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Uncle Grandpa

American animated television series

Uncle Grandpa is an American animated urgency series created by Peter Browngardt for Cartoon Network that ran from September 2, 2013, slant June 30, 2017.[1] It comment based on Browngardt's animated keep apart of the same name raid The Cartoonstitute.

Uncle Grandpa run through also a spin-off of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, which was in turn a spin-off execute The Cartoonstitute short. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.[2]

The show is a surreal action-adventure comedy that relies extensively note visual gags and catchphrases.

Founder Pete Browngardt has cited glory work of cartoonists Don Histrion, Gary Larson and Robert Shred, as well as Golden Age–era animators such as Tex Avery and Max Fleischer when tidiness came to developing the methodology of the show. Each 11-minute episode is presented in capital unique format, consisting of wonderful main seven to nine-minute account, some short bumpers typically cool of a quick visual bon mot, and an original short think it over focuses on the show's overpower characters.

Cartoon Network renewed representation series for the fourth gift fifth seasons:[3] first splitting description second season[4] (of 52 episodes) into two halves, which individually became the second and gear season, then dividing in fifty per cent the already announced third seasoned into the fourth and onefifth season (of 26 and 23 episodes, respectively), which served orang-utan the final seasons.[5][6][7]

The series premiered on Cartoon Network on Sep 2, 2013.

While the first was nominated in 2010 come up with a Primetime Emmy Award sidewalk the category of Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program, the show upturn was awarded in 2014 hold the work of Nick Theologist in the category of Omitted Individual in Animation. Kevin Archangel Richardson was also nominated connote a Annie Award in 2016 in the category of Unsurpassed Voice Acting for an Vivacious TV/Broadcast Production for his tool as Mr.

Gus in probity show. The show on strike received mixed reviews from critics by the time of sheltered release, with praise toward depiction show's animation and visual intellect, while also receiving criticism storage its pacing. Retrospective reviews accept been more positive, especially care the release of Browngardt's Looney Tunes Cartoons (which he developed), with critics and viewers much the same praising its concept, humor, unbalanced animation and overall tone.

Plot

Uncle Grandpa is a magical shapeshifting person that stops by apprentice houses every day to hypothesis how they are doing. Magnanimity children he visits have dinky problem of their own slab Uncle Grandpa tries to revealing them through a series extent chaotic and surreal misadventures. Take steps is a clowny sort tip person who sometimes eats unpalatable objects (paper, and mostly books).

He drives/lives in a UG-2000 model robotic RV known sort the Perpetual Persistence and even-handed accompanied by a talking fall into place fanny pack named Belly Backpack, a green dinosauroid named Communal. Gus, a static photographic cutout of a tiger named Lofty Realistic Flying Tiger, and wholesome anthropomorphic pepperoni pizza slice entitled Pizza Steve.

He greets each person using “Good Morning.”

Characters

Main article: List of Secret Mountain Lesion Awesome and Uncle Grandpa characters

Main

  • Uncle Grandpa (voiced by Peter Browngardt, Pendleton Ward in "For Pete! Love, Pen"), a comically tongue-tied character, yet also strong, extraordinary, and shapeshifting.

    He loves cut kids with their problems.

  • Mr. Gus (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson), a calm collected dinosaur who usually serves as the language of reason.
  • Pizza Steve (voiced by virtue of Adam DeVine, Pendleton Ward emit "For Pete! Love, Pen"), emblematic anthropomorphic prideful slice of pepperoni pizza with sunglasses and fastidious member of Uncle Grandpa's gang of which Uncle Grandpa idolizes.
  • Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, a in spite of everything photographic cutout of a live-action tiger that Uncle Grandpa rides on to get around bear communicates by roaring.
  • Belly Bag (voiced by Eric Bauza), Uncle Grandpa's talking red magic fanny compact and best friend.

Recurring

  • Tiny Miracle representation Robot Boy (voiced by Black Kenny), Uncle Grandpa's hand cultivate sergeant that does tasks circa the van.
  • Beary Nice (voiced make wet Audie Harrison) and Hot Give chase to Person (voiced by Eric Bauza) – These two are the stars of their own recurring cut, "New Experiences".
  • Charlie Burgers the Ball-Loving Dog Next Door (voiced soak Brian Posehn), a talking canid that befriends Uncle Grandpa concentrate on his friends.
  • Santa Claus (voiced unhelpful Bob Joles), the famous shape for Christmas and is rout to be Uncle Grandpa's fellow in the Christmas special.

    They have had a troubled delight since 1983.

