2022

This is a list of notable events, premieres, releases, series cancellations, series endings and other business ventures for Adult Swim in the year 2022.

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January

1

• The season 1 finale of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon aired on Toonami.

2

• Futurama aired its 5th season with the premiere of the episodes "Bender's Big Score (Part 1) / Bender's Big Score (Part 2)".

8

• Assassination Classroom aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episodes "Summer Festival Time / Kaede Time".

9

• The Futurama episodes "Benders Big Score (Part 3) / Bender's Big Score (Part 4)" premiered.
• Smiling Friends season 1 premiered. Only 2 out of the 8 episodes that aired were announced.

15

• Made in Abyss premiered on Toonami.

16

• The Futurama episodes "The Beast with a Billion Backs (Part 1) / The Beast with a Billion Backs (Part 2)" premiered.

22

• One Piece returned to Toonami for the first time since 2017, and aired its 9th season with the premiere of the episodes "The Beginning of the New Chapter! The Straw Hats Reunited! / An Explosive Situation! Luffy vs. Fake Luffy!".
• The season 17 finale of Naruto Shippuden aired on Toonami.

23

• The Futurama episodes "The Beast with a Billion Backs (Part 3) / The Beast with a Billion Backs (Part 4)" premiered.

29

• Naruto Shippuden aired its 18th season with the premiere of the episodes "Team 7, Assemble! / The New Three-Way Deadlock" on Toonami.

30

• The Futurama episodes "Bender's Game (Part 1) / Bender's Game (Part 2)" premiered.
• American Dad! aired its 17th season with the premiere of the episode "Langley Dollar Listings".

February

5

• The Blade Runner: Black Lotus series finale "Time to Die" premiered on Toonami.
• Shenmue the Animation premiered on Toonami.

6

• The Futurama episodes "Bender's Game (Part 3) / Bender's Game (Part 3)" premiered.
• The American Dad! episode "Dressed Down" premiered.

13

• The Futurama episodes "Into the Wild Green Yonder (Part 1) / Into the Wild Green Yonder (Part 2)" premiered.
• The American Dad! episode "The Book of Fischer" premiered.

19

• Cosmo Samurai aired its 4th season titled Cosmo Samurai 2 with the premiere of the episode "Part 1" on Toonami.

20

• The season 5 finale of Futurama aired.
• The American Dad! episode "A Roger Story" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause Indecision... or Not" premiered.

27

• Futurama aired its 6th season with the premiere of the episodes "Rebirth / In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela".
• The American Dad! episode "Epic Powder Dump" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause Bubbles Where You Don't Want 'em" premiered.

March

6

• The Futurama episodes "Attack of the Killer App / Proposition Infinity" premiered.
• The American Dad! episode "American Griffito" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause a Squeakquel" premiered.

12

• The Cosmo Samurai series finale premiered on Toonami.

13

• The Futurama episodes "The Duh-Vinci Code / Lethal Inspection" premiered.
• The American Dad! episode "Beyond the Alcove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Klaus" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause Involuntary Political Discharge" premiered.

20

• The Futurama episodes "The Late Phillip J. Fry / That Darn Katz!" premiered.
• The American Dad! episode "A Song of Knives and Fire" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause an Excess of Ham" premiered.

26

• Toonami goes through another rebrand, and brings back the Absolution.

27

• The Futurama episodes "A Clockwork Origin / The Prisoner of Brenda" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause Internal Diarrhea" premiered.

31

• As part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools stunt, Pibby and BunBun took over the network, two characters from the concept show Come and Learn with Pibby. Rerun episodes of Rick and Morty (Total Rickall), Smiling Friends (Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back), The Eric Andre Show (Wink Martindale / Sarah Burns), Aqua TV Show Show (Muscles), Birdgirl (ShareBear) and Joe Pera Talks with You (Joe Pera Reads You the Church Announcements) occasionally had the characters and the environment be visually corrupted, including BunBun being completely corrupted. Adult Swim later posted a compilation of all the corruptions done in the night's prank. A Pibby-related song played over the network sign-off at 5:59 a.m.

