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The Man in Black
06-14-2003, 06:14 PM
Denis Leary's production company, Apostle Pictures, will be producing House Arrest- a freelance project created by Eric Brown, Sellitti and Serpico. The new animated show actually started airing on Comedy Central as interstials and bumpers at 9:58 pm on May 1, 2003. Augenblick Studios produced the animation of the interstitals.

It stars two grossly unmotivated, underachievers in their mid-twenties Chico and Beanie. Their main pleasure in life, while adhering to Chico's mandatory house arrest sentence, is to ride the couch and watch animated interstitials of such comedians as Dane Cook, Greg Fitzsimmons, Janeane Garofalo, Leary, Jay Mohr, Patrice Oneal and Jeffrey Ross. Leary and Serpico will serve as executive producers with Sellitti and Brown as co-exec producers.

[Source: The Big Cartoon DataBase]

DianaGohan
06-14-2003, 07:01 PM
A House Arrest Animated Series? Uh... it's diffrent at least. I hope they don't plan on making every movie into an animated series. That would just be pretty stupid.

Killtacular
06-14-2003, 09:20 PM
It's not based on the movie House Arrest....

EightOh
06-14-2003, 09:39 PM
It's not based on the movie House Arrest....Just for the record, that was what I was thinking of when I clicked on the thread, though.

I dunno if this is a great idea or not. I've seen them occasionally while watching Comedy Central, and while they're okay in short bursts, I'm not too sure it'll work for several episodes of 22 minutes. Why not just show stand-up? I love stand-up comedy. I watched "A&E's Evening at the Improv" when I was 5 years old, though, so I'm weird that way.

I just don't see the long-term appeal of it, though. Here's hoping I'm wrong and it turns out okay, or even better.