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Drawn Together

Plot

The weekly animated series Drawn Together was a double-barrelled satire: a devastating lampoon of live-action reality shows and a broad takeoff of several familiar cartoon stereotypes. The premise dictated that a group of B-list cartoon celebrities was forced to live under the same roof, with their every move filmed for the entertainment of the viewing audience. Naturally, these diverse characters got on each other's nerves with frightening regularity -- and this being a cable show, the language and the activities were as raw and uninhibited as traffic would allow. The principal performers were Xandir P. Whifflebottom, the hero of a Legend of Zelda-type videotape, who despite his avowed crusade to rescue his girlfriend eventually revealed himself to be gay; Toot Braunstein, an overweight spoof of '30s cartoon star Betty Boop, who appeared only in black-and-white; Captain Hero, a stiff-necked, empty-headed parody of cartoon caped crusaders, who was under the mistaken impression that there was a huge cash award awaiting whoever "survived" to the end of the series; Ling-Ling, an androgynous knock-off of Pokémon's Pikachu; Spanky Ham, an obscene prankster reminiscent of the iconoclastic, Robert Crumb-style animal characters indigenous to Internet cartoon sites; Foxxy Love, a trash-talking black chick designed to evoke memories of the impossibly curvaceous and long-legged female characters on such Hanna-Barbera efforts as Josie & the Pussycats; Princess Clara, a Disneyesque simpery-sweet heroine (and closet racist!); and Wooldor Sockbat, an amorphous, easily led jerk who bore a marked resemblance to SpongeBob Squarepants. Not only were characters sublimely typical of the cartoon world, but each one was also a readily recognizable reality show archetype: Spanky was the hygienically-challenged party dude, Toot was the scheming bitch, Princess Clara the spoiled wealthy blonde, Foxxy the token "angry black character," Xandir the house homosexual, and so on. With all this in mind, it should be no surprise that every episode of the series was chock full of knowing pop-cultural references pertaining to both of the TV genres it so mercilessly skewered. Debuting October 1, 2004, Drawn Together remained on cable's Comedy Central for eight lively weeks. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Credit

Dawn Hershey - Casting, Peter Avanzino - Director, Damon P. Yoches - Editor, Gregg Vanzo - Executive Producer, Dave Jeser - Executive Producer, Matt Silverstein - Executive Producer, Eban Schletter - Composer (Music Score), J. Michael Mendel - Producer, Claudia Katz - Producer, Matt Silverstein - Screenwriter, Rough Draft Studios Inc. - Animation Producer, Jordan Young - Supervising Producer

Episodes

Drawn Together: Season 01 (2004)
The initial season of the animated reality-show spoof Drawn Together consists of eight episodes, each one savagely parodying the clichés and stereotypes of both the "reality" and "cartoon" genres within the context of several washed-up animated celebrities forced to live together under the same roof. In the opening episode, "Hot Tub," Disneyesque Princess Clara manages to lay a racist slur upon Hanna-Barbera-esque Foxxy Love, while video-game hero Xandir reveals himself to be a closet gay. In "Clara's Dirty Little Secret," it is revealed that the titular heroine has been cursed by her wicked stepmother to suffer from tentacled monster living in her -- uh -- privates. Xandir finally comes out in "Gay Bash," while foulmouthed prankster Spanky Ham exploits the Pokémon-derived Ling-Ling. Bitchy Betty Boop sound-alike Toot Braunstein grows more obese than ever, stiff-necked Captain Hero finds out that he enjoys bondage, and the SpongeBob-ish Wooldor Sockbat is bullied into helping Spanky capture Princess Clara's timid woodland friends in "Requiem for a Reality Show." Next, "The Other Cousin" finds Clara's well-named relative Bleh paying a visit. In "Terms of Endearment," Captain Hero's X-ray vision gives Foxxy a brain tumor. The whimsical Spanky finally goes too far when he takes a dump on a pizza in "Dirty Pranking Number 2." And in the finale, subtly titled "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist," Drawn Together meets The Apprentice as Machiavellian billionaire Bucky Bucks plays one roommate against the other. Through the season are sprinkled innumerable "inside" references to cartoon history, a plethora of gratuitous sex gags, and even guest appearances by the likes of Elmer Fudd and Snagglepuss. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Drawn Together: Hot Tub
Drawn Together: Clara's Dirty Little Secret
Drawn Together: Gay Bash
Drawn Together: Requiem for a Reality Show
Drawn Together: The Other Cousin
Drawn Together: Dirty Pranking #2
Drawn Together: The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist

Drawn Together: Season 02 (2005)

Drawn Together: The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part 2
Drawn Together: Foxxy vs. the Board of Education
Drawn Together: Little Orphan Hero
Drawn Together: Captain Hero's Marriage Pact
Drawn Together: Clum Babies
Drawn Together: Ghostesses in the Slot Machine
Drawn Together: Super Nanny
Drawn Together: A Tale of Two Cows
Drawn Together: Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree
Drawn Together: The Lemon-AIDS Walk
Drawn Together: A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special
Drawn Together: Alzheimer's That Ends Well
Drawn Together: The Drawn Together Clip Show
Drawn Together: Terms of Endearment
Drawn Together: Captain Girls

Drawn Together: Season 03 (2006)

Drawn Together: Freaks and Geeks
Drawn Together: Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultur
Drawn Together: Spelling Applebee's
Drawn Together: Unrestrainable Trainable
Drawn Together: N.R.A.y Ray
Drawn Together: Lost in Parking Space, Part 1
Drawn Together: Breakfast Food Killer
Drawn Together: Drawn Together Babies
Drawn Together: Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care
Drawn Together: Toot Goes Bollywood
Drawn Together: American Idol Parody Clip Show
Drawn Together: Lost in Parking Space, Part 2
Drawn Together: Captain Hero and the Cool Kids
Drawn Together: Charlotte's Web of Lies