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The Oblongs is an American adult animated sitcom created by Angus Oblong and Jace Richdale.[1]

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  1. 108 relations: Adult animation, Adult Swim, African Americans, Agnathia, Alcoholism, Amastia, American Broadcasting Company, Ancestry.com, Angus Oblong, Animated sitcom, Animation, Beehive (hairstyle), Bidet, Billy West, Bisexuality, Black comedy, Bob Jaques, Bra, Bruce Helford, Cartoon Network, Cartoon Network (Canadian TV channel), Casting Society of America, Cat, Chain smoking, Chastity belt, Child and family services, Clique, Conjoined twins, Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children, Cyanoacrylate, Deadpan, Death, Deborah Oppenheimer, Debra Wilson, Deformity, Disability, Driver's education, Dysfunctional family, EBay, Eric Friedman, Extraterrestrials in fiction, Fallopian tube, Film Roman, Fox Broadcasting Company, Girl Scouts of the USA, Goth subculture, Head teacher, Homosexuality, Hula hoop, Jace Richdale, ... Expand index (58 more) »

  2. 2000s American surreal comedy television series
  3. Television series by Film Roman
  4. Television series by Mohawk Productions
  5. Television shows about disability
  6. The WB animated television series
  7. The WB sitcoms
  8. Works about social class
  9. Works by Angus Oblong

Adult animation

Adult animation, also known as mature animation, and infrequently as adult-oriented animation, is any type of animated motion work that is catered specifically to adult interests and is mainly targeted and marketed towards adults and adolescents, as opposed to children or all-ages audiences.

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Adult Swim

Adult Swim (stylized as since 2003, and also abbreviated as) is an American adult-oriented television programming block aired by the American basic cable channel Cartoon Network during the evening, prime time, and late-night dayparts.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Agnathia

Agnathia (also termed hypognathous) is the absence of a portion or the entirety of one or both jaws.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.

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Amastia

Amastia refers to a rare clinical anomaly in which both internal breast tissue and the visible nipple are absent on one or both sides.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Angus Oblong

Angus Oblong (born David Adam Walker; August 28, 1976) is an American writer and illustrator best known for his work Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children (1999) and the 2001 animated television series The Oblongs.

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Animated sitcom

An animated sitcom is a subgenre of a television sitcom that is animated instead of being filmed live-action, and is generally made or created for adult audiences in most cases.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Beehive (hairstyle)

The beehive is a hairstyle in which long hair is piled up in a conical shape on the top of the head and slightly backwards pointing, giving some resemblance to the shape of a traditional beehive.

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Bidet

A bidet is a bowl or receptacle designed to be sat upon in order to wash a person's genitalia, perineum, inner buttocks, and anus.

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Billy West

William Richard Werstine (born April 16, 1952), known professionally as Billy West, is an American voice actor.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bob Jaques

Robert Paul Jaques (born November 2, 1956) is a Canadian-American animator and animation director.

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Bra

A bra, short for brassiere or brassière, is a form-fitting underwear that is primarily used to support and cover a woman's breasts.

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Bruce Helford

Bruce Lewis Helford (born January 28, 1952) is an American television writer and producer.

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Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Cartoon Network (Canadian TV channel)

Cartoon Network (formerly Teletoon) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment.

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Casting Society of America

The Casting Society, formerly known as Casting Society of America (CSA), was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1982 as a professional society of about 1,200 casting directors and associate casting directors for film, television, theatre, and commercials in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa, and the United States.

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Cat

The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.

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Chain smoking

Chain smoking is the practice of smoking several cigarettes in succession, sometimes using the ember of a finishing cigarette to light the next.

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Chastity belt

A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse or masturbation.

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Child and family services

Child and family services (CFS) is a government or non-profit organisation designed to better the well being of individuals who come from unfortunate situations, environmental or biological.

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Clique

A clique (AusE, CanE, or), in the social sciences, is a small group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests rather than include others.

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Conjoined twins

Conjoined twins, popularly referred to as Siamese twins, are twins joined in utero.

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Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children

Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children is a 1999 collection of illustrated short stories written by Angus Oblong. The Oblongs and Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children are works by Angus Oblong.

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Cyanoacrylate

Cyanoacrylates are a family of strong fast-acting adhesives with industrial, medical, and household uses.

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Deadpan

Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter.

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Death

Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Deborah Oppenheimer

Deborah Oppenheimer is an American film and television producer.

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Debra Wilson

Debra Wilson is an American actress and comedian.

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Deformity

A deformity, dysmorphism, or dysmorphic feature is a major abnormality of an organism that makes a part of the body appear or function differently than how it is supposed to.

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Disability

Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society.

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Driver's education

Driver's education, driver education, driving education, driver's training, driver's ed, driving tuition or driving lessons is a formal class or program that prepares a new driver to obtain a learner's permit or driver's license.

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Dysfunctional family

A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly.

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EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

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Eric Friedman

Eric Charles "Erock" Friedman (born June 28, 1984) is an American musician, best known as the current guitarist for the rock band Tremonti and touring guitarist and backing vocalist for Creed.

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An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth.

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Fallopian tube

The fallopian tubes, also known as uterine tubes, oviducts or salpinges (salpinx), are paired tubes in the human female body that stretch from the ovaries to the uterus.

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Film Roman

Film Roman, LLC, is an American animation studio currently based in Woodland Hills, California and formerly in Burbank.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Girl Scouts of the USA

Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad.

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Goth subculture

Goth is a music-based subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s.

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Head teacher

A headmaster/headmistress, head teacher, head, school administrator, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Hula hoop

| name.

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Jace Richdale

Jace Richdale is an American producer and writer.

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Jean Smart

Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress.

