Cartoon Network within the 11pm-2am slot features a segment known as Adult Swim
,
or "[as]" for short (their TV bug is [adult swim]
),
so-called since most of the content are not for children (unlike Cartoon Network's daytime Y-rated programming).
In between program segments, Adult Swim displays multi-purpose text-based flash cards.
Recently, these flash cards have become a bit more interactive with [as]'s corresponding web forums on www.adultswim.com.
This image was captured on 2003 Sept 18, at 23:58 Pacific Daylight Time,
on Cartoon Network (Time Warner cable, channel 39),
just after the finish of Futurama
.
Due to the blue screen and silence, at first glance, the display software appears to have crashed (resembling the infamous BSOD).
The uncentered text was a dead giveaway, though.
Other [as] cards indicated they use Windows and/or MacOS based softwares.
Both operative systems are known for roughly-centered crash dialogs.
The second line is also a hint the card is a forgery (of a software crash). The line contains non-hex characters 'G', 'H', 'L', 'N', 'R', 'Y'. The purported hex is actually 1337sp33k spelling of what the [as] crew/staff think about the physiology of the giant alien[*] bugs (called "Blue") in Blue Gender, an opinion expressed several times in other (now-prior?) [as] cards adjacent to Blue Gender showings.
The third line is the attribution for the music that was playing in the background just before the blue surprise.