Animals.
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| Genre | Comedy |
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| Composer(s) | Julian Wass |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Production company(s) | Karen BBQ Harmonius Claptrap(season 2) Titmouse, Inc.(season 2) Point Grey Pictures(season 2) Duplass Brothers Television Starburns Industries |
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| Original network | HBO |
| Original release | February 5, 2016 – present |
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Animals. is an American animated comedy television series created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano. The first two episodes were independently produced and presented at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. In May 2015, HBO picked the series up with a two-season order, which premiered on February 5, 2016.
Each episode features a different cast of special guests besides creators Matarese and Luciano. The show primarily features retroscripting, improvised dialogue based on plot outlines.
After witnessing the unintentional death of a hooker by the mayor, two rats named Mike and Phil attend a party where it is discovered that Phil has never made babies while Mike raises his newborn daughter Rebecca as she grows into an adult over the course of the party. As Phil falls in love with Rebecca, he learns that he ate rat poison and spends his final moments finally having sex with Rebecca raising their son Phil Jr. Meanwhile two police horses, voiced by Paul Scheer and Matt Walsh, discuss a friend who has become a race horse; also two bed bugs voiced by Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry, move into the mayor's pubic hair and talk about one of their divorce and subsequent midlife crisis.
As the mayor deals with a blackmailer who took pictures of him with the hooker, unaware that one of his goons is an undercover detective, a golf ball hits a sleeping Phil's nest as he believes it to be an egg he laid. He joins his friend Mike and Mike's wife Megan to their son Jacob's Little Flyers Club where Mike is challenged to race to the Green Lady with the Ice Cream Thingy by Jerry, a pigeon from New Jersey, voiced by Nick Kroll. Meanwhile two caterpillars named Alan and Brian, voiced by Ike Barinholtz and Zach Woods respectively, deal with one of their metamorphosis.
As the mayor's wife is having an affair with her husband's opponent in the upcoming mayoral campaign, her pet cats Mike and Phil discuss their plans for the day when they are interrupted by an alley cat at the window named Alex, voice by Eric André. Mike and Phil let Alex in to use the kitty litter and give him a tour of their apartment where he steals various things. But when Alex comes clean after how friendly his hosts are, he learns that Mike and Phil are crazed sociopaths and barely escapes being tortured by them. Meanwhile, a goose named Shane, voiced by Adam Scott, explores Central Park and meets a swan named Olivia, voiced by Molly Shannon, who is led to believe that Shane is a Black Swan. His secret is found out later at a club and has to come clean.
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