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Neighbors from Hell is an American adult animated sitcom created by Pam Brady for the cable channel TBS, that ran from June 7 to July 26, 2010. The first episode also aired on its sister network Adult Swim on June 13 as a "sneak preview". The series consisted of ten episodes.

The series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Wounded Poodle and MoonBoy Animation, a division of DreamWorks Animation as its second and last adult animated series after Father of the Pride, The majority of the animation is produced by Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, with retake animation work handled mostly in-house at Bento Box.[1]

The Hellman family of demons from Hell is sent by Satan to Houston, Texas on a mission to destroy a drill that can dig to the Earth's core where Satan fears that the humans will invade Hell if the drill reaches it. The Hellmans face a culture shock trying to fit in with humans. They also realize that the humans can be as bad as the demons, and that Earth is almost no different from hell.

The show was shown in nine countries. The series premiered on FX in Brazil and Latin America as of June 2011.[3]In Hungary, it debuted on Comedy Central On February 7, 2012.[4] In Poland the show aired on Fox on April 25, 2012. In Russia, it was shown on 2x2.

I lived next door to some neighbors from hell. They sold drugs from their house, all kinds of stuff, police would not help. Luckily, besides a few pranks I played on them, I moved before it escalated beyond mere pranks.

Had a good friend in a similar situation. He wife and daughter had repeatedly been threatened, calls to police resulted in the character being picked up and then released with 48 hours and it would all happen again. My suggestion to him was to sell out and move-it took months and he was miserable and worried the entire time but he finally got his place sold and moved two months ago. Tells me he feels like the weight of the world is off his shoulders. (And yes, my friend is a gun owner and kept himself and his wife armed. He did not want to hurt anyone and was sincerely afraid he was going to have to kill the idiot who was harassing and threatening them).

Sadly there comes a point where that is your only legal option. It may even end up being a net loss for you financially but it beats constantly being miserable and the risk of a conflict quickly escalating to a physical or deadly level.

Without putting too fine a point on things, I have been contacted by her over how my teen daughter plays with the dogs in our own backyard, she has complained to me multiple times over how I rake leaves, etc., and had even left a message on my phone threatening me with a lawsuit over how I would presumably drain the water from my property when I was consulting a landscaper over a drainage issue.
She also hollered at us from her back porch at us while we were standing in my own backyard(Which is elevated, so it goes over the reach of the fence I have).

While the show doesn't set out to push positive messages, the Hellmans' relationships do send some heartwarming notes about family ties and the strength that can be drawn from a stable home environment. Balthazor's politically incorrect boss makes disparaging remarks about minorities, calling a Turkish employee "dark meat" and referring to lesbians as "leserinos," for example.

Balthazor strives to be a good father and husband and tries hard to balance his affection for humans with his devilish duties to his powerful boss. Although she's less enthusiastic about his new job, Tina loves Balthazor and tries to support him.

Electrocution, strangulation, fatal gun use (a man annihilates another at point-blank range, for example), and multiple bumps and bruises are common throughout the show. All violence is played for humor, and those acts that aren't fatal don't leave realistic injuries.

Parents need to know that this cartoon is not intended for kids or tweens. The fact that the show's title includes a four-letter word is a good indication of the mature content that exists here, including strong language ("damn" and "ass" are frequent culprits, in addition to "hell"), fairly graphic violence (gun use, strangulation, and a dog's repeated attempts to off himself by hanging or fire), sexual innuendo (including references to beastiality), and frequent drinking. All in all, it's an iffy choice for young teens, but adults will find the humor in the outsiders' impression of human life.

When human engineers build a drill that can puncture the center of the Earth, Satan sends Balthazor Hellman (voiced by Will Sasso) up to the surface to sabotage the project and protect hell's existence. The assignment isn't unwelcomed by Balthazor -- who, despite being a demon, is intrigued by humans and welcomes the chance to mingle with them -- but his wife, Tina (Molly Shannon), and their teenage kids, Mandy (Tracey Fairaway) and Josh (David Soren), are decidedly less enthusiastic. Even the family dog, Pazuzu (Patton Oswalt), rails against the move, but the Hellmans soon discover that life amongst humans is more like home than they would have guessed.

