Home Movies (season 4)
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| Home Movies (season 4) | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Original release | November 11, 2003 – April 4, 2004 |
The fourth season of the animated sitcom Home Movies is the final season of series.[1] Originally began airing in the United States on the Adult Swim programming block for the television network Cartoon Network on November 11, 2003, and ended on April 4, 2004. Co-founders Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard, along with Tom Sydner, served as executive producers for the season.
The series follows the life of 8-year-old Brendon Small, who writes, directs, and stars in several homemade film productions that he creates with his friend Melissa and Jason. Brendon and Melissa's soccer coach, John McGuirk, is an alcoholic who constantly becomes involved with the kids' lives and gives them bad advice. Brendon's mother, Paula, meanwhile, is divorced and juggling her children, her job as a creative writing teacher, and romantic life.
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Episodes
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 40 | 1 | "Everyone's Entitled to My Opinion" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | November 11, 2003 | 401 |
| Brendon starts writing online movie reviews for money, and his next assignment is to watch the film All that Violence, but because of its adult rating Paula forbids it. Mr. Lynch is made interim principal, which McGuirk takes full advantage of. | ||||||
| 41 | 2 | "Camp" | Loren Bouchard | H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | January 11, 2004 | 409 |
| The gang goes to a performing arts camp, where they are led by Dwayne and two other counselors (voiced by John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants). All three kids are berated by the camp counselors in their respective fields, and Melissa finds it difficult to overcome her fear of swimming. Meanwhile, McGuirk is taken on a camping trip but he becomes afraid of his companions who appear to be from some sort of cult. He sneaks into the camp and the kids hide him in their cabin, until the "cult" comes looking for him and the counselors feel something is suspicious. At the last day of camp, the kids put on a play expressing their extreme hate of their experience and their mentors, and Melissa finally overcomes her fear of swimming when saving McGuirk from drowning, while McGuirk comes to realize the "cult" had good intentions. | ||||||
| 42 | 3 | "Bye Bye Greasy" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | January 18, 2004 | 410 |
| Brendon directs the school musical which is set in the 50s called "Bye Bye Greasy". Shannon forcibly casts himself as the lead, and is actually well fit for the role. Melissa is upset by Brendon's casting her as a non-singing role, and is doubly upset when Paula, who has been painting the set to be at Christmas, accidentally buys a kiwifruit pie that she must eat from in her scene, despite Melissa's hyper attentiveness to her recently discovered kiwifruit allergy. Shannon is suspended from school for his usual activities the night of the performance, forcing Brendon to understudy, while his play falls apart. Melissa accidentally eats part of the pie during the performance, causing her to run off stage in fear that she will die, but Paula reveals she went out and got another pie. Shannon returns to the school, after having discovered that Fenton, hired by Brendon to take care of lighting, sent in a false report on him to get him suspended after Shannon insulted Fenton's stage hand abilities, and performs the climactic number, followed by Coach McGuirk driving his car on stage in the final act to sing, despite the fact he cannot leave his car and his lines are unheard over his engine. | ||||||
| 43 | 4 | "The Heart Smashers" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | January 25, 2004 | 402 |
| Brendon tries to break off his friendship with Fenton after realizing how overbearing he is while they are filming a movie that Fenton keeps trying to take over. Paula unsuccessfully tries to break up with her boyfriend, despite multiple attempts. Coach McGuirk has been heavily exercising his pecs, but suffers a painful pectoral blowout, forcing him to wear a brassiere during healing. Brendon ultimately makes up with Fenton, realizing that he cannot act without his constant annoyance. | ||||||
| 44 | 5 | "The Wizard's Baker" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | February 8, 2004 | 403 |
| Brendon is unhappy with The Wizard's Baker, the movie the gang is making, so avoids it by joining the Skunk Scouts and having fun with their model car derby. Coach McGuirk has trouble returning swords he bought from a home shopping channel after it bankrupts him. At the Skunk Scouts dinner, Melissa and Jason try to promote The Wizard's Baker, forcing Brendon to reveal his hatred of the project, but their argument is upstaged by Coach McGuirk appearing at the dinner. Ultimately, an aged attendee decides to bankroll the project, much to Brendon's surprise. | ||||||
