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Plot Summary:
The PJs is an American stop-motion animated television series, created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It portrayed life in an urban public housing project, modeled after the Brewster-Douglass housing projects in Detroit that once housed Diana Ross and Lily Tomlin. The series starred Eddie Murphy, and was produced by Imagine Entertainment by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, The Murphy Company & Will Vinton Studios in association with Touchstone Television and Warner Bros. Television. The original run of the series debuted on Fox on Sunday, January 10, 1999 in the time slot, following a divisional conference football playoff game. Two days later, the second episode aired in its regular Tuesday night time slot, following King of the Hill.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, claymation, anime, clever, humorous, semi serious
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The Jellies (2017)
Plot Summary:
After learning his jellyfish parents adopted him, a teen boy tries to find himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation
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Bob and Margaret (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bob and Margaret is a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States and all over the world. The series was produced by Nelvana, a Toronto animation studio, and created by Canadian David Fine and Brit Alison Snowden. The series was based on the Academy Award winning short film Bob's Birthday, featuring the same main characters, which won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 1994. The series is one of the few Canadian TV shows to ever have regular American exposure. In Canada, it was the highest rated Canadian made animation series ever when it aired in prime time on Global Television. The show revolved around a married English couple named Bob and Margaret Fish, a middle class 40-ish working couple with no children and two dogs named William and Elizabeth. Bob is a dentist and Margaret is a chiropodist. Bob and Margaret struggle with everyday issues and mid life crisis. Stories often revolve around the mundane, but in a way which is eminently relatable. From the trials of shopping to dealing with friends who annoy them, but owe them a dinner. In the first two seasons, Bob and Margaret lived in England, in the South London community of Balham. For the third and fourth seasons, however, they moved to Toronto, Canada, allowing the writers to explore the humour of culture clash. The move was actually inspired by the realities of funding, with certain Canadian tax benefits dependent on stories actually based in Canada. As such, to keep the series funded, the move was necessary. The creators of the series chose to take an executive role on these latter two seasons, reviewing scripts and consulting, but not involved in the detail they were for the first two seasons. Snowden continued to provide the voice of Margaret, but Bob's voice, originally played by Andy Hamilton, was replaced by Brian George.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Dick Figures (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series focuses on two stick figures named Red and Blue, who are best friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, captivating, ironic, satirical, semi serious, adult cartoon
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Baby Blues (2000)
Plot Summary:
Baby Blues is an animated television series based on the Baby Blues comic strip. The first eight episodes of Baby Blues originally aired in the United States on The WB from July 28, 2000 until August 24, 2000, before the series cancellation. Five then-unaired episodes were later aired on Adult Swim in 2002. Another season consisting of thirteen episodes has been produced, but were never aired or shown to the public in any format.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, adult animation, realistic
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The Wrong Coast (2004)
Plot Summary:
A show that displays parodies of different movies. But the fun is also in the studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, humorous, not serious, sitcom, captivating, adult comedy, adult cartoon, claymation
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God, the Devil and Bob (2000)
Plot Summary:
God, the Devil and Bob is an animated sitcom which premiered on NBC on March 9, 2000 and ended on March 28, 2000, leaving nine episodes unaired. It was created by Matthew Carlson. It is currently broadcast on the Philippine channel Maxxx. The entire series was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on January 4, 2005. Reruns of the series began airing on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on January 1, 2011 with the network airing the nine remaining episodes of the series from January 8 to March 26, 2011. Thirteen episodes were made, but only four were broadcast in the United States before the series was canceled due to a combination of low ratings and pressure from religious activists. The show, however, was well received in places such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Latin America, where BBC Two, RTE, and Fox, respectively, aired the entire series. God, the Devil and Bob was canceled in the United States after the first four episodes aired on NBC, after network executives received an alarming number of complaints about its potentially offensive religious material.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Comedy, Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, adult cartoon, satanic, offbeat
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Minoriteam (2005)
Plot Summary:
Minoriteam is an animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The pilot episode premiered on November 6, 2010. The series officially started on March 20, 2011, and ended on July 24, 2011, with a total of 19 episodes, over the course of one season.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, humorous, semi serious, parody, adult cartoon, offbeat, biting, spoof, suspense
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3-South (2002)
Plot Summary:
