The Birds

The Birds is an adult animated sitcom created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, in which the two previously wrote The Simpsons and created the animated television sitcom The Critic, the show originally aired on NBC and ran from September 2nd, 1999 to TBA 2000, but due to poor-to-mediocre ratings, the show was originally cancelled, but was later revived for Fox and ran from November 2nd, 2001 to present.

The show follows the daily and surreal lives of 4 talking birds: Gary Packwood, the everyman (or everybird in his case), Carolyn Danovich, Gary's girlfriend, Benedict "Ben" Patterson, Gary's best friend, and Slick, the bird who is "stuck in the clouds", together they embark together to stop whatever problem comes their way while also getting into wacky situations.

The show was first pitched in 1997 after The Critic was cancelled, this was based off a couple of drawings Al Jean did during his breaktime, he later, along with Mike Reiss, decided it would be a good idea to pitch it to a network, they considered HBO, but failed, other networks include Comedy Central, ABC, and lastly, NBC, in which it was picked up by the network.

The show later premiered on September 2nd, 1999 on NBC, it received a little bit of controversy over it's adult content (considering it's TV-14 rating), which is a reason why it received low-to-mediocre ratings.

The show later got cancelled, however, in December 2000, it was announced Fox would pick up the show, the show later came back on November 2nd, 2001, where it received much better ratings and more fans, it continues to popular to this day.

The show is rated TV-14, and has an age "Age 15+" on Common Sense Media.

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