The Brothers Grunt

The Brothers Grunt is an animated TV series which was first broadcast in August 1994, starring an ensemble cast of pale, rubbery humanoids distantly related to human beings. They are cast out of a monastery (comprised of most survivors of their species) in a quest to bring back one of their kind, Perry, who has abandoned his involuntary position of "Chosen One" (leader of their order) and is now living the High Life among human beings (who seem to deal with the bizarre nature of the grunts by ignoring them and pretending everything is normal, a la muggles).

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Animated TV series - 1994 - Monastery - Muggle

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The main characters were named after members of the famous Rat Pack and their peers: Frank, Tony, Dean, Bing, Sammy, from Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Perry Como.

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Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra - Tony Bennett - Dean Martin - Bing Crosby - Sammy Davis, Jr. - Perry Como

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The series was created by Danny Antonucci (of Ed, Edd, n Eddy). It had a short-but-notorious life on MTV, which played the same few episodes repeatedly for a couple of months, then cancelled the series.

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Danny Antonucci - Ed, Edd, n Eddy - MTV

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It was perhaps the climax of the trend toward genre-breaking, taboo-violating animated media, following in the footsteps of (sequentially) The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, and Beavis & Butt-head, and also including the later South Park. Typically these are shows which appear on the surface to simply be toilet humor descendants of The Three Stooges and The Benny Hill Show, but upon closer examination tend to have an agenda of exploring the arbitrary nature of taboos, social mores, stereotypes and the like. The Brothers Grunt did this to such an extent that it quickly alienated its own network and vanished from even rerun status, to be compiled on videotape by its cult following and exchanged in a sort of free bootleg system ignored even by its original makers.

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Taboo - The Simpsons - Ren & Stimpy - Beavis & Butt-head - South Park - Toilet humor - The Three Stooges - The Benny Hill Show - Stereotypes - Rerun - Bootleg

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