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Brendon Small, an ambitious eight-year-old filmmaker, shoots movies in his basement with his two best friends, while coming to terms with adolescence, life, and relationships.

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Cast:Brendon Small , H. Jon Benjamin , Melissa Bardin Galsky , Ron Lynch , Janine Ditullio , Sam Seder , Jonathan Katz , Bill Braudis , Laura Silverman , Jen Kirkman , Paula Poundstone , Will Le Bow , Louis C.K. , Mitch Hedberg , Paula Plum , Andy Kindler , Emo Philips , Kelly Kimball

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Get Away from My Mom

Mon, Apr 26, 1999

Brendon's mother Paula announces her plans to go on a date with Brendon's soccer coach, Mr. McGuirk.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ I Don't Do Well in Parent-Teacher Conferences

Mon, May 3, 1999

Brendon fails to give an oral report in school, so his mother is asked to attend a parent-teacher conference. However, she can't keep her sanity in such a situation.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Art of the Sucker Punch

Mon, May 10, 1999

After Jason is dragged through the mud by the school bully, Shannon, Brendon plots a rather selfish revenge match.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Brendon Gets Rabies

Mon, May 17, 1999

Brendon volunteers to take care of a vacationing couple's pet cat. However, it escapes its house and later turns up with rabies.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Yoko

Mon, May 24, 1999

While on a camping trip, Brendon and a female classmate, Loni, start becoming an item, but Melissa and Jason can't stand the newest member of their movie troupe. Meanwhile, a foreign student plays a nasty prank on McGuirk.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Director's Cut

Sun, Sep 2, 2001

Duane wants to produce a rock opera based on Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" but runs into some stiff opposition from Brendon and his own project, a fictional meeting between Louis Braille and Louis Pasteur.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ It Was Supposed to Be Funny

Sun, Sep 9, 2001

Brendon films a documentary about Melissa's grandfather that was supposed to be funny.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Method of Acting

Sun, Sep 16, 2001

Brendon auditions for a play and Paula teaches a creative writing class.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Life Through a Fisheye Lens

Sun, Sep 23, 2001

Brendon tries to get a fisheye lens for his camera.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ School Nurse

Sun, Sep 30, 2001

Brendon fakes being sick so the school nurse will send him home.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Mortgages & Marbles

Sun, Sep 30, 2001

Brendon's baby sister Josie has a habit of shoving marbles into her nostrils, so he produces an educational film about this for extra credit in class. Coach McGuirk also turns to Erik for advice about buying a new house.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Law and Boarder

Sun, Oct 7, 2001

Brendon gets hit by a car while riding his bike and has to go to court because he broke the law.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Brendon's Choice

Sun, Oct 7, 2001

Brendon is curious about his father.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Politics

Sun, Jan 6, 2002

Brendon runs for school president, but trouble starts when Shannon endorses his candidacy. When Shannon uses his prediction of Brendon's win to join the inner circle, Brendon must decide how to handle things.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Identifying a Body

Sun, Jan 13, 2002

Brendon's class is sent out to collect money for a walkathon to benefit the homeless. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk asks Brendon along to the morgue to identify McGuirk's dead uncle and pick up his inheritance. Along the way, they manage to spend all of the money Brendon collected for the walkathon.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Hiatus

Sun, Jan 20, 2002

Brendon, Melissa, and Jason decide to go on hiatus after an unfortunate movie in which they battle with jazz. In the mean time, Brendon gets a crush while at Duane's, and Coach McGuirk and Mr. Lynch decide to travel south of the border together to save money, and Lynch tries to teach McGuirk Spanish.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Business & Pleasure

Sun, Jan 27, 2002

Coach McGuirk thinks Brendon has a drug problem.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Party

Sun, Feb 3, 2002

Brendon makes a film for Fenton Muley and Fenton hates it.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Impressions

Sun, Feb 10, 2002

Brendon uses Jason's parents' country club to impress a girl. Paula has trouble taking a typing test. McGuirk tries take a date to the opera that thinks he is a bodybuilder.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Dad

