Justin Roiland
Leroy, Reggie and Cheruce Paloni host a Halloween special full of spooky shorts from a group of up-and-coming animators.
An unexpected guest livens up Summer's sleepover in this horror short from Claymation filmmaker Lee Hardcastle.
HO HO HO. The Solars don't understand the holidays, but that won't stop them from trying.
A family of aliens from a much better world must take refuge in middle America after the destruction of their planet. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.
Morty goes on an adventure to Tokyo, Japan to try and help stop "The Genocider".
ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
An FBI agent, his partner, his niece and her cowardly dog investigate supernatural phenomena.
Seth Rogen and friends combine stand-up, sketches and music for an outrageous comedy special that could only come from the mind of Seth. Guests include Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, John Mulaney, Michael Che, David Chang, Ike Barinholtz, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Jon Lovitz, Jeff Goldblum, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nick Kroll, Post Malone, Chris Hardwick, and Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious.
Finn and Jake return from their island adventure to find Ooo has gone BAZONKERS! The kingdoms are overrun by the four basic elements of life: Candy, Ice, Fire and Slime. The people are mindless creatures. The Princesses are all wackadoodle monsters. And our hero bros have to team up with Ice King and LSP to fix it all! It’s a madhouse!
The unaired pilot is the unofficial pilot of Gravity Falls. It is a low-budget, pre-production test version of the show with a premise similar to that of episode "Tourist Trapped." Unsatisfied with the look and style of this pilot, Alex Hirsch personally hired his own team when the show was greenlit
A collection of weirdest, lamest and just worst attempts to pirate Adult Swim shows as collected and presented by Adult Swim UK.
The Pines family confronts the evil spirit Bill for the final time, deciding their ultimate fate and greatest sacrifice.
An original stop-motion short, featuring the voice of Rick and Morty himself: Justin Roiland.
The tales of an awesome Grandad; Rick, and his Grandson; Morty, who go on adventures to the strangest of places
Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically-gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty's already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.
Lead singer Oderus Urungus loses his murderous-mojo prompting the rest of the band to embark on an Antarctic quest for the cure.
This was a pitch presentation that I made on spec in order to convince FOX that “The Paloni Family” would be the ideal late night show for their saturday night block. It was 2009, and they had just cancelled Mad TV and there was a perfect little slice of heaven that I was hoping to turn into my playground. I brought this in, and was able to sell them on it. We started moving forward with this as late night for a few weeks, when suddenly, BOOM. The president of FOX (Kevin Reilly) shifted gears on the animated idea for that Saturday night slot. He still loved this project, and decided that it was strong enough/ interesting enough to be developed for prime time. So that’s what we did. And the original idea began to buckle once subjected to the scrutiny of the prime time development process. The Paloni “packaging” was supposed to be a really simple narrative that took up at most 25% of the total episode. Instead we ended up writing a pilot script that was about 9...
These are three shorts I made for a FOX pilot I sold with the legendary/ wonderful Jack Black back in 2007. These shorts were produced thanks to the amazing and lovely Jennifer Howell who stepped into office at 20th Century Fox as the head of animation around the same time I was writing the pilot script for this show. They originally passed on my insane pilot script, and then Jen pleaded with the big wigs to find some money for me to produce a pilot presentation. Here it is. For the first time ever. Never before seen. Fresh for your eyes. I had a lot of help on this. Some blood, sweat, and a few tears were shed here. Not literally though. No one cried. Myke Chillian, Dan O’Conner, and Collin Flemming were the lead character animators and boy oh boy did they do a TON of work let me tell you. There were also other fine folks who worked on background and color and I am in the ongoing process of collecting everyone’s information for you all to see. stay tuned. OH...
Four short sketches featuring donuts, aggressive dads, ice cream, and more!
You probably can tell that the designs of these characters are pretty similar to Doc and Mharti. Originally that's exactly what they were going to be, but with different names of course. Then we got Andy Dick on the table and how could I resist. He is fucking hilarious and he did a great job in this as pumpkinseeds and peanuts. This was another one of the cartoons made for Acceptable TV that never saw the light of day. It killed me, because I know I would have had more fun making this than I did making Mister Sprinkles. Maybe someday we'll figure out what rich banker owns this and figure out a way to do it as a real TV show. Maybe Dan Harmon and I own it already! Who knows! Check your local listings!
From Batman to Oprah, find out what your favorite fictional characters and celebrities were like as teenagers! Every Thursday right here on Shut Up! Cartoons.
A team of super-powered teens use their powers to get high, play pranks, and fight everyone except the bad guys.
