Mr. Pickles is an American animated sitcom, which aired from September 21, 2014 to November 18, 2019, on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. The series revolves around the Goodman family and their demonic dog Mr. Pickles.[1]
Tommy and Mr. Pickles join the Scouts to find the Great Outdoors and the DonkeyBird, while Grandpa tries to prove that Mr. Pickles is responsible for an exotic dancer's death.
Season 1 (2014)
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"Tommy's Big Job"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
September 21, 2014 (2014-09-21)
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1.43
Tommy sets out for a job when he falls for a young farmer girl.
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"Father's Day Pie"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
September 28, 2014 (2014-09-28)
101
1.70
Tommy hunts for the missing Father's Day pie, but encounters Bigfoot instead who is actually a man named Vito Pizzarelli who is in this form as part of a witness protection program.
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"Foul Ball"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
October 5, 2014 (2014-10-05)
104
1.47
The Goodmans go to a baseball game and Tommy hopes to catch a highly sought-after, record-breaking foul ball.
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"The Cheeseman"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
October 12, 2014 (2014-10-12)
107
1.64
The Goodmans go on a family camping trip and Tommy learns the frightening legend of The Cheeseman.
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"Dead Man's Curve"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
October 19, 2014 (2014-10-19)
105
1.39
Tommy enters the soapbox derby and Grandpa finds Mr. Pickles' biggest fear.
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"Loose Tooth"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
October 26, 2014 (2014-10-26)
106
1.27
Tommy sets out with Mr. Pickles to lose his tooth so he can meet the Tooth fairy. Meanwhile, the Sheriff searches for a group of wanted pedophiles.
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"Grandpa's Night Out"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
November 2, 2014 (2014-11-02)
103
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After a night of heavy drinking, Grandpa awakes married to Crazy Linda and resorts to drastic measures to end the marriage. Meanwhile, Tommy seeks advice from the local town mutants to learn how to be himself.
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"Coma"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
November 9, 2014 (2014-11-09)
108
1.17
Mr. Goodman falls into a coma and dreams of a world where he and Mr. Pickles have switched places. Meanwhile, Mr. Pickles discovers an evil doctor named Dr. Kelton and his wife/nurse planning to kill Mr. Goodman to harvest his organs. Mr. Pickles then kills the doctor and he kidnaps the nurse, having her serve as a prisoner in his lair.
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"Where is Mr. Pickles?"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
November 16, 2014 (2014-11-16)
109
1.21
A disgruntled farmer hires mercenaries to capture and kill Mr. Pickles, and Tommy seeks help from the sheriff when he goes missing. Meanwhile, the Goodmans enjoy Floyd's hospitality where Mr. Goodman is shocked by Floyd's successful lifestyle.
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"The Lair"
Will Carsola
Will Carsola & Dave Stewart and Sean Conroy
November 23, 2014 (2014-11-23)
110
1.33
Grandpa wants to learn what actually goes on inside Mr. Pickles' doghouse to prove that he has not gone crazy, and gets more than he bargained for.
In the second season premiere, Mr. Pickles poses as the town's mayor and tries to bust Grandpa out of the asylum (since he landed there following the first season finale).
What was once a Mr. Pickles episode, turns into an episode of Astronaut Dolphin Detective. And in this standalone episode within an episode, Astronaut Dolphin Detective must stop an evil space shrimp from using its chainsaw spaceship to cut the Sun in half.
Tommy needs to learn responsibility and has to watch over Vito Pizzarelli's (Bigfoot) Deer Boy, a half-deer half-boy creature, and has trouble trying to get him under control.
In the season finale, Grandpa finds an ancient and mysterious coin that he thinks has something to do with Mr. Pickles. But the season ends with an unanswered cliffhanger when Grandpa finds the truth about Pickles' pet gimp, Steve.
Leaving off from the cliffhanger in season 2, Grandpa tries to hurry home to tell his family of where Agnes really was, she unfortunately beats him home and is later diagnosed by a doctor to have amnesia to make up where she's been. Tommy gets the idea for the family to go into town where Agnes can restore her memories and see where she's really been, this frightens Mr. Pickles and urges him to delete the memories.
