Downtown
TV Show • 1999 • Animation
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Downtown is an animated series on MTV on urban life, based on interviews with real people. The show follows a diverse and multiracial cast who live in New York City, and presents their everyday lives through quirky, humorous, and imaginative perspectives from the characters. It was created by Chris Prynoski, a former animator on Beavis and Butt-Head and produced by David McGrath. In 2000, Downtown was nominated for an Emmy in the category of outstanding animated program.
Downtown faced a similar fate to many of MTV's other cartoons - it only lasted one season. The use of an original score rather than licensed music makes a sanctioned DVD release unlikely.
Some of the show's staff have gone on to work on the action animated series Megas XLR, which uses the same quirky humor found in Downtown as well as the character Goat, reprised by Scott Rienecker.
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Goat buys a DVD of “Underage Midget Porn”
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intro!
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Men cosplaying Salior Moon told “Man, or whatever, did you know someone put you in makeup and a dress?”
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Later the cosplayers are beat up and called weirdos
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Chaka eats laced candy.
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Convention has a BDSM floor. Shown briefly
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End of episode 13, Chaka recovering surrounded by her friends
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Incredibly skinny girls implied to have an eating disorder. One character states the girls were complaining how “fat” they were, even though they are not
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Briefly while walking through the 7th floor of the convention building, a guy is consensually restrained as part of a kink
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tw pedophilia/paedophilia: well there's a scene where a guy buys gross "underage m*dget porn", horrific. doesnt show though. in the ep about a convention/comic book store
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Chaka is hospitalized by laced candy
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Jen gets drunk and v* near the piano in the hotel bar. Some visual as she's about to, but mostly audio.
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