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Home Movies 8-Disc Box Set DVD
Home Movies is the cult-favorite animated sitcom about Brendon Small, an eight-year-old who makes shoestring backyard movies with his two best friends, his soccer-coach mentor, and his single mother. The show originally aired on UPN in 1999 before bouncing to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, where it found its real audience and ran through 2004 across a total of four seasons.
What stands out is the show's distinctive voice, a partly improvised, conversational rhythm where most episodes feel like real people trying to figure out what they are saying rather than reading lines. The animation moved from squigglevision to a cleaner Flash-era look across the run, but the writing stayed character-first throughout, more interested in awkward family conversations and Brendon's increasingly ambitious movie pitches than in big plot beats. Coach McGuirk is a comic engine all by himself.
It belongs to a very specific Adult Swim sweet spot when the block was still defining itself with character-driven half-hour animation, the same neighborhood as some of the era's most beloved cult animated comedies. For viewers who came up with Adult Swim in its formative years, Home Movies is one of the irreplaceable pieces of that hour.
Highlights in the collection include "Get Away From My Mom," "Brendon Gets Rabies," "Director's Cut," "Guitarmageddon," and "Coffins and Cradles," episodes that capture both the show's silliest movie-pitch shorts and its sharpest character work. This 8-DVD set gathers all 56 episodes plus animatics, interviews, and extras, the deepest available archive for a show with persistent licensing complications.
Stars: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky.
More Information: IMDB, Wikipedia.
56 Total Episodes on 8 DVDs:
Season 1 Episode 1 – Get Away From My Mom
Season 1 Episode 2 – I Don't Do Well in Parent-Teacher Conferences
Season 1 Episode 3 – The Art of the Sucker Punch
Season 1 Episode 4 – Brendon Gets Rabies
Season 1 Episode 5 – Yoko
Season 1 Episode 6 – Director’s Cut
Season 1 Episode 7 – It Was Supposed to Be Funny
Season 1 Episode 8 – Method of Acting
Season 1 Episode 9 – Life Through a Fish Eye Lens
Season 1 Episode 10 – School Nurse
Season 1 Episode 11 – Mortgages and Marbles
Season 1 Episode 12 – Law and Boarder
Season 1 Episode 13 – Brendon’s Choice
Season 2 Episode 1 – Politics
Season 2 Episode 2 – Identifying a Body
Season 2 Episode 3 – Hiatus
Season 2 Episode 4 – Business and Pleasure
Season 2 Episode 5 – The Party
Season 2 Episode 6 – Impressions
Season 2 Episode 7 – Dad
Season 2 Episode 8 – Therapy
Season 2 Episode 9 – Class Trip
Season 2 Episode 10 – History
Season 2 Episode 11 – Writer’s Block
Season 2 Episode 12 – Pizza Club
Season 2 Episode 13 – The Wedding
Season 3 Episode 1 – Shore Leave
Season 3 Episode 2 – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Season 3 Episode 3 – Bad Influences
Season 3 Episode 4 – Improving Your Life Through Improv
Season 3 Episode 5 – Four’s Company
Season 3 Episode 6 – Renaissance
Season 3 Episode 7 – My Cheatin’ Heart
Season 3 Episode 8 – Guitarmageddon
Season 3 Episode 9 – Storm Warning
Season 3 Episode 10 – Time To Pay The Price
Season 3 Episode 11 – Broken Dreams
Season 3 Episode 12 – Stowaway
Season 3 Episode 13 – Coffins and Cradles
Season 4 Episode 1 – Everyone’s Entitled to My Opinion
Season 4 Episode 2 – Camp
Season 4 Episode 3 – Bye Bye Greasy
Season 4 Episode 4 – The Heart Smashers
Season 4 Episode 5 – The Wizard’s Baker
Season 4 Episode 6 – Psycho-Delicate
Season 4 Episode 7 – Curses
Season 4 Episode 8 – Honkey Magoo
Season 4 Episode 9 – Those Bitches Tried to Cheat Me
Season 4 Episode 10 – Cho and the Adventures of Amy Lee
Season 4 Episode 11 – Definite Possible Murder
Season 4 Episode 12 – Temporary Blindness
Season 4 Episode 13 – Focus Grill
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