Home Movies created by Loren Bouchard and Brendon Small1 was another animated TV series that I used to enjoy after coming back home late at night from long 3 hour mathematics classes when I was an undergraduate. It originally aired from 1999 to 2004.
According to Wikipedia:
“The plot surrounds an eight-year-old Brendon Small (voiced by the creator, head writer, and lead musician of Home Movies, Brendon Small), who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his adopted baby sister, Josie. He is also friends with his alcoholic, short-tempered soccer coach, John McGuirk.”
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“In its first season, Home Movies utilized Soup2Nuts’ Squigglevision animation but later abandoned that for the cheaper, more malleable Macromedia Flash animation.”
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“Another quality that Home Movies carried over… was its initial use of ‘retroscripting’, a process in which an episode’s scripts are purposely left vague, and instead of exact dialogue, the plot of a particular scene is merely outlined—the rest of the dialogue is then created through improv by the actors. The use of retroscripting in Home Movies gives the show very casual, realistic dialogue with an often dry, sarcastic wit. Although retroscripting was only used officially in the first season (the entire first episode was improvised from start to finish), the dialogue in the following three seasons remained heavily improvised, with the written script serving mainly as a guide or something to fall back on for jokes if needed.”1
I hope you enjoy the clip I’ve selected below for today’s post. The fact that it takes place in a music store resonates with me…. 
You can visit the official Home Movies website for episode guides, etc. The DVDs of the four seasons of Home Movies are available from Amazon.com
QUESTION: What’s your favourite episode of Home Movies and why? Please share in the comments section of this post.
References
- Visit the official Brendon Small website for more on the co-creator of the Home Movies.
- Home Movies (TV series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Movies_%28TV_series%29 Accessed 10/10/09.
