Adult swim airs content that is primarily focused at stoner type losers that have nothing better to do than stay up all night (Myself included). These bumpers not only help to scare off kids (believe me, it works), but to also set an eerie vibe for those who are high at the time as an attempt to make their viewing experience weirder and more dreamlike. Adult Swim is truly a master at psychology which is what makes it arguably one of the only good cable networks.
I feel like they were purposefully trying to scare kids in order for them to chnage the channel. But man it does bring back memories seeing those weird and creepy bumpers
I miss they still did stuff like this, it was so much fun watching them. I wanna see shit like this again (with the added benefit of being able to be high)
For me, it was the smiling man. The face of a old man in the middle with a red background that smiled, then they stretched his smile wider very slowly with a very creepy sound in the background. Used to scare me as a kid. Can’t find it anywhere though. And is not “Face Lift”.
It's hard to overstate how much of a revelation this kind of stuff was to appear on television. It's one thing to seek this stuff out on youtube and watch it. It's another thing to have a new classic bump appear on TV, not knowing you'd be thinking about it decades later, not knowing you'd have long incorporated the original song from the bump in your music collection.
Hit right on the nail, recognizing their weird bumps of 10+ years ago still feels like yesterday. I can attest to those bumps shaping a big part of my music taste too everything on AS used to be on point
@@rubybu1lds The alarm your town could set off during a broadcast to warn about unsafe weather conditions or other various hazards. Sounds like a robotic banshee
There is one adult swim bump that scarred me as a kid. I only vaguely remember a guy with his head stuck in a rusty slimy machine that turned his head shape into a square, and I believe it also imprinted [AS] on his face as well. It was really gross and disturbing, and I haven’t seen it since
It’s kinda sad a lot of these got lost in time due too them changing them so often. That could have been the only time that bump was ever shown I wanna see it
@@PonkleWonkle oh my god that’s it. I’m 22, almost 23, years old now and I have remembered that commercial for about 12 years now. Instant trauma lmao.
God I love how atmospheric they are, especially the one with the bike and the city shots. They are really creepy yet very comforting at the same time. It's really hard to explain? Like a fever dream at 3 AM or something, like how the channel is meant to be watched. It's the only time I think I've ever been comforted by something so creepy, it just feels alright. Like the channel gets you somehow through it's odd vibes and white text. It's weird.
That is why they are a thing. It’s to make sure that no little kids are watching so they put semi scary things in the middle of the shows so the kids would stop watching. Pretty smart if you ask me.
I just found out one of the songs used in the bumps!! For the bumper with the two people on the bike, the song is the Odd Nosdam mix of Boards Of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy!
Most of us here grew up watching these as children. Our little children brains developing, eating this content. No wonder we're all mentally ill. I enjoy.
i saw this one adult swim bumper and i can’t remember it. i was half asleep and it had almost a green screen colored background with a glitch to it, and it made some really loud like demonic sound and had a screamer and i panicked and shut off my tv. never watched it alone again 😭
I remember i watch a bump were lady was laughing and black stuff came out of her mouth creepiest thing i saw at midnight in adultswim. Got scared straight, but stayed so i could watch futurama.
I can’t think of Madness Combat these days without thinking of that awesome VS. Tricky mod for Friday Night Funkin’. (I still haven’t beaten that thing on hard mode yet)
Happened to me once but it was a reddish screen with demonic sounding chants, people dancing, worst part was it was super fucking loud and it woke me up to some demonic video
I wanna watch Adult Swim so bad at some point in my life. Maybe I'll put it on this Halloween to scare the hell outta myself, haha. EDIT: 2:01 Alrighty, that certainly wasn't something I needed to see at 12:50 A.M. right before bed. . . . Love it, though.
Do it before its too late, cause Adult Swim has been slowly losing its charm since 2010 lol. And its nowhere near as much of a scare risk as it used to be either, occasionally they still come up with some weird shit but its a lot less common now
@@mannxj130 He’s referring to the guys riding the bicycle in the second bumper. They look like humanoid versions of the grunts seen in the popular NewGrounds animation series: Madness Combat, a series of flash animations made by an animator named Krinkels which stars a heroic assassin named Hank J. Wimbleton as he battles his way through an evil organization that’s trying to take over Nevada. The series recently resurged in popularity thanks to a mod for a popular NewGrounds game called Friday Night Funkin’. The mod in question is called “Vs. Tricky”, and it pits you against one of the major villains from Madness Combat: Tricky The Clown, in a 1 on 1 rap battle.
