20 years ago tonight, Cartoon Network aired “The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay” on their Adult Swim block. It’s way rougher than even the First Season that would come a year and a half later.

Chris “Jackson Publick” McCulloch wrote, directed and did most of the voices and Doc Hammer joined in on the post-production later. He had been writing and planning it as a passion project since even earlier, at least 2,000. Aside from James Urbaniak and Patrick Warburton, most of the voices were McCulloch himself and his friends & family:

“As much as season 1 was slapped together and a bunch of non-professionals, the pilot was even moreso-“

Here’s hoping we get the movie to finish up the series’s 85 episode run.