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1This is a list of notable events, premieres, releases, series cancellations, series endings and other business ventures for Adult Swim in the year 2023.


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January[]

22[]

  • YOLO aired its 2nd season titled YOLO: Silver Destiny with the premiere of the episodes "Sausage Sizzle / Planet Bali".

29[]

  • The YOLO: Silver Destiny episode "High School Reunion" premiered.

February[]

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  • M. Night Shyamalan hosted 4 new pilots on Adult Swim to promote the movie Knock at the Cabin that would release in theaters the next day. The pilots to Oh My God, Yes!, Yenor, Macbeth with Dinosaurs: Dad Bod premiered, and Adult Swim Smalls aired. The event was called Adult Swim Pilots Night.

4[]

  • The Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon series finale episodes "Father and Daughter / The Never-ending Future" premiered on Toonami.

5[]

  • The YOLO: Silver Destiny episode "Chaise and the City" premiered.

11[]

  • The season 2 finale of Made in Abyss premiered on Toonami.

12[]

  • The YOLO: Silver Destiny episode "Jamberoo" premiered.

13[]

19[]

  • The YOLO: Silver Destiny episode "The Parents Episode" premiered.

20[]

  • Ballmastrz: Rubicon premiered.

March[]

5[]

  • The season 2 finale of YOLO aired.

18[]

  • Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma aired it's 5th and final season titled Food Wars! The Fifth Plate with the premiere of the episode "Final Exams".

19[]

31[]

  • As part of their annual April Fools stunt, Adult Swim announced that the block would be taken over by AI, followed by a small clip of a Smiling Friends episode animated through generative artificial intelligence. It was quickly cut off because it got "out of hand", only for the channel to lose its "remote" and start "fast forwarding." They showed previews of the new series Royal Crackers and the upcoming seasons of The Eric Andre Show and Teenage Euthanasia. They then "rewound" to an airing of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Fire Ant". At 1:00am, Adult Swim then aired the Infomercials episodes Unedited Footage of a Bear and Broomshakalaka! as "Adult Swim Minus" ("all the commercials you love minus all the annoying shows"). Afterward, a half hour of footage of a train traveling through Norway was aired under the title Ambient Swim as an apology for the previous 90 minutes.

April[]

2[]

  • Royal Crackers officially premiered with the episodes "Crumbling Empire / Theo's Comeback Tour / Factory 37".

9[]

  • The Royal Crackers episode "Stebe" premiered.

16[]

  • The Royal Crackers episode "Business Mom" premiered.

22[]

  • The season 6 finale of My Hero Academia premiered on Toonami.

23[]

  • The Royal Crackers episode "Mayworth" premiered.

30[]

  • The Royal Crackers episode "The .1%" premiered.

May[]

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  • Adult Swim expands to 7pm outside of Sundays. The block now runs for 11 hours; 7pm-6am.

4[]

7[]

  • The Royal Crackers episode "Casa de Darby" premiered.

11[]

  • The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode "A Fateful Encounter" premiered.

14[]

  • The Royal Crackers episode "CrackerCon" premiered.

18[]

  • The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode "What Lies Beneath" premiered.

21[]

  • The season 1 finale of Royal Crackers aired.

25[]

  • The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode "The Past Within" premiered.

June[]

1[]

  • The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode "The Mystery of Secrets" premiered.

3[]

  • Dr. Stone aired its 3rd season with the premiere of the episode "New World Map" on Toonami.

4[]

  • The Eric Andre Show officially airs its 6th and final season with the premiere of the episodes "Bugs Weekly / Jaleel Blanco".

7[]

  • It has been announced that Adult Swim will expand further unto 6pm (later changed to 5pm) due to the success of the block, airing classic Cartoon Network programming on weekdays.

8[]

  • The Unicorns: Warriors Eternal episode "The Heart of Kings" premiered.

11[]

  • The Eric Andre Show episodes "Rim the Reaper / Football is Back" premiered.

15[]

  • The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode "Darkness Before the Dawn" premiered.

17[]

  • The Food Wars! series finale premiered on Toonami.

18[]

  • The Eric Andre Show episodes "Woodchipper Hijinks / Don't You Say a Word" premiered.

22[]

  • The Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode A Love's Last Light" premiered.

25[]

  • The Eric Andre Show episodes "Anti-Weed / Old Yeller" premiered.

29[]

  • The season 1 finale of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal aired.

July[]

2[]

  • The Eric Andre Show series finale episodes "Krft Punk Returns / The Cold Episode" premiered.

6[]

12[]

  • American Dad! aired its 18th season with the premiere of the episode "Fellow Traveler".

15[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "My Interview with Superman" premiered.

19[]

  • The American Dad! episode "The Professor and the Coach" premiered.

