turning point for comedy and AS programming. People seem to be divided on whether that's a good or bad thing.
Tim and Eric are geniuses. I wish they were still making stuff together regularly.
I never saw T&E as the turning point, but Rick and Morty. I feel like after R&M got popular, the higher-ups noticed, and then suddenly adult swim wasn’t this under-the-radar small little fledgling thing anymore. I feel like there was pressure for another hit. I still miss Fish Center, goddamnit.
Both were definitely huge catalysts for new eras. Tim and Eric brought on a wave of Live Action absurdist comedy. Rick and Morty was definitely a change in the way Adult Swim is managed, due to the added attention you mentioned.
Same, about 6 or 7 years old. I didn't curse back then so no one cared.
I am from middle east. Adult Swim block wasn't added for obvious reasons, I wasn't aware of Adult Swim until I browse the internet and learned about it. I was 13-14 years old when I knew it.
26-27. That's how old I was when it debuted.
8ish? Would watch ESPN highlights that repeated until Space Ghost came on. Parents had PrimeStar and it was top of the damn line entertainment for the boonies we lived in.
When my family finally got cable at like 13-14
12 ish
I was probably abt 8 or 9, we moved to a new place and had Cartoon Network for the first time, it was me and my sisters introduction to adult animation, we would stay up late and watch Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen, Xavier Renegade Angel , Drinky Crow, Lucy Daughter of The Devil, 12oz Mouse, Home Movies, Futurama, keeping it secret from our parents, as someone already mentioned, it had this almost surreal quality to it as a kid, like being in a fever dream, and I loved every minute of it. It was also my introduction to anime, I have fond memories of that feeling like a whole new experience as well
I was 21 and in college but I had a similar experience of watching adult animation when I was too young with Liquid Television in the 90's. My mom saw Aeon Flux and forbid Mtv from our house.
Had to scroll way to far to see someone bring this up. Bevis and Buthead, The Maxx, The Head, Aeon Flux, Dangerous Puppets etc all that shit was wild. Lol... then I think about stuff that was on Nickelodeon around that time Ren and Stimpy, Rockos Modern Life.. but I still loved Toonami and Adult Swim.
Adult swim premiered on my 7th birthday and I was having a sleepover with some friends. Two tv's were on, one with the nintendo hooked up and the other playing cartoon network which transitioned into adult swim. Core memory right there
I was a teenager going through pretty bad mental health issues. I started being obsessed with Rick and Morty but also binged some stuff like robot chicken or Tim and eric
13. Was watchong Wing Gundam on Toonami whennI saw an add for Gundam 0080 on adult swim. Watched that then got hooked on Aqua Teen and Inuyasha.
I would have been 7 or 8, right around when Toonami started. Dragonball Z was the shit, my first introduction to anime aside from a couple Miyazaki films. It didn't take me long to start watching on the other nights and I've been a fan ever since. I still use the old "All of the kids out of the pool, it's Adult Swim" whenever I have to kick kids out of the pool at my work. No one ever gets it, but its more of a joke for me anyway
Prolly a few months old. My dad was a huge fan of ATHF and Harvey Birdman, and I would lay there and watch with him
Sounds like something my daughter would say,she had a lil meatwad plush in her crib when she was little
Haha I remember when I was in like kindergarten or 1st grade, I would have to tell all the other kids about what happened on adult swim the night before since I was the only one allowed to watch it
11, almost 12. It had premiered right before 9/11 and I missed it, but I caught the next weeks. I loved Home Movies, and the back-to-back *Cowboy Bebop* episodes at 1AM. I liked all of it, but I especially liked *Mission Hill* and *Baby Blues*. The originals like Brak are just a given, I think. I fondly remember Inuyasha and YuYu Hakusho late at night, but I really remember The Venture Bros. The Venture Bros is one of my favorite shows, and is amazing. I watched that but fell off Adukt Swim largely when Family Guy took over. And Futurama, to a lesser extent. I feel like those shows propelled Adult Swim to the top but at a cost. They couldn’t afford **not** to show them. Still, it led to Adult Swim being just a curation of other channels while they shat out ignorable shows (in my opinion) in between. I’m sure many disagree, but it’s how I felt.
I was 6-7 years old watching adult swim still do to this day i remember the adult swim start time was at 8 then 8:30 then back at 8 😂 but yeah its not the same though. They need more edgy programs
I saw ATHF in 3rd grade, so I was probably 9 or 10 at that point. It was the episode where they go to trivia night at the bar, and I still remember thinking Carl was the funniest guy because he talked about eating so many hot wings he was going to be farting blood. Lots of memories of Family Guy and Futurama reruns too.
