Ugly Americans is a half-hour animated comedy series created by Devin Clark for Comedy Central. The series premiered on March 17, 2010. On April 21, 2010 Comedy Central announced that they had ordered 7 additional episodes of Ugly Americans, to begin airing in October 2010.
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||
| 1 | 14 | March 17, 2010 | November 17, 2010 | |
Episode list[]
Season 1 (2010)[]
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | U.S. viewers (million) |
Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pilot" "D.O.I. Cutbacks" | Aaron Augenblick & Lucy Snyder | David M. Stern | 2.10[1] | March 17, 2010 |
| Mark helps supernatural creatures adapt to life in New York City while managing relationships between his half-demon, half-human girlfriend, Callie, and his zombie roommate, Randall. | |||||
| 2 | "An American Werewolf in America" | Aaron Augenblick & Lucy Snyder | Jeff Poliquin | 1.89[2] | March 24, 2010 |
| Mark tries to teach a Werewolf and its victim a lesson in trust by relating their challenges to the early history of New York's gang fights between vampires and the irish in the early 1900's; Leonard pursues his dream of becoming a famous magician and Randall plots to eat Mark while he sleeps. | |||||
| 3 | "Demon Baby" | Aaron Augenblick & Lucy Snyder | David M. Stern | 1.88[3] | March 31, 2010 |
| After having intimacy issues the prior night, Callie goes baby-crazy after Mark starts fostering a demon orphan who is assigned to him when a demon fails to sell it to a expecting couple; Twayne starts to notice some odd changes in his body and tries to push Callie into a marriage in order to adopt the child. | |||||
| 4 | "Blob Gets Job" | Aaron Augenblick & Lucy Snyder | Kevin Shinick | 1.36[4] | April 7, 2010 |
| While staying with Randall's parents in New Jersey (after his father fought in the Human-Zombie Civil Wars), Mark accidentally "outs" his roommate as a zombie; Leonard (working in DOI alone on Mark's day off) tries to identify a strange new creature who proves to be difficult to place in the workforce. | |||||
| 5 | "Treegasm" | Daniel Powell & Greg White | 2.05[5] | April 14, 2010 | |
| Mark meets a pair of tree creatures who are expected to participate in a public mating ritual sanctioned by the City of New York as a festival. Meanwhile a molting Callie demands the kinkiest kind of sex out of Mark, and Randall loses his penis after visiting a movie theater. | |||||
| 6 | "So, You Want to Be a Vampire?" | Aaron Blitzstein | April 21, 2010 | ||
| Mark meets a woman who wants to become a vampire like her boyfriend (in a parody of the Twilight series). Frank and his crew have to take anger management under Leonard, who ends up forgetting about the instruction and hunts vampires with the police. Meanwhile, the people of the city (including Frank) are being afflicted by a strange illness called "Mad Larry", a communicable disease which transforms NYC residents into Larry King clones. | |||||
| 7 | "Kong of Queens" | Jeff Poliquin | April 28, 2010 | ||
| After further budget cuts threaten to shut down his program, Mark struggles to find a job for a giant ape who has OCD and insists on cleaning the skyscrapers he climbs. Meanwhile, Callie tries to resist her sudden attraction towards Twayne during a convention; Randall loses the lower half of his body to an oncoming bus during a pedestrian accident. | |||||
| 8 | "Better Off Undead" | Jeff Poliquin | 1.74[6] | October 6, 2010 | |
| Randall believes he isn't a true zombie as all he does is stalk his old love, Krystal, so he joins a zombie cult. Mark deals with a clingy and very sensitive roommate. In order to help Randall get over his Krystal obsession, Leonard changes Mark into Krystal. Mark then begins suffering a curse that is making him age to death, and intercourse with Grimes may be the only way out. | |||||
| 9 | "Kill, Mark... Kill!" | Bill Krebs | October 13, 2010 | ||
| Mark runs into a series of problems when he volunteers to assist Leonard with issues regarding his wand; Twayne believes he has met his soulmate and both wish to re-assassinate the zombie Abraham Lincoln. | |||||
| 10 | "Sympathy for the Devil" | Greg White & David M. Stern | October 20, 2010 | ||
| Twayne is forced to endure a series of difficult consequences when he decides to make a horrendous agreement regarding a local politician's soul. | |||||
| 11 | "Hell for the Holidays" | David M. Stern | October 27, 2010 | ||
| Mark and Randall agree to accompany Callie on a Halloween trip to hell, where they spend time with her family, who plot against Mark and Randall. | |||||
| 12 | "Trolling for Terror" | Daniel Powell | November 3, 2010 | ||
| After Randall joins the cast of a sleazy reality show, the program’s unbalanced producer becomes obsessed with Mark. | |||||
| 13 | "Soul Sucker" | Erik Richter | November 10, 2010 | ||
| Mark gets in over his head when he agrees to be Callie's partner in an ancient demonic ritual; Randall babysits a confused robot. | |||||
| 14 | "The Manbirds" | Mick Kelly | November 17, 2010 | ||
| Mark decides to take in a baby Man-Bird that was separated from its family, while Grimes struggles to settle a blood-feud with their champion. | |||||
References[]
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (March 18, 2010). ""South Park" parties like it's 1999 and other Wednesday cable finals". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved March 19, 2010.
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (March 25, 2010). "More Good Numbers for "South Park" + "Ugly Americans" and Other Wednesday Cable Finals". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (April 1, 2010). "Wednesday Cable: “Real World” Hits Lows, “South Park” Stays High & “In Plain Sight” Returns". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (April 8, 2010). "Wednesday Finals: “CSI: NY” Dips Further + “South Park,” “In Plain Sight” and More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ Gorman, Bill (April 15, 2010). "Wednesday Cable Ratings: “In Plain Sight” Slips; “South Park” Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved April 15, 2010.
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (October 7, 2010). "Wednesday Cable: Yankees/Twins Tops Night; South Park Top Scripted; Terriers Falls & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
External links[]
- Official website
- List of Ugly Americans episodes at the Internet Movie Database
- List of Ugly Americans episodes at TV.com