20[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "Let's Go to Ivo Tower, You Say" premiered.

26[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Viced Principal" premiered.
  • Teenage Euthanasia season 2 officially premiered with the episode "Remember Fun?"

27[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "You Will Believe a Man Can Lie" premiered.

August[]

2[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Blagsnarst, A Love Story," which has a cameo of Paul Reubens, aired in place of the originally scheduled "Independent Movie" in honor of Paul Reubens passing. Reubens special Gigglefudge, USA aired later that night.
  • The American Dad! episode "The Pleasanting at Smith House" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "Mother's Day" premiered.

3[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "My Adventures with Mad Science" premiered.

8[]

  • It has been announced that Adult Swim will expand further unto 5pm, instead of 6pm as originally announced.

9[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Stretched Thin" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "Radio Frankenstein" premiered.
  • Ten Year Old Tom aired as a series premiere.

10[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal" premiered.

16[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Better on Paper" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "Sexually Educated" premiered.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "The Spelling Bee is Rigged / Dakota's Dad" premiered.

17[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "Zero Day: Part One" premiered.

19[]

  • The season 10 finale of One Piece aired on Toonami.

23[]

  • The American Dad! episode "How I Met Your Moo-ther" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "CARS 4" premiered.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "A Yearbook to Disremember / Trust Me, I'm a Nurse" premiered.

24[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "Zero Day: Part Two" premiered.

25[]

  • The Adult Swim Smalls episodes "Haha You Clowns / Variety Pack / DAP / Buster & TJ" premiered.

28[]

  • Adult Swim expands to 5pm with the debut of a new block called Checkered Past, airing classic Cartoon Network programming such as Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd n Eddy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Courage the Cowardly Dog. On Sundays, Adult Swim takes over ACME Night, a family movie block that originally aired on Cartoon Network at 6pm, due to Adult Swim taking over the 5pm hour. The block now runs for 13 hours; 5pm-6am.

30[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Stan Fixes a Shingle" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "Viva La Flappanista!" premiered.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "Tomz Lemonade / A Tale of Two Lunch Ladies" premiered.

31[]

  • The My Adventures with Superman episode "Hearts of the Fathers" premiered.

September[]

1[]

3[]

  • ACME Night moves to Adult Swim starting with the movie Batman Forever.

6[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Saving Face" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "A League of His Own" premiered.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "Tom Urinates on Boston / First Responder" premiered.

9[]

  • FLCL aired its 4th season titled FLCL: Grunge with the premiere of the episode "Shinpachi" on Toonami.

13[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Frantastic Voyage" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "It's Happening!!! (Jellybean's Birthday)" premiered.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "The Principal Is Banging My Mom / Elderly Gerbil" premiered.

16[]

  • One Piece aired its 11th season with the premiere of the episodes "Startling! The Big News Shakes Up the New World! / Explore! A Kingdom of Love and Passion - Dressrosa!" on Toonami.

20[]

  • The American Dad! episode "A Little Mystery" premiered.
  • The Teenage Euthanasia episode "A Waist-Down Ghost Town Shut Down" premiered,
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "Skipping School / Cooking the Books" premiered.

21[]

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

23[]

  • The season 4 finale of FLCL premiered on Toonami.

27[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Don't You Be My Neighbor" premiered.
  • The season 2 finale of Teenage Euthanasia aired.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "Roastmaster Tom / A Daffodil for Terence" premiered.

30[]

  • FLCL aired its 5th season titled FLCL: Shoegaze with the premiere of the episode "Furu-Bari (Full Barrricade)" on Toonami.
  • The season 20 finale of Naruto Shippuden aired on Toonami.

October[]

2[]

  • Grim & Evil aired on Checkered Past, likely on accident. This is the first and only time Grim & Evil aired on Adult Swim.
  • Bob's Burgers aired post-season 8 episodes, and is the first time Bob's Burgers has aired new episodes on Adult Swim since March 2019. The episodes "The Taking of Funtime One Two Three / Tweentrepreneurs / Live and Let Fly / Roller? I Hardly Know Her" premiered.

4[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Productive Panic" premiered.
  • The Ten Year Old Tom episode "Art Class / Problem Moms" premiered.

5[]

  • The first half of the Very Scary People episode "BTK (Part 1): Bind, Torture, Kill" accidentally aired, instead of the scheduled American Dad! episode "Dungeons & Wagons". This only happened on the east coast feed, so viewers watching from the west coast got American Dad! instead of Very Scary People.

7[]

  • Naruto Shippuden aired its 21st season with the premiere of the episodes "She of the Beginning / Kaguya Otsutsuki" on Toonami.

