Fox’s Animation Domination is expanding to Saturday nights in 2013. The Animation Domination HD programming block will air 11:00 PM-12:30 AM ET/PT and feature four new animated series per season. “It’s something that we’ve been working on for a while,” said Fox president of entertainment Kevin Reilly. “We have real estate on our schedule in Saturday night late night that we’ve not been programming in quite a few seasons.” Animation

Production studio Stoopid Monkey (Robot Chicken) announced that they’re teaming up with their former colleagues at Buddy System Studios (MAD). The first project of the newly-formed Stoopid Buddy Stoodios will be Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special, a supersized 22-minute long episode featuring super heroes and villains from the DC Universe. The voice cast will include Seth Green as Batman, Robin and Aquaman; Paul Reubens as the Riddler; Neil Patrick Harris

Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers is teaming up with former SNL producer Michael Shoemaker to create a new superhero cartoon. The Awesomes is about “an unassuming superhero and his cohorts battle diabolical villains, the ever-present paparazzi, and a less-than-ideal reputation as second-class crime fighters.” It will debut on Hulu in 2013, as part of the company’s move toward original programming, but has been in development since 2007. Lorne

Ugly Americans gets a even uglier when Mark Lily is bitten by a Bat-Boy and transforms into a creature resembling Steve Buscemi. The milquetoast social worker decides to use his singular power to loudly shriek to help clean up New York as Bat Person! The episode also features parodies of other comic characters like Koala Boy Wonder and literal interpretations of Catwoman, Two-face, and Penguin. There’s even a guest appearance

New Teen Titans goes old school in this week’s DC Nation Short “Turn Back the Clock.” The team faces off against the retro super villain Mad Mod, who uses a time machine reminiscent of the TARDIS to make himself young again. However, it also affects his henchmen and the Teen Titans. They transform into previous incarnations of themselves circa the 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s. Eventually, they travel to the

For a quarter of a century, exactly where The Simpsons live has remained a mystery. It’s only been ambiguously referred to as Springfield, USA. In a recent interview with the Smithsonian creator Matt Groening revealed: Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon. The only reason is that when I was a kid, the TV show “Father Knows Best” took place in the town of Springfield, and I was thrilled because I

Cartoon Network celebrated April Fools’ Day as it usually does by replacing anime with Tommy Wiseau’s infamously bad movie The Room, or so it seemed. The opening credits were interrupted by the return of the Toonami programming block, which included 11 anime series: Bleach #247, Dragon Ball Z #191, Gundam Wing #10, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki #19, Outlaw Star #25, Big O #1, Yu Yu Hakusho #110, Blue Submarine No. 6

South Park has finally answered the age-old debate of leaving the toilet seat up or down. In the season premiere “Reverse Cowgirl,” Clyde is tormented by his nagging mother, who constantly warns him to leave the toilet seat down so she doesn’t fall in which is exactly what happens. The Toilet Safety Administration (TSA) forces everyone to wear toilet seat belts so they don’t fall in. Eventually, the TSA becomes

Saturday morning cartoons are making a comeback with Cartoon Network’s DC Nation, an hour-long programming block featuring DC properties Green Lantern: The Animated Series (10am/9c) and Young Justice (10:30am/9:30c), but the really big news is the series of shorts that air during commercial breaks. The minute long shorts make use of a variety of animation techniques, including: traditional, CG, and claymation but all have a humorous take on the DC

The Simpsons 500th episode is “The most meaningless milestone of all,” warns the show’s opening theme, which combines 23 seasons of couch gags to form the number 500. In “At Long Last Leave,” the Simpsons are banished from Springfield for causing too many shenanigans. You can almost hear Comic Book Guy yelling, “Simpsons did it!” (see: The Simpsons Movie) The exiled family moves off the grid to the Outlands, which

The Cleveland Show will force you laugh about rape, no matter how much you resist. In “Y Tu Junior Tambien” Cleveland helps his nerdy son get a girlfriend by telling him to pretend he’s a Jedi, who won’t take no for an answer

Rape is never funny, unless it’s all just a big misunderstanding. Rob Schneider’s new sitcom Rob pays homage to the anime School Rumble in which a naked guy, who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time, grabs a girl to stop her from screaming. Of course, that only makes things worse!

Pikachu usually communicates by incessantly squeaking “pika” but when another Pokemon finds his weak spot, he uses another four-letter word

Last Halloween LAIKA, the animation studio behind Coraline, introduced us to their newest creepy kid ParaNorman with a spine tingling trailer set to the psychedelic song “Season of the Witch” by Donovan. In the new family friendly, but less groovy, trailer we learn more about Norman’s paranormal ability to see dead people including his Grandmother and other not-so-friendly ghosts. ParaNormal Release Date: August 17, 2012 Trailers below

Fans of anime and manga series Ranma ½ have long wondered if Ranma, the gender bending protagonist who transforms into a woman when splashed with cold water, could ever become pregnant. To which creator Rumiko Takahashi answers, “I don’t think about that, and neither should you.” Well apparently one of the writers on the British TV series Misfits has been thinking about it. In season 3 episode 6, a boy