Jon ruins the podcast by picking Bionicle: Mask of Light as this week's movie. Thus, we are forced to quickly come to terms with the fact that Bionicle has massive amounts of confusing lore, and numerous plot points that are only explained in some now hard-to-find comics. Plus, we dive into Toonami's strange Bionicle: Mask of Light tie-in stuff, which included sweepstakes and an exclusive bonus ending!

All the while, Sam tries to escape the Bionicle hole.

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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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Beast Wars takes a weird twist this week. Not only do we visit Spinal Tap's favorite prehistoric megalithic structure and find it was created by aliens, but we also discover that mountains of Energon are a great way to shoehorn in a clumsy PSA about forbidden chemicals. But at least we get more Dinobot, so that's something.

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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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This week's Cowboy Bebop installment sees us tackle Heavy Metal Queen and Waltz for Venus. So, we finally get to see the Bebop crew complete a bounty, and get to experience one of the most emotional Cowboy Bebop episodes in the whole series, as Spike meets an annoying fanboy who is stuck in a deeply tragic situation. We also delve more into Adult Swim's issues scheduling and broadcasting Bebop in late 2001.

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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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The Iron Giant is a kids' movie that deserves way more love.

This tale of a boy and his robots made us all cry as kids and it is still making us cry over a decade later.

We also spend some time talking about how Toonami really had no idea how to market films like The Iron Giant, leading to some very confusing promos.

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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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In this week's installment of Beast Wars, we get more Transformers lore and discover that Cheetor isn't cut out for the army and that spider-shaped Transformers are little weirdos. We also get further conformation that this show was produced in Canada.

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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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This week we continue Cowboy Bebop with Ballad Of Fallen Angels and Sympathy For The Devil.

We dive into how September 11th effected the Adult Swim line-up and get our first taste of Vicious, the man who will become the main antagonistic force during Cowboy Bebop's storyline.

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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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We revisit our youth with Pokémon: The First Movie (or Mewtwo Strikes Back).

An utter nostalgia bomb of a film, we dig into its weird release history, its terrible dub, and talk about how, for many 90s kids Pokémon: The First Movie, was the first anime film they ever saw.

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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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The Beast Wars begin!

This week we start a new Western Cartoon block with Alyx's choice: Beast Wars, the weirdest entry in the Transformers franchise. Expect giant apes, dinosaur Megatron and a lot of confusing lore that only gets more tangled the longer things go on.

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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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This week we continue our Cowboy Bebop re-watch with Gateway Shuffle and Honky Tonk Women. Because of this we say the phrase "Ape Virus" frequently. We also talk about the live-action Cowboy Bebop and wonder what went wrong...

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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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Well, it finally happened. Jon let the voices win and we're diving into Jonny Quest vs The Cyber Insects, a forgotten Toonami movie that Jon wanted to watch simply because they had never heard of it.

Watch as Jonny, Hadji, Jessie, Race Bannon and Dr Quest attempt to stop the evil Doctor Zin and his army of weird robot bugs. Enjoy our realization that, while Toonami became a major force, it wasn't so cool in its early days.

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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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See more Toonami Absolution stuff (including the video version of the podcast) by checking out our Linktree!

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