Tender Touches

Tender Touches is an American adult animated series created by David Bonawits, Lauren Payne and Maxime Simonet for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. It aired from December 18, 2017 to June 19, 2020.

Background

The series is a parody of soap operas and was based on a segment from Bloodfeast created by hosts Dave Bonawits and Maxime Simonet of FishCenter Live fame. It was introduced in 2017 at a showcase of Adult Swim pilots as part of their "On The Green" tour across the United States.
For the first two seasons, the series included two versions of each episode. One was the regular episode, and the other was a musical. Starting with the third season, the musical version of the episode was discontinued. The series is characterized by improvisation, inconsistent audio and voice-acting quality, and numerous fourth wall breaks.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2017)

Season 2 (2018)

Season 3 (2020)

Broadcast and release

Season	Time slot
2017–18 [United States network television schedule\|2017–18]	Weekdays at 12:30 am Weekdays at 12:45 am
2020	Weekdays at 12:00 am

Nielsen ratings

The first episode "Heated Floors" was watched by 0.729 million viewers on its first broadcast on Adult Swim and "Heated Floors: Operetta" was watched by 0.63 million viewers. On Thursday, 21 December 2017, Tender Touches ranked third in the Top 3 after National [Basketball Association|NBA] NBA season|basketball] with 911,000 viewers.

Reception

Geeks Jose Rodriguez praised the show with "holy crap this show is hilarious t's exactly the kind of offbeat, disturbing, and hilarious show that Adult Swim used to make. Bubbleblabbers John Schwarz reviewed Tender Touches favorably, saying "you're in for a real surprise."