Sun, Feb 17, 2002

Brendon meets his father and his father's annoying girlfriend. A disabled child joins McGuirk's soccer class.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Therapy

Sun, Feb 24, 2002

Brendon, Andrew, and Linda go to therapy.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Class Trip

Sun, Mar 3, 2002

Paula chaperones Brendon, Jason, and Melissa on a class trip to a hotel where they need to film part of a movie. McGuirk gets a job at the coffee shop next door by using Brendon's name.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ History

Sun, Mar 10, 2002

Brendon works on his new film, "Starboy and the Captain of Outer Space" instead of studying for history class.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Writer's Block

Sun, Mar 17, 2002

Brendan, suffering from writer's block, becomes increasingly anxious as the school Writer's Fair nears. Meanwhile, his mother works on her own work - a romance novel - and Coach McGuirk, suffering from insomnia, checks himself into a sleep center as a study subject.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Pizza Club

Sun, Mar 24, 2002

McGuirk finds out about Brendon and his dad's Pizza Club and tries to bribe Brendon for membership.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Wedding

Sun, Mar 31, 2002

Brendon gets a rash on his back that he calls "The Crab". Andrew and Linda get married.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Shore Leave

Sun, Aug 4, 2002

Melissa's dad makes her join The Fairy Princesses. Brendon tries to get out of going to Fenton's sleep over.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Sun, Aug 11, 2002

Paula burns down her kitchen, and McGuirk volunteers to get paid to fix it. Paula's parents are getting a divorce. Jason fakes a divorce in order to fit in.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Bad Influences

Sun, Aug 18, 2002

Brendon and Jason are putting on weight at an alarming rate. So in order to break the "fat enabling" cycle they decide never to see each other again. Coach McGuirk tries out his own theory called the "fat father syndrome."

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Improving Your Life Through Improv

Wed, Aug 28, 2002

Mr. Lynch sends all the kids plus Coach McGuirk to sensitivity training on a Saturday, where they learn the value of really bad improv games. Paula secretly enters one of Brendon's home movies in a video contest.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Four's Company

Sun, Oct 6, 2002

Melissa has a new boyfriend, and Brendon and Jason are jealous when her love life starts to interfere with their busy production schedule

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Renaissance

Sun, Oct 13, 2002

Brendon, Jason and Melissa are performing the musical King Arthur Meets Robin Hood at a medieval fair organized by Mr. Lynch. A sci-fi convention is going on next door to the fair, and there's a lot of tension between the two groups

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ My Cheatin' Heart

Sun, Oct 20, 2002

Brendon is forced to take up golf after his father pressures him into playing a father-son round with an important client, only to discover that he's terrible. Brendon also has trouble convincing Jason and Melissa to make their latest film backwards.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Guitarmageddon

Sun, Oct 27, 2002

The kids ignore the fact that they have no musical experience or talent and decide to start a band. At the same time, Duane enters a guitar contest where he will face his archrival, Jimmy Monet.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Storm Warning

Sun, Nov 3, 2002

McGuirk tries to convince Paula to pose as his fiancée while his sister is visiting. Meanwhile, the kids are trying to decide whether they want to make a mockumentary about making a movie or a mock-making-of a mockumentary movie or just a movie.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Time to Pay the Price

Sun, Nov 10, 2002

Brendon, Jason and Melissa get in BIG trouble at school and are forced to attend a "scared straight" program at the local prison. Paula stumbles across a huge pile of the kids' old movies and discovers an odd motif that runs through every film

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Broken Dreams

Sun, Nov 17, 2002

Melissa breaks her arm. Then Jason breaks his arm, which is very suspicious. This may affect the current film in production, but Brendon is also worried that he's dumb or, at the very least, that Melissa is smarter than him.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Stowaway

