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Created by | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 40 |
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Editor | Jeff Cannell |
Running time | 23–30 minutes |
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Network | Netflix |
Release | August 31, 2018 – December 16, 2022 |
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Brickleberry Farzar |
Paradise PD is an American adult animated sitcom created by Waco O'Guin and Roger Black that premiered on August 31, 2018, and ran for four seasons on Netflix. The series stars Dana Snyder, Cedric Yarbrough, David Herman, Tom Kenny, Sarah Chalke, and Kyle Kinane. The second season was released on March 6, 2020, and the third season was released on March 12, 2021. Netflix renewed the series for the fourth and final season, titled Paradise PD: Party Dudes, which premiered on December 16, 2022. [1]
Paradise PD follows Kevin Crawford joining the small-town police department in the crime-ridden town of Paradise with his mother Karen as the mayor, his estranged father Chief Randall Crawford initially against his son joining the force as he blamed him for his numerous shortcomings since Kevin accidentally shot his testicles. The other police officers themselves are equally incompetent and morally corrupt, consisting of the violent Gina Jabowski, the PTSD-afflicted Gerald "Fitz" Fitzgerald, morbidly obese man-child Dusty Marlow, perverted senior citizen Stantley Hopson, and drug-addict drug dog Bullet. The town is also home to many weird regulars that include the hillbillies Robby and Delbert, Hobo Cop, Dr. Funtlicher, Preacher Paul, Frank Flipperfist and his son Jerry.
The overarching storyline of the first two seasons focuses on Kevin trying to earn his father's love by cracking down on a crime boss known only as "The Kingpin", eventually revealed to be an alternate personality of Fitz's whose master scheme is turning Paradise into a giant deep-dish pizza. The third season covers a series of events that include Kevin entering into a relationship with Gina despite her fat man fetish and violent streak, Randall and Karen rekindling their relationship with the latter pregnant, and Fitz and Bullet in a relationship with a dolphin before raising the latter's biological dog/dolphin hybrid son together. But Gina runs off on her wedding day with the police force fired after another disaster strikes Paradise. The fourth and final season depicts the former officers ending up in a series of events from Kevin's newborn baby brother trying to have him killed to an eccentric CEO named Charles Lovely moving to Paradise with sinister plans in mind. [2]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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1 | 10 | August 31, 2018 | ||
2 | 8 | March 6, 2020 | ||
3 | 12 | March 12, 2021 | ||
4 | 10 | December 16, 2022 |
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1 | 1 | "Welcome to Paradise" | Matt Garofalo | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Kevin Crawford has always wanted to be a cop, just like his father...until the day Kevin accidentally castrated his father by shooting him in the testicles. Years later, Kevin still wants to be a cop, despite his father's objections, and Kevin gets the chance when a drug called "argyle meth" begins hitting the streets of Paradise. Meanwhile, Bullet (the Paradise police department's drug-addled drug-sniffing dog) feels guilty when all of his canine friends die from an argyle meth overdose. | ||||||||||||
2 | 2 | "Ass on the Line" | Brian Mainolfi | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Continuing where "Welcome to Paradise" left off, the Paradise PD are still looking for the argyle meth kingpin after Terry Two-Toes (from the previous episode) is found dead in his jail cell from a mysterious gunshot, so Kevin and Bullet (the latter of which is looking for a thrill to stave off his boredom with going clean and sober) infiltrate the world of underground dogfighting. Meanwhile, Randall is haunted by memories of a cold case while investigating a death involving a corpse's naked butt. | ||||||||||||
3 | 3 | "Black & Blue" | Lauren Andrews | Aaron Lee | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Officer Fitzgerald's PTSD worsens when his accidental shooting of himself makes the news on the liberal side as yet another story of a police officer exercising race-based police brutality by shooting an unarmed black man and on the conservative side as a young, black man fighting back against a racist cop. Meanwhile, Hopson is sent to a retirement home (which he thinks is an undercover operation) and discovers a disturbing secret. | ||||||||||||
