The Pjs Complete 6-Disc Box Set DVD

The PJs aired on Fox and later The WB across the turn of the millennium, a stop-motion animated prime-time comedy created and voiced in part by Eddie Murphy that built around the residents of a public-housing complex in an unnamed American city. The premise placed Thurgood Stubbs as the building's superintendent, with his wife Muriel, the eccentric tenants, and the broader neighborhood community providing the cast for each episode. The show committed to a sustained visual identity rare for prime-time animation and used the format to tell adult comedy with a particular voice.

What stands out is the production approach. Where most prime-time animated comedy of the era worked in flat hand-drawn or computer-generated style, this series used full stop-motion, with custom-built characters and detailed miniature sets that gave it a textured, physically present feel unlike anything else on broadcast television at the time. The voice cast brought a particular comic register, the writing leaned into sharp observational humor about urban life, and the supporting ensemble of recurring tenants and neighborhood characters built into a deep, distinctive cast over the run.

In the broader era of late-1990s and early-2000s prime-time animation, this kind of stop-motion adult comedy was a particular fixture, sitting alongside the era's other prime-time animated comedy experiments but distinguished by its production technique. It suited adult and household late-evening viewing, fans of Eddie Murphy's comic voice, and viewers who liked their prime-time animation visually and tonally distinctive. It is a particular snapshot of how the format pushed beyond the conventions of its time.

Favorite episodes include the franchise-launching "Hangin' With Mr. Super," the household comedy of "The Door," the family-flavored "Bougie Nights," the holiday-themed "Operation Gumbo Drop," the small-business comedy of "U Go Kart," the cultural-storytelling "Haiti Sings The Blues," the long-arc "Smokey The Squatter," and the season-finale "Clip Show." This 6-disc set gathers 40 episodes across the run, a deep archive of turn-of-the-millennium stop-motion prime-time animation that disc ownership keeps available.