9[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Bobby Driver / Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street / Pig Trouble in Little Tina / Heartbreak Hotel-oween / The Pumpkinening" premiered.
  • The first few minutes of the Forensic Files episode "Last Dance" aired, instead of the American Dad! episode "Four Little Words". After 7 minutes, it switched back to the American Dad! episode "When a Stan Loves a Woman" making the schedule go off-the-clock until midnight. The west coast feed had no errors whatsoever.

11[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Multiverse of American Dadness" premiered.
  • The season 1 finale of Ten Year Old Tom aired.

14[]

  • The FLCL: Shoegaze series finale "Far-Fre (Far Friend)" premiered on Toonami.

15[]

  • Rick and Morty aired it's 7th season with the premiere of the episode "How Poopy Got His Poop Back".

16[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "UFO No You Didn't / Lorenzo's Oil? No, Linda's / The Helen Hunt / Bed, Bath and Beyond / Every Which Way but Goose" premiered.

22[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "The Jerrick Trap" premiered.

23[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "The Fresh Princi-pal / Roaming Bob-iday / What About Blob? / If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marionette? / Long Time Listener, First Time Bob" premiered.

29[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "Air Force Wong" premiered.

30[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "The Gene Mile / P.T.A. It Ain't So / Yes Without My Zeke / The Ring (But Not Scary) / Boys Just Wanna Have Fungus" premiered.

November[]

1[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episode "Just One of the Boys 4 Now for Now" premiered.

5[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "That's Amorte" premiered.

6[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Motor, She Boat / Legends of the Mall / The Hawkening: Look Who's Hawking Now / Land of the Loft / All That Gene" premiered.

8[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Z.O.I.N.C.S." premiered.

11[]

  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba aired its 2nd season titled Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Arc with the premiere of the episodes "Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku / Deep Sleep" on Toonami.

12[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "Unmortricken" premiered.

13[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Drumforgiven / I Bob Your Pardon / Now We're Not Cooking With Gas / Diarrhea of the Wimpy Kid / Stuck in the Kitchen With You" premiered.

15[]

  • The American Dad! episode "A New Era for the Smith Household" premiered.

19[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "Rickfending Your Mort" premiered.

20[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "A Fish Called Tina / Three Girls and a Little Wharfy / Wag the Song / Yurty Rotten Scoundrels / Flat Top o' the Morning to Ya" premiered.

22[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Between a Ring and a Hardass" premiered.

26[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "Wet Kuat Amortican Summer" premiered.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force aired its 12th and final season with the premiere of the episodes "Shaketopia / A Quiet Shake".

27[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Just the Trip / Better Off Sled / Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas / Yachty or Nice / Gene's Christmas Break" premiered.

29[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Footprints" premiered.

December[]

1[]

  • Different shows air on Checkered Past for the first time. Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and Evil Con Carne air reruns on Checkered Past.

3[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie" premiered.
  • The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Script 2i2le: The Ts Are 2s" premiered.

4[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Tappy Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap / The Handyman Can / Poops!... I Didn't Do It Again / Local She-ro / Prank You for Being a Friend" premiered.

6[]

  • The American Dad! episode "Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the Og Four Loko" premiered.

10[]

  • The Rick and Morty episode "Mort: Ragnarick" premiered.
  • The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Get Lit Upon a Situpon" premiered.

11[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Dream a Little Bob of Bob / Worms of In-Rear-Ment / Copa-Bob-bana / Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff School / Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids" premiered.

13[]

  • The American Dad! episode "The Pink Sphinx Holds Her Hearts on the Turn" premiered.

17[]

  • The season 7 finale of Rick and Morty aired.
  • The Aqua Teen Hunger Force series finale "Anubis" premiered.

18[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "The Terminalator II: Terminals of Endearment / Mommy Boy / Romancing the Beef / Die Card, or Card Trying / An Incon-wheelie-ent Truth" premiered.
  • Off the Air aired it's 13th season with the premiere of the episodes "Sex / Drugs / Music / Farts".

20[]

  • The American Dad! episode "A Little Extra Scratch" premiered.

25[]

  • The Bob's Burgers episodes "Mr. Lonely Farts / Sheshank Redumption / Y Tu Tina Tambien / Fingers-loose / Some Kind of Fender Benderful" premiered.
  • Ambient Swim officially premiered with the episodes "Things Silently Explode / The Electric Art of Sound and Light".

26[]

  • The Ambient Swim episodes "Brutal Garden / Neo Mega Ultra Z-Star" premiered.

27[]

  • The season 18 finale of American Dad! aired.
  • The Ambient Swim episode "Tradigital" premiered.

28[]

  • The Ambient Swim episodes "Relaxing Old Footage with Joe Pera / LoFi Beats to Relax/Study With" premiered.
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