The Cyanide & Happiness Show
| The Cyanide & Happiness Show | |
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| Genre |
Black comedy Satire Sketch comedy Adult animation |
| Created by | Rob DenBleyker Dave McElfatrick Matt Melvin Kris Wilson |
| Voices of | Dave McElfatrick Rob DenBleyker Kris Wilson Joel Watson Jennie Mae Sweat Wildrose Hamilton Zach Prescott |
| Theme music composer | Dan Paladin |
| Opening theme | "I Like Your Hat" |
| Ending theme | "I Like Your Hat" (extended) |
| Composer(s) | Steve Lehmann |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Dave McElfatrick Kris Wilson Rob DenBleyker Gary Binkow |
| Producer(s) | Greg Slagel |
| Running time | 10-15 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Explosm Entertainment Collective Digital Studio (Season 1) Studio 71 (Season 2–present) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
YouTube (2014–15) Seeso (2016–present) |
| Picture format | 1080p (16:9) |
| Original release | November 12, 2014 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Cyanide & Happiness Show is an animated comedy web series written and illustrated by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and formerly Matt Melvin, based on their webcomic Cyanide & Happiness. Each episode consists of a few short stories that have little to no connection to each other. The creators described the goal of each episode to be "to extract the human excretion known as laughter from your face hole via fast-paced weird comedy."
The Cyanide & Happiness Show was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign. The first season of the web series was released on YouTube from November 12, 2014 to January 21, 2015. Episodes of the second season to current are being made available in the United States on Seeso, and outside it on VHX, since December 9, 2015.
The Explosm team has been creating short videos based on Cyanide & Happiness for years before working on the full show. The Explosm YouTube channel had over 3.6 million subscribers and 490 million views before The Cyanide & Happiness Show started airing. Some of these short videos, such as "Junk Mail" and "Confession", have proven "overwhelmingly popular" among fans of the webcomic.
The Cyanide & Happiness Show was funded by the means of a Kickstarter campaign in early 2013, where it collected a total of $770,309. This was more than three times the initial goal and broke the record of most money ever funded for an animated series on Kickstarter. Among the "zany gift offerings" given to Kickstarter backers was an "all-expenses-paid trip to Dallas for a Banana Bar Crawl replete with a banana costume, scepter, and crown".
When the Explosm team sat down to plan the first season, they realized 50 percent of the writing for it was already done, with some ideas being over five years old. Many of the stories used in The Cyanide and Happiness Show resulted from the team trying to make each other laugh while in a bar. Due to Wilson living in Fort Collins, Colorado, numerous plane rides and Skype calls had taken place during this process. As the show began to take shape, the team drew out management positions for themselves. McElfatrick was put in charge of art, DenBleyker covered animation and Wilson managed sound design and voice acting, but as the project went on, these roles loosened up. The team hired contributors from the United States, India and South Korea for various processes.
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