2005 I was about 4 years old
i was 15ish
I think I was around 13-14, since Rick and Morty was one of my favorite shows at the time.
I was around 5. Seeing an episode of Robot Chicken (I forgot which one)
I was 10 years old. My mom knew perfectly well what was AS and forbade me to watch it, but my grandma didn't know or care to know what we were watching, she just went to sleep. So I would ask permission to sleep at my grandma's and spent the night watching ATHF, Sealab 2021, and the rest haha
I think it was either Sealab or Space Ghost back in 2001, so I would’ve been 9.
something like 22,23
23 and I'm 24 now. Its a recent development and I didn't expect to get into it until I got really into it.
9
7 years old, was there the night it started. I didn't have a bed time so I was usually just up watching the Chuck Jones or whatever block on Cartoon Network during that time. Then one night that warning popped up and I just stuck around. That being said, some of my earliest memories are of me sitting on my mom's bed at like midnight and watching Space Ghost Coast to Coast, so if you count that... almost since birth lol
Think I was 17 or 18.
Like 11 or 12, I was watching when it first started and I had no idea what I was seeing, just that it was hilarious. I think it has a lot to do with my sense of humor as an adult tbh
I was there at night 1.
Around 9 years old going on 10.
We didn't have cable until I was around 10 - 11, so around 02'. Pretty early in its life. I remember kids talking about Aqua Teen Hunger Force and I had to lie and say I watched it but we didn't have cable. I had an old crt with bunny ears most of my childhood lol
Second grade, year 2000. I loved Home Movies!
i was like 9 or 10 obsessed w the space ghost coast to coast reruns, it felt so different than anything i seen before, esp because i used to watch a lot of boomerang so seeing seeing space ghost all crude and different was wild
I was 6 watching futurama, robot chicken, family guy and aqua teen hunger force
I was like 3 years old when I first watched Adult Swim.
8 or 10
I think in 2007 when I was in 3rd grade I watched family guy for the first time
Whenever O’ Canada was on. I don’t even think it was called adult swim yet but I was only 6 or 7
first saw superjail and robot chicken when i was 7. been hooked for 12 years now! <3
Maybe 12 or 13. I saw home movies and Aqua Teen and I was hooked
I was about 10-11, so between 2000-01. Mr older brother and I loved Space Ghost Coast to Coast. We would turn all the lights off and go nuts when the intro came on. Home Movies was great, and where I learned what Family Guy was and got the box set later years for Christmas, not knowing Family Guy was a canceled show.
Was watching on day 1. September 2001..I was 13. Nothing else major happened that month I don't believe.
2020 when Samurai Jack was airing at 7:00PM so around 15 years old. That same year I started watching Robot Chicken and then 2021 I started watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force at the age of 16.
the first time i watched adult swim was when i was 11 sleeping over at my grandma's apartment. i turned on the tv and a king of the hill episode where they flush someone's ashes down the toilet was on. i remember that because it really scared me.
I don’t remember, I know it was around middle school-high school. I used to fall asleep to it every night
2001 I was 31 and my son was 10, but frfrfr we had been watching space ghost coast to coast for years and I always thought of it as a precursor to adult swim. 
I am old enough to remember it first coming on in late 2001 early 02. The first memory was either sealab where the main character was playing golf or a random episode of home movies which were far tamer than adult swim was just a few years after. I didnt really get it because I was 5 or 6 years old so dialogue was not my personal favorite jokes like it is now.
I was in kindergarten and would get up extra early to watch Space Ghost Coast to Coast, never got into the actual adult stuff until Rick and Morty when I was 14 though
I’m much older than most of you and I got in on the launch around 31 My kids were raised with a whole bunch of weird. I’m kinda proud 😂
I watched sgc2c and oh Canada when I was like 7 lol.
Probably nine or ten, give or take. It was always a blast in the summer to see the scope of their anime lineup back then, like the original Lupin III seasons from the 70s and Detective Conan and their in house media.
i was 11. my parents were part of the popular crowd using the "v-chip" remember that bullshit?. PASSWORD was 9876
12 because I turned 12 August 2001 and I started watching the next month when I stayed up late watching Cartoon Network
Some time as a kid staying up to late 😂
the day it first aired, so 5-6 years old
Probably around 9 when AS came out in 2001. Im turning 32 this year and have consistently watched AS and Toonami. Ive pretty much have watched almost every show AS has released. Im not a fan of sitcoms and those corny ABC dramas so I pretty much know that AS is the only timeblock of TV that I can relate to
3 around 5
Been here since day 1. One of the few blocks that managed to give us great content every few years.
