The Brothers Grunt

Did you know that animator Danny Antonucci had made a show for MTV? If not, here's the background of it. During The Renaissance Age of Animation, animation was at its prime for cable television. Beavis and Butthead were infamous on TV (aside from their show being mistaken for a children's cartoon). And when they were on hiatus, this show appeared.

The Brothers Grunt told about the leader of the grunts, Perry, who had escaped. His five brothers (Frank, Dean, Bing, Sammy and Bernie) have to find him or else the brotherhood of the grunts will fall. It's a Cult Classic to fans of Danny Antonucci. After this show ended, Danny would later be famous for Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.

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The Brothers Grunt provides these tropes:

• Big Eater: The episode "Scrub me Sammy" features a big fat lady that fits this trope.
• The Cameo: Beavis and Butt-Head in "Close Encounters of the Grunt Kind".
• Character Tics: The detective always carries a hot cup of coffee in one hand and tends to rummage in his trouser pocket with the other.
• The Chosen Zero: After Perry is revealed as the Chosen One, he flees the monastery, placing the future of the Grunt brotherhood in peril.
• Cut Short: The series ended without the brothers reuniting with Perry and taking him back to the monastery.
• Deranged Animation: The show heads in this direction.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The grunts appeared in an ad for MTV before the show was made; that ad can be seen here.
• Fantastic Racism: The Gruntus Poobah tells the audience that in ancient times, the Grunts were persecuted by those who did not understand their ways.
• Gross-Out Show: There are plenty of nauseating scenes and instances of Toilet Humour, most of it involving the Grunts.
• Hero Antagonist: The detective, who is constantly trying to arrest the Grunts for the trouble they inadvertently cause on their misadventures.
• In the Hood: In "The Ceremony", all Grunts wear hooded robes except for the Poobah and the initiates.
• The Jeeves: Ringo, the Gruntus Poobah's manservant. He is a small human who wears a turban, carries Poobah everywhere, and quietly makes him martinis.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: If you want to watch this show, you are better off finding the episodes on YouTube. That's only because MTV didn't bother to release the show on VHS, or DVD, for that matter.
• Mass "Oh Crap": The Grunts' reaction when they learn that the Chosen One has fled.
• Missed Him by That Much: Always.
  • The Detective is unaware of a sixth Grunt.
  • Whenever the brothers get close enough to actually grab Perry, he always jets off (none the wiser) at the last minute.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The person who is singing the song's intro is impersonating Tom Jones. Danny originally wanted Tom Jones to sing the song's intro, but that didn't happen.
• Old Shame: For MTV but not for Antonucci (who didn't understand viewers hating the show).
• The Pig Pen: In "The Ugly Gruntling", Sammy is sucked into dairy equipment and ejected in the shape of a cheese block. An oblivious cheese packer wraps him in paper and leaves him on a shelf to age, after which he emits a vile odor. The odor causes two farmers' eyes to water uncontrollably and induces a seizure in a woman at the fair.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: In the middle of certain episodes this will happen. A random music video will play that fits with the episode, and the grunts would appear either doing random things or walking by the singers (who cannot see them).
• Speaking Simlish: The grunts follow this by making grunt sounds, although at times they only said a few words only once.
• Shout-Out: The main characters' names are nods to famous singers from the 1960s: Frank, Tony, Bing, Dean, Sammy and Perry.
• Trouser Space: The brothers spontaneously pull objects, usually food, out of their boxers.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Tony masquerades as an old woman in the beginning of "Cream Style".