Tuesday, January 26, 2010

So Long, Santa Mural!

It's about time. I don't know whether you're aware of this, but Christmas is over. The news took some time to reach certain mural-painting powers, so for the last few weeks we've been looking at Santa Claus in a sailboat with some kind of vague accompanying slogan. Well, no more. There's a new Adult Swim ad in town:

This obviously doesn't feature Santa, but what the heck is it all about? Here's a closer look:

I still don't know what they're trying for. Here's the deal: if you already know Adult Swim, you're aware that it's brilliant and you watch it (if you have cable, which I don't). But if you have no idea what it is, does this explain anything. I say no. It's irreverent, yes, but it details nothing about the show or its component parts, many of which are hilarious - especially The Venture Bros. This doesn't diminish Adult Swim in my eyes, I'm just puzzled that with all the zillions of channels out there, they can be as vague as this. That's all.

So now I'm going to be trying to make sense out of this every time I walk past it for the next however many months that it stays up. I don't think I'll be able to do it.

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