Valmont Street Boys is a American adult animated TV series created by Patrick Johnson and Mike Sullivan, that aired from September 16, 1998 to May 23, 2004, on ABC. The series focuses on the misadventures of four friends: Craig Simon, Marlon "Townshend" Sheridan, Shawn Gunderson and Bruce Sherman, who live together in apartment called Langley Hotel, located on Seattle, Washington and frequently interact with their neighbors, Family, friends, co-workers, college mates.
Premise[]
Craig Simon, Townshend Sheridan, Shawn Gunderson and Bruce Sherman are friends who live together (both Craig and Townshend lived as roommates as well) in the fictional Langley Hotel on Seattle. Most of their plans, at most of the time, embarking on misadventures such as getting dates, making pranks, solving mysteries or just having fun, and at the same time, dealing with their usual teenage issues such as family, breakups, adult life and workplace. Most of the time, their adventures tendsd to be more serious and somewhat surreal, almost ending on a high note, as the series progresses, the writing relied on absurdist and non-sequitur humor they often get involved in zany hijinks on a number of misadventures that usually leave them in many predicaments and deadly deaths.
Characters[]
- Main characters
- Craig Simon (voiced by Billy West): He is a easy-going, friendly, good-natured, intelligent, yet sardonic, loyal and shy boy. Craig can be sardonic, selfish (sometimes) and vindictive, coming to manipulate his friends and his family (especially Stanley), but will do the right thing at the end.
- Townshend Sheridan (voiced by Maurice LaMarche): Craig's best friend. He is arrogant, dim-witted, clumsy, cynical, selfish and erratic (coming to be annoying in many awkward and humiliating situations), whose negative personality often leads him in trouble, as well as his impulsive, lack of attention, naïvety behavior make him to be accident-prone, might being capable to create the biggest disaster with the most ordinary things and actions. Despite this, he has good heart and deeply cares about his friends and his family.
- Shawn Bernstein (voiced by Tom Kane}
- Bruce Sherman (voiced by Rob Paulsen)
Episodes[]
- Main article: List of Valmont Street Boys episodes
Crew[]
Here's the list of people who worked on the show.
- Patrick Johnson: creator, executive producer, creative consultant (both; seasons 1-5 [first half]), and writer
- Mike Sullivan: creator, executive producer, executive creative consultant and writer (some episodes)
- David Greenwalt: writer, supervising producer (first half of season 1), co-executive producer (second half of season 1 and the entire season 2) and executive producer (season 3-first half of season 5)
- David Fury: executive producer (season 4), consulting producer (season 5) and consultant (season 6)
- George Meyer: supervising producer (season 1), co-executive producer (season 2), executive producer (season 3), producer (seasons 4-6) and writer
- Ron Weiner: writer, story editor (season 2), executive story editor (season 3) and co-producer (season 4)
- Lewis Morton: writer, producer (season 1), supervising producer (seasons 2-5) and consultant (season 6)
- Tim Minear: producer (season 2), supervising producer (season 3), co-executive producer (season 4), consulting producer (season 5), executive producer (season 6)
- Aaron Ehasz: writer, staff writer (Season 1), story editor (season 2), executive story editor (Season 3), co-producer (season 4) and consultant (season 5)
- Bill Odenkirk: writer, producer (seasons 1-4) and supervising producer (seasons 5-6)
- Jennifer Crittenden: writer (seasons 1, 5, 6), co-executive producer (season 5) and supervising producer (season 6)
DVD releases[]
Paramount Home Entertainment has released all 6 seasons of Valmont Street Boys on DVD in regions 1, 2 & 4.
Shout! Factory re-released the complete series on DVD and Blu-ray.
| Name | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 25, 2002 | November 11, 2002 | November 14, 2002 |
| 2 | April 1, 2003 | July 14, 2003 | June 10, 2003 |
| 3 | June 29, 2003 | August 23, 2003 | June 5, 2003 |
| 4 | October 5, 2004 | November 17, 2004 | November 16, 2004 |
| 5 | June 30, 2006 | July 25, 2005 | September 21, 2006 |
| 6 | April 4, 2007 | August 30, 2007 | December 5, 2007 |