I hadn’t been watching Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim (their late-night line-up of more mature content programming), but once I started downloading the episodes of Home Movies from the Digital Archive Project I was hooked!

The Adult Swim F.A.Q. has a good summary of their shows, but let me highlight a few in particular:

Home Movies is a hilarious show from the people who did “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.” I cannot recommend this one enough. It’s about an 8-year-old boy who makes movies in his basement with limited ability and production values but a lot of creativity.

“Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law” is my latest kick. It takes the superhero star of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, a short-lived 60s show, and has him arguing cases involving various Hanna-Barbera characters ranging from Fred Flintstone to the Superfriends (Apache Chief spills coffee on his lap and can no longer “enlarge”). The most notorious one is the pilot, where Benton Quest and Race Bannon battle for custody of Jonny Quest and Hadji…notorious mainly for the gay overtones. I like the one that will re-air Sunday April 20th in which Shaggy gets busted for possession. Shaggy’s clean, but the prosecution shows a number of clips from old Scooby Doo episodes that make a pretty strong case! The show is worth it just for the interaction between Birdman and his arch-enemies who are now rival lawyers. (Reducto is the best, especially in the Apache Chief episode)

Go to TV Guide.com and do a search for these shows to find the next time they air. You’ll be glad you did! Or if you don’t have Cartoon Network, you can certainly find them online.

Adult Swim also has brief bits of silliness in-between the shows, like new adventures of the Wonder Twins or Superfriends clips where they bleep out just the right words to make the dialogue sound worse than it is.