This is actually the first cartoon I ever made. Working with Sevan Najarian and Abed Gheith, this thing was all we did every day for a few months back in early 2003. I drew everything and Sevan key-framed all my art making it come alive. It was actually one of the most pure things I’ve ever done, since we had no reason for making this thing other than our own desire to do so. We didn’t have an audience in mind. I remember Abed and I recorded all the voices in my car, right into the mic of a shitty Sony digital 8 camcorder. It sounds like shit, and we were soaked in sweat from the heat of that car, but the whole time we were laughing our asses off. The comic book shop in the opening is “Earth2Comics” in Sherman Oaks. I still shop there to this day. This thing was originally supposed to just be a segment on a larger animated variety show that was packaged as a comic book. 22 minute comedy. episode one would have been issue #1, episode two would have been issue#...
This was my entry to a very old (2004) Channel101 pilot for FX. IT SUCKS! DON’T WATCH IT! Out of all the things I’ve ever made, THIS is the one that I am the most ashamed of. I hesitated to even post it on this website, but that felt like the wrong thing to do. Let me start with the things that I love about this. I love Patton Oswalt as the father. I wrote the character to be like Dave from “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and Patton delivered the goods and then some. I love Rich Fulcher as the battery guy/ dad’s friend. Rich is amazing. I love Laura Silverman as the little girl. in fact, I love all the voices except for Toro and Moro themselves. I also love the character designs and I love the painted backgrounds by Steven Chunn. I love the look overall. It feels nice. But I dropped the ball where it counts the most. The story and the comedy.
This was a collaboration between myself and Myke Chilian (who stars as the zany game show host). We got started around 6pm on the night of a Channel101 panel meeting, hoping we could finish in time before they locked down the final selection of shows to be screened that month. I got it edited JUST in time to rush it over there only to be rejected. I feel like this was in late 2005 or early 2006. Boy what a mistake they made. This thing is pure comedy gold. My friend Julie Gollins helped us out by being the second contestant. We definitely had a lot of fun making this.
This is something that I made with Drew Hancock and Christian Lequillox for Channel101 back in 2005 or 2006. Can’t remember exactly when. We didn’t have a script, or any idea of what we were going to make prior to shooting. Drew and I would basically find a few things laying around, or buy some stuff at good will and then build our show around those items. The soda bottles drew bought ended up being the inspiration for this show.
The Vacationaires love to go on vacation. In the first episode, they go on their very first cruise. From Kelsy Abbott, Kate Freund, and Kyle Reiter.
On a school field trip to the mattress factory, young Tommy fell into one of the machines and became Mattress Guy.
Cup lives in Sherman Oaks with two wonderful girls. But, he has a secret desire. 2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show premiered in January 2008 and quickly became one of the top downloaded shows on the site. It was canceled after five episodes.
A lot of crazy shit went down in "railroad times." Here are just a few important tales. By Kelsy Abbott.
This here is a cartoon I wrote for the Sarah Silverman show y’all! Same team as on all the short cartoons I wrote and directed for the Sarah show. The Fantastimart characters were designed by Rob Schrab. He’s great. He should design more things. I guess he just doesn’t have any time.
(Whose Trapped Inside A Synthetic Drum Machine). An animation by Kelsy Abbott.
After the success of Your Magic Touched Me and Your Magic Touched Me: Nights, there were a lot of people figuring that Ryan Nagata needed the lovable Shizuki Thornburg to crack prime time again. But those people are morons... and wrong. In The Forgotten Classics, host Jeff Davis takes us back in time through the hidden cinematic gems you've never seen.
This is one of the animated shorts we made for Acceptable TV that never made it to air. What a shame. I have a feeling it would have been a REAL SIDE SPLITTER! This was me doing another “House of Cosbys” type thing, only within the boundaries of what a legal team working for a cable network deemed acceptable. I intend to credit everyone involved on this as soon as I have some down time. Maybe my kind and hard working assistant JD can do the legwork. Did you work on this? Want to see your name in lights? Contact me. You know how email works.
Once upon a time, Mr. Sprinkles brought mirth to children on rainy days. That was once upon a time: this is now.
When asked to say a few words about Reporters, Justin Roiland replied, "It's a modern tale and struggle of... uhm... I dunno. A fantastic epic following the struggles of two well-meaning newspaper reporters and their out-of-the-ordinary boss." He then left the room and returned moments later to add: "A.K.A. a slapdash turd of a Channel 101 show." This insane attempt from Roiland, Vatche Panos, and Kelsy Abbott charmed audiences just enough in January of 2007 to fill the Prime Time void left by the Phone Sexxers self-cancellation. Even later, Justin returned to add that "Reporters is the only Channel 101 show that has AIDS. You should put that."
Terry Bison is cursed to feed people his shit every couple hours or he will get sick and die.
After an open mic night, JB and KG get a message from Michael Keaton who tells them that the time-space continuum has been disrupted at the Ford's Theater in 1850 and only Tenacious D can fix it.