In the vein of edgy cartoons like South Park and Family Guy comes this little gem of a series, which packs a punch of irreverent fun that grown-ups are sure to like. Demonic though the Hellmans may be, the show's skewed view of humanity casts them as the morally fibrous ones amid their eccentric neighbors and crass coworkers.

An unexpected plus to this comical series is the heartwarming substory of how the Hellman family is influenced by the positive aspects of human life, namely their relationships and responsibility toward each other. Balthazor especially takes this trait to heart and tries to make it a part of his home structure, and the result is a (mostly) happy, well-adjusted demon family. Warm fuzzies for adults, to be sure, but not for kids and tweens, as the message is lost amid strong language, sexual inferences, racial stereotypes, and plenty of violence.

Families can talk about this show's messages. What does this show say about human relationships, work ethic, and social equality? Do you think its impression of any of these issues is accurate? Why or why not? Do you think the show intends to influence people's view of society?

What makes a show funny? Why is humor often rooted in mockery or stereotypes? What other shows have you seen that joke at the expense of people or groups of people? Who defines the degree to which this is acceptable?

What safeguards exist to protect kids from edgy content like what this show offers? Should more be done to make it safe? How have age-appropriate standards changed through the years? Is this change influenced by society or a reflection of society's evolution?

Last night TBS debuted its first original animated series, Neighbors from Hell (Mondays, 10/9c) from 20th Century Fox TV and DreamWorks Animation, which some are calling a cross between South Park and Family Guy. It's about a family from hell sent to earth (the Hellmans, of course) to pose as normal suburbanites and complete their mission to prevent a giant drill from making its way to hell. The family is headed by Balthazor (Will Sasso), whose growing affection for humans and their odd but endearing qualities threatens their mission; his wife, Tina (Molly Shannon), who wishes she was anywhere but suburban America; their two children, Mandy (Tracey Fairaway) and Josh (David Soren), who quickly adapt to their new surroundings; their dog, Pazuzu (Patton Oswalt), the real brains of the family; and Uncle Vlartaark (South Park writer Kyle McCulloch) who has an appetite for felines. Pam Brady (South Park), exec producer, who wrote the pilot, tells us all about the new series.

PB: Yes, I just think that what's appealing for television right now and what seems to work is 2D. Even though South Park is technically 3D but flattened with expensive software to make it look like a kid did it. When it looks too real, I just think it can be off-putting. Keeping it in 2D was definitely a stylistic choice.

PB: The majority of animation is done at Bardel up in Vancouver. However, we have a team of animators in Los Angeles [Bento Box] that does retakes and some animation as well. Both sites are under the artistic supervision of our Supervising Animator Sylvain DeBoissey. We do all the writing, storyboarding, characters and layout here with John Rice as supervising director.

PB: Well, I think one of the biggest challenges is how you make a family of demons likable? How do you get on their side? It really was one of those things that we went round and round about. You don't want to remove that it's fun to watch demons because they like to see things blow up. In a way, it's like Bart Simpson: you like fun mischief but you don't like evil.

PB: I think Dexter was one of the biggest influences -- at least for me. Even though Dexter is a serial killer, you can get behind someone who has a code. And the way we set up the show is that hell, which is the center of the earth, runs on souls, so it's almost like the oil industry. So the fact that so many people are being bad on earth means that hell's has more abundance there, and the idea is that it's a one industry town. And the father of the family processes the souls, so it's like he works at the refinery. Everybody has a job and we don't make a judgment about what they do because that's their job -- and they think that only the guilty get tortured.

PB: Exactly. And if we destroy them, we destroy us. The other satire we do where people go awry is that they would never do the same sort of stuff that humans would do to each other. You only punish the deserving. And, of course, when you do punish the deserving, you take it to def con 50. But we also set up the fact that Satan meets our Dick Cheney kind of Killbride character [Kurtwood Smith] at one point. It's a good time to be ripping on corporate CEOs at this point.

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