2003

This is a list of notable events, premieres, releases, series cancellations, series endings and other business ventures for Adult Swim in the year 2003.

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January

12

• Adult Swim expands to 5 days a week Sundays-Thursdays 11pm-2am.
• Adult Swim rebrands to the "first aid" era. The bumpers featured animated safety manuals demonstrating techniques with the characters.
• Futurama aired as a series premiere. Futurama is the first FOX import to air on Adult Swim.

13

• The Futurama episode "The Series Has Landed" premiered.
• Lupin the 3rd Part II aired as a series premiere.

14

• The Futurama episode "I, Roommate" premiered.

15

• The Futurama episode "Love's Labours Lost in Space" premiered.

16

• The Futurama episode "Fear of a Bot Planet" premiered.

19

• The Futurama episode "A Fishful of Dollars" premiered.

20

• The Futurama episode "My Three Suns" premiered.
• The season 1 finale of Inuyasha aired.

21

• The Futurama episode "A Big Piece of Garbage" premiered.
• Inuyasha aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episode "Miroku Falls into a Dangerous Trap".

22

• The Futurama episode "Hell is Other Robots" premiered.

23

• The Futurama episode "A Flight to Remember" premiered.

26

• The Futurama episode "Mars University" premiered.

27

• The Futurama episode "When Aliens Attack" premiered.

28

• The season 1 finale of Futurama aired.

29

• Futurama aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episode "I Second That Emotion".

30

• The Futurama episode "Brannigan, Begin Again" premiered.

February

2

• The Futurama episode "A Head in the Polls" premiered.

3

• The Futurama episode "Xmas Story" premiered.

4

• The Futurama episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" premiered.

5

• The Futurama episode "The Lesser of Two Evils" premiered.

6

• The Futurama episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" premiered.

9

• The Futurama episode "Raging Bender" premiered.

10

• The Futurama episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two" premiered.
• Reign: The Conqueror aired as a series premiere.

11

• The Futurama episode "A Clone of My Own" premiered.

12

• The Futurama episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "A Failure of Diplomacy" premiered.

13

• The Futurama episode "The Deep South" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "Ascension to the Throne" premiered.

16

• The Venture Bros. aired as a series premiere.

17

• The Futurama episode "Mother's Day" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "God of Creation" premiered.

18

• The Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "The Secret of Samotrace" premiered.

19

• The Futurama episode "Anthology the Interest I" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "The Gordian Knot" premiered.

20

• The Futurama episode "War is the H-Words" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "Here Shall Stand Alexandria" premiered.

23

• The Futurama episode "The Honking" premiered.

24

• The season 2 finale of Futurama aired.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "The Oracle of Ammon" premiered.

25

• Futurama aired its 3rd season with the premiere of the episode "Amazon Women in the Hood".
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "Persia Shall Fall" premiered.

26

• The Futurama episode "Parasite Lost" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "Unification Before Division" premiered.

27

• The Futurama episode "A Tale of Two Santas" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror episode "The Vanquished Arise" premiered.

March

2

• The Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryish" premiered.

3

• The Futurama episode "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" premiered.
• The Reign: The Conqueror series finale "The Prophecy Comes to Pass" premiered.

4

• The Futurama episode "Bendless Love" premiered.

5

• The Futurama episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" premiered.

6

• The Futurama episode "That's Lobstertainment!" premiered.

9

• The Futurama episode "The Cyber House Rules" premiered.

10

• The Futurama episode "Where the Buggalo Roam" premiered.

11

• The Futurama episode "Insane in the Mainframe" premiered.

12

• The Futurama episode "Bendin' in the Wind" premiered.

13

• The Futurama episode "Time Keeps on Slippin'" premiered.

16

• The Futurama episode "I Dated a Robot" premiered.

17

• The Futurama episode "A Leela of Her Own" premiered.

18

• The Futurama episode "A Pharaoh to Remember" premiered.

19

• The Futurama episode "Anthology of Interest II" premiered.

20

• The Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well" premiered.

23

• The Futurama episode "Godfellas" premiered.

