Toonami lied to you!

After learning that Toonami showed Super Friends for a brief period in 1998, Jon decided that this show would be our next Western Cartoon block. However, Jon quickly discovered that Toonami didn’t actually show Super Friends.

Instead, they showed a different show (the Superman Batman Adventures) and simply called it Super Friends. What makes this especially odd is that the Superman Batman Adventures is a show that mixes together a load of old Filmation shorts from the 1960s, meaning that this “new” Toonami show was just a load of reruns from the 1960s.

We really feel that effect in this episode, as we’re stuck with two very wacky slices of Batman.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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