3 South is an American animated series that aired on MTV. The show focused on two lifelong friends, Sanford and Del, and their adventures at the fictional Barder College. With the exception of their roommate Joe, nearly everyone at Barder is stupid and inept. Nonetheless, the idiotic, irresponsible, and thoughtless Sanford and Del are portrayed as the series' heroes, whereas the responsible, intelligent Joe is the de facto villain in most episodes. The series was created by Family Guy veteran writers Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan, based on a short film they had created years earlier. It is to-date the only animated series produced for MTV by Warner Bros. Animation. The show's theme song is The Flaming Lips' song "Fight Test" from the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972)
Plot Summary:
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, weird
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Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of thirty episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, sitcom, political, adult cartoon, clever, realistic
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Allen Gregory (2011)
Plot Summary:
Allen Gregory is a short-lived American animated television series that aired on Fox from October 30 to December 18, 2011. The series was created by Jonah Hill, Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul. The series was officially cancelled by Fox on January 8, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, captivating, light, entertaining, sitcom, adult cartoon, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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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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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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The Goode Family (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Goode Family is an American animated comedy series, which originally aired on ABC from May 27, 2009 to August 7, 2009. The series was created by Mike Judge, and follows the life of an environmentally responsible, albeit obsessive, family. The series takes a comic look at contemporary society. Judge created the show along with former King of the Hill writers John Altschuler and David Krinsky. The show was cancelled after its first season due to low ratings. The series was released on DVD format on January 8, 2013 by Shout! Factory.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, adult cartoon, light, feel good, adult animation
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Fatherhood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fatherhood is an American animated television series revolving around the Bindlebeep family and various happenings, inspired by the book of the same name by Bill Cosby. This was Nick at Nite's first original animated series. It has aired on Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon. It was canceled in 2005.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, entertaining, adult animation, anime, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Napoleon Dynamite (2012)
Plot Summary:
Napoleon Dynamite is an American animated sitcom based on the 2004 cult film of the same name. The series was created by Jared and Jerusha Hess and developed by the Hesses and Mike Scully. The series follows the adventures of Napoleon Dynamite in the small town of Preston, Idaho. The Hesses came up with the idea for the series after filming Napoleon Dynamite. It originally ran on Fox from January 15, 2012, to March 4, 2012, before being cancelled.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, adult animation, light, sitcom, adult cartoon, offbeat, absurd, slapstick comedy
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Bordertown (2016)
Plot Summary:
The comedy, which takes place in a fictitious desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border, centers on the intertwining daily lives of neighbors Bud Buckwald and Ernesto Gonzales. Bud, a married father of three, is a Border Patrol agent who feels threatened by the cultural changes that have transformed his neighborhood. Living next door is Ernesto, an industrious Mexican immigrant and father of four, who is proud to be making it in America. As Bud and Ernesto’s paths begin to cross, their families become bound by friendship, romance and conflict.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, not serious, adult cartoon, feel good, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical
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Full English (2012)
Plot Summary:
Full English is a British animated sitcom created by Jack Williams, Harry Williams and Alex Scarfe for Channel 4. The programme is produced by Two Brothers Pictures. It parodies and satirises various popular entertainment personalities in the United Kingdom, created to be the British equivalent to the hit American animated sitcoms. Full English first aired on 12 November 2012, with the first series ending abruptly on 10 December 2012 after the final episode, due to air on 17 December 2012, was pulled from the schedules. The show has been cancelled according to the official Facebook page.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, not serious, parody, realistic, adult cartoon
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Mother Up! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rudi Wilson is a former record executive who decides to move to the suburbs and see if she can hold her own in the world of motherhood. What Rudi finds is that her hard-partying lifestyle, frequent drinking and tendency to use profane language don’t necessarily gel with the lifestyles of her neighbours in the suburbs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Oblongs (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Oblongs is an American animated television series aimed at teenagers and adults. It is loosely based on a series of characters introduced in creator Angus Oblong's picture book entitled Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children. The TV series was produced by Jobsite Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, and the theme song for the show was composed and performed by They Might Be Giants. The Oblongs aired on The WB from April 1, 2001 until May 20, 2001 and then aired on Adult Swim from August 25, 2002 to October 20, 2002, with a total of thirteen episodes. There has been mention of a potential series revival with new episodes on Adult Swim, however, no other information has been announced. All thirteen episodes of The Oblongs were released on DVD on October 4, 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 284 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, semi serious, entertaining, anime, sitcom, offbeat
