EarthBound Font on Adult Swim

Damn, Tim and Eric ASGJ is one of my favorite shows, and I missed that detail. I love this bit and it’s very surreal to see that font on national television!\

Great Job!

worthless coment FTW

Man, I’m a bit dissapointed, they’re also ripping off this http://tane.us/

LOL Funny clip.

But SERIOUSLY… WHAT THE **** is with the Windows 3.1 interface they’re pulling? Have they not seen a modern OS interface in 20 years?!

Did anyone notice the GUI on his computer is based on Windows 3.0?

oh nvm lol

Wow… We are slowy taking over. Soon we will take xbox and ps3. Earthbound will be on xbox !!!!!!

…Was that supposed to be funny?

I hate Tim and Eric, but the fact that Earthbound font was used on tv is amazing!

rotschleim said:
…Was that supposed to be funny?

Wahhh…. you made me cry!

I didn’t mean your comment, Darkzzi, I meant the clip of this Tim and Eric Show. I didn’t find it funny at all.

I don’t watch the show (and I’m once again reminded why I don’t), but it’s still very cool to see the font in a real TV show that a lot of people watch. I wonder if the people that picked out the font have actually played EB, or if they just found it someplace and thought it was neat?

Wow. This is the crap that comes on TV nowadays? This isn’t funny, its STUPID.

The ambient sound at the start (computers whirring) is from Team Fortress 2. Don’t know if its royalty free, but it could make sense, seeing as the EB font was used.

If you don’t like Tim and Eric, you just don’t have the same weird sense of humor for it. It’s a 15-minute show that comes on late at night on one of hundreds of cable channels. It’s not on at any prime time hours, so you can’t complain about it being “the crap that comes on TV nowadays.”

Besides, the show is meant to be STUPID, campy, cheesy and dumb, and a parody of many things. That’s what makes it funny. If you disagree, then it’s just not your sense of humor. But your opinion doesn’t make it an awful show. Time and Eric had 5 seasons and was only ended so the team could work on their new show, which started airing last month. That means people are definitely tuning in and like the show. Fact is fact.

Anyway, it’s cool to see them use the font, etc. Like everyone else has said. That means there’s a fan in there somewhere.

Like Lola, I too am wondering how they found that font. Are the fonts hosted anywhere besides here and Starmen.Net? Either way, pretty neat catch.

I love Tim & Eric and I watched this episode when it first aired. I can’t believe I missed the EB font. The fact that it uses the name “Paul” helps make it really easy to identify because of how many times I’ve seen the name “Paula” spelled out in that exact same font.

um that didnt make me cry… dont use my name. get your own. i did not say that made me cry. get your own name.

Cool.

#1-WTF!
#2-Paul is dangerously close to Paula…so,yeaaa…

Freaky, considering I always named Jeff, “Paul”.

Oh man! I laughed so hard I cried! However, this si interisiting information. Who would ever imagine that the EarthBound font was kind of professional.

I do not think it will be the next Comic Sans, because CS is hated by 75% percent of the people, including its creator itself!

…What in the name of Mani-Mani did I just watch?

Nice! But, the Tim and Eric show isn’t really comparable to what adult swim airs, or at least USED to air! (Shin-chan+ MOTHER reference *nudge-nudge-wink-wink*) But, this is cool that the EarthBound font is now somewhat professional!

This is so awesome! Tim & Eric is one of the most trippiest shows ever, its’ hilarity and brilliance is truly unexplainable, love it. Nice find, wonder how the editors stumbled upon this font.

…Sweet, although I’m somehow not surprised by this since perhaps the special effects developer was an Earthbound fan and just thought nobody would notice if he used the font, which is a pretty likely scenario. Otherwise that’s a pretty freaky coincidence. Reminds me of the naming screen because of the blue background and the black behind the text.

I could have sworn I’ve seen the Earthbound font being used in public before, but I completely forgot. This just refreshed my memory of it. Dang it…

XD Tim and Eric is great, one of my favorite shows. Its sense of humor is perfect for me.

This is a great find. Never noticed the font my first 10 times watching the video.
Now I really feel like using the EarthBound font for something.

Less impressed that they used the EarthBound font was the fact they used a “Macintosh II” startup sound.

Oh, I remembered another thing, the font is also listed on a few “free font” sites. I was looking for the CheapSign font there and instead I found OrangeKid, which I immediately recognized as the Earthbound font. I thought it was called Apple Kid in the .zip here, though… Odd.

That’s probably where they got it.
Oh yeah, and the site was in sections. It was listed under “pixels”.
They chose it out of all those fonts. I don’t blame them.

They probably have no idea what it’s from.

Tim & Eric…they’re funny sometimes. I love their Absolut Vodka ads. It took me some time to “get” the show. It’s hit or miss, but the show is willing to try anything. The Jim & Derric MTV/G4 parody episode is one of the best things I’ve seen on cable television ever. I’m not even kidding.

TGP – Orange Kid is the font that was made over 10 years ago and it doesn’t exactly match the font found in EarthBound. Apple Kid is the more recent font that fixes the mistakes in Orange Kid and looks exactly like the font used in EB.

Oh ****! That’s Paul Rudd!

I totally noticed this…

It looks very similar but I think its just a coincidence.

i bought season 1 of tim and eric awesome show.
and i turned it off about 10 minutes into it. hated it. sold it.

I have only watched enough Tim & Eric to see that they have exactly one joke: HAW HAW HE’S ACTING GAY! If there’s more than that, they buried it pretty deep.

Sam, you clearly haven’t watched T&E, then.

I actually use the Apple Kid font on some of my school papers…

“Nude Tayne.”

I guess I’m in the minority, but I found that pretty funny.

First of all, I hate that show with a passion. Second, the clip is gone so i can’t see it. Which font was it?

can someone host the clip somewhere OTHER than youtube? i’d like to see it, but they removed it

not there…but ooh,annoying orange!

Morgil – it was the main font used all throughout the game in the text boxes.

Now TAYNE, I can get into.

Since Cartoon Network is being really dumb, you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giCUHdsq7mU

****, video got removed cause of copyright

The font is also on the ad for Cladun: This is an RPG. It’s a PSP game by Nippon Ichi.

First,what in the name of Omelets is
The Tim And Eric Show.

Secondly,WHY DID THEY PUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON TV!
Adult swim should get sued!

sorry for being that a… sorry
it happened again.

if you press Dark Kirby there will be a link
to google.

http://www.google.com/

Adult Swim isn’t the only thing that is having refrences to Earthbound. I’ve heard two refrences on Cartoonnetwork that I have said in other comments.