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Joey Soloway

Joey Soloway (born Jill Soloway; September 26, 1965) is an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer.

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Kyphosis

Kyphosis is an abnormally excessive convex curvature of the spine as it occurs in the thoracic and sacral regions.

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Laraine Newman

Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

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Lea DeLaria

Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer.

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Leonard Dick

Leonard Dick is a television writer and producer who writes for The Good Wife.

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Lifeguard

A lifeguard is a rescuer who supervises the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants such as in a swimming pool, water park, beach, spa, river and lake.

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Lisp

A lisp is a speech impairment in which a person misarticulates sibilants. These misarticulations often result in unclear speech in languages with phonemic sibilants.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Maurice LaMarche

Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and comedian.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Methylphenidate

Methylphenidate, sold under the brand names Ritalin and Concerta among others, is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant used medically to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and, to a lesser extent, narcolepsy.

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Michelle Ruff

Michelle Ruff is an American voice actress known for her work in anime and video games.

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Misandry

Misandry is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys.

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Mohawk Productions

Mohawk Productions is a television production company affiliated with television producer Bruce Helford.

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Motorized wheelchair

A motorized wheelchair, powerchair, electric wheelchair or electric-powered wheelchair (EPW) is a wheelchair that is propelled by means of an electric motor (usually using differential steering) rather than manual power.

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Muteness

In human development, muteness or mutism is defined as an absence of speech, with or without an ability to hear the speech of others.

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Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that impairs the ability to regulate sleep–wake cycles, and specifically impacts REM (rapid eye movement) sleep.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Pamela Adlon

Pamela Adlon (born July 9, 1966) is an American actress, writer and director.

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Physical education

Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Placenta

The placenta (placentas or placentae) is a temporary embryonic and later fetal organ that begins developing from the blastocyst shortly after implantation.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.

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Pun

A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Puppy love

Puppy love, also known as a crush, is an informal term for feelings of romantic love, often felt during childhood and early adolescence.

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Pyromania

Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires, to relieve some tension or for instant gratification.

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Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium.

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Same-sex parenting

Same-sex parenting (also known as rainbow families) is the parenting of children by same-sex couples generally consisting of gays or lesbians who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marriages.

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Scott Buck

Scott Randall Buck is an American television writer.

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Screen Rant

Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.

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Season finale

A season finale (British English: series finale; Australian English: season final) is the final episode of a season of a television program.

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Sex education

Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, and birth control, sexual health, reproductive health, emotional relations and responsibilities, age of consent, and reproductive rights.

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Sheriff

A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated.

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Sklar Brothers

Farrell Randal "Randy" Sklar and Jason Nathan Sklar (born January 12, 1972), professionally known as the Sklar Brothers, are American identical twin brother comedians and actors best known for hosting the show Cheap Seats, which aired for four seasons on ESPN Classic.

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Snob

Snob is a pejorative term for a person who feels superior due to their social class, education level, or social status in general;De Botton, A. (2004), Status Anxiety.

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Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on social, cultural, political, or economic issues in a society.

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Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).

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Speech–language pathology

Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication difficulties, as well as swallowing disorders across the lifespan.

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Spinster

Spinster is a term referring to an unmarried woman who is older than what is perceived as the prime age range during which women usually marry.

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Street children

Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village.

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Surreal humour

Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical.

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Suspenders

Suspenders (American English, Canadian English), or braces (British English, New Zealand English, Australian English) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up skirts or trousers.

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TBS (American TV channel)

TBS (originally an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System), stylized as tbs, is an American basic cable television network owned by the Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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Tetra-amelia syndrome

Tetra-amelia syndrome (tetra- + amelia), also called autosomal recessive tetraamelia, is an extremely rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs.

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The WB

The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants, often abbreviated as TMBG, is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Toad

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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Underwear

Underwear, underclothing, or undergarments are items of clothing worn beneath outer clothes, usually in direct contact with the skin, although they may comprise more than a single layer.

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Vegetative state

A vegetative state (VS) or post-coma unresponsiveness (PCU) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness.

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Vincent Waller

Vincent Paul Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, and technical director.

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Vulva

In mammals, the vulva (vulvas or vulvae) consists of the external female genitalia.

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Warner Bros. Television Studios

Warner Bros.

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Will Ferrell

John William Ferrell (born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Williams Street

Williams Street Productions, LLC, d/b/a Williams Street and formerly known as Ghost Planet Industries, is an American animation and live action television production studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess is an American fantasy television series filmed in New Zealand, which aired in first-run syndication from September 4, 1995, to June 18, 2001.

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See also

2000s American surreal comedy television series

Television series by Film Roman

Television series by Mohawk Productions

Television shows about disability

The WB animated television series

The WB sitcoms

Works by Angus Oblong

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oblongs

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, Jean Smart, Joey Soloway, Kyphosis, Laraine Newman, Lea DeLaria, Leonard Dick, Lifeguard, Lisp, Los Angeles Times, Maurice LaMarche, Mayor, Methylphenidate, Michelle Ruff, Misandry, Mohawk Productions, Motorized wheelchair, Muteness, Narcolepsy, Nine Network, Pamela Adlon, Physical education, Physician, Placenta, Professional wrestling, Pun, Puppy love, Pyromania, Radiation, Same-sex parenting, Scott Buck, Screen Rant, Season finale, Sex education, Sheriff, Sklar Brothers, Snob, Social commentary, Social stratification, Speech–language pathology, Spinster, Street children, Surreal humour, Suspenders, TBS (American TV channel), Teacher, Tetra-amelia syndrome, The WB, They Might Be Giants, Toad, Tsar, Underwear, Vegetative state, Vincent Waller, Vulva, Warner Bros. Television Studios, Will Ferrell, Williams Street, Xena: Warrior Princess.