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Article: Cartoon Network's Adult Swim: a beacon of freedom.
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- Zap2it.com
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- January 14, 2005
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Byline: Rick Porter
Lots of TV shows claim to be unlike anything else that's on the air. The guys behind Cartoon Network's "Tom Goes to the Mayor," though, probably have more right to make that statement than most.
The Adult Swim show, about a civic-minded guy in the Anywhere USA town of Jefferton and his ideas that always nearly bring the town to ruin, is probably the only show out there that mines the workings of municipal government for jokes.
And for a cartoon, it's not really animated; still photos of the show's creators/voice actors and guest stars are drawn over so that they look like mimeographed reproductions, then inserted into ...