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The Great North (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow the Alaskan adventures of the Tobin family as a single dad does his best to keep his weird bunch of kids close, especially as the artistic dreams of his only daughter lead her away from the family fishing boat and into the glamorous world of the local mall.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, adult animation, not serious, sitcom, absurd, witty, 2d animation
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Chicago Party Aunt (2021)
Plot Summary:
Chicago Party Aunt Diane is an idolized troublemaker with a talent for avoiding adulthood — and a soft spot for her soul-searching nephew.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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The Garfield Show (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Garfield Show is a French/American CGI animated television series that premiered in France on France 3 on December 22, 2008. English-language episodes started airing on Boomerang UK on May 5, 2009. It premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2009, at 3:00pm. It also aired on YTV in Canada. However, it was taken off the air on May 30, 2011, for a hiatus and returned on September 6, 2011. The show was taken off the schedule in Canada once again on December 23, 2011. Based on the American comic strip, Garfield, the series is executive produced by Garfield creator, Jim Davis, and co-written and voice directed by Mark Evanier, who also wrote most of the episodes for the Garfield and Friends series. Returning from Garfield and Friends are the voice actors Julie Payne and Gregg Berger. Frank Welker replaces the late Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield, and Thom Huge, as the voice of Jon Arbuckle, is replaced by Wally Wingert. Also returning is David Lander, reprising his role as Doc Boy from the earlier Garfield prime-time special A Garfield Christmas Special. The show is produced by Dargaud Media and Paws Inc. The show is directed by Philippe Vidal and the music is done by Laurent Bertaud and Jean-Christophe Prudhomme.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA, India, Singapore
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, computer animated, sitcom, 3d animation
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Daria (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daria Morgendorffer lives with her stressed-out, career-fixated parents, Helen and Jake, and her relentlessly cute and popular little sister, Quinn. Daria and her fellow outcast and best friend, Jane Lane, attend Lawndale High School where they are surrounded by shallow and stupid people. With her sharp intellect —and even sharper tongue—Daria dissected anyone she deemed superficial, which is just about everyone.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: clever, adult cartoon, witty, cynical, adult animation, intellectual, humorous, semi serious, gothic, anime
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Neighbors from Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
Neighbors from Hell was a satirical American animated sitcom that ran on TBS from June 7, 2010 to July 26, 2010. The executive producer of the series is Pam Brady. The first and only season consisted of 10 episodes. The series is owned by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. It's produced by Fox Television Animation and MoonBoy Animation, a division of DreamWorks Animation. The majority of the animation is produced by Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, and a team of animators in Los Angeles, Bento Box Entertainment, did some of the animation and retakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, adult animation, adult cartoon
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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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Duncanville (2020)
Plot Summary:
The series centers on the life of Duncan, a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. Poehler will provide the voice of Duncan and his high-strung mom, Annie, who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, feel good, exciting, witty, weird
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The Boondocks (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series premiered on November 6, 2005 and was created by Aaron McGruder, based upon McGruder's comic strip of the same name. The show begins with an African-American family, the Freemans, having moved from the South Side of Chicago, Illinois to the fictional, peaceful and mostly white suburb of Woodcrest. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, socioeconomic classes, stereotypes, and races provides for much of the comedy and conflict in this series. There have been a total of 45 episodes over the course of the shows first three seasons. The two part season two finale "The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show" was never aired on American television as Adult Swim feared legal actions against them from BET. Both episodes were aired on Teletoon and were released on DVD in the United States. The season three episodes "Pause" and "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" have been pulled from general episode rotation following the television debuts and no longer appear in reruns. A fourth season containing twenty episodes has been announced to air in January 2014.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, adult cartoon, adult animation, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, funny, dark comedy, political, entertaining
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F is for Family (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Murphy's, a lower middle class family living in the 1970s — a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport. “F Is For Family”, is a six-episode animated series based on the comedy of Bill Burr.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, anime, funny, sitcom, semi serious, dark comedy, satirical
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Bob's Burgers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, witty, not serious, adult cartoon, funny, offbeat, sentimental, atmospheric