| 45 | 6 | "Psycho-Delicate" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | February 15, 2004 | 404 |
| The gang tries to make a movie for a video store contest, McGuirk tries to woo a waitress at a diner (and contends with a street musician who accuses him of stealing his money and sings a scathing song about his weight), and Paula's new hairstyle backfires. | ||||||
| 46 | 7 | "Curses" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | February 22, 2004 | 405 |
| After Brendon shows a movie full of profanity and sexually suggestive content to his friends, it upsets the kids' parents, forcing Paula to get Brendon to reshoot the film without any of the cursing or lewdness, and institutes a swear jar for him. McGuirk tags along with Erik to a journal class, which is just a front for Erik to meet up with his new girlfriend in secret, a fact that Melissa has discovered. When he comes clean, Melissa decides to stay with the Smalls, but her presence keeps Brendon up, as does Jason who is staying with them as well. Brendon decides to take Erik's journal and show it to Melissa, and the father and daughter reconcile. At the screening of his cleaned film, Brendon cannot bear to watch it, so he leaves the room. Erik realizes how he has upset Melissa and Brendon gives McGuirk the swear jar, when they hear the kids react in disgust. Brendon reveals he found the movie so boring he spliced in a clip of two dogs having sex that McGuirk gave him. | ||||||
| 47 | 8 | "Honkey Magoo" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | February 29, 2004 | 406 |
| The gang adopts a stray puppy who turns out to be nothing but trouble. | ||||||
| 48 | 9 | "Those Bitches Tried to Cheat Me" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | March 7, 2004 | 407 |
| Brendon cheats on Mr. Lynch's test. Coach McGuirk tries to cheat his way through traffic school. Jason can't get past the "stalking" phase of a relationship with a 5th grade girl. | ||||||
| 49 | 10 | "Cho and the Adventures of Amy Lee" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | March 14, 2004 | 408 |
| Brendon accidentally scores a goal, which ruins the record of the opposing team's star goalie, Cho, who threatens to harm Brendon. McGuirk remembers his days as a Scottish Highland Dancer. | ||||||
| 50 | 11 | "Definite Possible Murder" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | March 21, 2004 | 411 |
| In the vein of Rear Window, Brendon is laid-up in his room with a broken leg, thinks that the man who just moved in next door may be a murderer. Meanwhile, McGuirk trains to become a bartender. | ||||||
| 51 | 12 | "Temporary Blindness" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | March 28, 2004 | 412 |
| Coach McGuirk loses his vision and supposedly gains clairvoyance after having laser eye surgery, only to be found to be a fraud after his only prediction regarding some milk being spoiled is revealed that he only knew because he was supposed to put it in a fridge but never did and after he regains his sight. The kids make family trees for a school project but Melissa's absent mother upsets her during the project. | ||||||
| 52 | 13 | "Focus Grill" | Loren Bouchard | Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small & Bill Braudis | April 4, 2004 | 413 |
| Brendon, Jason, and Melissa discover their first film they ever made is unfinished and each decides to film an ending, presenting them to a peer focus group made up of Walter, Perry, Fenton, and Junior. Coach McGuirk tries to build a grill in Paula's backyard for several days, but is mostly unsuccessful. After realizing that their final project is no good and their films should never be seen, McGuirk fires up the grill, causing an explosion that affects much of the house. On the way to a fast food place, Brendon films from outside the car window and accidentally drops his camera outside, but he cannot get the group to turn back and retrieve it. | ||||||
Home release
The DVD boxset for season four was released by Shout! Factory on May 16, 2006. Other than all thirteen episodes of the season, the DVD included several bonus features, including interviews with the cast and crew, animatics, an animation gallery, commentary tracks, and a bonus soundtrack CD.[2][3]
| The Complete Fourth Season | ||||
| Set Details | Special Features | |||
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Home Movies: Bonus CD
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| Soundtrack album by Brendon Small | ||||
| Released | May 16, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 1999-2004 | |||
| Genre | Comedy rock, acoustic, alternative rock, hard rock, parody[4] | |||
| Length | 70:32[5] | |||
| Label | Shout! Factory | |||
| Producer | Brendon Small | |||
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Home Movies: Bonus CD is a soundtrack album to the show Home Movies. It was released May 16, 2006 and includes fifty-two songs which were featured throughout the series.[6] The CD comes packaged with the DVD release of the show's fourth season box set.[7] All music was written by Brendon Small.