24

• The Futurama episode "Future Stock" premiered.

25

• The season 3 finale of Futurama aired.

26

• Futurama aired its 4th season with the premiere of the episode "Leela's Homeworld".

27

• The Futurama episode "Love and Rocket" premiered.

30

• The Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" premiered.

31

• Trigun aired as a series premiere.

April

1

• The Trigun episode "Truth of Mistake" premiered.

2

• The Trigun episode "Peace Maker" premiered.

3

• The Trigun episode "Love & Peace" premiered.

7

• The Trigun episode "Hard Puncher" premiered.

8

• The Trigun episode "Lost July" premiered.

9

• The Trigun episode "B.D.N." premiered.

10

• The Trigun episode "And Between the Wasteland and Sky" premiered.

14

• The Trigun episode "Murder Machine" premiered.

15

• The Trigun episode "Quick Draw" premiered.

16

• The Trigun episode "Escape from Pain" premiered.

17

• The Trigun episode "Diablo" premiered.

20

• Family Guy aired as a series premiere. The series immediately become Adult Swim's most watched show, and eventually led to the series being revived in 2005 due to the success and popularity. Adult Swim became its second-run home until 2021.

21

• The Family Guy episode "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Vash the Stampede" premiered.

22

• The Family Guy episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Little Arcadia" premiered.

23

• The Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Demon's Eye" premiered.

24

• The Family Guy episode "Da Boom" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Fifth Moon" premiered.

27

• The Family Guy episode "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks" premiered.

28

• The Family Guy episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Rem Saverem" premiered.

29

• The Family Guy episode "Dammit Janet!" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Goodbye for Now" premiered.

30

• The Family Guy episode "He's Too Sexy for the His Fat" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Hang Fire" premiered.

May

1

• The Family Guy episode "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Flying Ship" premiered.

4

• The Family Guy episode "Road to Rhode Island" premiered.

5

• The Family Guy episode "E. Peterbus Unum" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Out of Time" premiered.

6

• The Family Guy episode "The Story on Page One" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Alternative" premiered.

7

• The Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Paradise" premiered.

8

• The Family Guy episode "Fore Father" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Sin" premiered.

11

• The Family Guy episode "The Thin White Line" premiered.

12

• The Family Guy episode "Lethal Weapons" premiered.
• The Trigun episode "Live Through" premiered.

13

• The Family Guy episode "One if by Clam, Two if by Sea" premiered.
• The Trigun series finale "Under the Sky So Blue" premiered.

14

• The Family Guy episode "Brian Does Hollywood" premiered.

15

• The Family Guy episode "Death Lives" premiered.

18

• The Family Guy episode "And the Wiener Is..." premiered.

19

• The Family Guy episode "Emission Impossible" premiered.

20

• The Family Guy episode "The Kiss Seen Around the World" premiered.

21

• The Family Guy episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" premiered.

22

• The Family Guy episode "Mr. Saturday Knight" premiered.

25

• Adult Swim goes through a rebrand. The logo changed to [adult swim] and black-and-white bumps were introduced (which are still used to this day).
• The season 3 finale of Home Movies aired.
• The Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Deadomutt (Part 1)" premiered.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episode "Super Birthday Snake".
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Brainswitch" premiered.

26

• The Family Guy episode "Fish Out of Water" premiered.

27

• The Family Guy episode "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father... Brother?" premiered.

28

• The Family Guy episode "Ready, Willing and Disable" premiered.

29

• The Family Guy episode "Screwed the Pooch" premiered.

June

1

• The Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Deadomutt (Part 2)" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Hero" premiered.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Vacation" premiered.

2

• The Family Guy episode "To Love and Die in Dixie" premiered.
• The season 1 finale of Lupin the 3rd Part II aired.

3

• The Family Guy episode "Stuck Together, Torn Apart" premiered.
• Lupin the 3rd Part II aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episode "The Little Princess of Darkness".

4

• The Family Guy episode "From Method to Madness" premiered.

5

• The Family Guy episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1" premiered.

8

• The season 1 finale of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law aired.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Bowl" premiered.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Fusebox" premiered.

