Toonami (2000): "Pardon Our Dust" Interstitial

Remember the days when Toonami almost ruled Cartoon Network's weekly schedules?

Here's a fun little gem I found on a tape with half of an episode of Dragon Ball Z ("He's Here" from the Cell saga) from around October 17, 2000 (judging by a couple of promos and other sources, like the Toonami Fandom wiki, and a helpful comment on the YouTube version of the larger video this was taken from). This is part of a longer commercial break that you can see here: https://rumble.com/v2za2he-cartoon-networktoonami-dragon-ball-z-hes-here-break-2-air-date-october-17-2.html , and when I saw this bit at the beginning of that break, I thought I should upload it separately as well for the fun of it.

It's called "Pardon Our Dust," and it's a music video that Toonami premiered in 2000.

It shows a bunch of action sequences from some of the shows Toonami was running at the time, such as Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing, one of them looks like either Knights of the Zodiac (or Saint Seiya, if you prefer) or Ronin Warriors (what was it called in Japanese, again?), and I wouldn't be surprised if one or two bits (specifically the 3D CGI ones) are from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

If the audio sounds a bit off, it's because I had to boost it when I digitized it. For some reason, the audio on a few of these tapes was either really quiet or nonexistent altogether.

If you like this, I have both the middle commercial break and the break at the end, between the end of this episode of DBZ and the start of an episode of Gundam Wing (where the recording cuts off; take that however you will) on my channel as well. This is about as late as I like to go with commercials like these (I aim more for '80s and '90s promos, even though I do like these for the nostalgia factor), though.

I'll keep uploading more of these commercials as I go through the box of tapes I have. The older they are, the more of a chance there'll be of me digitizing and uploading the commercials.

This video was uploaded purely for nostalgia and entertainment purposes only. All copyrights are acknowledged and all rights reserved. No challenge to ownership is expressed or implied.