The Oblongs

About The Oblongs

The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp has left them with the occasional missing limb or mysterious growth, but through it all, this close-knit family sticks together.

The Oblongs is an animation and comedy series made for The WB and Adult Swim. It ran for 2 seasons and 13 episodes between April 2001 and October 2002. That is around 7 episodes a season.

Jean Smart leads the cast as Pickles Oblong (voice), Will Ferrell as Bob Oblong (voice), Pamela Adlon as Milo Oblong, and Lea DeLaria as Helga Phugly (voice). It was produced by Film Roman. The series began as a novel.

Members will find poverty, disabled, social class, and pollution in it.

The Simpsons, The Leftovers, and The Summer I Turned Pretty make useful companions to The Oblongs, all filed under adult animation and family. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 85 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.