Home Movies (TV series)

Home Movies
Left to right: Melissa, Brendon and Jason.
Genre	Cartoon Adult animation
Created by	Loren Bouchard Brendon Small
Directed by	Loren Bouchard
Voices of	Brendon Small Jon Benjamin Melissa Bardin Galsky Janine Ditullio (2001–04) Paula Poundstone (1999)
Theme music composer	Brendon Small Loren Bouchard
Composer(s)	Brendon Small
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Loren Bouchard Tom Snyder Bonnie Burns Mary Catherine Micka co-executive producers: Brendon Small Carl W. Adams
Producer(s)	Loren Bouchard (1999–01) Melissa Bardin Galsky (1999–2002) Carl W. Adams (2002–03) Jack Ferraiolo (2003–04)
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Burns & Burns Productions Tom Snyder Productions (1999–2000) Soup2Nuts (2001–04)
Distributor	Television: UPN (1999) Warner Bros. Television (2001-04) Home Video: Shout! Factory
Release
Original network	UPN (1999) Adult Swim (2001–04)
Picture format	4:3 SDTV
Original release	April 26, 1999 – April 4, 2004
External links
Website

Home Movies is an American animated television sitcom created by Loren Bouchard and Brendon Small. The show centers eight-year-old Brendon, who makes videos with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his adopted baby sister, Josie. He develops a skewed father/son-like relationship with his alcoholic, short-tempered soccer coach, John McGuirk.

Home Movies premiered on UPN on April 26, 1999. The channel cancelled the series after five episodes, but Cartoon Network purchased the rights to the series, seeing potential in it. It premiered as the first program on their nighttime adult-oriented Adult Swim block on the day of the block's launch on September 2, 2001. As part of Adult Swim, it aired 47 more episodes before ending on April 4, 2004.

Home Movies developed a cult following during its run, and is still considered a renowned cult show. The show was very well received among critics in later years, and in 2009, the series was placed on IGN's Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows list. Co-creator Small would later go on to help create the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse and Bouchard would go on to create the animated Bob's Burgers for the Fox network.

In its first season, Home Movies utilized Soup2Nuts' Squigglevision animation but later abandoned that for the cheaper, more malleable Macromedia Flash animation. The switch was initiated for several reasons: scattered negative response to Squigglevision from both critics and viewers, limitations in regard to movement (fluid motion is rare in Squigglevision), and the producers' view that Squigglevision was inherent to Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and that Home Movies should develop its own unique style.