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Plot Summary:
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, stylized, cynical, witty, parody, humorous, offbeat, not serious, adult cartoon, anime
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Sealab 2021 (2000)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean's surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, manned by a motley collection of malcontents and screw-ups who were unfit for work in the private sector. They really don't get any research done, but instead spend their time bickering among themselves or just plain goofing off. The crew have manipulated their luckless leader, Captain Murphy, into submission, and are content to ride the government clock, raking in fat, hazardous-duty paychecks.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, adult animation, surreal, not serious, parody, adult cartoon, absurd, funny, offbeat
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Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters (2017)
Plot Summary:
When overscheduled teenager Jake Armstrong and his two best friends are accidentally exposed to an experimental chemical, they become Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, a team of unlikely superheroes who expand beyond the confines of their lives and embark on a series of adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious, adult animation, mysterious, anime, action adventure
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The Venture Bros. (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all for the glory of adventure. Or something like that.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, humorous, adult cartoon, witty, cynical, not serious, sitcom, dark comedy, cliffhanger
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Assy McGee (2006)
Plot Summary:
Assy McGee is an animated sitcom featuring police detective Assy McGee, a parody of tough-guy cop shows and movies, who is literally a walking pair of buttocks. Along with his partner Don Sanchez, the trigger-happy McGee solves crimes in a fictionalized Exeter, New Hampshire. Larry Murphy voices all of the main characters. The series premiered on November 26, 2006, on Adult Swim and was canceled after season two ended on July 6, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, semi serious, parody, adult cartoon, detective, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Total Drama Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
Total Drama Island is a Canadian animated television series which premiered in Canada on Teletoon on July 8, 2007 and on June 5, 2008 in the U.S. on Cartoon Network. This is the first season of the Total Drama series and has 27 episodes, each 22 minutes in duration with a special 44 minute episode at the end. The season is mostly a parody of the series Survivor, which consists of twenty-two campers in an elimination-based competition. On the Cartoon Network airing in the United States, some content has been removed from the episodes by censors in order to keep the rating open to a younger audience; for example, putting in words instead of long bleeps, for the episodes "That's Off the Chain" and "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon". The fourth season, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island is also shown in the same location except with a new cast.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, witty, adult animation, parody, sitcom, anime, adult cartoon, multicultural, spoof
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James Bond Jr. (1991)
Plot Summary:
James Bond Jr. is the nephew of the famous international spy. Determined to follow in the footsteps of his famous uncle, James Jr. enrolls in Warfield, a prep school based on the grounds of an old counter intelligence training base in the UK. Along with his schoolmates IQ (grandson of Q) and Gordo Leiter (son of CIA agent Felix), James Jr. fights against SCUM (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), an international cartel of terrorists and mad scientists.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Black Dynamite (2011)
Plot Summary:
Black Dynamite is an American animated television series based on the 2009 film of the same name, although the series follows a separate continuity, with some back-references to the film. The series was announced shortly after the release of the film, the 10-minute pilot episode was released on Adult Swim Video on August 8, 2011, and the full series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on July 15, 2012. Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Tommy Davidson and Kym Whitley reprise their film roles as Black Dynamite, Bullhorn, Cream Corn and Honeybee, respectively.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, humorous, realistic, anime, adult cartoon, funny, psychedelic, sitcom, grindhouse
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Stripperella (2003)
Plot Summary:
Stripperella is an Adult animated series created by Stan Lee. The main character, voiced by and based on Pamela Anderson, is a stripper named Erotica Jones who is also the superheroine/secret agent Stripperella. The series was produced by The Firm and Spike Animation Studios. It is rated TV-MA in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sexy, parody, humorous, not serious, adult cartoon, adult comedy, offbeat, fast, sex comedy
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Moral Orel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired a sneak peek on Adult Swim on December 13, 2005, before it officially aired on January 23, 2006 to December 18, 2008. It has been described as "Davey and Goliath...meets South Park".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, parody, witty, cynical, black comedy, sitcom, adult cartoon, claymation, thought provoking
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Moonbeam City (2015)
Plot Summary:
An absurdist, retro-futuristic 80s cop extravaganza. The series follows undercover detective Dazzle Novak, a handsome idiot who commits more crimes than most criminals. His tyrannical chief, Pizzaz Miller, won't get off his back, and hotshot rookie Rad Cunningham is dying to see him fail. With the world against him, Dazzle is thrust into a living nightmare: having to do actual police work.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, adult animation, tense, captivating, anime, light, enigmatic, realistic, not serious
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Clerks (2000)