9

• The Family Guy episode "Road to Europe" premiered.
• Android Kikaider - The Animation aired as a series premiere.

10

• The Family Guy episode "Death Has a Shadow" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "Mad Machine" premiered.

11

• The Family Guy episode "I Never Met the Dead Man" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "Stray Sheep" premiered.

12

• The Family Guy episode "Mind Over Murder" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "Mirror" premiered.

15

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Computer" premiered.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Article 4" premiered.

16

• The Family Guy episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "City of Rain" premiered.

17

• The Family Guy episode "A Hero Sits Next Door" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "Negative Fragments" premiered.

18

• The Family Guy episode "The Son Also Draws" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "The Afterglow of Regret" premiered.

19

• The Family Guy episode "Brian: The Portrait of a Dog" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "Friends" premiered.

22

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Model" premiered.

23

• The Family Guy episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "Frozen Bonds" premiered.

24

• The Family Guy episode "Running Mates" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "The Destroyer" premiered.

25

• The Family Guy episode "There's Something About Paulie" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "The Machine That Dreams" premiered.

26

• The Family Guy episode "Holy Crap" premiered.
• The Android Kikaider - The Animation episode "The End of the Dream" premiered.

29

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Spore" premiered.

30

• The Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'" premiered.
• Kikkaider 01: The Animation aired as a series premiere.

July

1

• The Family Guy episode "Love Thy Trophy" premiered.
• The Kikkaider 01: The Animation episode "Beautiful Enemy" premiered.

2

• The Family Guy episode "Death is a Bitch" premiered.
• The Kikkaider 01: The Animation episode "Gill Rises Again" premiered.

3

• The Family Guy episode "The King is Dead" premiered.
• The Kikkaider 01: The Animation series finale "The Fate of Pinocchio" premiered.

6

• Captain Sturdy: The Originals premiered.

20

• Penguins Behind Bars premiered.

27

• The Venture Bros. episode "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay (Director's Cut)" premiered.

August

3

• The Big O aired its 2nd and final season with the premiere of the episode "Roger the Wanderer".

4

• FLCL aired as a series premiere.
• Blue Gender aired as a series premiere.

5

• The FLCL episode "Fire Starter" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Cry" premiered.

6

• The FLCL episode "Marquis de Carabas" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Trial" premiered.

7

• The FLCL episode "Full Swing" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Agony" premiered.

10

• The Big O episode "Negotiations with the Dead" premiered.

11

• The FLCL episode "Brittle Bullet" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Priority" premiered.

12

• The FLCL episode "FLCLimax" premiered, however it was cut down to a half hour long. The full 45 minute episode wouldn't air until 2010. This was originally going to be the series finale, until Adult Swim funded more seasons in 2018.
• The Blue Gender episode "Relation" premiered.

13

• The Blue Gender episode "Oasis" premiered.

17

• The Big O episode "Day of the Advent" premiered.

18

• The Blue Gender episode "Confirm" premiered.

19

• The Blue Gender episode "Tactics" premiered.

20

• The Blue Gender episode "Go Mad" premiered.

21

• The Blue Gender episode "Progress" premiered.

24

• The Big O episode "Leviathon" premiered.

25

• The Inuyasha episode "The Man Who Fell in Love with Kagome!" premiered.

26

• The Inuyasha episode "Two Hearts, One Mind" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Set" premiered.

27

• The Inuyasha episode "Trapped in a Dual to the Death!" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Calm" premiered.

28

• The Inuyasha episode "The Deadly Trap of Kagura the Wind Sorceress!" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "A Sign" premiered.

31

• The Big O episode "The Great Villain" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Sir Loin" premiered.

September

1

• The Inuyasha episode "Kagura's Dance and Kanna's Mirror" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Eclosion" premiered.

2

• The Inuyasha episode "The Wind Scar Fails" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Chaos" premiered.

3

• The Inuyasha episode "Tetsusaiga Breaks" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Collapse" premiered.

4

• The Inuyasha episode "Kaijinbo's Evil Sword" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Versus" premiered.

