inspired by all of that warner bros library. we're like, wouldn't it be fun if we made something like ourselves? >> wow, space ghost man, crack a window, will you? >> i would be violently sucked into space. >> how many people would tune in? >> space ghost is the turning point. it's a surreal, late night tv show that is unapologetically adult, using kids cartoons. >> now, a lot of the people that worked on that show today are the movers and shakers of "adult swim." >> all kids out of the pool for adult swim. >> they branded a block of time on the network that would just be for programs aimed at adults. >> they satirized truly terrible cartoons from the early '70s, a show called sea lab 2020 and made it sea lab 2021, where they dubbed over the old animation