4 | 4 | "Karla" | Fill Marc Sagadraca | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Kevin's mom (the mayor of Paradise) gets her son a new police car, and things get complicated when the car's computer system falls for Kevin. Meanwhile, Dusty's fried chicken recipe gets everyone in town hooked (mostly because Dusty used powdered heroin as flour). | ||||||||||||
5 | 5 | "Dungeons & Dragnet" | Matt Garofalo | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
The popular role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons gets banned from Paradise over concerns that it may be Satanic. Meanwhile, Bullet makes time with a pastor's daughter, who won't have sex with him unless the Bible explicitly tells her so. | ||||||||||||
6 | 6 | "Meet the Jabowskis" | Brian Mainolfi | Amy Pocha & Seth Cohen | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Gina goes to the doctor to find the source of her overly violent behavior and why she doesn't remember anything before the age of 21, and discovers that it's from a gunshot wound allegedly caused by an African warlord named Bumfuqué. But when Bumfuqué points out that Gina's answer lies in the town of Bumfuque, Gina is reunited with her long-lost family, who prove to be just as violent and hardcore as she is. Meanwhile, the Paradise police department is in a shambles from Gina's absence, Dusty's cheerful songs to drug addicts leads to the drug addicts taking over the precinct, and Officer Fitzgerald and Bullet find a suitcase filled with money that neither of them want to share between the other. | ||||||||||||
7 | 7 | "Police Academy" | Lauren Andrews | Aaron Lee | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Kevin and his father are ordered by the Mayor to attend the Police academy, the officers fool Hopson into thinking that he is dead, and Bullet cleans up the town by arresting all the prostitutes. | ||||||||||||
8 | 8 | "Task Force" | Fill Marc Sagadraca | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Kevin and his team of misfits decide to crack down on the Argyle meth trade, Dusty accidentally auctiones off his virginity on the Dark web, and the Chief readies the station for an important interview. | ||||||||||||
9 | 9 | "Parent Trap" | Matt Garofalo | Michael Rowe | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
Dusty, believing that he is Native American, decides to protest against the Thanksgiving parade. Hopson and Bullet go into the forest in search of a live turkey, and Kevin manages to join his parents together again. His plan accidentally backfires as he is forced to move out and live in the sewers with the flipper-people. | ||||||||||||
10 | 10 | "Christmas in Paradise" | Brian Mainolfi | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | August 31, 2018 | |||||||
It's Christmas, and Fitz is still in a coma. Dusty wants a train set for Christmas and tries to get everyone in the Holiday spirit on order for Santa to bring it to him. Kevin gets a lead on the meth case. |
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11 | 1 | "Paradise Found" | Brian Mainolfi | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
Gina is determined to bust Dusty out of jail after being falsely arrested by Kevin for being the Kingpin in the previous episode. The Crawfords are planning to remarry, and Fitz has made millions by making Dippin' Dots after the town has become safe for tourists again. | ||||||||||||
12 | 2 | "Big Ball Energy" | Lauren Andrews | Roger Black & Waco O' Guin | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
After freeing Dusty, crime levels in Paradise escalate. As a result Kevin becomes the most hated person in town and has a holiday named after him. Fitz and his crime-associates decide to go after a new supplier of Houndstood meth, and Bullet is forced to feed Dusty's last surviving cat. | ||||||||||||
13 | 3 | "Tucker Carlson Is a Huge D**k" | Matt Garofalo | Dan Signer | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
After a rant by Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson, the gender politics within the police goes haywire. The male and female officers create their own taskforce. Meanwhile, Fitz and his associate is kidnapped by Gal-Qaida | ||||||||||||
14 | 4 | "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?" | Brian Mainolfi | Steve Tompkins | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