A lot of people forget that before creating one of Channel 101's most marketable [if illegal?] breakouts, House of Cosbys, Comic Sacrifice was the team that brought you Hilarious Jokes and It's Twissleton. Imagine, if you will, Justin Roiland blowing off steam...
Pretty President was the result of an unlikely collaboration between Shitcock co-creator Wade Randolph and House of Cosbys animator/editor Sevan Najarian. Smart, funny and fast, its who-gives-a-shit story may have been its greatest strength and weakness. Like about half of all prime time shows, Pretty President was impeached on its second episode.
Christmas World 2050, where it is Christmas all year long. Justin Roiland and Drew Hancock join forces to imagine a world where a Christmas Item Retrieval Team travels between worlds to steal Christmas things. Crowned "Best Failed Pilot" at the 2006 Channy Awards.
Mharti's kite is stuck in a tree and Doc must help him retrieve it by getting--well... it's a Justin Roiland pilot so there are a lot of balls in it.
House of Cosbys creator Justin Roiland shit out this little nugget on the afternoon of the submissions deadline.
House of Cosbys was an animated cartoon about a Bill Cosby fan, who creates a cloning machine to clone a series of Cosbys, each with a different personality. There were four episodes made by Justin Roiland, each about five minutes. An unofficial fifth episode was also made. It was first aired on the internet television channel Channel 101, and was the first of Channel 101's programs to spend three consecutive months at the number one spot.
This is another one of the cartoons I wrote and directed for The Sarah Silverman Program. Same team as the other Sarah cartoons, consisting of Andrew Delange on backgrounds, design, and color; Myke Chilian on character animation, design, and color, AND the absolutely adorable Sevan Najarian on Aftereffects animating, lip sync, and other odds and ends. We were a one stop shop. We had it down. We knew what we were doing. We had it all figured out. Huge shout out to Abed Gheith who voiced the evil Mister Cookiecrumble guy. He really did a great job. Good work pal! These were really fun to make. We were on the lot, able to run around the sets and be assholes while everyone else worked hard to produce and film Sarah’s show. I would go and grab whoever I could in between takes and record them in an office or whatever I had available to me. We really were a rag tag team of rough and tumble animators, just finding our way in the big bright city. I was so proud/ excite...
A marijuana induced experiment that generated more data than ever expected, MESI was a show that taught us all a lot of lessons, none of which may ever be agreed upon. Rejected by the prime time panel, it was the only show to ever enter the screening via the short-lived "wildcard" system, then went on to garner more votes by acquiring the beloved Sarah Silverman and heroically committing to its anti-production value. After entertaining many, irritating many and confusing many more, MESI was put to an appropriate death in the bloody Halloween screening of 2005.
Once again, Dave Hartman uses superb technique to take us on a mindblowing journey into the horrific and comical. Once again he is stopped dead in his tracks by the audience. We're ready for the next one, Dave! Dave? Where'd you go?
Rock Gods, as a followup to the much loved but short-lived S.O.S. Fantome, officially established The Valley Pals as recognizable, bankable talent within the 101 universe. The second episode in particular felt like a group of young writer/performers truly finding their own unique voice, after which point it's easy to imagine that the tedious chore of animating this show became less attractive. Having realized that they could probably get just as many votes for one tenth the labor, The Valley Pals voluntarily retired their own hit show by going over the time limit in a very memorable fourth episode.
Imagine "knowing what's going on" as being a desert, and this pilot as an oasis.
The creators of Friends and Lovers and It's Twissleton bring you a little harmless comedy.
The creators of "Friends and Lovers" return, this time coupling their trademark absurdity with a coherent story and likeable characters. Not to mention the amount of work that has to go into a Channel 101 animated show. This one could have been a real juggernaut, but my feeling is that it suffered from the sometimes unpredictable effects of maximum audio volume in Cinespace's theatre. Some of the dialogue was hard to catch at the screening- which is not the case at all on your computer, so enjoy.
This was a pitch presentation that I made on spec in order to convince FOX that “The Paloni Family” would be the ideal late night show for their saturday night block. It was 2009, and they had just cancelled Mad TV and there was a perfect little slice of heaven that I was hoping to turn into my playground. I brought this in, and was able to sell them on it. We started moving forward with this as late night for a few weeks, when suddenly, BOOM. The president of FOX (Kevin Reilly) shifted gears on the animated idea for that Saturday night slot. He still loved this project, and decided that it was strong enough/ interesting enough to be developed for prime time. So that’s what we did. And the original idea began to buckle once subjected to the scrutiny of the prime time development process. The Paloni “packaging” was supposed to be a really simple narrative that took up at most 25% of the total episode. Instead we ended up writing a pilot script that was about 9...