April

3

• The Futurama episodes "Lrrrenconcilable Ndndiffernces / The Mutants Are Revolving" premiered.
• The Robot Chicken episode "May Cause Weebles to Fall Down" premiered.

9

• The season 1 finale of Made in Abyss premiered on Toonami.

10

• The Futurama episodes "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular / Neutopia" premiered.
• The season 11 finale of Robot Chicken aired.

16

• Lupin the 3rd Part 6 premiered on Toonami.

17

• The Futurama episodes "Benderama / Ghost in the Machines" premiered.

24

• The Futurama episodes "Law & Oracle / The Silence of the Clamps" premiered.
• Three Busy Debras aired it's 2nd season with the premiere of the episodes "The Milk Drought / The Great Debpression".

30

• The Shenmue the Animation series finale "Shenmue" premiered on Toonami.

May

1

• The Futurama episodes "Yo Leela Leela / All the Presidents' Heads" premiered.
• The Three Busy Debras episodes "The Honorable Order of the Debras / To Have Debra, to Hold Debra" premiered.

8

• The Futurama episodes "Mobius Dick / Fry Am the Egg Man" premiered.
• The Three Busy Debras episodes "Operation: Seal Team Debra / Who Has Done It?" premiered

15

• The Futurama episodes "The Tip of the Zoidberg / Cold Warriors" premiered.
• The Three Busy Debras episodes "Debra Gets a Boyfriend / Women's History Hour" premiered.

22

• The season 6 finale of Futurama aired.
• The Three Busy Debras series finale episodes "Nonna / The Meteor" premiered.

29

• Futurama aired its 7th season with the premiere of the episodes "The Bots and the Bees / A Farewell to Arms".

June

4

• The season 18 finale of Naruto Shippuden aired on Toonami.

5

• The Futurama episodes "Decision 3012 / The Thief of a Baghead" premiered.

11

• The Assassination Classroom series finale "Future Time" premiered on Toonami.
• Naruto Shippuden aired its 19th season with the premiere of the episode "The New Chunin Exams" on Toonami.

12

• The Futurama episodes "Zapp Dingbat / The Butterjunk Effect" premiered.

19

• The Futurama episodes "The Six Million Dollar Mon / Fun on a Bun" premiered.
• Birdgirl aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episodes "The Wanky / The Rejuvication".

26

• The Futurama episodes "Free Will Hunting / Near-Death Wish" premiered.
• The Birdgirl episode "Fli on Your Own Supply" premiered.

July

3

• The Futurama episodes "Viva Mars Vegas / 31st Century Fox" premiered.
• The Birdgirl episode "Shoot from the Foop" premiered.

4

• Off the Air aired it's 12th season with the premiere of the episode "Nonsense".

10

• The Futurama episodes "Naturama / 2-D Blacktop" premiered.
• The Birdgirl episode "With a K" premiered.
• Tuca & Bertie aired its 3rd and final season with the premiere of the episodes "Leveling Up / The Pain Garden".

17

• The Futurama episodes "Fry and Leela's Big Fling / T: The Terrestrial" premiered.
• The season 2 finale of Birdgirl aired.
• The Tuca & Bertie episode "The One Where Bertie Gets Eaten by a Snake" premiered.

21

• Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal aired its 2nd season with the premiere of the episodes "Sea of Despair / Shadow of Fate".

24

• The Futurama episodes "Forty Percent Leadbelly / The Inhuman Torch" premiered.
• The Tuca & Bertie episode "Leef Raking" premiered.

28

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "Dawn of Man" premiered.

30

• Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon aired its 2nd and final season titled Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon: The Second Act with the premiere of the episode "Wielding the Tenseiga" on Toonami.

31

• The Futurama episodes "Saturday Morning Fun Pit / Calculation 2.0" premiered.
• The Tuca & Bertie episode "Salad Days" premiered.

August

4

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "The Red Mist" premiered.

