Mountown

Mountown is a an American animated sitcom created by Taj Asbury for the '''Columbia Broadcasting System. '''The main characters are a satire of a working-class family, consisting of Jay, Melanie, Alex and Ed. The series lampoons many aspects of places that are consistently cold throughout the year like Maine, Vermont, Montana and Wyoming.

The series was first aired in 1998 on CBS, which was cancelled after 1 season in 1999. In 2007, all of the episodes was reanimated and reaired in HD. On April 13, 2020, Taj Asbury revealed that there will be a Mountown revival coming to CBS All Access in 2021. Then on July 27, he also revealed that the official release date for the revival was May 16, 2021.

History
One day, Taj was at the trampoline park. While he was jumping on a trampoline, he thought of a series about a town with four mountains which caused a cold climate all year long. He used the mountians because he realised then it would be a rip-off of South Park, which the network would cancel his show quickly.

He liked cartoons in which two kids could work together, so he added them in as protagonists. Then he thought of two adults who could be protagonists as well, so the series would'nt be boring. He named them Jay and Melanie and added them in.

He got together with Paramount Television to produce the series. Paramount aired their shows on NBC, MTV, Comedy Central or CBS, but Taj ruled out MTV because he thought their network was declining and he didn't Comedy Central because his show wasn't going to be that ranchy and also South Park aired on that network so Taj didn't have many options. He liked CBS a lot more so he went to them first, which they said yes.

Executive Producers
Al Jean and Mike Reiss had recently got their show The Critic cancelled, so Taj figured out that that he could get them to come to Mountown. During the production of The Simpsons episode Lisa's Sax, They told Mike Scully that they were going to Mountown. Mike wanted to come too, so they asked Taj, and he said that he could come but only as a Co-Executive Producer.

Writers
While he was doing the show, Al Jean wanted more, so Taj let him be a writer for 4 episodes. The episodes that he wrote was the highest ratings, so from the 16th episode Taj let him become a permanent writer. The other episodes were written by Mike Scully and Matt Selman.

Main cast members
Taj Asbury - Jay, Alex

Bill Wong - Ed, Principal

Mia Asbury - Melanie, Government Leader, Teacher

Monty Smith - Crazy Person

Hank Azaria - Mayor, Hal, Fake homeless guy

Taj had got his friends Bill Wong, who was also a Producer of the series and Monty Smith to do the show as voice actors. He had also got his sister Mia to do it, but then he needed another person to do it. So he heard Hank Azaria wanted to do another show so Taj got him as well.

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Characters
The main characters are a typical family who lives in a fictional Middle American town of Mountown. Jay, the father, is a man who works at a Gas Station 4 days a week for 10 hours a day. He is married to Melanie who works at a bank. They have two kids, Alex and Ed who have trouble at school because they can't stop thinking about going home. Like other shows, this one continuously resets time so the characters have the same amount of age. They also dont have any pets. The town does not include a lot of characters because its small.

Setting
The show mainly takes place in the fictional town of Mountown, which is the coldest town in the US. The state that it is set in North Dakota. The town is at the edge of the US, and one of the mountains is owned by Canada.

Hallmarks
In every episode, there is the same opening with three versions. One of them has the full opening, the second goes from the town zoom in to the last scene which has the title of the show, And the third one goes from the zoom in from the town to the episode.

The start of it had origami which makes the town, and it zooms in. Then there is a song which sings about what happens in the town, like it having icy cold winters and avalanches in winter. Then while everyone waves at the audience, It says "If your a fan of the cold, come to Mountown! Come to Mountown! Come to Mountownnnnnnnn!" During the second "Come to Mountown" it fades to The Mountown logo.

United States

 * CBS (1998-Present)

Canada

 * CTV Comedy Channel (2002-2004, 2008)

Mexico

 * Canal 5 (2000-Present)

United Kingdom

 * Channel 4 (2004-Present)


 * Sky One (1999-Present)
 * CBS Comedy (2000-Present)

Ireland

 * Comedy Central (2001-present)
 * Sky One (2003-2007)

Russia

 * Channel One (2000-Present)

Italy

 * Canale 5 (2001-present)

Spain

 * Cuatro (2007-present)

Japan

 * Tokyo MX (2020-present)

Australia

 * Nine Network (1999-2003)
 * Channel 10 (2007-2011)


 * 10 Peach (2011-Present)

New Zealand

 * Three (1999-Present)

Singapore

 * Channel 5 (1999-Present)

Seasons
Season 1

Season 2 (revival)

Streaming

 * CBS All Access


 * Hulu

Books
In 2000, a book based on the episode "Survive the Criminal Granny" was released by HarperCollins. It was a 15 page book that made people think the show was coming back after its cancellation in 1999, but Taj Asbury revealed it wasn't true.

Merchandise
In 2009, a DVD for the first season was released by Paramount DVD in all territories. To celebrate the 2021 revival of the series, Pop! Funko released seven figurines of the characters. There was Jay, Melanie, Alex, Ed, Fake Homeless Guy, Crazy Person, and the Mayor. They were all released on July 29, 2020.
 * Region 1 - June 27, 2009
 * Region 2 - June 16, 2009
 * Region 3 - July 9, 2009

Ratings
Every episode of Mountown in the United States is TV-PG, and in the UK, 24 episodes are PG, but 2 of them are rated 12. In Australia and New Zealand, all episodes and the DVD is PG. In Brazil, all of episodes are rated 12, and in Argentina they are rated Atp.