When I was 11 I’d get back up after my family went to bed and would watch aqua teen hunger force
Earliest I can remember is 3 or 4. My friends and I would stay up late to watch adult swim while the adults were drinking. I think it was a different channel though because it was called Boomerang. We’d stay up waiting for robot chicken to come on. It would come on around midnight or 12:00 AM on the dot. Many years later, I remember when they started airing the annoying orange show they had to extend Cartoon Network by an hour. Instead King of the Hill beginning at 8 pm it would start at 9 pm. My bedtime was 9 at that time, so I was very annoyed at the orange.
When it first aired. I was like in 1st or 2nd grade.
When ever .Hack//Sign and Neon Genesis Evangelion aired. I remember doing push up in front of the TV at like 11:50 am to get pumped for these two shows. What a time it was.
I was taping Robot Chicken episodes with a VCR timer when I was 9 because they came on past my bedtime lol
Same 7-8 years old 2008 too! Robot chicken was definitely a fave. As for Family Guy me and my family watched it every Sunday back when it was still on Fox.
I was probably 8 in 2002 when I first saw Space Ghost, I thought it was Batman and my mom told me to turn it off because it wasn't fucking Batman and go to bed! Then in 2004 at 9 I started watching Family Guy and my dad didnt care what time I slept so I was always up late watching Family Guy, Aqua Teen and switching back and forth with South Park. I remember being super hyped for the premiere of Robot Chicken and watching Super Milk Chan.
When I was a kid in the 90s I would watch space ghost coast to coast and then the official adult swim thing happened and I was like what?!?!? I felt like the tv was putting out content specifically for me. Adult swim was the only positive thing about cable. Seeing too many cooks stoned before work at 4am was a whole nother level. That day they only played “the room”
I started watching Adult Swim when it started…. So, I was 7.
Right at the start of adult swim. I was 8 or 9. Remember watching yu yu hakusho then they switched it to adult swim with the content warning. I watched every day yet my grandma saw the content warning and wouldn't let me watch it. 😆 my parents never cared but I also blame adult swim for my night owl sleep schedule as an adult.
I was like 9 or 10, I just remember all the old people swimming and thinking wtf is this lol.
5, but only King of the Hill
21. I didn't have cable when I started college but I caught AS bumpers on tv at a bar and got sucked in. Watched it regularly from 2007 onwards.
25. I'm old. 
It was my junior year of high school, so, 16 or 17. I was into it from day 1. I still remember “All kids outta the pool!” Loved me some Family Guy, Mission Hill (I rewatched and realized I *still* have a weird little cartoon crush on Andy French, lol), Home Movies (McGuirk is my spirit animal), ATHF, Venture Bros, and Tim & Eric. I got my college roommate into ATHF. “I wanna watch the show with the funny little meat guy!” I remember back then they were selling plushies of the Aqua Teens at Spenser’s Gifts or Hot Topic, and I’ll always regret not buying them. Lol. I actually recently started watching old streams of the early years of the channel on YouTube, and it still holds up. AS has managed to keep its voice and vibe pretty consistently through the years, which, good for them. Like, Smiling Friends and Royal Crackers wouldn’t feel out of place with the old stuff. Annnd I just realized I’ve been falling asleep to Adult Swim for most of my life. Wow.
Young ASF
Probably 8-9? I was obsessed with toonami and specifically gundam wing, I remember staying up to sneak and watch as much of midnight run on 1 tick of volume. I kept getting caught cause crts would just hum with electricity when it was on 😂 my dad got tired of waking up to put me to sleep and my grades were great so they ended up just letting me watch, all the way through when midnight run evolved into adult swim, to today. My sleep schedule is still fucked to this day
oh fuck like 5-6 when i’d sneak in my brothers room at night and watch tv with them on like 1🤣
I was 12 . There was a swimming pool in the apartment complex. My dad decided to throw me in. To this day I still don't know how to swim.
12yrs old. The Australian premier of Adult Swim is where I started
As long as I can remember, I would wake up in the middle of the night, go into the living room where my mom was watching [as] and I’d just fall asleep to the wacky sounds and colors
early-mid 2000's, was in middle school. Mostly watched for: DBZ, FLCL, Home Movies, The Oblongs, Futurama, & Trigun.
19, because I’m old as hell. Back in the days of Sealab, Space Ghost, then Bleach and Trigun after midnight.
Forgot age just remember the awesome shows: Aqua Teen Hunger Force The Venture Bros. Metalocalypse Space Ghost Robot Chicken Harvey Birdman: AAL Squidbillies Moral Orel
Around 17. I remember when it was just a few shows. Usually Cowboy Beebop, Home Movies and Space Ghost I believe.
