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Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically-gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compo
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (1060) |
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast is an American animated parody talk show, hosted by the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost. The show premiered on April 15, 1994, on Cartoon Network. Though the original 1960s series aired as a standard Hanna-Bar
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Mike Lazzo, Alex Toth |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (29) |
Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all for the glory of adventure. Or something like that.
Genres: | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (79) |
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole is a stop-motion animated TV series by Dino Stamatopoulos, creator of Moral Orel.
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dino Stamatopoulos |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (2) |
A 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening.
Genres: | Comedy, Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Yōji Enokido, Kazuya Tsurumaki |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (87) |
The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean's surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, manned by a motley collection of malcontents and screw-ups who were unfit
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Adam Reed, Matt Thompson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (30) |
Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired a sneak peek on Adult Swim on December 13, 2005, before it officially aired on January 23, 2006 to December 18, 2008. It has been described as "Davey and Goliath...meet
Genres: | Drama, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dino Stamatopoulos |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (22) |
Superjail! is an American animated television series produced by Augenblick Studios the first season and Titmouse, Inc. the second and third season. The series follows the events that take place in an unusual prison. The pilot episode aired on television
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Adult Swim, G4 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (31) |
The Brak Show is an animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The Brak Show is a spin-off of the animated television series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and featured recurring characters from Spac
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (10) |
Frisky Dingo is an American animated cartoon series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Adult Swim. The series revolved around the conflict between a supervillain named Killface and a superhero named Awesome X, alias billionaire Xander Crews, and m
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Matt Thompson, Adam Reed |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (28) |
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law features ex-superhero Harvey T. Birdman of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as an attorney working for a law firm alongside other cartoon stars from 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. Similarly, Harvey's clients are a
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Erik Richter, Michael Ouweleen |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (33) |
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is an American sketch comedy television series, created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, which premiered February 11, 2007 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim comedy block and ran until May 2010. The progr
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (29) |
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series premiered on November 6, 2005 and was created by Aaron McGruder, based upon McGruder's comic strip of the same name. The show begi
Genres: | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Aaron McGruder |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (96) |
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Eric André |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (25) |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series made its official debut on September 9, 2001 on Adult swim; after the pilot episode was aired as a special sneak pee
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (72) |
Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of t
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (15) |
Robot Chicken is an American stop-motion claymation comedy television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. The writers, especially Green, also provide many of t
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Seth Green, Matthew Senreich |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (132) |
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | The WB, Adult Swim |
Created By: | Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern, David Wain |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (27) |
Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil is a computer-animated cartoon aired by Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim programming block. It was written and directed by Loren Bouchard, produced by Bouchard, Seth and Josh Piezas, and animated by Fluid Animation
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Loren Bouchard |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (11) |
Metalocalypse is an American animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6, 2006 on Adult Swim. The television program centers around the larger than life death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays d
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Brendon Small |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (50) |
Home Movies is an American animated television sitcom that was originally broadcast from April 26, 1999 to April 4, 2004. Brendon Small is the creator, head writer and lead musician of Home Movies. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky and Janine Ditullio a
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | UPN, Adult Swim |
Created By: | Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (37) |
The Drinky Crow Show is an American animated television series created by Eric Kaplan and Tony Millionaire, based on the latter's comic strip Maakies. The pilot episode aired on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim on May 13, 2007. Th
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
12 oz. Mouse revolves around Mouse Fitzgerald, nicknamed "Fitz", an alcoholic mouse who performs odd jobs so he can buy more beer. Together with his chinchilla companion Skillet, Fitz begins to recover suppressed memories that he once had a wife and a chi
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Matt Maiellaro |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (8) |
Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim pro
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro, Jim Fortier |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (27) |
NTSF:SD:SUV:: – meaning National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle:: – is a quarter-hour format American television comedy that parodies the police procedural and action film genres.
Genres: | Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Paul Scheer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (14) |
China, IL – meaning "China, Illinois" – is an animated television series for the cable network Adult Swim. The series is created by Brad Neely, and features Neely's existing characters from the China, IL web series and special. Characters include Frank an
Genre: | Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Brad Neely |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (7) |