Adult Swim’s Goofball Marketing Stunt That Caused A City-Wide Bomb Scare

Aqua Teen Hunger Force was the king of Adult Swim for a decade and a half.

The show was born out of goofball antics - a rough cut of the pilot aired, unannounced, before Adult Swim even technically existed - and to goofball antics it would return again and again. Most notoriously, the guerrilla marketing campaign that caused a city-wide panic: