History Main / AdBumpers

-->"You might think you're watching ''Family Guy'' on [adult swim], but no, it's still Creator/{{Fox}}.
** And then when said episode premiered on Adult Swim, they replied with ''[[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 this]]''

** ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' parodied this by [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2084 running an Adult Swim bumper]] in the middle of an episode's original network broadcast;

** And then when Adult Swim aired the episode for the first time on their network they used the Fox style bumper saying [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 "You're watching Fox on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network".]]
** In addition, fans can make their own on both Adult Swim's website and app for phone and tablets.

* The main government-owned network in Spain, TVE, used the most [[MindScrew bizarre]], [[DisneyAcidSequence trippy]] and even [[JumpScare startling]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dikXLVEiI ad bumpers throughout most of the 80s]]. Who knows what they were thinking when they decided to put these on air?

** Adult Swim is an interesting example in that the bumps are rewritten each week on Sunday; this means that for one day, the bumps actually do have something to do with the show that's on or coming up, however they are replayed every day throughout the week, even when the schedule changes, which can lead to some confusion for those who don't watch it on Sunday. They use the bumps to [[AdoredByTheNetwork praise their new favorite shows]] (and sometimes [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow yell at their viewers for not watching it enough]]), [[ScrewedByTheNetwork rag on the anime crowd]], throw props to other networks (especially during the Conan Tonight Show debacle), deliver WordOfGod straight from the show creators, answer FAQs from the forums, show fanart, and occasionally preview upcoming movies.

In the UK, TV ad breaks tend to be in the format Programme -> Channel Trailers -> Ads -> Channel Trailers -> Programme. Often two bumpers will be seen, one programme-specific between the show and the trailers, and one more channel specific between trailers and ads. Nowadays, however, it's quite common to see short sponsor ads instead of bumpers.

** They occasionally spoofed pop-culture in the Golden Age of the network, like in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGH_T7ht8I this collection, which was so popular it was compiled into short film form.]] (In case the video is deleted, the [[WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooProject bumpers]] are Franchise/ScoobyDoo-themed parodies of Film/TheBlairWitchProject that aired during Halloween 1999.)

* [[Creator/{{Syfy}} The Sci-Fi Channel]] (back when it really ''was'' the Sci-Fi Channel) had its "I am Sci-fi" campaign in the 1990s, where celebrities appeared in humorous science fiction scenarios (WWF wrestler Sable in a parody of ''Attack of the 50 Foot Woman'', Moby in a ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' pastiche, and so on).

* TBS had brief skits of people calling the TBS Comedy Research Institute to ask if a certain situation they were in was funny.

* The Creator/DisneyChannel, back in the 1980's to early-90's, had claymation bumpers usually depicting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swge5kyNCE Mickey Mouse Logos]] hounding WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vaw3zfO1hg the daily exploits of Mickey Mouse]], or simply an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6TJD-jrok interesting visual that eventually turned into the Disney Channel logo.]] 80's kids have been known to break down into tears of nostalgia upon seeing them on Youtube for the first time since childhood.

* From 1987-1990, and again from 1992-1994, Creator/{{ABC}}'s classic SaturdayMorningCartoon lineups used humorous Claymation bumpers, with perhaps the most infamously catchy sing-song ad bumpers in Saturday morning history: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vI0UcUxzrQ "After these messages... we'll be riiiight back!"]]
** A fairly comprehensive list from the late 70's to early 2000's can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEjjmGVA98 here]].
* ABC's One Saturday Morning and its successors, ABC Kids and Littleton's Weekend Adventure all used these.
* ABC's version of The Wonderful World of Disney, when it was a movie block used these. To throw off fast-forwarders, a bumper was often included in the middle of the break saying "We will continue in a moment."
* From the 1970s on trough most of the 80's, Creator/{{NBC}}'s SaturdayMorningCartoon bumpers featured Creator/CaseyKasem saying "[Show x] will be back after these messages].

* YNN (Your News Now), a [[TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks 24-hour News channel]] owned by Time Warner Cable that serves a vast majority of New York State have quite recently been showing some [[RuleOfCool pretty cool]] bumpers for the channel's Capital Region affiliate that mostly consist of either shots of the sign in the office area of said affiliate's Albany studio or a control room board that is shown in some cases with someone operating buttons and levers.

** Back in the early 1990s when Fox Kids was known as ''Fox Network,'' there used to be bumpers that featured [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EiC8nlGwwc a fox that had a traditionally animated head with a stop motioned animated body]] that would do various activities such as riding on a roller coaster and playing a piano and it was created by Colossal Pictures.

* Some top-rated shows on CBS in the 80s had ad bumpers before or during the mid-point commercial break, notably ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'' and ''Series/SixtyMinutes''.

* Some top-rated shows on CBS in the 80s had ad bumpers before or during the mid-point commercial break, notably ''Series/{{Mash}}'' and ''Series/SixtyMinutes''.

** A huge CGI-city with Cartoon Network characters as its residents going through their everyday routines.

* The main government-owned network in Spain, TVE, used the most [[MindScrew bizarre]], [[DisneyAcidSequence trippy]] and [[NightmareFuel almost startling]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dikXLVEiI ad bumpers throughout most of the 80s]]. Who knows what they were thinking when they decided to put these on air?

* The main government-owned network in Spain, TVE, used the most [[MindScrew bizarre]], [[DisneyAcidSequence trippy]] and [[NightmareFuel almost startlingly scary]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dikXLVEiI ad bumpers throughout most of the 80s]]. Who knows what they were thinking when they decided to put these on air?

* The main government-owned network in Spain, TVE, used the most [[MindScrew bizarre]] [[DisneyAcidSequence trippy]] and [[NightmareFuel almost startlingly scary]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dikXLVEiI ad bumpers throughout most of the 80s]]. Who knows what they were thinking when they decided to put these on air?

-->"You might think you're watching ''Family Guy'' on [adult swim], but no, it's still {{Fox}}.

*** The recent newer one still does the same above (minus drawing errors and fixing it), but after it's drawn, the drawing zooms out to reveal the new logo, as the Mickey Mouse logo ends up being the dotted I in the new logo. [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2uYV8ApIMI Here's an example of the new one]] with Creator/PiperCurda from ''Series/IDidntDoIt''.

*** The recent newer one still does the same above (minus drawing errors and fixing it), but after it's drawn, the drawing zooms out to reveal the new logo, as the Mickey Mouse logo ends up being the dotted I in the new logo. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTqMnT8aa40 Here's an example of the new one]] with Creator/PiperCurda from ''Series/IDidntDoIt''.

** They occasionally spoofed pop-culture in the Golden Age of the network, like in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGH_T7ht8I this collection, which was so popular it was compiled into short film form.]] (In case the video is deleted, the [[TheScoobyDooProject bumpers]] are Franchise/ScoobyDoo-themed parodies of Film/TheBlairWitchProject that aired during Halloween 1999.)

** They occasionally spoofed pop-culture in the Golden Age of the network, like in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGH_T7ht8I this collection, which was so popular it was compiled into short film form.]] (In case the video is deleted, the bumpers are Franchise/ScoobyDoo-themed parodies of Film/TheBlairWitchProject that aired during Halloween 1999.)

** The music played during Adult Swim bumps bear mentioning, as well. The music, largely downtempo and other relaxing, low-key electronica, has a large following, and many people who came to like the "bump music" enough to seek out those genres more generally.

* Like it's competitors, CBS had a number of bumpers as well, including ones using Fido Dido. They can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDZKgmnLfc here]].

* FoxKids in its early years used a kid named Wilby Baxter (a play on "we'll be right back") in its bumpers. Several years later, they would present a question to a bizarre fact before the break, and reveal the answer upon return.

''[[BrickJoke And now back to TV Tropes!]]''

* ChannelFour's spinoff channel E4, for its first few years, would have ad bumpers consisting of one word, with both bumpers in one ad break forming some two-word phrase, so (as an example) before the ads it would say "Hello" and after "World". Eventually sent up by both words once being "Bling".

* The DisneyChannel, back in the 1980's to early-90's, had claymation bumpers usually depicting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swge5kyNCE Mickey Mouse Logos]] hounding WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vaw3zfO1hg the daily exploits of Mickey Mouse]], or simply an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6TJD-jrok interesting visual that eventually turned into the Disney Channel logo.]] 80's kids have been known to break down into tears of nostalgia upon seeing them on Youtube for the first time since childhood.

** For quite some time after that it had bumpers of science-fictional situations. For instance, in one a man sits passively as a raven flaps around him, until it lands on his bald head. The top of his head opens up into a giant fanged mouth and swallows the raven whole, then closes again as he smiles. Sadly, more recent bumpers have been simpler, just showing something rapidly turning into something else. And now some of the bumpers are shorts of the actors of SyFy original shows in some weird location such as a collapsing building or on one of M.C. Escher's famous staircase paintings tossing a football.

* The SciFiChannel (back when it really ''was'' the Sci-Fi Channel) had its "I am Sci-fi" campaign in the 1990s, where celebrities appeared in humorous science fiction scenarios (WWF wrestler Sable in a parody of ''Attack of the 50 Foot Woman'', Moby in a ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' pastiche, and so on).

** Additionally, the channel once used a variation of the [[knowyourmeme.com/memes/courage-wolf "Courage Wolf"]] image macro meme as an ad bumper.

Can also serve as {{Filler}} for shows which run a little short, but not short enough to add another commercial. They can also be removed to accommodate longer shows.