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Exclusive Clip From "Fat Guy Stuck In Internet" New Adult Swim Series

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:40:00 PDT

One big lucky man lives every nerd's dream by getting sucked into the internet and being forced to live out his days among pop culture, YouTube videos and glorious scifi references. Fat Guy Stuck In Internet is the latest addition to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, and it premieres this week. The show will spoof everything from Star Wars and The Goonies to The Matrix. Fat Guy started when creators John Gemberling (who plays the main character) and Curtis Gwinn (plays an internet bounty hunter) decided to create their own series of shorts for Channel 102 called "Gemberling." The show airs 12:15 am next Monday morning.

Two Weeks Of Not Having To Wonder What To Wear Could Be Yours!

Graeme McMillan — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:30:00 PDT

For lesser mortals, it'd be enough to single-handedly save Summer Television from weeks of reruns and Andromeda Strain-esque events, but makers of Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. aren't the type of people to sit around and rest on their laurels. Not content with giving us another thirteen episodes of action, adventure and bastardizing the pop culture of our youth (Come on, like you expected David Bowie to make an appearance last season), they're also coming to save your wardrobe. Are you ready for The Venture Bros. Shirt of the Week Club?

Starting this Sunday, in time for that night's season 3 premiere, Venture Bros. production house Astrobase Go is offering an exclusive t-shirt to accompany that week's episode:

Each week we premiere a brand new episode of The Venture Bros. television program, we will premiere a brand new t-shirt to go with it RIGHT HERE. The shirt will remain on sale for one week only—until the next episode and the next shirt premiere. We'll only print as many shirts of each design as we receive orders for (okay, we'll probably make a couple for ourselves, too) and once the ad for a shirt is removed, that shirt will never be available again.

The first shirt on offer? The Guild of Calamitous Intent:

Fire up the Murdermobile and call your arch nemesis—because you're about to become a fully licensed member of The Guild of Calamitous Intent the moment you slide one of these 100% cotton American Apparel fine jersey short sleeve black beauties over your cybernetic exoskeleton or henchman's tunic! Emblazoned in gold with the official logo of the recognized leader in organized havoc, this shirt says to the world: "I come in separate cuts and sizes for Men and Women!

And that's not all - If you subscribe to all 13 shirts in the series now, you'll receive this fabulous set of ginsu knives absolutely... Wait, it's not ginsu knives?

"But wait..." you say. "Two weeks equals 14 days, not 13. I'll have to go the laundromat every 13 days now, which is an odd number and completely throws off my weekend plans. What are you trying to pull?" To which we say..."HOW ABOUT A BONUS T-SHIRT?!"

That's right, Venture Bros. Shirt Club subscribers will also receive the coveted SUPER-LIMITED EDITION BONUS BROCK SAMSON KODOKAN BLOOD JUDO T-SHIRT, which is available to SHIRT CLUB SUBSCRIBERS ONLY and is included FREE OF CHARGE with your subscription.

That's right; you may never have to go to Old Navy for your ironic t-shirt needs ever again.

The Amazing Shirt of the Week Club [Astrobase Go]

You Too Can Be A Venture Bros. Artist

Graeme McMillan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:20:23 PST

Everyone who's seen it agrees - Adult Swim's teen-adventure show The Venture Bros is the greatest animated series to ever hit the airwaves. And now, thanks to the kindness of the show's Storyboard and Design Supervisor Stephen DeStefano, you too can learn how to draw our teen heroes Hank and Dean, their super-scientist father Doc Venture, and even super-agent Brock Samson himself, via the official How To Draw The Venture Bros tutorial, aimed at the show's animators. More images under the jump.

How To Draw The Venture Brothers, Part Two, Part Three [Stephen DeStefano]

See Every Single Episode Of Futurama Starting Tonight

Kevin Kelly — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:45:50 PST

If you've been wondering what to do with yourself between now and the end of the year, you might think about tuning in to the Cartoon Network, where you can watch every single episode of Futurama starting at 11pm tonight, and running until 11:30pm December 31st. If you've got a massive hard drive attached to your DVR, this is your chance to load it up with the hijinx that have been going on over at Planet Express and save yourself the DVD costs.