Home Movies
Format	Animated Sitcom
Running time	approx. 0:22
Rating
Creator(s)	Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small
Starring	Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky
Country	USA
Network/channel	UPN (1999), Cartoon Network (2001-2004)
Original run	April 26, 1999 – April 4, 2004
No. of episodes	52

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Home Movies is a dialogue-driven animated series about 8-year-old Brendon Small (voiced by the creator, head writer, and lead musician of Home Movies Brendon Small), who makes films with his friends, Melissa and Jason, in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his adopted baby sister, Josie. He is also friends with his alcoholic, temper driven soccer coach, John McGuirk. An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Brendon Small (born 1976 in Springfield, Illinois) is a stand-up comedian and co-creator, writer, star, and music writer for UPNs and later Cartoon Networks Home Movies which has now completed production. ... Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... // Original meaning and etymology The original meaning of the term coach was: a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of more than one passenger — and of mail — and covered for protection from the elements. ...

Broadcast history

Home Movies premiered on UPN on April 26, 1999 but was pulled from that network after five episodes. The completed episodes were picked up by Canadian broadcaster YTV for their short-lived Limbo block, and aired for a short period of time. It returned to American television two years later on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim late-night lineup due to a fanbase within Cartoon Network's executive branch, including Khaki Jones. It soon became one of Adult Swim's most popular shows. UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... YTV is a TLA that may stand for: Finnish for the term Helsinki Metropolitan Area. ... Cartoon Network is a cable television channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing animated programming. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The brain trust behind this show is Soup2Nuts (formerly Tom Snyder Productions), the same people who created Comedy Central's defunct animated series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. Many members of the cast and crew of Dr. Katz were involved with Home Movies, such as stars Jonathan Katz and H. Jon Benjamin, then assistant/talent co-ordinator Melissa Bardin Galsky, writer Bill Braudis, and producer/audio editor Loren Bouchard. Soup2Nuts is a production company known for its adult-oriented animated comedies. ... Comedy Central is a cable television channel in the United States. ... The title screen Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was an animated series that ran on Comedy Central from 1995 to 1999, with reruns airing for some time after that. ... Jonathan Katz is a comedian who created the animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, shown on Comedy Central, starring himself as a professional therapist. ... Loren Bouchard is best known as a co-creator of Home Movies (1999) (alongside Brendon Small). ...

It aired on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim block in the United States and in Canada on Teletoon as part of The Detour block. The show was cancelled by Cartoon Network in April of 2004. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Style

In its first season, Home Movies utilized Soup2Nuts's patented Squigglevision technology to animate the show 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 potential fans), limitations in regards to movement (fluid motion is rare in Squigglevision), and the view that Squigglevision was inherent to Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and that Home Movies should develop its own unique style. Squigglevision is a mode of computer animation in which the outlines of shapes are made to wiggle and undulate. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ... The title screen Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was an animated series that ran on Comedy Central from 1995 to 1999, with reruns airing for some time after that. ...

Another quality of Home Movies' carried over from Dr. Katz was its initial use of "retroscripting". Retroscripting is a process in which an episode's scripts are purposely left vague, and instead of exact dialogue, the plot of a particular scene is merely outlined - the rest of the dialogue is then created through improv by the actors. The use of retroscripting in Home Movies gives the show very casual, realistic dialogue with an often dry, sarcastic wit. This technique is also used in other shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Trailer Park Boys, and Reno 911. Although retroscripting was only used officially in the first season, the dialogue in the following three seasons remained heavily improvised, with the written script serving mainly as a guide or something to fall back on for jokes if needed. Retroscripting is a process in which a script contains a plot outline and leaves dialogue deliberately vague for interpretation by the actors through improv. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Improvisational comedy (also called improv or impro) is comedy that is performed with a little to no predetermination of subject matter and structure. ... Retroscripting is a process in which a script contains a plot outline and leaves dialogue deliberately vague for interpretation by the actors through improv. ... Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American television sitcom starring Seinfeld writer & co-creator Larry David. ... Aqua Teen Hunger Force (a. ... Trailer Park Boys is a popular Canadian mockumentary from 2001 focusing on the misadventures of ex-convicts living in fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park which is located near Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... Reno911! title card Reno 911! is a comedy television show on Comedy Central. ...