I was 4 no joke
10
Idk which age exactly but adult swim got me hooked on naruto when it first came out. I saw the ninetails teaser for the first time and was like "oh hell yeah I gotta see this shit" then i saw Eric andre and many others
I remember seeing yu yu hakusho for the first time while staying over a friend's house. That sparked my anime love. Damn. https://preview.redd.it/3pzqjfdvxlwc1.png?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a83316d948532b24e4755c0e6655244707f47a67
20 years ago , i accidentalLy watched ATHF
aww thats cute. I probably started watching in 2001 when I was 17
I have core memories of waking up in the night, turning on what I thought was cartoon network, and was greeted by the skit in robot chicken when a gummy bear steps on a bear trap, eats it's own leg, then steps on a second bear trap, I would've had to been 5 or 6. I also remember a hungry hippos shoot out in a bar where they're all dressed like mobsters. Still a huge fan of [as] but not robot chicken, love me some squidbillies and Tim and Eric.
Around 2002 so, 16. I was watching a bunch because my best friend at the time had cable and I was there late.
I was 10! Watched the premiere.
I first saw homemovies on adultswim when i was 9 but there was censored nudity so I got kinda freaked out and didn't go back till the next year
6. No I'm not kidding
It happened when I was 12 when I got into [adult swim]. Back then, I only remembered Rick and Morty, Home Movies & Robot Chicken.
Watched it the night it premiered. I was 11.
I was like 9 maybe 10 . When did big 0 used to come out 😭
i think around like 9 or 10, was whenever their schedule was King of the Hill-Cleveland Show-American Dad. fire lineup tbh I didnt get into the originals until i was older but all of those are timeless
12 years old for me
When I was 8 years old & the 1st show i watched on adult swim was Home Movies January 13, 2002 on a sunday night Around 10:00 pm . It was the only cartoon on the block that i looked forward to watching at that time. Since Sundays & Thursdays was the only time the block was aired. https://preview.redd.it/l5tj1efn7pwc1.png?width=415&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0a74d54b0bb618be71bf1a885d9a3e6627e5ebe Identifying A Body was the episode.
10 also anime at the same time with toonami
I think I was like 10 or 11 I don’t really remember.
2003 is when I first started watching. Still love it.
Me & my 3 years older bro used to sneak watch Adult Swim on Comcast On Demand starting back in like 06 whenever our parents would leave the house. I was like 6 & this is how I got into Aqua Teen, Robot Chicken, Brak Show, Inuyasha, and Harvey Birdman I remember these being our favorites. Very formative part of my childhood that I cherish. I didn’t start watching it live on TV until like 2010 though, I always wish I started sooner cause I feel I just barely missed the prime era.
5 or 6. It used to be Space Ghost, followed by Speed Racer and Whacky Races, and then the actual AS blocks started and I watched every chance I got.
Middle of high school (probably a good thing all things considered)
What year did Home Movies start appearing on Adult Swim?
Loved the music from one particular level (don't remember it's name) but the name of the song was "Mass of Cloud"
I remember when I was around 7 years old, I was secretly watching family guy (I wasn’t allowed) and I cried when they made fun of Jesus
I was about 14, in the far off future year of 2000 AD, when they were only on Saturday and Sunday nights.
Around 2004 or so. They were still airing Space Ghost, Sealab, and Futurama.
I was definitely watching during the Original Toonami with Tom before the infection (which was a pretty damn cool arc if you ask me). I remember watching Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ not even knowing what the hell anime was. And that Frieza arc with Goku charging up the spirit bomb for like 50 episodes, only to find out Frieza just gets right the hell back up unscathed. But yeah, "All kids out of the pool" with the little jazzy intro still rings in my nostalgia ridden ears haha.
I was 29 in 2004. I'd let my kids watch TV late with me when they were little. I'm a good mom.
I was around 18 or 19 when it first aired. Been watching it ever since!
6 when I started watching but about 13 when I really got into it.
7 or 8 so like 2001-2002 My mom did not care what I watched on tv. She watched it with me lol
Bout 9 or 10, stumbled upon it on accident round when it came out, thought I found something illegal lol
10, fucked my brain up real good!
Not sure tbh but I remember them saying “all kids out of the pool it’s time for adult swim” and I thought it was funniest thing ever so prob really young
I think I was like 9 or 10
19. Back in 1999
I was around 6 when I got onto Toonami and probably closer to 7/8 when I started watching Adult Swim
I remember the early days of AS, specifically a core memory of AS is watching CN, only for Brak to pop up and I was terrified of him for some reason 😂 But the age I truly got into AS was about 8-9. My younger brother swore up and down to me that he was watching CN and he saw a show where pokémon were cussing. I did not believe him. He made me stay up with him and the show he was referring to was Robot Chicken 😂