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1999 - 2004

Brendon Small (not the real guy) is an eight-year-old boy who loves making movies with his two BFFs, Jason and Melissa. This animated comedy follows their adventures in filmmaking, school, and soccer practice with the lumbering Coach McGuirk.

Stars: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Ron Lynch, Janine Ditullio, Sam Seder, Jonathan Katz, Laura Silverman, Paula Poundstone, Louis C.K., Emo Philips, Andy Kindler
Created by: Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small, Janice Burgess
Tags: animated, self-parody

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Episode Tropes

Season 1

Anger Management: Episode 13, "Brendon's Choice" (2001). After McGuirk gets in a fight at a supermarket, he has to go to anger management or lose his job, but not only is the group leader not helpful, he actually has a tendency to make people even angrier, but McGuirk still somehow learns to control his anger.

Season 2

Election: Episode 1, "Politics" (2002). Brendon wins the eleciton for class present, but everyone starts to think Shannon rigged the election so he could get a position in Brendon's cabinet.
No Joke: Episode 1, "Politics" (2002). McGuirk decides he wants to be a comedian, and he does standup at an open mic night, where he bombs so badly that his own mother heckles him.
Screaming for Change: Episode 2, "Identifying a Body" (2002). Brendon is collecting money for a walk-a-thon when McGuirk invites him on a road trip to identify his uncle's body, and at every pit stop, McGurik asks Brendon to pay for something. Not having any money himself, Brendon uses his walk-a-thon money. McGuirk swears he'll pay him back, but he doesn't, so Brendon stands on a corner asking strangers for donations, which angers the blind, legless veteran who works that corner.
Intervention: Episode 4, "Business & Pleasure" (2002). Jason and Melissa's constant bickering is stressing Brendon out, and his odd behavior leads McGuirk to believe that he's on drugs, so McGurik tries to hold an intervention for Brendon on the soccer field.
Big Brothers Big Sisters: Episode 7, "Dad" (2002). When Eddie, a sickly member of the soccer team, moves to Arizona, McGuirk misses him and decides to become a "Big Brother" to fill the voice Eddie left, but it doesn't work out with the teen assigned to him, so he asks the agency to send him a kid who's sick.
Insomnia: Episode 11, "Writer's Block" (2002). Coach McGuirk is having a rough time because he has insomnia and hasn't slept in days. The school nurse recommends he go to the local college sleep center. At first, he's annoyed by their tests, but when they give him a check, he decides to keep going there so he can get a DVD player, even when he starts actually falling asleep.

Season 3

Lamaze Class: Episode 13, "Writer's Block" (2003). Brendon's stepmother, Linda, is pregnant, and she's staying with the Smalls while Brendon's dad is away, so Brendon accompanies her to Lamaze class, where he's not helpful.

Season 4

Male Call: Episode 2, "Camp" (2003). McGuirk attends a men's retreat with a group called "Crywalkers," and it isn't what he expected. The group give each other fruity nicknames and try to make him cry and forcibly hug him, so he runs away and gets lost in the woods.
Dog Gone Blues: Episode 8, "Camp" (2004). When Mcguirk almost hits a puppy that ran into the street, Brendon, Jason, and Melissa decide to take turns caring for him, but the puppy (for which they each have a different name) turns out to be a real pain in the ass that projectile poops everywhere, so Jason and Melissa refuse to take him back after he spends the night with Brendon. Annoyed by his friends abdicating their responsibilities, Brendon decides to train "Honky Magoo" himself. As he's demonstrating what he learned, Paula reveals that she heard from the dog's owners, and they're coming to pick him up. While Jason and Melissa are a little sad to see the puppy go, Brendon is relieved.
Rear Window: Episode 11, "Definite Possible Murder" (2004). Brendan breaks his leg and can't work on a movie with Jason and Melissa, so he looks out of his bedroom window with binoculars and thinks he sees his new neighbor, Raymond Burly, murder his wife.
Suddenly Psychic: Episode 12, "Temporary Blindness" (2004). McGuirk gets shoddy laser eye surgery, and it temporarily blinds him. While stumbling around, he tells Brendon not to drink the chocolate milk, and the next day, there's an announcement at school that the chocolate milk went bad, so Brendon thinks McGuirk is psychic. McGuirk takes advantage of it by charging people $20 for psychic readings. When his vision comes back, McGuirk confesses that he knew about the chocolate milk in advance and was never psychic.

Character Tropes

Mommie Dearest: Doris - played by Jen Kirkman
The Gaucho: Octavio - played by H. Jon Benjamin