The Fantasy family includes a sharp-tongued Grandma Baba (Bebe Neuwirth), her son Pete (Tim Robinson), daughter Trophy (Maria Bamford), and Trophy's own teenage daughter, Annie (Jo Firestone), whose full name “Euthanasia,” was accidentally given to her during Trophy’s painful labor.Īfter Annie’s birth, Trophy splits and leaves her newborn to be raised by Baba and Uncle Pete. Set in Florida, Teenage Euthanasia centers around the unique family and owners of Tender Endings funeral home. And now we've set out to make this funny, family-centered show.”
“The stuff I've worked on in the past is like an individual person’s vision brought to life in any kind of horrific, nightmarish way. “We had wanted to do things with an unlikely teenage daughter-mother pairing,” says Emmy-nominated producer Alyson Levy, a co-creator of the show with Alissa Nutting and known for her stop-motion, shock-value series The Shivering Truth.
as a living corpse, ready for a second chance at unplanned parenthood.īut that’s the premise of Adult Swim’s newest animated series, Teenage Euthanasia, which premiered yesterday, September 19.
It’s not every day that the mother who abandoned her child returns.