History WesternAnimation / MissionHill

->'''Gus''': ''I need some condoms so I can make love to my lover. And don't smirk - they're for gay sex.''

'''''Mission Hill''''', a short-lived animated series that ran on the WB from 1999 to 2000 (then aired in reruns in 2002 on the fledgling AdultSwim block on CartoonNetwork), followed the lives of 24-year-old slacker Andy French and his FishOutOfWater brother Kevin, an OddCouple forced to share a loft apartment in a [[QuirkyTown quirky downtown neighborhood]]. 18 episodes were scheduled, but only 13 were created before the show's cancellation. Two of the last five unfinished episodes exist as animatic storyboards and three were released as scripts only.

* Voice actor TomKenny's take on one-off character Jimmy Briskin, a diminutive actor who played an Ewok in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', landed him another job: the titular character of ''SpongebobSquarepants''. (He even repurposed the Jimmy Briskin voice as Spongebob's.)

-> '''Kevin''':''So, this is Mission Hill!''\\

* EveryoneHasStandards: Jim is a total slob who eats his own couch and spends most of his time getting drunk and high but even he is disgusted by how sleazy Andy's stripper "girlfriend" is.

* HonestJohnsDealership: Ron's Waterbed World, Andy's workplace until Ron is arrested for tax evasion in episode 7.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Subversion; Kevin [[MakesSenseInContext burned a convenience store while pleasuring himself to pornography,]] but no one believes that Kevin would do such a thing and place all the blame on school thugs Griffo and C-Dog.

''Mission Hill'' initially aired on TheWB (along with two other short-lived cartoons: ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'' and the animated adaptation of ''BabyBlues''), but the show didn't fit in for a network that had branded itself as, in the words of the show's creators (former ''Simpsons'' showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein), "the teenage girl network." The show received a minor revival on Creator/AdultSwim thanks to that network rebroadcasting it, including the completed episodes that never aired on The WB.

!! ''Mission Hill'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* BitingTheHandHumor: Andy during his time on ''TheRealWorld'' quips to the producers, "You think I'm MTV material? I'm not even WB material!" The gag goes two ways, as not only is this a burn on The WB and its crummy programming, but ''Mission Hill'' was originally pitched to MTV, but MTV already had ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' (which forced ''Mission Hill'' to abandon its original title, ''The Downtowners'') and ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' and passed up on ''Mission Hill''.

''Mission Hill'' initially aired on TheWB (along with two other short-lived cartoons: ''TheOblongs'' and the animated adaptation of ''BabyBlues''), but the show didn't fit in for a network that had branded itself as, in the words of the show's creators (former ''Simpsons'' showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein), "the teenage girl network." The show received a minor revival on Creator/AdultSwim thanks to that network rebroadcasting it, including the completed episodes that never aired on The WB.

* AccidentalPervert: Kevin accidently gropes Gwen while driving Rons car in ''Unemployment Part 1'', due to his unfamiliarity with driving stick shift.

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* AcquiredErrorAtThePrinter: Posey's classified ad for massage therapy. A typo changed her ad from promising "soothing relief" to "soothing ''relief''", which attracts men expecting a massage parlour experience.

* SoBadItsGood: InUniverse Gus's acting on ''The Man From Pluto''. The role was orginially intended for [[PaulNewman Paul McNewman]].
--> ''Gus'': "People of Oith! I greet yous from the Galastic Federation!"

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The episode about Gus and Wally's backstory made it clear that Wally is supposed to be Creator/EdWood, while Gus was his [[Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats Tor Johnson]].

* It featured an on-screen homosexual kiss (between Gus and Wally in the pilot episode) from a couple established to be male homosexuals, making it one of the first TV shows ''of any kind'' to do so. (Only a 1990 episode of ''[[TheSimpsonsDidIt The Simpsons]]'' ("Simpson and Delilah") and the first season of ''Picket Fences'' in 1992 (which featured a male-on-male kiss in one episode and a female-on-female kiss in another) predate the episode in this regard.)and In one of the greatest [[AvertedTrope trope aversions]] of all time, [[NobodyOverFiftyIsGay elderly gay couple]] Gus and Wally had such rich personalities and unique storylines that the list of tropes below contains no StereotypeGay entries. (We find it unlikely that "Gay men fall in love while making a [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K-worthy]] sci-fi movie" and "Gay man gets knife stuck in head; gay partner welds birdcage and tennis racket to it" will ever become tropes. Prove us wrong, TV networks.) The show won an award from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAAD GLAAD]] for showing homosexual characters in a positive and non-stereotypical light.