Bumpworthy.com used to be the place to go for the song sources, but the sites been kinda buggy and out of date lately. You can also check out Sithlord999 and Rymoka on RUclips (hopefully they're still around) they had a lot of full song versions back in the day and probably still have them. Also they're indeed called bumps, they're meant to fill in extra time before and after commerical breaks between the show and ad breaks. Most channels do something like "you're watching NBC, coming up next week___" but Adult Swim had a different vibe especially back in the early 2000s-2010 era. Check out the AcTN tilt shift bumps, those were always my fave. :)
@@Krankhafter thank you this helps a lot, if there is also more to the source of these ( or just people who have uploaded these ) id love to hear more. I find the bumps very interesting and most of the songs very good
![[Adult swim] Bump Compilation](/img/1.gif)
Why does adult swim do this
To scare off kids
To be weird. That's the whole point of adult swim. It's a cable block that basically removes the chains of standard television.
Ikr wth is wrong with adult swim???
Julea LERO it’s cause y’all dont understand it
Adult swim airs content that is primarily focused at stoner type losers that have nothing better to do than stay up all night (Myself included). These bumpers not only help to scare off kids (believe me, it works), but to also set an eerie vibe for those who are high at the time as an attempt to make their viewing experience weirder and more dreamlike. Adult Swim is truly a master at psychology which is what makes it arguably one of the only good cable networks.
Adult Swim was doing weirdcore before it was popular.
🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Especially "when did you STOP remembering?"
Is that what it's called?
Yeah there was a bump where 2 guys were making out over a basket
YESS
I feel like they were purposefully trying to scare kids in order for them to chnage the channel. But man it does bring back memories seeing those weird and creepy bumpers
“don’t die”
thanks for the advice.
hmmm Didn't think I would see you here
Now entering FLOOR3 D4
Tip:DONT DIE
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thanks adult swim, I'll try not to.
when did you stop remembering?
imagine the people who’ve watched adult swim on lsd back then being startled by these at the time lmao
I miss they still did stuff like this, it was so much fun watching them. I wanna see shit like this again (with the added benefit of being able to be high)
The Cold War is over! We won we won we won we won we won we won we won we won we won we won! Adult swim!
I seen old adult swim bumps their unsettling to watch
Occult sin
The swimbound highway with backward music was the most memorable for me growing up, I remember seeing it a lot after FLCL
For me, it was the smiling man. The face of a old man in the middle with a red background that smiled, then they stretched his smile wider very slowly with a very creepy sound in the background. Used to scare me as a kid. Can’t find it anywhere though. And is not “Face Lift”.
@@rokuken you can’t find it anymore
@@GNJ-ri4tt Oh...😔 Do you happen to know the reason why?
@@rokuken I KNOW WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT IM LOOKING FOR IT TOO :(((((((((((
fun fact that swimbound sign is actually an actual highway entrance in downtown Seattle near the waterfronts
It's hard to overstate how much of a revelation this kind of stuff was to appear on television. It's one thing to seek this stuff out on youtube and watch it. It's another thing to have a new classic bump appear on TV, not knowing you'd be thinking about it decades later, not knowing you'd have long incorporated the original song from the bump in your music collection.
Hit right on the nail, recognizing their weird bumps of 10+ years ago still feels like yesterday. I can attest to those bumps shaping a big part of my music taste too everything on AS used to be on point
Adult Swim are doing what MTV used to do with their bumpers back in the 80's and early 90's.
I think adult swim is much weirder.
They've always done it better.
Watching these on a stormy night and all of a sudden it gets interrupted by the EAS alert system is the best...
Yesssss that's when the shadow people would start moving 😍
nO
Emergency alert system alert system?
@@rubybu1lds The alarm your town could set off during a broadcast to warn about unsafe weather conditions or other various hazards. Sounds like a robotic banshee
@@netladp5961 He's making the point that it's superfluous and suffers from RAS syndrome
Adult swim is so unique. its weird but it can be just terrifying sometimes
There is one adult swim bump that scarred me as a kid. I only vaguely remember a guy with his head stuck in a rusty slimy machine that turned his head shape into a square, and I believe it also imprinted [AS] on his face as well. It was really gross and disturbing, and I haven’t seen it since
It’s kinda sad a lot of these got lost in time due too them changing them so often. That could have been the only time that bump was ever shown
I wanna see it
I remember that bump
ruclips.net/video/ShtYanJNQ_A/видео.html This Creeped Me Out As A kid
ruclips.net/video/JpQ0ygDlC8k/видео.html maybe it was this
@@PonkleWonkle oh my god that’s it. I’m 22, almost 23, years old now and I have remembered that commercial for about 12 years now. Instant trauma lmao.
