Uncle Grandpa

Uncle Grandpa is an American animated television series created by Peter Browngardt for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 2, 2013 to June 30, 2017. It is based on Browngardt's animated short of the same name from the unaired Cartoonstitute.

Plot
Uncle Grandpa is a magical uncle and grandpa to everyone, and he travels around the world in an RV on a mission to help people in any way they may need it. The mustachioed good Samaritan wears a fanny pack, named Belly Bag, that serves as his right-hand man as he finds solutions to everyday situations - even if no issue existed to begin with. Also helping Uncle Grandpa on his adventures are dinosaur Mr. Gus, talking pizza slice Pizza Steve, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, their primary mode of transportation. Eternally optimistic Uncle Grandpa always greets the day, and everyone he meets, with a signature "Good morning!"

Why It's a Good Morning

 * 1) It exploded surrealism like no other children's cartoon, and thanks to Peter Browngardt's take on absurd humor, he inspired gobs of surrealist creators.
 * 2) Shows off a lot of good morals about life such as the "Duck Lips" episode being a notable example for why you shouldn't care about fans and trash your lips all because you want fame.
 * 3) The show has a number of nicely edited photoshops such as the wink and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
 * 4) Beautiful and fluid animation for most of the time.
 * 5) Lots of random adventures, for instance:
 * 6) * Uncle Grandpa opening an amusement park.
 * 7) * Pizza Steve and Mr. Gus making prank calls on an intergalactic telephone and going to prison for it.
 * 8) * Uncle Grandpa helping a dog get his ball out of the neighbor's yard... by overcomplicating the situation and literally turning the world upside down.
 * 9) * The episode where Uncle Grandpa chooses one of his "fans" to draw his show for a day, but he turns out to be a punk rock teenager who turns their show into an unholy nightmare.
 * 10) Funny references like the Aladdin reference with the genie.
 * 11) Peter Browngardt does an excellent job at voicing Uncle Grandpa, providing a goofy and (hilariously) hammy voice.
 * 12) Cool electronic soundtrack, such as the catchy theme song, being inspired by 80s music.
 * 13) "Uncle Grandpa's Grampie Awards" is an extremely funny short with the other Cartoon Network characters such as Finn and Jake from Adventure Time, Clarence and his friends, and other characters being in it and it's funny having the Uncle Grandpa clones winning again and again (depending on your view).
 * 14) The premise of this show is pretty good.
 * 15) Spawned a crossover with Steven Universe called "Say Uncle" with actually funny fourth-wall breaks and Uncle Grandpa trying to help Steven summon his gem.
 * 16) Despite Seasons 1 and 2 being decent seasons, it's safe it say it totally gotten better after season 3 and overall a major improvement over it as it has better animation and a number of better plots.
 * 17) Lots of likable characters such as Uncle Grandpa himself, Mr. Gus, Tiny Miracle, and Belly Bag.
 * 18) Aunt Grandma is a really funny villain in the show despite not really acting like a villain.
 * 19) *Her voice, consisting of a British accent, is passable as it makes her sound punctual and ingenious.
 * 20) This shows that Peter Browngardt does learn from his mistakes since he actually thought that his previous show, mh:terribletvshows:Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, wasn't good and wanted something more kid friendly.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It can be very confusing at times, such as the concept of being both an uncle and a grandpa.
 * 2) The shorts New Experiences with Beary Nice & Hot Dog Person, can be a hit or miss occasionally.
 * 3) Pizza Steve can be a really unlikable character for a number of reasons such as him bragging about how cool he is.
 * 4) * He is even unlikeable in "Big In Japan" where he cared less for Mr. Gus such as when he shot him with a bazooka and ironically pointed out that he wasn't okay when he was responsible, especially when he cries about ice cream at Mr. Gus' funeral instead of mourning over Mr. Gus' death although Gus was pretending.
 * 5) Just like Browngardt's previous show, mh:terribletvshows:Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, the show did suffer from some gross-out toilet humor.
 * 6) The show's surrealism can get weird at times.
 * 7) In certain episodes, the characters are off-model and stay that way for the entire episode. This mostly applies to season 5 Episodes.
 * 8) The notorious episode "Watermelon Gag".
 * 9) * Also, the episode "Funny Face" can be incredibly disturbing to some viewers.
 * 10) * Some bad episodes like "Mustache Cream", "Treasure Map", etc.
 * 11) While Season 1 and 2 are decent, they are the weakest seasons of Uncle Grandpa and started it off on a sour note.

Reception
Uncle Grandpa was met with mixed-to-positive reception throughout its run. It holds a 4.4/10 on IMDb, as a lot of viewers were turned away by the show's overall weirdness and mad surrealism. But it could be back then at least. On Google, the show was met with a more positive reception, holding a 75%.

Trivia

 * Peter Browngardt also worked at Looney Tunes Cartoons.
 * A crossover special between this show and Steven Universe, was aired as an episode of the latter series' second season on April 2, 2015. Conceived of by the creator of the latter series, Rebecca Sugar, the episode has Uncle Grandpa teach Steven how to bear a shield from his gemstone. Even though A.V. club described the announcement "confusing" in February 2015, the episode recieved critical acclaim upon it's broadcast. Nearly 2 million US viewers watched the episode.

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