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Get Jiro Episode 5 – “Pressure Cooker” Recap: A Platter of Wits Spoilers for Get Jiro episode five follow. We’re halfway through Get Jiro now, and this week’s episode was a fittingly loaded one, even as it mostly took place within the confines of a single restaurant parking lot. Episode five,…

Get Jiro Episode 4 – “Secret Sauce” Recap: Tying Up Burnt Ends Spoilers for episode 4 of Get Jiro. Get Jiro has been doing a great job establishing itself over the last two weeks, but episode four is where things really kick into high gear. There’s a lot of plot development and a heaping helping…

Small talk with a leprechaun, a sex ed teacher who asked an AI for help, and a PTSD treatment that goes very, very wrong. Episode 4 is awkward on purpose. #adultswim

#NYCC 2026 wraps up today, and @boonose.bsky.social's coverage from the floor is still coming. Geeking out and want to write about it? We're open to regular contributors and one-shot guest columns. #AdultSwim, animation, comics, games, collectibles, and more con coverage. adultswimcentral.com/join

Update! Turns out those were instructions dictated by Javits Security, for the PREVIOUS panel So… Get Jiro panel! Pics + info from @boonose.bsky.social : “A lot of loving tributes to Anthony Bourdain, teases of future episodes and the first ep screened for an audience.” #adultswim #getjiro #nycc

Marshall and Frances are fugitives now. Common Side Effects returns January 24 on Adult Swim, with photos from the NYCC panel and a first look. #NYCC #AdultSwim

NYCC Saturday is here! While we’re not on press duty this year, @boonose.bsky.social has been scouring the floors and checking out panels from Futurama, Avatar, and more! What so far have you seen that’s making you geek out? #nycc #futurama #adultswim

AS signaling that Williams Street is alive and well… ironically that doesn’t include having an official account here. P.S.: If you’re at NYCC this weekend, AS has panels for Common Side Effects S2 and the brand new series Get Jiro. #adultswim www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...

I was one of the kids traumatized by Transformers: The Movie in 1986. Forty years later, Hasbro tried to apologize. Here's how Optimus Prime: Awakening landed. #transformers

Episode 3 of The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza: a found-footage hospital full of guys who only want to talk about A24, a Marc Maron clone in a cell, and Steve Buscemi agonizing over his last words. #adultswim

“Get Jiro” Review: All’s Fair in Lunch and War As much as I love Adult Swim’s commitment to weird, absurdist comedy, I’m equally, if not even more interested in their recent efforts towards more dramatic, story-driven non-comedy series that nonetheless share their “only on Adult Swim” approach to…

“Iron Boy” Review (New York Film Festival 2026): A Hand-Painted Tale of a Boy Straightening Up The New York Film Festival returned to Lincoln Center (and various other locations across New York City), bringing with it some of the year’s biggest Oscar contenders, new voices, and some high-profile…

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Someone just got accepted to Hogwarts. Also on the docket: a dinner party with no guests and a poetry slam the union did not approve. This week's recap of The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza. #adultswim

“The History of Concrete” Review: Between Rock and a Hard Place First things first: The History of Concrete is a documentary about concrete. It’s about a lot of other things too, like, a lot of other things, but it is still mainly about concrete. (It’s not even the first concrete documentary I’ve…

30 minutes until ep 2 of The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza. If you watched the premiere last week, expect even more horror/weirdness. Got thoughts or comments on Ep 2? Shout them here or adultswimcentral.com/discord and you might find yourself quoted on the website. #adultswim #jordanmendoza

Brand new episode of Play Comics!!! #podcasts

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A bank robber who wants to be a famous snake. A judge who sentences a man to fifteen hugs. Our recap of The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza episode one is up, and the crew has thoughts about Kroll Show. #adultswim

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Adult Swim dropped the full first episode of The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza on YouTube hours early. There is still a good reason to wait for midnight, and no word yet on HBO Max. #adultswim

I had a BLAST watching “Practical Magic 2”! 🪄✨ But did Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman still have the sauce? 👀🔮 Check out my full “Practical Magic 2” review on Adult Swim Central: adultswimcentral.com/2026/09/10/p... #PracticalMagic2 #MovieReview #FilmReview #PracticalMagic #Movies

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I found Adult Swim before Adult Swim existed… a milkshake being rude to a wad of meat, Brooklyn, December 2000. Twenty-five years for the block, twenty-four of me writing about it. This is the long version: night one, the bumps, the drift, and why I came back. adultswimcentral.com/2026/09/02/a...

New writer, first piece: Brenna Thomas on why Smiling Friends really ended. Adult Swim offered 2 more seasons and the creators turned them down. Hadel on the odds of more episodes: "It really does change day to day. But it's not zero." #adultswim #smilingfriends adultswimcentral.com/2026/09/02/w...

By now you've seen it. Everything past here is FULL SPOILAGE: the complete breakdown, manifest to body count, with screencaps. #robotchicken #adultswim adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/31/r...

The movie WB decided was worth more dead than alive hits theaters Friday. Avi's verdict: "This is not just another use of the Looney Tunes IP." Full Coyote vs. Acme review: adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/24/c...

Our review of The Robot Chicken: Adult Swim Special is live. Spoiler-free... the manifest stays sealed until it airs (the full walkthrough runs the morning after). #adultswim #robotchicken Get your bingo cards ready. adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/24/r...

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Big news!!!! @cheapshow.bsky.social hits episode 500 this Sunday with a live show at Cambridge Junction — plus a YouTube livestream if you're not in the UK. 4:30pm UK / 11:30am ET. Eleven years, 4.9 stars, no weeks off. Go make some noise for them. #podcasts adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/22/c...

New Adult Swim premiere date: The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza, Sept 13 at midnight. Surreal horror-comedy, guest list includes Steve Buscemi, Wanda Sykes, Marc Maron, Haley Joel Osment. And the press release contains the most honest creator quote ever published. adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/21/t...

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The first trailer for The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza is out. Sketch comedy built on surreal horror, guest list already stacked (Buscemi, Maron, Sykes). Our breakdown + premiere-window read: adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/14/t...

Hey Hey - Instead of a new episode tomorrow, how about a nice video diary today? This is the one that accompanied Ep 499: Door To Door! Now you can SEE our pain, not just hear it! youtu.be/Fm9A1PBPfSU @e-loud.bsky.social

Adult Swim released the first minute of the RC: [as] Special —. New in the breakdown: the Orel and Clay very much recast, Jan and Jace posing with Rick and Morty walkarounds… and Eric Wareheim, finally confirmed. adultswimcentral.com/2026/08/07/robot-chicken-special-cast/

The Test Pattern is live — the Adult Swim Central + ACPN newsletter. 📬 No algorithm deciding what you see. One email when it matters, straight to your inbox. Issue #1 lands August 24 with our review of the Robot Chicken Adult Swim Special. Tune in: adultswimcentral.com/the-test-pattern

Hear it for yourself! playcomics.com/naruto-path-... Brought to you in part by @gonnageek.bsky.social and @adultswimcentral.com

Participation Night delivered — Jackbox chaos, RiffTrax crimes against cinema, and a couch full of players who showed up and played. Thanks to everyone who joined... we'll do it again. Watch this space. 🎮 #Twitch