God I love how atmospheric they are, especially the one with the bike and the city shots. They are really creepy yet very comforting at the same time. It's really hard to explain? Like a fever dream at 3 AM or something, like how the channel is meant to be watched. It's the only time I think I've ever been comforted by something so creepy, it just feels alright. Like the channel gets you somehow through it's odd vibes and white text. It's weird.
A lot of my dreams are like these adult swim bumpers.
Thats terrifying
Mine too, especially the ones with the cutouts of things moving weirdly.
This has serious backrooms vibes
Yep
how
I can confirm, I am the backrooms
0:25 So that's how tootsie rolls are made
LMAO!
If I saw this at night I’d be screaming
Sad ur too young to experience it maine
stop screaming
That is why they are a thing. It’s to make sure that no little kids are watching so they put semi scary things in the middle of the shows so the kids would stop watching. Pretty smart if you ask me.
i see why!
Adult swim needs to bring the weird vibes back
Creepy af imagine if you were stuck in a endless loop of these sounds like that squidward alone episode
I just found out one of the songs used in the bumps!! For the bumper with the two people on the bike, the song is the Odd Nosdam mix of Boards Of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy!
[adult swim]: We Won! 10x
PBS having a loop saying “And On!: Hold my beer.
Anything from 1:41 onwards is concentrated nightmare fuel
Anomolous Cow I like music in it
When did you stop remembering?
Don't die.
THE DAWN IS YOUR ENEMY
Lol I must’ve seen one of these as a child a long time ago and gotten scared. Now I can see in hindsight how harmless these really were.
i see these and want to cry i miss watching these on tv
some of this is so unsettling to watch
The first one which is the warning wouldnt even scare me it would just put a nostalgic song in my head and a few years later it will be nostalgic
This was supposed to scare off kids, bruh this shit scaring adults too
The [as] trend of today completely lacks the heart of the original [as] bumps
besides from scary bumpers all songs slaps really hard
WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON
[Adult swiiiiiiiim]
THE COLD WAR IS OVER.
[Occult sin]
Most of us here grew up watching these as children. Our little children brains developing, eating this content. No wonder we're all mentally ill. I enjoy.
i love the vibes emitted by these
I feel like they should’ve kept doing these weird bumps I mean it’s eerie but it’s entertaining in the same time
Is it just me, or do I find these really cool
Same :D
i do mostly the don't die bump
Same
It's just you.
nah jk these are fuckin sick
1:46 *steel drums music*
DON'T DIE
1:53 Oh god
2:40 NO WAY GOTTA TURN OFF THE DAMN TV!
At the end: THE DAWN IS YOUR ENEMY
Yeah that's the scariest of the scared it should not be on the weird list it should be on scared list
i saw this one adult swim bumper and i can’t remember it. i was half asleep and it had almost a green screen colored background with a glitch to it, and it made some really loud like demonic sound and had a screamer and i panicked and shut off my tv. never watched it alone again 😭
That's sounds scary
Have you ever found it?
@@RyanPente. no😭
@@rebeccaschmitt9685 I went to reddit and I think I found it, do you want me to send you the link?
@@RyanPente. do it please
I remember when it was 2:46am and I saw 3rd floor don’t die it was terrifying
2:31 There it is... The Dawn Is Your Enemy...
*we won intensifies*
I remember i watch a bump were lady was laughing and black stuff came out of her mouth creepiest thing i saw at midnight in adultswim. Got scared straight, but stayed so i could watch futurama.
Mfs in the first clip looked like Grunts in Madness Combat but evolved
I can’t think of Madness Combat these days without thinking of that awesome VS. Tricky mod for Friday Night Funkin’. (I still haven’t beaten that thing on hard mode yet)
I remember being scared of adult swim because of the bumpers
I always thought these were fucking hilarious at like 14-17
0:49 weave....𝙎𝙉𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃𝙀𝘿
Pretty Avante Garde. Not really scary, I like the Catterpiller one and the closed one towards the end
WE WON
1:14 ITS HIM THE MOONINITE
1:10 THE COLD WAR IS OVER!!!! *WE WON*
THE LIST:
- [we hear you]
- [eye of tomorrow]
- [occult sin]
2:01 the 21st night of September...
