While not bitter about losing her privileged life, she often expresses disdain towards her self-centered former neighbors in the Hills. All of her hair has since fallen out (something which is usually hidden by an extremely tall blonde beehive wig) due to the hazardous atmosphere of The Valley, and she is now regarded as an outcast by her former Hill friends. Marie "Pickles" Oblong ( Jean Smart) – A chain smoking alcoholic who was originally a Hill resident but moved to the valley after marrying Bob.While he mostly uses his mouth for tasking, he can often drive with his mind in various episodes, or read a newspaper with his mind, as seen in "Flush, Flush, Sweet Helga", which assumes that he may have mind powers. The only time he had limbs was in the episode "My Name is Robbie". He is married to Pickles and is the father of Biff, Chip, Milo, and Beth.
Despite his deformities, he is very chipper and sunny, and is modeled after various fathers from 1950s TV shows. Bob Oblong ( Will Ferrell) – Born without arms or legs, Bob works at a poison factory called the Globocide.
Many reviewers and fans see the series as a commentary on social stratification. The pollution is the direct result of the lavish lifestyle of the rich community known as "The Hills", whose residents exploit and harm the valley residents with absolutely no regard for their safety or well-being. The series focuses on the antics of a family who live in a poor valley community, and as a result of pollution and radiation exposure, are all disabled or deformed. 2.2 Milo's friends, "The Clubhouse Kids".All thirteen episodes of The Oblongs were released on DVD on October 4, 2005.Īs of February 2022, the series is available on Tubi. This was the only animated series to date to have been produced by Bruce Helford under Mohawk.Ī total of 13 episodes were produced. Television, and the theme song for the series was composed and performed by They Might Be Giants. The show was produced by Film Roman, Oblong Productions, Jobsite Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros.
The series was initially pitched to Fox and ABC, but neither of which picked it up for a full series, and thus, the series was submitted to the WB. The series is loosely based on a series of characters introduced in a picture book entitled Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children. The remaining episodes were later aired on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim in August 2002, and later aired on Teletoon's "Teletoon Unleashed" (later become former block Teletoon at Night) block. The series premiered on Apon The WB, and was removed on May 20th, leaving the last five episodes unaired. It was Mohawk Productions' first venture into animation. When the teen told the other females she was only 17 and that Obadiah assaulted her, the other females “drove her to a relative’s home in the Miami area and left her there,” according to the complaint.The Oblongs (stylized as the ?blongs.) is an American adult animated sitcom created by Angus Oblong and Jace Richdale. When the teen escaped the hotel room, Obadiah caught up with her and took her to South Beach to stay with the other females who’d traveled with them from North Carolina. The teen was forced to perform sexual intercourse with four men at a Miami hotel and was sexually assaulted by Obadiah, the FBI agent said. In the Miami area, she was forced to take opioid pills, according to the complaint. The teen was forced to use cocaine along the way, the FBI agent said in the complaint. On March 1, Obadiah left for Miami with the victim and three other females, according to the complaint. She was forced to take three prostitution “in-calls” for sexual intercourse, court records show. 28, where he told her he would post online ads of her “for prostitution services,” according to documents in U.S. Obadiah is accused of first driving the victim to a Charlotte hotel on Feb.