Squidbillies

Squidbillies
The Cuyler Family. From the left: Rusty, Granny, Early and Lil.
Genre	Black comedy Non-canon fiction Satire Slapstick Surreal humour
Created by	Jim Fortier Dave Willis
Voices of	Stuart Daniel Baker Daniel McDevitt Dana Snyder Patricia French Bobby Ellerbee (since episode 9) Todd Hanson Scott Hilley (2005–2015) Charles Napier (2005)
Narrated by	Dave Willis (select episodes)
Music by	Billy Joe Shaver
Composer(s)	David Lee Powell Shawn Coleman
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	104 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mike Lazzo Keith Crofford
Producer(s)	Jim Fortier Dave Willis
Running time	11 minutes 22 minutes (episodes 60 & 83)
Production company(s)	Williams Street
Release
Original network	Adult Swim
Picture format	4:3 SDTV (2005–07) 16:9 HDTV (2008–Present)
Original release	Unofficial pilot: April 1, 2005 Official: October 16, 2005 – present
External links
Website

Squidbillies is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. An unofficial pilot for the series aired on April 1, 2005; the series later made its official debut on October 16, 2005. The series is about the Cuyler family, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Georgia region of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The series revolves around the exploits of an alcoholic father (Early), who is often abusive in a comedic way towards his family. His teenage son, Rusty, is desperate for his approval; his mother and grandmother, known in the show as Granny, is often the center of his aggression; and Lil, his sister, is mostly unconscious in a pool of her own vomit.

There have been a total of 104 episodes during the show's ten seasons. The series also airs in syndication in other countries and has been released on various DVD sets and other forms of home media, including on-demand streaming on Hulu Plus.

According to Jim Fortier, co-creator of Squidbillies, new episodes will be produced for an eleventh season.

Squidbillies follows the exploits of the Cuyler family and their interactions with the local populace, which usually results in a fair amount of destruction, mutilation, and death. The Cuylers are essentially given free rein and protected from the consequences of their actions whenever possible by their friend, the Sheriff (whose name is "Sharif"), as they are said to be the last twisted remnants of a federally protected endangered species, the "Appalachian Mud Squid". They live in the southern Appalachian Mountains located in northern Georgia. At the epicenter of this rural paradise is Dougal County, home to crippling gambling addictions, a murderous corporation, sexual deviants, and the authentic southern mountain squid. In the words of The New York Times, the show takes "backwoods stereotypes" and turns them into "a cudgel with which to pound maniacally on all manner of topical subjects."