This was weird core before weird core was a thing
i have vivid memories of the first one with the bomb
Weird core my beloved ❤️❤️
At 0:39, what song do they use for the combinne harvester bumper?
Jamie Lidell - What's the use
@@marcusmacaque what's the name of the song of the tootsie caterpillar
@@federation1wrestlingofficial Knife - Grizzly Bear
I swear they are saying my name at 1:14
Why does Bill The Butcher look like the butcher from Too Many Cooks?
2:08 [AS]: "when did you STOP remembering?"
Me: when we got Alzheimer
PUT IT IN THE CORNUCOPIA
imagine if weirdcore started off by adult swim bumps
(i know it probably didn't, but imagine)
1:11 has absolutely no right to be as funny as it is
the first one gives off the WORST energy
Agreed and I LOVE it too deAth!!
clearly remember an Aqua bump... 'All The way Down'
Happened to me once but it was a reddish screen with demonic sounding chants, people dancing, worst part was it was super fucking loud and it woke me up to some demonic video
Is the deer on wall one a Chernobyl reference?
Given that it’s Adult Swim, it could be anything, really
That intro scares me as a kid
1:16 did you know that we won?
The you/adult swim still scares me
Some of these just don't make sense and I kinda like it.
1:11 me when the Cold War is over
this was seriously supposed to scare kids wtf
Im afraid this generation will- [AS]
the first one is my fav
the creepiest adult swim bump ive eveer seen i filmed and posted on my channel. i titled it demon caught on tape
Hey it's me from that vid
1:14 I get it
adult swim bumps were made to scare children off the channel
Name of the song at 0:40?
We won
0:10
Strangely reminds me of Nosferatu.
Or madness combat
[it's lit]
Reverse 1:16 sounds like they are saying need help kinda creepy😳
not really
I wanna watch Adult Swim so bad at some point in my life. Maybe I'll put it on this Halloween to scare the hell outta myself, haha.
EDIT:
2:01 Alrighty, that certainly wasn't something I needed to see at 12:50 A.M. right before bed. . . . Love it, though.
Do it before its too late, cause Adult Swim has been slowly losing its charm since 2010 lol. And its nowhere near as much of a scare risk as it used to be either, occasionally they still come up with some weird shit but its a lot less common now
Later on this channel’s bumpers went from being weird to just disgusting
*THE COLD WAR IS OVER! WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON*
0:15 at least it’s madness combat
Something is wrong with adult swim
Does anybody know the song @ 2:21 ?
Nevertheless - LFO
@@Palmy0724 Thank you! I've been lookin' for this for years now. :-)
@@Palmy0724 do you know the song at 2:16?
Song intro?
2:20
is dawn was my enmey
I GET IT
weird
🥺
Hd madness combat
?
@@mannxj130 He’s referring to the guys riding the bicycle in the second bumper. They look like humanoid versions of the grunts seen in the popular NewGrounds animation series: Madness Combat, a series of flash animations made by an animator named Krinkels which stars a heroic assassin named Hank J. Wimbleton as he battles his way through an evil organization that’s trying to take over Nevada. The series recently resurged in popularity thanks to a mod for a popular NewGrounds game called Friday Night Funkin’. The mod in question is called “Vs. Tricky”, and it pits you against one of the major villains from Madness Combat: Tricky The Clown, in a 1 on 1 rap battle.
@@Jac-Man Ah. Okay.
Thanks man.
@@mannxj130 No problem :)
😒um
Anyway theres a source to these bumps? Or songs?
Whatever theyre called
Bumpworthy.com used to be the place to go for the song sources, but the sites been kinda buggy and out of date lately. You can also check out Sithlord999 and Rymoka on RUclips (hopefully they're still around) they had a lot of full song versions back in the day and probably still have them.
Also they're indeed called bumps, they're meant to fill in extra time before and after commerical breaks between the show and ad breaks. Most channels do something like "you're watching NBC, coming up next week___" but Adult Swim had a different vibe especially back in the early 2000s-2010 era. Check out the AcTN tilt shift bumps, those were always my fave. :)
@@Krankhafter thank you this helps a lot, if there is also more to the source of these ( or just people who have uploaded these ) id love to hear more. I find the bumps very interesting and most of the songs very good