Sun, Nov 24, 2002

The kids decide to run away to Europe and become ex-patriot artists. McGuirk's car breaks down and he has no money to fix it. He asks Tom Wilsonberg, the author of Corporate Kids, for financial advice. Tom takes McGuirk gambling.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Coffins and Cradles

Sun, May 25, 2003

The kids are preparing for Halloween, Linda (Brendon's new stepmother) is preparing to have a baby and Coach McGuirk is preparing to have the romantic night of his life. Despite all this, no one is prepared when things start to go wrong.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Camp

Sun, Jan 11, 2004

Brendon, Jason and Melissa attend Camp Campingston Falls for the summer, home to stifling heat and crappy music counselors. Meanwhile, McGuirk's camping trip with The Crywalkers, a sensitive men's group, turns out to be not entirely about the free food.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Bye, Bye Greasy

Sun, Jan 18, 2004

Brendon directs the school play. Hilarity ensues. McGuirk gets to realize his lifelong dream of driving a car onstage.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Heart Smashers

Sun, Jan 25, 2004

Brendon tries to break up with Fenton; Paula tries to break up with her new boyfriend; McGuirk's chest tries to break up with McGuirk.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Everybody's Entitled to My Opinion

Tue, Nov 11, 2003

Brendon begins writing reviews for a movie Web site called movie-weiner-or- winner.com and begins offering his opinion about everything. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk wreaks havoc at school because he's finally got a friend "on the inside."

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ The Wizard's Baker

Thu, Jan 8, 2004

A disillusioned Brendon abandons his unfinished rock opera to join the fun-sounding Skunk Scouts, while Jason and Melissa are left to attract investors for CGI shots

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Psycho-Delicate

Sun, Feb 15, 2004

Brendon, Melissa and Jason do a Hitchcock film for a contest at the local video store. And McGuirk has the perfect blonde bombshell -- a waitress at the local diner that he's intent on picking up.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Curses

Sun, Feb 22, 2004

Brendon gets in trouble for making a movie about a foul-mouthed robot, and Paula gets out the curse jar. Meanwhile, Melissa gets jealous when her dad, Erik, wants to date a woman from his journal writing class.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Honkey Magoo

Sun, Feb 29, 2004

Finding a lost puppy threatens to break up Brendon, Jason and Melissa's friendship -- until they realize how much he sucks.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Those Bitches Tried to Cheat Me

Sun, Mar 7, 2004

Cheating-- McGuirk's got to pass his driving exam. Fat chance. He coerces Melissa into helping him; and Brendon, in addition to being blackmailed by classmates to steal the answers to the test, has to deal with Jason's crush on the new girl Penny, who's just a big of an oddball as Jason. Life sucks when you're eight sometimes.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Cho & Amy Lee

Sun, Mar 14, 2004

Brendon's lucky goal ruins the record of the other team's uptight star goalie, Cho, who then moves in for revenge. Cho's team's choice of game music brings back some long-repressed memories for McGuirk.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Definite Possible Murder

Sun, Mar 21, 2004

Laid up with a leg injury, Brendon spies on his new neighbor, Raymond Burley, who quite possibly may be involved in some potentially suspicious behavior. Coach McGuirk finds a life-changing pamphlet that leads him to bartending school.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Temporary Blindness

Sun, Mar 28, 2004

Brendon, Jason and Melissa are assigned a family tree project in school. Meanwhile, when Coach McGuirk's discount laser eye surgery somehow goes wrong, he becomes an occasionally blind possible prophet.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Focus Grill

Sun, Apr 4, 2004

After the Brendon, Jason and Melissa's latest movie is berated in a focus group, the kids begin wondering when they lost their passion for filmmaking. They return to their roots and and try to inspire themselves by watching the first film they ever made, only to find that they never created an ending. As Jason and Melissa set out to produce a conclusion, Brendon finds his creativity diluted and wonders whether he should stop looking at life through a camera lens. Meanwhile, Paula asks McGuirk to set up her new backyard grill. Jason becomes disillusioned with what the group has become, Melissa grasps for femininity, and Brendon reflects on the purpose of his movies.