The Brothers Grunt
| The Brothers Grunt | |
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| Genre |
Black comedy Surreal humor Off-color humor |
| Created by | Danny Antonucci |
| Written by |
Dennis Heaton Danny Antonucci Rod Filbrandt |
| Directed by | Danny Antonucci |
| Starring |
Doug Parker Jennifer Wilson Danny Antonucci Julie Faye Phil Hayes Terry Klassen Ed Hong Louie David Mylrae Drew Reichelt |
| Theme music composer | Patric Caird |
| Composer(s) | Patric Caird |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 35 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
a.k.a. Cartoon MTV Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV |
| Original release | August 15, 1994 – April 9, 1995 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Ed, Edd n Eddy |
The Brothers Grunt is a Canadian animated comedy television series that originally aired from August 15, 1994 to April 9, 1995 on MTV. The series centered on Frank, Tony, Bing, Dean and Sammy, an ensemble cast of pale, rubbery humanoids distantly related to human beings, all of them ostensibly male, wandering around in their underpants, in search of their lost brother Perry. The series had a short run and was met with generally negative reception.
The series centered on an ensemble cast of pale, rubbery, and constipated-looking humanoids with prominent varicose veins distantly related to human beings, all of them ostensibly male, wandering around in their underpants. Their main food staple is cheese; nevertheless, they are able to eat other foods and dishes (at least potatoes: see episode #23, "Not My Potato"). Their single parent is a giant, mute aquatic individual, called Primus Gruntus Maximus, to whom they are born as embryos inside skin warts, much in the way of the Surinam Toad (see Pipa pipa). They live in a monastery in the wilderness. A group is formed, composed of most of the survivors of their species, in a quest to bring back one of their kind, Perry, who has abandoned his involuntary position of "Chosen One" (leader of their order) and is now living the "high life" among human beings (who seem to deal with the bizarre nature of the grunts by ignoring them and pretending everything is normal).
The main characters were named after famous vocalists of the 1950s: Frank (Sinatra), Tony (Bennett), Dean (Martin), Bing (Crosby), Sammy (Davis Jr.), and Perry (Como), all voiced by Doug Parker.
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