YouTubeSquidbillies (2005)
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Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.8
Overview
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.
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Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Overview
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.
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Leans Right
Primary
The show employs broad, absurdist satire targeting various aspects of rural Southern culture, environmental neglect, and human folly without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology or offering clear solutions, thus maintaining a neutral stance.
Squidbillies features non-human, anthropomorphic characters, and its voice cast is predominantly white without intentional race or gender swaps of human roles. The narrative satirizes a specific rural subculture, but this critique is not framed as an explicit DEI-driven commentary on traditional identities.
Secondary
The show features incidental LGBTQ+ elements, primarily through satirical depictions of characters' ignorant or stereotypical views. While some characters express problematic opinions, the narrative generally satirizes these prejudices rather than endorsing them, resulting in a net neutral impact on the portrayal of LGBTQ+ themes.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Squidbillies is an original animated series with characters created specifically for the show. There are no pre-existing characters from source material or prior installments whose gender was altered for this production.
Squidbillies is an original animated series featuring anthropomorphic squid characters. As there is no prior human racial canon for these non-human characters, the concept of a 'race swap' does not apply.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.7
6.8
Critic Ratings
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