My favorite new addition to Adult Swim is The Drinky Crow Show. One thing that jumps right out at you is the look of the thing — the animation is very cool.  To translate the original pen-and-ink strip, Maakies by Tony Millionaire, into animation, the producers actually created a new animation technique called Maakie-Mation.  So it’s fun to look at and the writing is brilliant.  Last week’s episode featured two guest voices — Bret and Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords. Drinky Crow is usually followed by Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and then the consistently excellent, Metalocalypse, but they mess around with the schedule sometimes. These shows contain some cartoony violence.

(The Rhode Island connection?  The theme song is by They Might Be Giants, featuring John Linnell, whose first band was the Providence rockers, the Mundanes.)

Sunday, after midnight (so actually it’s Monday morning) Adult Swim, the Cartoon Network

tonight on Adult Swim

at 11:30pm the return of Robot Chicken — Tubba-Bubba’s now Hubba Bubba

followed at about 11:59pm by Metalocalypse — Dethrecord

followed by Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job

(times approximate, this network is pretty loosey-goosey and the shows are only about 11 minutes long)

Really? This is what’s behind the curtain? Not really very death-y. I mean I knew it was a cartoon but… really?! At any rate, good news for Metalocalypse fans, Dethklok is a real band and it’s touring. Nearest venue — the Palladium in Worcester, June 24th. Mr. Small (Berklee grad!) and Mr. Blacha are the subject of today’s ‘A Night Out With’ column in the NYT where they go out and raise hell in a …. sushi bar! Okay that’s not very metal but… they totally charged the whole thing to Adult Swim. Check out the Metalocalypse site where Brendon will teach you how to play the theme, although about a minute in he starts getting really frustrated with how slow and stupid you are.

Metalocalypse/Adult Swim/Cartoon Network/Sunday 11:45PM