Cartoon Network
rocks my freaking socks off. I'm sorry, it's really gay to say so, but this new Adult Swim "fill" campaign - the ~10 second animations sandwiched between episodes - beats all their others, which were themselves the best of their kind on TV.
The "fills" consist of black screens with white text and a white matte of some easily recognizable anime - Zenigata running, Spike's spacecraft, Inuyasha drawing his sword, etc. The only sound is an instrumental part of some light jazzy emo song apparently by indie bands in Atlanta. The text appearing is as follows, to the best of my knowledge:
"It's Monday.
Time for Adult Swim.
Monday. Start of the working week.
. . .
I can't think of anything to say.
Seriously.
Alright.
'Welcome to the working week.
I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you
Welcome to the working week.
You gotta do it till you're through it so you better get to it.'
-Elvis Costello"
- - - - - - - -
"Why is it that Austin got the Bebop movie?
What about Atlanta?
I mean, nothing against Austin
But we put Bebop on the map.
Come on.
Where's the love?"
"Wow, I wonder how they'll get out of that situation?
Okay, we don't really know what just happened.
We write this stuff months before it airs.
But we still love you."
"Okay, that's the end of Adult Swim.
Something is up next.
Maybe Powerpuff Girls.
Or not. This stuff changes all the time.
They'll tell you what's coming up next anyway.
At least, they should. . ."
-J
The "fills" consist of black screens with white text and a white matte of some easily recognizable anime - Zenigata running, Spike's spacecraft, Inuyasha drawing his sword, etc. The only sound is an instrumental part of some light jazzy emo song apparently by indie bands in Atlanta. The text appearing is as follows, to the best of my knowledge:
"It's Monday.
Time for Adult Swim.
Monday. Start of the working week.
. . .
I can't think of anything to say.
Seriously.
Alright.
'Welcome to the working week.
I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you
Welcome to the working week.
You gotta do it till you're through it so you better get to it.'
-Elvis Costello"
- - - - - - - -
"Why is it that Austin got the Bebop movie?
What about Atlanta?
I mean, nothing against Austin
But we put Bebop on the map.
Come on.
Where's the love?"
"Wow, I wonder how they'll get out of that situation?
Okay, we don't really know what just happened.
We write this stuff months before it airs.
But we still love you."
"Okay, that's the end of Adult Swim.
Something is up next.
Maybe Powerpuff Girls.
Or not. This stuff changes all the time.
They'll tell you what's coming up next anyway.
At least, they should. . ."
-J