22 minSeason 2 • Episode 5
LatestBiff and Chip finally get their driver's license -- and end up smashing Bob's car. To make it up to their Dad, the male siblings chip in to buy a new car at an auction.
The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp has left them with the occasional missing limb or mysterious growth, but through it all, this close-knit family sticks together.Sometimes literally.
Writing
Misanthropic one-liners that somehow land tender.
Acting
Ferrell's Bob: pure optimistic dad energy in a literal trash body.
Production
Grotesque character design that weaponizes cuteness against you.
Jean Smart
Pickles Oblong (voice)
Will Ferrell
Bob Oblong (voice)
Pamela Adlon
Milo Oblong / Jared Klimer / The Debbies (voice)
Lea DeLaria
Helga Phugly (voice)
Jeannie Elias
Beth Oblong / Creepy Susie / Mikey Butts (voice)
Randy Sklar
Biff Oblong (voice)
Jason Sklar
Chip Oblong (voice)
Billy West
George Klimer (voice)
Becky Thyre
Jawless Peggy Weggy / Pristine Klimer / Debbie Klimer (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Angus Oblong's original book 'Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children' was banned by some libraries for being 'too disturbing for children' — he considered that a victory.
This was MTV's failed attempt to replicate The Simpsons' nuclear family satire, but with actual nuclear waste. It arrived two years too early for the Adult Swim boom that would've saved it.
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