Track listing
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Season One Opening & Closing Theme" | 0:45 |
| 2. | "Franz Kafka! Intro" | 1:19 |
| 3. | "Turnin' To A Bug" | 0:21 |
| 4. | "Livin' Like A Bug Ain't Easy" | 0:49 |
| 5. | "Franz Kafka! Finale" | 0:16 |
| 6. | "Louis Louis Rap" | 0:37 |
| 7. | "Don't Put Marbles In Your Nose" | 1:12 |
| 8. | "Don't Kill Children" | 0:41 |
| 9. | "Season One Act 2 Theme" | 0:22 |
| 10. | "Season Two Opening Theme" | 0:21 |
| 11. | "Crazy Legs" | 0:51 |
| 12. | "Crazy Legs Ballad" | 0:34 |
| 13. | "Jason's Theme" | 1:22 |
| 14. | "Jazz Fight" (vocals – Jon Benjamin) | 0:48 |
| 15. | "The Birthday Song" | 1:21 |
| 16. | "Sunset Theme" | 1:59 |
| 17. | "Alone" | 1:01 |
| 18. | "President King's Theme" | 1:29 |
| 19. | "Starboy & The Captain Of Outer Space" | 0:49 |
| 20. | "The Compliments Song" (vocals – Jon Benjamin) | 1:18 |
| 21. | "Hot Dog Music" | 1:31 |
| 22. | "Victory" | 1:33 |
| 23. | "Mr. Pants" | 1:17 |
| 24. | "Bad Coffee" | 0:58 |
| 25. | "Duanetastic" | 3:11 |
| 26. | "Duane Outro" | 1:34 |
| 27. | "Landstander Theme" | 1:17 |
| 28. | "El Escapo" | 1:43 |
| 29. | "No Skin Off My Ass" (vocals – Laura Silverman) | 1:19 |
| 30. | "The Ballad Of King Arthur & Robin Hood" | 3:37 |
| 31. | "Duane's Practice" | 0:28 |
| 32. | "Jimmy's Big Solo" | 0:56 |
| 33. | "Duane's Big Solo" | 0:43 |
| 34. | "Trust Yourself" | 1:47 |
| 35. | "We Are Artists" (vocals – Jon Benjamin, Melissa Galsky) | 0:39 |
| 36. | "Coffins & Cradles Theme" | 0:53 |
| 37. | "Welcome 2 Hell" | 2:12 |
| 38. | "Bye Bye Greasy (Medley)" (vocals – Emo Philips, Jon Benjamin, Melissa Galsky) | 6:01 |
| 39. | "I'll Race (Reprise)" (vocals – Jon Benjamin) | 0:33 |
| 40. | "Septopus Theme" | 1:41 |
| 41. | "Heart Smashers Theme" | 1:31 |
| 42. | "The Wizard's Baker Rock Opera" (vocals – Jon Benjamin, Melissa Galsky) | 1:37 |
| 43. | "I'm A Kid Again" | 1:28 |
| 44. | "Psycho-Delicate (Medley)" (vocals – Janine DiTullio, Jon Benjamin, Melissa Galsky, Todd Barry) | 4:16 |
| 45. | "Dog Training Montage" | 1:48 |
| 46. | "Brendon Steals The Test" | 0:40 |
| 47. | "Brendon Cheats" | 0:51 |
| 48. | "Bagpipes" | 0:52 |
| 49. | "Ping Pong & Too Koo" | 1:01 |
| 50. | "Timmy! (Medley)" | 2:37 |
| 51. | "Brendon's Camera" | 1:10 |
| 52. | "Season Two Closing Theme" | 0:33 |
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Total length:
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70:32 | |
Personnel
- Brendon Small – vocals, guitar, piano, drum machine, production
- Home Movies cast
- Jon Benjamin – vocals
- Janine DiTullio – vocals
- Melissa Galsky – vocals
- Emo Philips – vocals
- Todd Barry – vocals
- Laura Silverman – vocals
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Home-Movies/5313
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EQ5PT6
- ↑ http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=187&sid=2253EA59C4E24E5F9CAEE2CBF16A7C77&nocookie=true
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