Delocated | |
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Genre | Mockumentary |
Created by | Jon Glaser |
Starring | Jon Glaser Jacob Kogan Nadia Dajani (season 1–2) Eugene Mirman Kevin Dorff (season 1–2) Zoe Lister-Jones (season 1–2) Jerry Minor (season 2) Steve Cirbus (season 2–3) Mather Zickel (season 2) Yung-I Chang (season 3) Ali Farahnakian (season 3) Marc Wootton (season 3) Janeane Garofalo (season 3) |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 30 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 11 minutes (2008–2009) 22 minutes (2010–2013) |
Production company(s) |
PFFR Williams Street Unintelligible Grunt (2010–2013) |
Release | |
Original network | Adult Swim |
Picture format | 16:9 HDTV |
Original release | April 1, 2008 – March 7, 2013 |
External links | |
Website |
Delocated (or known in the title card as Delocated New York) is an American television series that premiered February 12, 2009 on Adult Swim. The original pilot for the show was aired on April 1, 2008. Jon Glaser plays a man in the Witness Protection Program who moves his family to New York City. The family exploits the situation by starring in a reality TV show about being in the Witness Protection Program (in which, initially, they all wear disguises for their faces and voices; later, only "Jon" does). Paul Rudd guest-stars in the pilot as himself. Eugene Mirman co-stars as a Russian hitman/aspiring stand-up comic hired to kill "Jon."
This series is produced by Wonder Showzen and Xavier: Renegade Angel creators and rock band PFFR. It leans decidedly towards deadpan humor while still reflecting the black humor typical of their other shows. It is presented as if it were the fictional reality show which it portrays. The show is rated TV-PG and TV-14 for dialogue, strong language, sexual scenes, and moderate violence.
In the first seven episodes, Delocated had an eleven-minute runtime; as of season two, each episode had a twenty-two-minute runtime. The off-season series finale aired on March 7, 2013.
After testifying as a witness against a Russian mob family, "Jon" and his family are uprooted and start living undercover through the witness protection program. After existing quietly in an anonymous suburb, "Jon" accepts an offer for the family to participate in a reality show based on their current lives. In order to protect their identities from viewers—which could include the Russian gangsters who want him killed for testifying against them—they wear ski masks and have their voices surgically disguised. As part of the deal, the family is relocated to an upscale loft in New York City, where the series will be filmed. Not only does "Jon" find out that the "sweet" loft was not as advertised, his wife "Susan" promptly concludes that the life of a ski-masked, voice-disguised reality TV star is the wrong environment for her and their teenage son "David." Picked up for a second season by the network, "Jon" has little time to celebrate as the vicious Mirminsky family renews its efforts to destroy him and everything he holds dear.