The Brothers Grunt 1-Disc Box Set DVD

The Brothers Grunt is the mid-1990s MTV adult-animated series about a group of brothers from a remote monastery who escape into the outside world while searching for their missing brother Frank, with each episode delivering a different deliberately strange comic adventure as the brothers navigate contemporary life. The show ran on MTV across two seasons starting in 1994, with a 16-episode collection capturing a portion of the broadcast catalog. The format leans hard into MTV's mid-1990s commitment to format-experimental adult animation.

What makes the series distinct is its full commitment to deliberately ugly visual aesthetics. Where most adult animation of the era worked in conventional or polished art styles, The Brothers Grunt commits to a deliberately grotesque character-design approach, with the cast rendered in the kind of lumpy, deformed style that gave the show its specific cult identity. The format gives the writers room to push past mainstream television comfort levels into territory that polarized viewers.

For its era, the show represents MTV's mid-1990s wave of Beavis and Butt-Head-following adult animation experiments that the network briefly produced. The series ran a brief catalog before its conclusion, with the 16-episode run capturing the format in its primary development.

The sixteen episodes work through varied surreal-comedy premises. "The Ceremony" launches the series with the establishing format. "Make Mine A Grunt" delivers an early-episode highlight. "The New Fish" runs a guest-character plot. "Where Angels Dare To Grunt" handles a fantasy-themed entry. "Viva Grunt Vegas" runs a setting-themed plot. "Scrub Me Sammy" handles a music-themed entry. "The Detective" delivers a parody-style plot. "If I Could Grunt To The Animals" parodies the Doctor Dolittle premise. "Requim For A Sammy" handles a tribute-themed plot. "To Hell With Bing" runs an extreme-themed entry. "Cream Style Tony" delivers a food-themed plot. "The Ugly Gruntling" parodies the Ugly Duckling. "Smells Like Dean Spirit" closes the selection with a parody plot. All 16 episodes on 1 DVD collect this volume, every Brothers Grunt absurd adventure, in one box.