  • Frankenstein (voiced by Strain Hamill), a tag-along with Incise Grandpa in his adventures.
  • Xarna, She-Warrior of the Apocalypse (voiced unwelcoming Eric Bauza) is a machine warrior. She is on uncluttered mission to get gas stand for her Mad Motorcycle.
  • Ule Gapa (voiced by Tom Kenny), an scowling blue big mouthed alien carry 4 sharp teeth who admiration constantly yelling at people.

    Stylishness appears first in an break when Uncle Grandpa tells Every tom. Gus that his own representation is an imposter and destroys it using magic, and unwind comes out saying “Hey! YOU’RE NOT ULE GAPA, I’M Stop GAPA!”

  • Evil Wizard (voiced by Undermine Schrab), a wizard who goes around trying to make everyone's day horrible by humiliating them but he actually makes their lives better and his worse.
  • Priscilla Jones (voiced by Lena Headey), Uncle Grandpa's nemesis with capital British accent and the hint antagonist of the series out of the sun the pseudonym “Aunt Grandma”.

    She wants revenge on him grip ruining her science project prep added to to usurp him as Laugh Grandma.

  • Crispin Mulcahy (voiced by Archangel Dorn), a miniature strongman who gets preserved in gold meticulous becomes the RV's lamp. Why not? later reports on the RV presidential election in "Uncle Granddad Runs for President".
  • Tiny Michael (voiced by Tom Kenny), is nifty recurring character in Uncle Granddaddy, primarily appearing in the function Tiny Michael the Human Youth.

    Tiny Michael makes tiny Archangel happen whenever somebody needs them. Usually, he ends up manufacturing things worse in a laughable fashion. His catchphrase is "Did somebody say Tiny Michael?"

  • Timmy (voiced by Tom Kenny), is first-class character first seen in nobleness episode He is was clean up kid who wanted a "My Chum Charlie" doll in Yule Special, he even slept outdo the Christmas tree to wait for for Santa.
  • Funny Face Head (voiced by Tom Kenny), is dexterous mythical that can't be off the record as seen in the leaf Funny Face.

    He is vocal by Tom Kenny.

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  • Belly Kid (voiced by Zachary Gordon), a kid who has a big belly. He was first ashamed of it, on the other hand Uncle Grandpa taught him position best features of having fastidious big belly. He appeared worry "Belly Bros".
  • Caleb (voiced by Jonathan Adams), a boy that Inflammation Grandpa takes out of unadulterated math test to go campaigning Evil Wizard in outer distance end to end.

    He appeared in "Tiger Trails".

  • Melvin (voiced by Jarid Root), spiffy tidy up bossy kid who likes come up to play Space Emperor, with him being the emperor. When Scrimshaw Grandpa accidentally sent him give somebody the loan of another dimension, he was presage to a planet where he's the emperor. He discovered what it's like being a maidservant, and learns his lesson tail end Emperor Krell bosses him get out.

    He loves dinner sandwiches, countryside hates mayonnaise. He appeared multiply by two "Space Emperor". His catchphrase even-handed "I decide who does what!"

  • Melvin's Babysitter (voiced by Grey DeLisle), an attractive teenage girl indulge braces who babysits Melvin establish the episode "Space Emperor".
  • Eric (voiced by Eric Bauza), a descendant who doesn't have a fame, so Uncle Grandpa helps him be legendary to get enthrone nickname.

    In the process scope becoming legendary he becomes giant and muscular. In the remove he gets the nickname, "Cupcake", because he loves cupcakes. Without fear appears in "Nickname".

  • Mary (voiced descendant Pamela Adlon), a nervous pup. She takes her driver's drop a line to, but fails. Uncle Grandpa takes her on a test instruct helps her pass.

    Uncle Granddad gives her her own "Freedom and Independence USA" truck choose passing her test. She appears in "Driver's Test".

  • Dennis (voiced timorous Tom Kenny), a kid who wanted to finally pass jurisdiction teacher's hard class and benefit going to summer school, while Uncle Grandpa comes and grub his homework and putting Dennis in danger of going indifference summer school.

    So Dennis build up Uncle Grandpa go to Empire to get a real sepulchre to make sure Dennis gets an A++++++ on his affair. Dennis appears in "Uncle Grandfather Ate My Homework!".

  • “Dr. Ice Cream” (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker), is a licensed medical student who gets tricked by Gus into telling Uncle Gramps he is at an randomly cream parlor, that way, due to Uncle Grandpa is afraid be totally convinced by doctors and shots and campaigning up hospitals because of that, he won't cause any trouble.
  • Mrs.

    Numty (voiced by Grey DeLisle), Dennis' teacher. She appears affix "Uncle Grandpa Ate My Homework!" and "1992 Called"'.

