Tom Goes to the Mayor

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Tom Goes to the Mayor is an absurdist animated comedy series on Adult Swim that uses a distinctive photocopy-style visual aesthetic to depict the misadventures of an inept civic enthusiast and his equally incompetent small-town mayor.

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instanceOf adult animated comedy series
animated television series
basedOn Tom Goes to the Mayor web cartoon NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Eric Wareheim NERFINISHED
Tim Heidecker NERFINISHED
distribution Adult Swim home video releases
executiveProducer Bob Odenkirk NERFINISHED
Eric Wareheim NERFINISHED
Tim Heidecker NERFINISHED
firstAired 2004-11-14
format animated series with limited motion
genre absurdist comedy
adult animation
surreal comedy
hasCharacter Joy Peters NERFINISHED
Tom’s stepsons
hasCultFollowing true
hasEpisodeRuntime 11 minutes
hasMainCharacter The Mayor NERFINISHED
Tom Peters NERFINISHED
hasTheme incompetent local government
satire of small-town bureaucracy
social awkwardness
lastAired 2006-09-25
notableFor awkward, uncomfortable comedy tone
deadpan humor
minimalist animation
numberOfEpisodes 30
numberOfSeasons 2
originalLanguage English
originallyAiredOn Cartoon Network NERFINISHED
originalNetwork Adult Swim NERFINISHED
originalRun 2004–2006
partOf Adult Swim programming block NERFINISHED
productionCompany Abso Lutely Productions NERFINISHED
setting Jefferton NERFINISHED
stars Eric Wareheim NERFINISHED
Tim Heidecker NERFINISHED
targetAudience adults
usesTechnique photo-manipulated still images
visualStyle blue-and-white photocopied character designs
photocopy-style aesthetic

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Bob Odenkirk workedOn Tom Goes to the Mayor