Home Movies is an American[1][2] animated sitcom created by Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard.

[3] The show centers on an eight-year-old aspiring filmmaker, also named Brendon Small, who makes homemade film productions in his spare time with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis.

UPN cancelled the series after only five episodes due to low ratings, but Cartoon Network purchased the rights to the series, seeing potential in it; the show premiered as the first original program on their nighttime adult-oriented Adult Swim block on the night of the block's launch on September 2, 2001.

Co-creator Small later helped create the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse and Bouchard later created the animated series Bob's Burgers for the Fox network, casting H. Jon Benjamin (the voice of Coach McGuirk, Jason, and Perry) as the voice of Bob Belcher.

The season ends with Brendon's stepmother Linda having a child, but afterwards she and Andrew no longer make appearances in the show.

The loose dialogue and long conversations lessen for humorous plot devices and a speedier delivery at jokes and gags.

Brendon accidentally drops his camera from a moving car while filming scenery in the final sequence and watches in distress as it gets run over, but is thereafter distracted from his grief by a discussion of fast food prompted by his mother and Coach McGuirk.

The scripts were purposely left vague, with the plot of a particular scene merely outlined, and the dialogue improvised by the actors, with the animation then created and matched to the edited soundtrack.

Factory, through Sony BMG Music Entertainment, released DVDs of Home Movies seasons, each on three-disc box sets.

Seasons 2 through 4 are available for free streaming with a public library card on the Hoopla app and website in the United States.

[16] While reviewing the first season, PopMatters noted that "The animation serves one of the most impressive aspects: the fact that it was largely improvised",[17] while Variety praised the show's dialogue and humor, saying "Home Movies manages to set itself apart, offering clever dialogue and sharp social commentary.