Plot Summary:
Clerks is an American animated sitcom based on Kevin Smith's 1994 comedy of the same name. It was developed for television by Smith, Smith's producing partner Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld writer David Mandel with character designs by Stephen Silver.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, not serious, adult cartoon, realistic, witty, talky, sitcom, offbeat, cynical
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Wonder Showzen (2005)
Plot Summary:
Wonder Showzen is an American sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by John Lee and Vernon Chatman of PFFR. The show is rated TV-MA. The show's format is that of educational PBS children's television shows such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company, parodying the format with adult-oriented content. In addition to general controversial comedy, it satirizes politics, religion, war, sex, and culture with black comedy. Every episode begins with a disclaimer, accompanied by the sound of someone screaming "Don't eat my baby!", which reads: "Wonder Showzen contains offensive, despicable content that is too controversial and too awesome for actual children. The stark, ugly and profound truths Wonder Showzen exposes may be soul-crushing to the weak of spirit. If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian.".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal, parody, sketch comedy, adult animation, humorous, not serious, adult cartoon, absurd, funny, psychedelic
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Home Movies (1999)
Plot Summary:
Home Movies is an American animated television sitcom that was originally broadcast from April 26, 1999 to April 4, 2004. Brendon Small is the creator, head writer and lead musician of Home Movies. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky and Janine Ditullio also lent their voices to the show. The plot surrounds eight-year-old Brendon, who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his baby sister, Josie. He is also friends with his alcoholic, short-tempered soccer coach, John McGuirk. Home Movies developed a cult following during its run, and is still considered a cult show to this day. Home Movies was produced by Soup2Nuts, and originally aired on UPN, but the network cancelled the series after 5 episodes. Cartoon Network, seeing potential for the series, purchased the rights to it, and aired it as the first program on their nighttime adult-oriented Adult Swim block on the day of the block's launch on September 2, 2001. As part of Adult Swim, it finished the first season of 13 episodes and was picked up for three additional 13 episode seasons. Creator Small would later go on to create the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse and co-creator Bouchard would go on to create the animated Bob's Burgers for the Fox network.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, epic, sitcom, offbeat, witty, not serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Beavis and Butt-Head (1993)
Plot Summary:
Beavis and Butt-head are high school students whose lifestyles revolve around TV, junk food (usually nachos), shopping malls, heavy metal music, and trying to "score with chicks". Each show contains short cartoons centering on the duo who live in the fictitious town of Highland, Texas. The episodes are broken up by short breaks in which Beavis and Butt-head watch and make fun of music videos.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, adult animation, humorous, sitcom, not serious, funny, psychedelic, epic, anime, slapstick
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Axe Cop (2012)
Plot Summary:
Axe Cop is an animated series based on the webcomic of the same name. It premiered on Fox on July 21, 2013, as a part of the channel's Animation Domination HD programming block. The series aired 6 11-minute episodes in its first season, which will later expand to half-hour episodes should the show be renewed for a second season.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, surreal, not serious, adult cartoon, intense, sitcom, detective, offbeat, psychedelic
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China, IL (2008)
Plot Summary:
China, IL – meaning "China, Illinois" – is an animated television series for the cable network Adult Swim. The series is created by Brad Neely, and features Neely's existing characters from the China, IL web series and special. Characters include Frank and Steve Smith, aka "The Professor Brothers," and Mark "Baby" Cakes. Neely provides the voice for all three characters. The series is produced by Williams Street and animated by Titmouse, Inc. China, IL has been renewed for a second season with the possibility of a new half-hour runtime. On May 25, 2008, Adult Swim ran The Funeral, an 11-minute special which was streamed on the now defunct Super Deluxe website. The special combined Brad Neely's Professor Brothers and Baby Cakes webseries, which were also streamed at Super Deluxe, and established a larger environment for the characters. The special, as well as Brad Neely's other videos, can be viewed at Neely's YouTube page.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, not serious, adult cartoon, light, entertaining, offbeat, psychedelic
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Mad (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mad is an American animated sketch comedy series created by Kevin Shinick and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Based upon the magazine of the same name, each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, movies, games, celebrities, and other media using various types of animation instead of the usual animation style that Warner Bros. Animation is known for. The series premiered on the evening of September 6, 2010 on Cartoon Network. It has been described as a "kid-friendly version of Robot Chicken".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, satirical, light, adult animation, sitcom, sketch comedy, anime, not serious
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BoJack Horseman (2014)
Plot Summary:
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 1982 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, sad, cynical, exciting, funny
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Mr. Pickles (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Goodman family lives with their lovable pet dog, Mr. Pickles, a deviant border collie with a secret satanic streak.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult animation, bloody, not serious, humorous, offbeat, adult cartoon, disturbing, tense, dark comedy, funny