* TheAllegedCar: Jim's car, the Crudwagon (a.k.a, The Bilgemobile). It runs okay, but it's rusty, looks like a piece of crap, and is filled with junk food wrappers.

* TheAlcoholic: Stogie the dog. No one can leave booze out, as he's been known to drink it. It has been mentioned in the pilot that Andy's dad had to spray his liquor cabinet with dog repellent.

'''''Mission Hill''''', a short-lived animated series that ran on the WB from 1999 to 2000 (then aired in reruns in 2002 on the fledging AdultSwim block on CartoonNetwork), followed the lives of 24-year-old slacker Andy French and his FishOutOfWater brother Kevin, an OddCouple forced to share a loft apartment in a [[QuirkyTown quirky downtown neighborhood]]. 18 episodes were scheduled, but only 13 were created before the show's cancellation. Two of the last five unfinished episodes exist as animatic storyboards and three were released as scripts only.

* It has since become one of the last animated shows to use traditional, hand-painted cel animation. (Later shows such as ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' used the technique for stylistic reasons.)
* It featured an on-screen homosexual kiss (between Gus and Wally in the pilot episode) from a couple established to be male homosexuals, making it one of the first TV shows ''of any kind'' to do so. (Only a 1990 episode of ''[[TheSimpsonsDidIt The Simpsons]]'' ["Simpson and Delilah"] and the first season of ''Picket Fences'' in 1992 [which featured a male-on-male kiss in one episode and a female-on-female kiss in another] predate the episode in this regard.)
* In one of the greatest [[AvertedTrope trope aversions]] of all time, [[NobodyOverFiftyIsGay elderly gay couple]] Gus and Wally had such rich personalities and unique storylines that the list of tropes below contains no StereotypeGay entries. (We find it unlikely that "Gay men fall in love while making a [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K-worthy]] sci-fi movie" and "Gay man gets knife stuck in head; gay partner welds birdcage and tennis racket to it" will ever become tropes. Prove us wrong, TV networks.) The show won an award from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAAD GLAAD]] for showing homosexual characters in a positive and non-stereotypical light.

* The animation in Mission Hill is impossible to reproduce due to its painted cell/bright neon style having never been used since the show's cancellation. So further episodes are impossible. Though the producers maintained, in commentary, that it never looked right onscreen anyway as the colors lost a lot of their pop.

* TheAllegedCar: Jim's car, the Crudwagon. It runs, but its rusty, run down and filled with junk food wrappers.

* BadJobWorseUniform: Andy has one when he loses his job, and takes a (temporary) job as a mascot for an ice cream shop. On top of that, he has to stand on a traffic median, where he passes out from the exhaust fumes.

* BigBallOfViolence: The animation is so good and detailed, that all of the comical fight is visible when Andy and Kevin roughhouse. The cartoony dust butt just appears for stylistic reasons.

'''''Mission Hill''''', a short-lived animated series that ran from 1999-2000 (and a brief revival in 2002), followed the lives of 24-year-old slacker Andy French and his FishOutOfWater brother Kevin, an OddCouple forced to share a loft apartment in a [[QuirkyTown quirky downtown neighborhood]]. 18 episodes were scheduled, but only 13 were created before the show's cancellation. Two of the last five unfinished episodes exist as animatic storyboards and three were released as scripts only.

* It has since become one of the last animated shows to use traditional, hand-painted cel animation. (Later shows such as ''DrawnTogether'' used the technique for stylistic reasons.)

* Voice actor TomKenny's take on one-off character Jimmy Briskin, a diminutive actor who played an [[AlienScrappy Ewok]] in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', landed him another job: the titular character of ''SpongebobSquarepants''. (He even repurposed the Jimmy Briskin voice as Spongebob's.)

* The animation in Mission Hill is impossible to reproduce due to its painted cell/bright neon style having never been used since the show's cancellation. So further episodes are impossible, unfortunately.

* BigBallOfViolence: The animation is so good and detailed, that all of the comical fight is visible when Andy and Kevin roughhouse. The cartoony dust cloud just appears for stylistic reasons.

* FatBastard: Ron. Toby when you get on his bad side, as Kevin found out in ''Andy Joins The PTA''.

''Mission Hill'' initially aired on TheWB, but the show didn't fit in for a network that had branded itself as, in the words of the show's creators (former ''Simpsons'' showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein), "the teenage girl network." The show received a minor revival on Creator/AdultSwim thanks to that network rebroadcasting it.

* The animation in Mission Hill is impossible to reproduce due to its painted cell/bright neon style having never been used since the show's cancellation. So further episodes are all but impossible, unfortunately.

* SoBadItsGood: InUniverse Gus's acting on ''The Man From Pluto''. The role was orginially intended for PaulNewman.