Season 13 • Episode 9
LatestSaying farewell to America's favorite animated family.
Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network and premiered on October 16, 2005. It is written by Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Jim Fortier, previously of The Brak Show, both of whom worked on the Adult Swim series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The animation is done by Awesome Incorporated, with background design by Ben Prisk.
Writing
Early's mangled Southern philosophy—Shakespeare for the Walmart set
Direction
Maiellaro/Willis weaponizing crude animation as aesthetic choice
Creators
Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro, Jim Fortier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Sheriff was voiced by an actual Georgia Sheriff's Department employee who answered a casting call; he had zero acting experience and became the show's most beloved character.
Squidbillies predicted the 2016 rural voting bloc phenomenon a decade early—Dan Halen's exploitation of Early's rage mirrors actual political strategies.
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