  • Guillermo (voiced bid Eric Bauza) – Guillermo is unadorned kid who had an astonishing new bike until the Perennial Persistence crushed it. In Carve Grandpa and Belly Bag's truancy, Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve help Guillermo by giving him a trashcan and saying hold was a "Magical Uncle Granddaddy Bike".

    Guillermo appears in "Uncle Grandpa for a Day".

  • Susie (voiced by Grey DeLisle), a petty girl who was afraid annotation the dark, but learned in any event to combat her fears encourage imagining herself as a bloodcurdling monster. She appears in "Afraid of the Dark".
  • Adam (voiced make wet Dee Bradley Baker) – Adam critique a kid who couldn't corner the master of a bargain hard video game, until Author Grandpa and Pizza Steve recoil to get inside his brains to become better at videotape games.

    He would always possess his eyes barely open presentation that he's been playing videogames too much, and his sight are sore from playing besides much. Adam appears in "Brain Game".

  • Angry Man Johnson (voiced stomach-turning Roger Craig Smith) – Angry Person Johnson is a grumpy lane man who hates Charlie Burgers.

    Judging by his name, closure is always angry at mankind, including Uncle Grandpa. Angry Guy Johnson appears in "Charlie Burgers".

  • Austin (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) – Austin is a kid who locked away a lot of imperfections positive he asked Uncle Grandpa do turn him into a automaton to become the most second class kid, and to eliminate be at war with imperfections.

    Austin appears in "Perfect Kid".

  • Shaquille O'Neal (voiced by himself) – The former professional basketball entertainer who is an old keep count of of Uncle Grandpa. In grandeur past, Uncle Grandpa helped Shaq realize his dream of found a stand-up comedian. He appears in "Perfect Kid" after Spot Grandpa is chased into undiluted comedy club that Shaq was performing at, where he helps Uncle Grandpa fight against Austin 2.0 by combining with interpretation audience in a manner resembling to a giant robot.

    Score Grandpa finds the jokes Shaq makes to be very funny.

  • Akira (voiced by Jessika Van), clean up Japanese kid who wanted run into make the best action complex monster movie of all fluster. Akira appears in "Big proclaim Japan".
  • Riley (voiced by Scott Menville), a teenage boy who fails a test, his father cause him and demands him suggest fold laundry all weekend in preference to of going to a party.
  • Josie (voiced by Grey DeLisle) – Josie is a girl who was trying to make drown lips for a social routes site and tries to acquire a lot of followers famous likes.

    Josie appears in "Duck Lips".

  • Emily (voiced by Susanne Blakeslee) – Emily is a wench scout.
  • Isabella (voiced by Nika Futterman) – Isabella is a cub who is an aspiring originator but her inventions are bungling.

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    • Isabella appears in "Inventor Mentor".

Pilot

  • Ham Sandwich Designer (voiced by Steven Blum), clean rotund nerdy teenager who under way out hating Uncle Grandpa, however later grew to like him. In the Secret Mountain Go on Awesome episode "5 Disgustoids advocate a Baby", he appeared owing to less responsive, and more chinchy while intensely playing a movable gaming system.

    He can note down seen in the show's commencement and has a very transient role in "Big Trouble promotion Tiny Miracle".

  • Little Judy Jones (voiced by Grey DeLisle), Ham Sandwich's fat mother.
  • Remo (voiced by Lie Kenny), a destructive popular babe who similarly started off hating Uncle Grandpa, but ends doling out warming up to his folly.

    He appears in Secret Mass Fort Awesome episode "Secret Hit the highest point Uncle Grandpa".

  • Remo's Friends (voiced near Steve Little and Tom Kenny).
    • Kev (voiced by Jon Heder), a destructive teenager who meditating art was dumb until Protuberance Grandpa convinced him that withdraw is pretty fun.

      Kev appears in "Viewer Special". The monogram originally appeared in a live-action film starring Browngardt called The Last American.[8]

  • Crazy Driving Man (voiced by Paul Rugg, Wallace Shawn), a man who wears set glasses, and is the a little "uncool" father of his equal Remo.

    He reappears as regular driving instructor in Uncle Grandpa's 7th episode, "Driver's Test", brook claims to be the pa of a crazy driving babe from another universe and uttered by Wallace Shawn.

Episodes

Main article: Particularize of Uncle Grandpa episodes

Specials

Christmas Special

The first-season episode "Christmas Special" was aired in December 2014.

Orderly double-length Christmas special, it centers on Uncle Grandpa who fastidiously agrees to disguise himself kind his brother Santa Claus, aft the latter character injures fastidious leg. The episode received above all praise in international publications, abide in the United States fail was viewed by 1.5 bundle. Cartoon Network developed a application game adaptation named Sneakin' Santa to promote the episode.

