The
Oblongs…
The animated series.
The Oblongs is currently showing on Cartoon
Network's Adult Swim.
Watch for it!
The Oblongs is also showing on TBS!
Times change, so watch for it.
And if you're in Canada, it's on
Teletoon.
The
Oblongs is an animated series based on the book, Creepy
Susie & 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children
by Angus Oblong. The show was also Created by Oblong, animated
by Film Roman, produced by Warner Brothers & aired for one
season on The WB in the Fall of 2001 ad.
It is in reruns on Teletoon in Canada & on Cartoon Network's
Adult Swim Block in the U.S. & showing in a few other
countries. (If you're in a country where it's currently airing,
write to the creator & let him know! AngusOblong@yahoo.com)
The Oblongs are a
physically deformed & socially inept family living in a town
called HillValley. Pickles (Voiced by the stunningly beautiful
& talented oscar-winning Jean Smart.) is a boozing, bald headed,
wig-wearing floozy happily married to the love of her life, Bob
Oblong. (SNL’s hilarious Elf, Will Ferrell.) Bob is an upbeat,
moralistic, pipe smoking father right out of any typical 1950’s
sit com. But without arms & legs.
Their children are Biff & Chip, 17 year old conjoined twins
sharing three legs & three butt cheeks. Milo, (Played to perfection
by Pamela Segal Aldon
of “King of the Hill,” “Recess” & “Time
Squad.”) an 8 year old boy with every traumatic childhood
disorder known to mankind. And their youngest, little Beth Oblong.
(Voiced by the mop-headded, beautiful, multi-talented Jeannie
Ellias.) Beth is a fearless, adorable 4 year old who is Hello-Kitty-cute
with an enormous, grotesque, wart covered, growth protruding from
her head. It is not a penis.
Milo
is a social reject as are his friends, Peggy the Mutant; the girl
with no lower jaw & one little booby in the center of her
chest, Helga (Voiced by great big lezzie, Lea
Delarea), Mikey Butts whose butt cheeks sag down below his
knees & Creepy Susie, (Mikey & Susie both also voiced
by Jeannie Ellias.) a morbid goth girl who - for no mentioned
reason - floats 6 inches above the ground. No kid at school will
befriend this group of ugly rejects, so they must find companionship
with eachother, gathering in their clubhouse in Milo’s backyard
every day after school.
The town of HillValley is the pharmaceutical capital of the world,
the water is tainted with toxins, as is the air. The nearby meteor
on the skyline gives off a soft glow of radiation from worlds
light years away. Thus the folks of HillValley are either physically
deformed or mentally deranged. Fun for the whole family.
13 episodes of “The Oblongs” were made. Premiering in
April of 2001, lasting for one (1.) season. The producers working
on the show softened Oblong’s vision, making “The Oblongs”
merely another lukewarm, prime time comedy about a family who
does nothing all that unusual, then hugs at the end of every episode.
“Gross.” Says Oblong.
If picked up by another production company for more episodes,
“The Oblongs” has the potential to truly become something
people will notice, talk about & have plenty of controversy
over.
“Pissing off normal people? Kay, sounds fun.”
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"The
Oblongs is awful"
Desert
News, Salt Lake City UT.
"Gross
images"
The Hartford Courant.
"Obtuse
Oblongs draws on disgust."
USA Today
"Occasionally
funny"
Los Angeles Times.
"Twisted."
Newsweek.
"Oblongs
never gets funny"
LA Daily News.
"If
only the show were a lot funnier"
LA Daily News.
"A peculiar
mutation" "Weak" "Wicked"
LA Daily News.
"Should
be funnier than it is"
"The instrument with which the satire is applied is a little
less delicate - something like, oh, a towel"
Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN.
"I was
mesmerized but not amused"
The Times Picayune, New Orleans.
"...
penis ..."
LA Times.
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