Xavier Renegade Angel
| Xavier: Renegade Angel | |
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| Genre |
Adult animation Black comedy Surreal humour Horror Fantasy Science fiction |
| Created by | PFFR |
| Starring | PFFR John Flansburgh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | PFFR |
| Producer(s) | PFFR Cinematico Williams Street |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Picture format |
16:9 HDTV 4:3 SDTV (episode 19) |
| Original release | November 4, 2007 – April 16, 2009 |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Xavier: Renegade Angel is an American CGI surrealist dark comedy-fantasy television series created by PFFR. Vernon Chatman and John Lee are also the creators of Wonder Showzen. The show was produced by PFFR, with animation by Cinematico. It premiered at midnight on November 4, 2007, on Adult Swim and November 1, 2007, on the Adult Swim website.
Xavier features a style characterized by a nonlinear, incoherent plot following the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier. The show is known for its ubiquitous use of ideologically critical black comedy, surrealist and absurdist humor presented through a psychedelic and satirically New Age lens.
Xavier: Renegade Angel premiered on November 4, 2007 and ended on April 16, 2009, with a total of 20 episodes.
The computer-generated animation of Xavier: Renegade Angel resembles that of video games such as Second Life and The Sims. The show features ribald wordplay, nonchalant violence and transgressive sexuality, in deeply nested, often recursive plots. These plots are often very nonlinear in their chronology; however, each episode seems to contain similar themes and motifs, as well as a single opening scene that has recurred in every episode of Xavier: a depiction of the titular character wandering through a desert (possibly a reference to the 1970s television program Kung Fu) as he narrates a semi-spontaneous, often nonsensical philosophical thought that many times connects with the episode at hand, whilst the title card of the show itself flies overhead, usually varying in action or position. An opening theme presumed to be played by Xavier on his "shakashuri" is present during these.
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