7

• The Big O episode "Eyewitness" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Squatter" premiered.

8

• The Inuyasha episode "Sesshomaru Wields Tokijin" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Joker" premiered.

9

• The Inuyasha episode "Juromaru and Kageromaru" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Dogma" premiered.

10

• The Inuyasha episode "Onigumo's Heart Still Beats Within Naraku" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Soliste" premiered.

11

• The Inuyasha episode "Return to the Place Where We First Met" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Compass" premiered.

14

• The Big O episode "Stripes" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Meat Zone" premiered.

15

• The Inuyasha episode "Kohaku's Los Memory" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Adagio" premiered.

16

• The Inuyasha episode "That Unforgettable Face!" premiered.
• The Blue Gender episode "Let Me" premiered.

17

• The Inuyasha episode "Inuyasha's Soul, Devoured" premiered.

18

• The Inuyasha episode "The Demon's True Nature" premiered.

21

• The Big O episode "The Third Big" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Trivia" premiered.

28

• The Big O episode "Hydra" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Universal Remonster" premiered.

October

5

• Adult Swim expanded to 5am. The block now runs for 6 hours; 11pm-5am. Because of the expansion, Adult Swim airs the same episodes of their shows twice on the same night.
• The Big O episode "Twisted Memories" premiered.
• The Brak Show aired its 3rd and final season with the premiere of the episode "Braklet, Prince of Spaceland".
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Total Recar!" premiered.

12

• The Big O episode "The Big Fight!" premiered.
• The Brak Show episode "Coma" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Revenge of the Trees" premiered.

19

• The Big O episode "The War of Paradigm City" premiered.
• The Brak Show episode "Shadows of Heat" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" premiered.

26

• The Brak Show episode "Splat" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Shaving" premiered.

November

2

• The Big O series finale "The Show Must Go On" premiered.
• The Brak Show episode "Enter the Hump" premiered.
• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Broodwich" premiered.
• The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Toast" premiered.

3

• The Futurama episode "The Route of All Evil" premiered.

4

• The Futurama episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" premiered.

5

• The Futurama episode "Less Than Hero" premiered.

6

• The Futurama episode "A Taste of Freedom" premiered.

9

• The Family Guy episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" premiered. The episode was originally banned on FOX, the network that airs Family Guy. To make the episode less risky for the viewers, the song I Need a Jew had its lyrics censored. The episode wouldn't air on FOX until over a year later.
• The Brak Show episode "Sexy New Brak Show Goes On" premiered.

10

• The Futurama episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" premiered.
• Home Movies aired its 4th and final season with the premiere of the episode "Everyone's Entitled to My Opinion".

11

• The Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" premiered.

12

• The Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot" premiered.

13

• The Futurama episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" premiered.

16

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Kidney Car" premiered.
• The season 2 finale of Sealab 2021 aired.
• The Brak Show episode "All That I Desire You" premiered.

17

• The Futurama episode "The Why of Fry" premiered.

18

• The Futurama episode "The Sting" premiered.

19

• The Futurama episode "Bend Her" premiered.

20

• The Futurama episode "Obsoletely Fabulous" premiered.

23

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Cubing" premiered.
• Sealab 2021 aired its 3rd season with the premiere of the episode "Splitsville".
• The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Whipping Post" premiered.

24

• The Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" premiered.

25

• The Futurama episode "Three Hundred Big Boys" premiered.

26

• The Futurama episode "Spanish Fry" premiered.

27

• The season 4 finale of Futurama aired.

30

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Frat Aliens" premiered.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Tourist Season" premiered.
• The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Eat a Peach" premiered.

December

14

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Dressing" premiered.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Meeet Beck Bristow" premiered.
• The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Idlewild South" premiered.

21

• The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "THE" premiered.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "I, Robot, Really" premiered.

31

• The season 2 finale of Aqua Teen Hunger Force aired.
• The Sealab 2021 episode "Frozen Dinner" premiered.
• The Brak Show series finale "Cardburkey" premiered.
• The Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Blackwatch Plaid" premiered.