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Hoops (2020)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed high school basketball coach is sure he'll hit the big leagues if he can only turn his terrible team around. Good luck with that.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: adult animation, cynical, anime, exciting, humorous, not serious, visually appealing, sitcom, 2d animation, sexploitation film
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Squidbillies (2005)
Plot Summary:
Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network and premiered on October 16, 2005. It is written by Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Jim Fortier, previously of The Brak Show, both of whom worked on the Adult Swim series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The animation is done by Awesome Incorporated, with background design by Ben Prisk.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, cynical, not serious, adult cartoon, sitcom, offbeat, black comedy
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TripTank (2014)
Plot Summary:
TripTank is Comedy Central’s newest animated experience, executive produced by ShadowMachine’s Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico. The weekly, eight-episode half-hour series, showcases a wide range of fast-paced, hard-hitting animated comedy shorts presented in an anthology style, weaving together stand-alone and recurring narrative pieces.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, not serious, adult cartoon, unusual plot structure, entertaining, satirical, psychedelic, sketch comedy, offbeat
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Frisky Dingo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Frisky Dingo is an American animated cartoon series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Adult Swim. The series revolved around the conflict between a supervillain named Killface and a superhero named Awesome X, alias billionaire Xander Crews, and much of the show's humor focuses on parodying superhero and action movie clichés. It debuted on October 16, 2006 and ended its first season on January 22, 2007; the second season premiered on August 26, 2007 and ended on March 23, 2008. A third season was in development, but in the absence of a renewal contract from Adult Swim, pre-production ceased. The production company itself, 70/30 Productions, subsequently went out of business in January 2009. A spin-off show, The Xtacles, premiered on November 9, 2008, but only two episodes were aired prior to the production company's closure.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, cliffhanger, funny, epic, sitcom
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Futurama (1999)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 257000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, futuristic, sitcom, cynical, surreal, parody, anime, humorous, funny
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South Park (1997)
Plot Summary:
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 399000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, adult animation, parody, dark comedy, cynical, sitcom, witty, controversial, humorous, offbeat
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Drawn Together (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drawn Together is an American adult animated sitcom, which ran on Comedy Central from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007. The series was created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, and uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. Like that of MTV's The Challenge and VH1's The Surreal Life, the show's eight characters are a combination of personalities that were recognizable and familiar prior to the series. Differently, however, Drawn Together used caricatures of established cartoon characters and stock characters. In addition, their character traits parody personality types that are typically seen in reality TV shows. Comedy Central advertised it as the first animated reality show, and in some episodes, characters participate in challenges that are similar to reality TV challenges. After only three seasons the show was cancelled but still maintains a strong fan base. Subsequently, The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! was released on April 20, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, adult cartoon, surreal, not serious, humorous, witty, sitcom, funny, offbeat
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Brickleberry (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brickleberry National Park is facing closure, but not if the park’s dysfunctional park rangers can help it! “Brickleberry,” an animated half-hour series, follows the crazy bunch of park rangers as they do their worst to keep the park running. Steve (David Herman) has been “Ranger of the Month” every month for years, so he feels threatened when Ethel (Natasha Leggero) is transferred from Yellowstone National Park to help whip the park into shape. Connie (Roger Black) and Denzel (Jerry Minor) are two unique rangers that each bring special skills (or in Denzel’s case, lack of skills) to the job, and Woody (Tom Kenny) is the hapless Head Ranger who puts nothing above his beloved park, except his adopted bear cub, Malloy (Daniel Tosh), who he’s taken in and spoils to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: not serious, absurd, humorous, entertaining, light, adult cartoon, adult animation, anime, funny, cult classic
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American Dad! (2005)
Plot Summary:
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, funny, sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, anime, feel good, captivating
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Rick and Morty (2013)
Plot Summary:
An animated series that follows the exploits of a super scientist and his not-so-bright grandson.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 582000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: adult animation, entertaining, humorous, offbeat, adult cartoon, cynical, sitcom, dark comedy, absurd, not serious
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Family Guy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 359000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, cynical, witty, funny, exciting, anime, controversial, entertaining