6

• The Smiling Friends special "The Smiling Friends Go to Brazil!" premiered. Some sources and listings show this as the season 1 finale, but it's actually a special that aired after season 1, and before season 2.

7

• The Futurama episodes "Assie Come Home / Leela and the Genestalk" premiered.
• The Tuca & Bertie episode "Screech Leeches" premiered.

11

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "The Primal Theory" premiered.

13

• The season 9 finale of One Piece aired on Toonami.

14

• The Futurama episodes "Game of Tones / Murder on the Planet Express" premiered.
• The Tuca & Bertie episode "A Very Speckle Episode" premiered.

18

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "Vidarr" premiered.

20

• One Piece aired its 10th season with the premiere of the episodes "Z's Ambition! Lily the Little Giant! / Z's Ambition! A Dark and Powerful Army!" on Toonami.

21

• The season 7 finale of Futurama aired.
• The Tuca & Bertie episode "Fledging Day" premiered.

25

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "The Colossaeus" premiered.

28

• The Tuca & Bertie series finale episodes "Somebirdy's Getting Married / The Mole" premiered.

September

1

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "The Colossaeus (Part 2)" premiered.

4

• Rick and Morty aired it's 6th season with the premiere of the episode "Solaricks".

8

• The Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal episode "The Colossaeus (Part 3)" premiered.

11

• The American Dad! episode "The Curious Case of the Old Hole" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Rick: A Mort Well Lived" premiered.

12

• The Off the Air episode "Bugs" premiered.

15

• The season 2 finale of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal aired.

18

• The American Dad! episode "Gold Top Nuts" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Bethic Twinstinct" premiered.

23

• In honor of Pete Smith Day, 3 episodes of The Brak Show aired, as well as the special Puberty Blues, and 3 episodes of Squidbillies.

25

• The American Dad! episode "The Three Fs" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Night Family" premiered.

October

1

• Housing Complex C premiered on Toonami.

2

• The American Dad! episode "Smooshed: A Love Story" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Final Desmithation" premiered.

8

• The season 19 finale of Naruto Shippuden aired on Toonami.

9

• The American Dad! episode "The Fast and the Spurious" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Juricksic Mort" premiered.

15

• The Lupin the 3rd Part 6 series finale "What Crooks Love" premiered on Toonami.
• Naruto Shippuden aired its 20th season with the premiere of the episode "On the Brink of Death" on Toonami.

16

• The American Dad! episode "A League of His Own" premiered.
• The Legend of William Tell made its Adult Swim debut with the episode "The Past of the Present"

22

• The Housing Complex C series finale "The End of It All" premiered.

30

• Music Video: Jesus Was a Dinosaur premiered.
• The Rick and Morty short Summer's Sleepover premiered.

November

5

• Made in Abyss aired its 2nd season titled Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun with the premiere of the episode "The Compass Pointed to the Darkness" on Toonami.

6

• The American Dad! episode "You Are Here" premiered.

13

• The American Dad! episode "I Heard You Wanna Buy Some Speakers" premiered.

20

• The American Dad! episode "Hayley Was a Girl Scout?" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Full Meta Jackrick" premiered.

27

• The American Dad! episode "Please Please Jeff" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "Analyze Piss" premiered.

28

• The Off the Air episode "Bliss" premiered.

December

3

• My Hero Academia aired its 6th season with the premiere of the episode "A Quiet Beginning" on Toonami.

4

• The American Dad! episode "Jambalaya" premiered.
• The Rick and Morty episode "A Rick in King Mortur's Mort" premiered.

11

• The American Dad! episode "Gernot and Strudel" premiered.
• The season 6 finale of Rick and Morty aired.
• Adult Swim Yule Log premiered.

18

• The American Dad! episode "Echoes" premiered.

25

• The season 17 finale of American Dad! aired.

26

• Adult Swim expands to 8pm outside of Sundays. The block now runs for 10 hours; 8pm-6am.
• The season 12 finale of Off the Air aired.