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Home Movies (cartoon series)

Home Movies
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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.


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