Mr. Bojenkins tries to teach the Sheriff how to be a man instead of being a Momma's Boy, Mr. Bojenkins tells him that in order for him to be a man he will have to drink, fight, and have relations with a woman. Things take a turn for the worst when the two are stranded in the middle of the woods and the Sheriff has to man his way with a pack of wolves.
Tommy discovers a pair of robotic boots while looking for a new friend and he quickly befriends them. It's later discovered that S.H.O.E.S. is a military weapon, is taken away by some government agents and this urges Tommy to rescue S.H.O.E.S. with the help of Mr. Pickles.
Stanley's whole office is captured by an evil farmer named Mr. Montgomery and is put to work in his fields to avenge his father's death from telemarketers. Beverly and Mr. Pickles try to find out where they've gone while Stanley is trying to escape the farm and save his co-workers.
Linda finds a gold jewel-encrusted head called The Gorzoth and decides to sell it to the Goodman's, Grandpa decides to buy out of suspicion for Mr. Pickles while Tommy believes it to be a ball and decides to play with it. Meanwhile Linda and Beverly decide to go shopping but then are attacked by a mob of homeless people and they have to run for their lives.
Tommy goes to school for the first time and has difficulty making his way around since he's considered to be at the bottom of the social pyramid, Tommy then mistakenly makes his way to the top of the social pyramid and has trouble asking Suzie to the first grade dance. The principal of the school, Mr. Garcia is threatened by his old mob boss to whack the Sherriff for being buddies together.
The Sheriff stars in his own episode of Sheriffs (a Cops parody) and he has difficulty trying to round up the different criminals that run amok in Old Town. The Sheriff also has trouble finding a present for his mother for her birthday and plans to outdo his sister Candy this year.
After Tommy comes home with bruises from his bullies, The Blorpton Brothers, Beverly decides to go confront their parents, who are bad at raising them but is stuck watching them while their parents go bowling. Beverly tries her best to rehabilitate them until the kids get kidnapped by a violent biker gang and she has to rescue them.
Tommy decides to make and produce his own cartoon about a pineapple wearing a funny hat to teach why drugs are bad, this ultimately gets the popular show Astronaut Dolphin Detective to get cancelled and the creator seeking his own outlet to use drugs and spread the message to use drugs with Tommy's classmates.
Grandpa decides that he had enough of Mr. Pickles' torment and decides to move away up into the mountains, Mr. Pickles follows him there to torment him once again, but to his shock, he finds out that Grandpa planned for him to follow him and chose a secluded location so he could kill him. However, due to a few twists of fate (especially due to Mr. Pickles talking via a speaker), Mr. Pickles escapes Grandpa's grasp and manages to frame him for murder as payback. But before the Sheriff can take him to jail, he swerves his police car off the mountainside and crashes into the woods. As the Sheriff regains consciousnesses, he soon finds out that Grandpa has disappeared from his car and only notices a trail of footprints heading into the snowy valley forest as the series is left off on another unanswered cliffhanger.
Series Finale (2019)
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"The Tree of Flesh"
Tom Riffel
Jacob Young, Anne Gregory, Joseph Heslinga, Robert Frenay, Gerald Grissette, & James Callahan
After Mr. Pickles framed Grandpa for murder in the Season 3 finale, Sheriff learns of Grandpa’s whereabouts, and heads out of the country to track him down. However, Grandpa takes Sheriff's gun and forces him to take him to Mr. Pickles's ancestral island home, gaining an accomplice in one of Mr. Pickles's former followers as they scheme to snipe the dog. Though Mr. Pickles appears to outwit and kill Grandpa by switching bodies with the owner of a show dog he had been having sex with, he ends up being killed for real, as Grandpa used the same spell to switch bodies with Mr. Pickles's former servant and then the show dog; although, Grandpa's victory is cut short as he, in the show dog's body, gives birth to Mr. Pickles' puppy, who then attacks him.
