History WesternAnimation / Bordertown

''Bordertown'' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann (who also created the short-lived MTV animated series ''3 South'', which explains why the character designs of the people on ''Bordertown'' are similar[[note]]the episode "High School Football" has a redneck who looks like Ed Bickle[[/note]]) with SethMacFarlane as co-producer. The show is about two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia. The show revolves around Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent, and Ernesto Gonzalez, Bud's Mexican neighbor who runs a successful landscaping business.

* OutOfOrder: Several episodes are aired in the wrong order according to this production code. In "Borderwall", Bud was already familiar was Pablo Barracuda and that he is evil drug lord, but in "Drug Lord", Bud has never heard of him and is introduced to him.

* UltimateJobSecurity: A variation. Buck CAN be fired, but he can't be demoted. As Steve explains, Buck is already the lowest ranked goverment employee of the United States. If he's demoted again, he'll reset at the top [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent and become President]]. The only person that's ever happened to before is [[TakeThat George W Bush]].

* CrazyAwesome: The beginning of "Megachurch" has El Coyote fleeing a {{kaiju}} and Buck fighting back with a mecha called "The Border-Bot". The Border-Bot wins.

* CrazyAwesome: The beginning of "Megachurch" has El Coyote fleeing a {{kaiju}} and Buck fighting back with a HumungousMecha called "The Border-Bot". The Border-Bot wins.

''Bordertown'' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann (who also created the short-lived MTV animated series ''3 South'', which explains why the character designs of the people on ''Bordertown'' are similar[[note]]the episode "High School Football" has a redneck who looks like Ed Bickle[[/note]) with SethMacFarlane as co-producer. The show is about two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia. The show revolves around Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent, and Ernesto Gonzalez, Bud's Mexican neighbor who runs a successful landscaping business.

* CorruptChurch: The Buckwald's local church, a Protestant megachurch run by televangelist Reverend Fantastic, who doesn't know a word from the Bible, exploits his churchgoers to fund his luxurious lifestyle and engages in all manner of depraved sex acts. Surprisingly, he's NOT a SinisterMinister, but an unusually happy-go-lucky guy who does morally-depraved things.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: A one-off gag has the Buckwalds have a hideously deformed son chained up in the basement, who Bud refers to as "the son we dont talk about".

''Bordertown'' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann with SethMacFarlane as co-producer. The show is about two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia. The show revolves around Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent, and Ernesto Gonzalez, Bud's Mexican neighbor who runs a successful landscaping business.

* ADayInTheLimelight: J.C. gets his own episode focus in "J.C. Strikes", revolving around J.C coming to work for Ernesto, and unionizing the employees.

'''Becky''': ''(off-screen)'' I know, dear.

* MurderTheHypothenuse: Afer Buck befriends an ostrich, Gert eventually ends up killing it because it was taking her role as her dad's favorite.

''Bordertown'' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann. The show is about two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia. The show revolves around Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent, and Ernesto Gonzalez, Bud's Mexican neighbor who runs a successful landscaping business.

* CorruptChurch: The Buckwald's local church, a protestant megachurch run by televangelist Reverend Bob, who doesn't know a word from the Bible, exploits his churchgoers to fund his luxurious lifestyle and engages in all manner of depraved sex acts. Surprisingly, he's NOT a SinisterMinister, but an unusually happy-go-lucky guy.

* FatBastard / FatIdiot: Most of the overweight characters on the show, such as Becky, Ernesto and J.C, are both nice and fairly intelligent, but Bud is both these tropes in spades.

* MurderTheHypothenuse: Afer Buck befriends an ostrich, Gert eventually ends up killing it because it was taking her role as her dads favorite.

* PedophilePriest: Hinted at with Reverend Bob, but he mostly seems to indulge in hedonistic sex with adults. Averted with J.C's childhood priest, whom Becky assumed was responsible for J.C becoming a staunch atheist by molesting him. In reality, J.C dropped out of the church after he found a dinosaur bone and realized the church's teachings were lies. [[spoiler:He actually ''was'' molested, but only by the scientist whom he showed the dinosaur bone to.]]

* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: Bud is constantly trying to catch El Coyote but he's always outsmarted by him on multiple occasions or Bud just has very bad luck.

* UltimateJobSecurity: A variation. Buck CAN be fired, but he cant be demoted. As Steve explains, Buck is already the lowest ranked goverment employee of the United States. If he's demoted again, he'll reset at the top [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent and become President]]. The only person thats ever happened to before is [[TakeThat George W Bush]].
* TheUnfavorite: Neither Buck nor Linda particularly likes their lazy basementdwelling son Sanford.

* ADayInTheLimelight: J.C. gets his own episode focus in "J.C. Strikes".

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: J.C is this trope all over. At one point, he quotes a RobertFrost poem, but after no one interupts him after the first line, he's forced to admit he doesnt know the rest.

* CorruptChurch: The Buckwald's local church, a protestant megachurch run by televangelist Reverend Bob, who doesnt know a word from the Bible, exploits his churchgoers to fund his luxurious lifestyle and engages in all manner of depraved sex acts. Surprisingly, he's NOT a SinisterMinister, but an unusually happy-go-lucky guy.

* PedophilePriest: Hinted at with Reverend Bob, but he mostly seems to indulge in hedonistic sex with adults. Averted with J.C's childhood priest, whom Becky assumed was responsible for J.C becoming a staunch atheist by molesting him. In reality, J.C dropped out of the church after he found a dinosaur bone and realized the church's teachings were lies.

'''''Bordertown''''' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann. The show is about two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia. The show revolves around Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent, and Ernesto Gonzalez, Bud's Mexican neighbor who runs a successful landscaping business.

'''''Bordertown''''' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann. The show is about two families two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia. The show revolves around Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent, and Ernesto Gonzalez, Bud's Mexican neighbor who runs a successful landscaping business.

* BlackComedyRape: In "The Engagement", Bryce is constantly getting abducted by aliens so they can anal probe him, he ever carries a probe whistle with him. He eventually develops StockholmSyndrome with the aliens when he sees them abduct other people to be probed.

* FatBastard / FatIdiot: Most of the overweight characters on the show, such as Becky, Ernesto and J.C, are both nice and fairly intelligent, but Buck is both these tropes in spades.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: "Gold" is probably stretching it, but Buck is willing to look past his own prejudices for his family, like when he went to bring J.C back from Mexico after he got wrongfully deported because losing him hurt Becky so much.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: A one-off gag has the Buckwalds have a hideously deformed son chained up in the basement, who Buck refers to as "the son we dont talk about".
* MistakenForGay: When Sanford sees Ernesto dancing around Bud wearing daisy dukes and boots:

* NiceGuy: Ernesto is really nice to everyone and he rarely shows any anger, even at Bud who's a racist to Mexican. But he does show some frustration with his nephew J.C.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: J.C's real name is Juan Carlos, but everyone refers to him by his initials, including Ernesto and Becky.

** J.C is a different variation, he refuses to get a job, only wanting to involve himself in various social justice causes, most of which just include him and Becky.

* YourHeadASplode: When Buck first finds out that J.C and Becky are not only dating but are ''engaged'', his head explodes.

* SeriousBusiness: The town of Mexifornia takes their high school football so seriously that they will beat up or try to kill the coach if they lose a game.

* TheTeaser: At the beginning of every episode, Bud is always trying to stop El Coyote from smuggling more immigrants into the U.S. but always fails.

* BlackComedyRape: In the first episode, Bryce is constantly getting abducted by aliens so they can anal probe him, he ever carries a probe whistle with him. He eventually develops StockholmSyndrome with the aliens when he sees them abduct other people to be probed.

'''''Bordertown''''' is a 2016 American animated sitcom created by former ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' writer Mark Hentemann. The show is about two families two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States–Mexico border called Mexifornia.

* NiceGuy: Ernesto is really nice to everyone and he rarely shows any anger, even at Bud who's a racist to Mexican.

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