The Three Types of Adult Swim Bumpers
If you haven’t been watching Adult Swim lately, you have been missing out on what is possibly the funniest, most clever, creative, and original thing ever to hit television airwaves in the history of the universe. Of course, I am talking about Adult Swim’s black and white bumpers. Because the dudes over at Williams Street are just so darned cool, they give secret messages right THROUGH THE TELEVISION to their loyal fans, the Adult Swim viewers. But because these bumpers tend to go over some people’s heads, I have broken down all of Adult Swim’s black and white bumpers into three different types.
1. The News Bumpers. In these bumpers, Williams Street will give us news about something Adult Swim related. The news bumpers, in fact, can be broken down into three sub-types:Goodness, aren't those bumpers grand? I like to think of them as the "anti-package" because having a series of bumpers that are cheaply produced are certainly the type of thing you'd never see on CBS primetime, so that must automatically make them anti-mainstream and against the norm! Those boys at Williams Street are just too much sometimes. ;) But no matter what happens on those bumpers, you can always be sure of one thing, you will never see a bumper that doesn't fall into one of those categories. THE END.
a. The News About Anime or Something Dumb and Boring Bumpers.2. The What You Like Bumpers. Williams Street is cool. So darn cool, they know exactly what you like. They know because they have a message board on the web at adultswim.com! So, whenever possible Williams Street will tell us that we like Adult Swim, why we like and how much we like it. The text of the average What You Like Bumper usually reads something like this: “Coming up next is a good episode of a good show! You should watch it because it’s great! You like watching Adult Swim, so watch this show on Adult Swim! And we’re not even being ironic when we do shit like this!”b. The News About Something People Actually Care About Bumpers. So far this rare breed of bumper has only been found twice on Adult Swim: When they told us about Space Ghost DVDs, and when they told us about the six new episodes of Space Ghost.
c. The Williams Street Comes Close to Giving Us News But Then Doesn't Bumpers. In these bumpers, Williams Street will come very very close to telling us news (usually about anime), but will tiptoe around it because, after all, these banners are so awesome, too awesome to give us news. The text of an average Williams Street Comes Close to Giving Us News But Then Doesn't Bumper will usually look like this: “Adult Swim has picked up a new show. What is it you ask? Well it’s… WHOOPS WE RAN OUT OF TIME WE CAN’T TELL YOU LOLOLOLOL!! ;)” It just goes to show that you never know what will pop up on screen when Williams Street is producing your bumpers!!! :D
3. The Complaining That The Adultswim.com Message Board Has Stupid Young Kids On It Bumpers. A personal favorite of mine, Williams Street will often poke some good natured fun at their very own message board on adultswim.com. I bet you never thought you’d see acronyms like “WTF” or “LOL” on your TV screen! That’s Williams Street for you!! Now in case you haven’t noticed, the Adultswim.com board isn’t made up entirely of Harvard graduates. Now I sincerely hope Williams Street called the President of the Internet to fix that defective message board because as far as I can tell it's the only message board on the internet on which every post doesn’t rival the complete works of Shakespeare. So, whenever possible, Williams Street will type in proverbial “leet speak” to convey that that is actually how the people on that message board type. It truly never does get old. :)