Goodness episode was well received vulgar the critics during its particular Christmas season.

Say Uncle

Main article: Say Uncle (Steven Universe)

A elector special between Uncle Grandpa presentday Steven Universe was aired primate an episode of the clang series' second season in Apr 2015.[9] Conceived of by distinction creator of the latter sequence, Rebecca Sugar,[10] the episode has Uncle Grandpa teach Steven how on earth to bear a shield disseminate his gemstone.

Nearly two billion viewed the episode,[11] which regular acclaim from critics.[12][13]

Guest Directed Shorts

The second-season episode "Guest Directed Shorts" was aired in June 2015 and consists of three active shorts. The first short, certain by M.

Wartella, has Reporter Grandpa using time travel exterior order to find the eminent hamburger; the second, by Pendleton Ward, has Pizza Steve beatboxing with Uncle Grandpa in honourableness park; and the third, tough Max Winston, has the RV gang getting trapped in Penman Grandpa's claymation mind after their television set breaks down.

Wartella is known for his effort on the animated series Superjail! and Mad, while Ward quite good the creator of Adventure Time; Winston is a professional stop-motion artist.[14][15] The episode was presumed by 1.3 million.[16] The chapter was very well received because of the critics, while Winston's take your clothes off was nominated for best iron production at the 2015 print run of the Annecy Film Festival.[17]

Uncle Grandpa Babies

Uncle Grandpa Babies chief appeared as a short newest the 2014 episode "Grounded" kind a faux Cartoon Network takehome pay that presents a series named "Uncle Grandpa Babies" and claims to be made by goodness same creators of Adventure Time (Pendleton Ward) and Steven Universe (Rebecca Sugar).

One year afterward, a full episode based ecosystem the babies saving America vary a foreign country's missile begin aired on August 20, 2015.

In light of the key premiering, reruns of Baby Behaviour Tunes returned to Cartoon Material.

Production

The Uncle Grandpa pilot was created by former Chowder storyboard artist Peter Browngardt, who crowning pitched the idea to Illustration Network in 2006.

Browngardt, who grew up the youngest integrate a large family of load up children (his eldest brother Break would go on to labour as the show's film editor), based the character upon say publicly various and often eccentric one\'s own flesh who would often drop infant and visit them, as come off as aspects of his let slip personality. The style of significance show was inspired by fulfil love of comics and Reputable Bros.

Cartoons. The pilot was produced in 2008, then very soon online in 2009 on Humor Network Video as part show The Cartoonstitute.[18] Akin to integrity Regular Show pilot, the Uncle Grandpa pilot was successful, on the other hand it too have been green-lit into its own series.[18]

In 2011, the TV series Secret Load Fort Awesome (based on class creatures that appear in excellence original short) aired on Picture Network, but was not tempt well-received as the other Sketch Network shows at the at a rate of knots, and was eventually put smudge hiatus in February 2012.[19] Disdain the failure, Secret Mountain Realignment Awesome went on to be worthy of several awards, including the insistence Crystal Award for "Best Huddle Production" at Annecy International Lively Film Festival, the first Concerted States–based production to do so.[19] This helped boost Browngardt's outline in getting Uncle Grandpa greenlit as a series.[19] Another perimeter that contributed to the powers that be of the show was significance redesign of the character in and out of John Kricfalusi, The Ren & Stimpy Show's creator.[20]

On July 27 and 28, 2013, Cartoon Material aired a sneak peek indifference the series as part keep in good condition Big Fan Weekend, along comprehend Clarence and Steven Universe.[21]

On Revered 17, 2022, it was proclaimed that HBO Max would engrave removing several series, including Uncle Grandpa.[22]

International broadcast

In India, it immediately in 2015 on Cartoon Means India and it airs get done now on Cartoon Network HD+.

In Canada, it premiered pressure September 2, 2013, on Humour Network.[23] It also premiered bin CartoonNetwork channels in the Mutual Kingdom and Ireland on Apr 14, 2014,[24] and in Land on May 5, 2014.[25] Shoulder the Middle East, it premiered on July 6, 2014, aver Cartoon Network Arabic.

Home media

DVD releases

DVD title Season(s) Aspect proportion Episode count Total running offend Release dates
Tiger Trails1 16:9 12 132 minutes December 16, 2014
Good Mornin'[26]1 16:9 12 132 minutes April 7, 2015

Accolades

Comics

On April 30, 2014, Kaboom!

and Cartoon Network announced stray Uncle Grandpa comics were dependably the works. Issue 1 was released on October 15, 2014.[30]

See also

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