Another prominent feature of the show was its employment of completely original music, nearly all of which was written and performed by Small, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music. Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...

Characters

Major recurring characters

• Brendon Small (Brendon Small) - The star of the show and writer/director/lead actor in most of the movies.
• Jason Penopolis (H. Jon Benjamin) - Brendon's friend who is noticeably more immature.
• Melissa Robbins (Melissa Bardin Galsky) - Brendon's friend, who is often more sensible than Brendon or Jason.
• Coach John McGuirk (H. Jon Benjamin) - Brendon and Melissa's soccer coach, an overweight incompetent coach of an incompetent team, who constantly gives Brendon bad advice.
• Paula Small (Paula Poundstone, eps 1 - 5, Janine Ditullio, eps 6+) - Brendon's single mother, a (temporarily unemployed) teacher.
• Josie Small (Loren Bouchard) - Brendon's baby sister.
• Erik Robbins (Jonathan Katz) - Melissa's father, a real estate agent.
• Mr. Ronald Lynch (Ron Lynch) - Brendon and Melissa's teacher who, later in the show, also becomes their interim principal.
• Duane (Brendon Small) - A metalhead of few words, whose band S.C.Ä.B. writes and performs the music for most of Brendon's movies. His physical appearance is similar to that of Joey Ramone.

Walter and Perry

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Notable minor characters

• Walter and Perry (Benjamin, Small) - Two hyper best friends who are very intimate.
• Shannon (Emo Philips) - A bully who initally beats up, but later befriends, Brendon.
• Fenton Muley (Sam Seder) - A spoiled, annoying classmate with the tendency to call Brendon "Bren-Bren."
• Andrew Small (Louis C.K.) - Brendon's estranged father, a lawyer.
• Linda Small (Laura Silverman) - Brendon's attractive, snippy step-mother.
• Stephanie (Kelly Kimball) - Paula's attractive but flaky friend who twice tries to seduce McGuirk.
• Clarice (Valerie Kappa) - "Hot li'l mama" and coffee-house employee.
• Cynthia (Jennifer Kirkman) - Choreographer for Duane's band on whom Brendon has a crush.
• Arnold Lindenson (Andy Kindler) - The expressive principal at Paula's school.

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Guest appearances

• Todd Barry — as "The Clerk" in "Psycho-Delicate"
• David Cross — as "Guy in Grocery Store" in "Brendon's Choice"
• John Flansburgh — as "Mike" in "Camp"
• Mitch Hedberg — as "The Pet Eulogist" in "Brendon Gets Rabies", "Mitch" in "Yoko", "Cop" in "Law and Boarders", and "Anger Management Counselor" in "Brendon's Choice"
• Tom Kenny — as "Doctor" in "Coffins and Cradles"
• John Linnell — as "Miguel" in "Camp"
• Patton Oswalt — as "Helmet" in "Renaissance"
• Ian Roberts — as "Tom Wilsonberg" in "Stow-A-Way"

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Home Releases

Shout! Factory, through Sony BMG Music Entertainment, releases DVD box-sets of Home Movies episodes, all on three-disc box sets. Shout! Factory (founded 2003) is a multi-platform integrated entertainment company that was started by Richard Foos (co-founder of Rhino Records), Bob Emmer (former Warner Music Group and Rhino executive) and Garson Foos (former Rhino executive). ... Sony BMG Music Entertainment is the result of a 50/50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (part of Sony) and BMG Entertainment (part of Bertelsmann) completed on August 5, 2004. ... DVD-R writing/reading side DVD-R with purple dye, 4. ...

• Season One (November 16, 2004)
• Season Two (May 31, 2005)
• Season Three (November 15, 2005)
• Season Four (set for May 16, 2006)

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See also

• Home Movies episode list

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External links

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Home Movies (cartoon series)

• Home Movies' Official Site
• The Home Movies Super Site
• Soup2nuts The creators' website.
• Home Movies at TV.com
• IGN's 10 Questions: Brendon Small
• MP3 audio interview with creator Brendon Small from public radio show The Sound of Young America.
• Precious Roy Studios Website of the film company that won the Small Shorts Film Contest as seen on the Second Season DVD of Home Movies.
• [1] An interview with Home Movies creator Brendon Small in regards to the release of season 3 on DVD and his new cartoon, Deathclock.