Dusty gets irritated over an inconclusive cliffhanger to an old Disney sitcom. He decides to take the abduced child-star Delbert to the Disney channel to finish the series. Meanwhile, Kevin has problems going to the toilet at work. | ||||||||||||
15 | 5 | "The Father, the Son and the Post-it Note" | Lauren Andrews | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
The FBI-agent Clappers moves into town to solve the King Pin-case. Chief Crawford grows jealous of his talent, and testicles. Meanwhile, Fitz and his "Legion of Dooooom" lose their money to the Catholic Church. | ||||||||||||
16 | 6 | "Flip the Vote" | Matt Garofalo | Roger Black & Waco O' Guin | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
Mayor Karen legalizes meth in order to win the local election. This inspires Fitz to run against her. The chief is under crackhouse-arrest, and Bullet takes a short visit to hell after eating at MethDonalds. | ||||||||||||
17 | 7 | "Paradise PD Meets Brickleberry" | Brian Mainolfi | Waco O' Guin & Roger Black | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
After fleeing Paradise, the officers head for Brickleberry National Park. They help Ranger Woody finding his missing bear Malloy while making friendships with the other rangers. | ||||||||||||
18 | 8 | "Operation DD" | Lauren Andrews | Roger Black & Waco O' Guin | March 6, 2020 | |||||||
After learning that officer Fitz is mentally troubled by a past incident, the squad races back to Paradise to stop the town from being obliterated by nuclear weapons. |
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19 | 1 | "Fallout" | Ashley J. Long Mike Disa | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
Three months after the deep-dish pizza nuclear explosion, Fitz finds out he married a dolphin, Robbie and Delbert conquer an island formed by the nuclear fallout, and Randall develops an anal polyp that begins to take over his life and body. | ||||||||||||
20 | 2 | "Top Cops" | Brian Mainolfi | Roger Black & Waco O' Guin | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
Paradise PD engineers arrests to win Top Cop. Meanwhile, Dusty extorts free doughnuts from the local doughnut shop, Kevin converts to Judaism, and Fitz takes on multiple new identities. | ||||||||||||
21 | 3 | "Ice Ice Babies" | Lauren Andrews | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
Randall must prove to Karen that he's a good father by taking care of Hopson. Meanwhile, Delbert and Rusty open a carnival on the new island they conquered, Dusty goes to great lengths to attend the carnival, despite being confined to desk duty, and Bullet poses as a stuffed animal to get close to a sexy woman. | ||||||||||||
22 | 4 | "Trigger Warning" | Mike Disa | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
Paradise's gun problem spirals out of control...and things get worse when smartguns are introduced. Meanwhile, Bullet becomes a viral video star and Fitz tries to rekindle his marriage. | ||||||||||||
23 | 5 | "Showdown at the O-bese Corral" | Brian Mainolfi | Dan Signer | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
Dusty becomes the leader of a fat acceptance cult. Meanwhile, Gina confronts her masturbation addiction, Fitz's dolphin wife gets a job at SeaWorld, and Chief is forced to accept his biggest insecurity | ||||||||||||
24 | 6 | "How The Cookie Crumbles" | Lauren Andrews | Seth Cohen & Amy Pocha | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
Randall stages a heist to steal his sperm back from the sperm bank. Meanwhile, Fitz runs afoul of the mutants who remember him as "The Kingpin", and Dusty recreates Family Feud. | ||||||||||||
25 | 7 | "Blind Drunk" | Mike Disa | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
To keep Karen from drinking alcohol when she's pregnant again, Randall outlaws all alcoholic beverages leaving Bullet, Robby and Delbert to become Dukes Of Hazzard. Kevin lies to Gina of having a girlfriend in Canada. | ||||||||||||
26 | 8 | "Blimp City" | Jackson Turcotte Beth Wollman | Amy Pocha & Seth Cohen | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
27 | 9 | "The World According to LARP" | Brian Mainolfi | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
28 | 10 | "Fetal Attraction" | Mike Disa | Nora Nolan | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
29 | 11 | "What Happens in Twatemala" | Peter Merryman | Josh GreenbArg | March 12, 2021 | |||||||
30 | 12 | "PARAD-ISIS" | Brian Mainolfi | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | March 12, 2021 |
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Part 4 | ||||||||||||
31 | 1 | "The Brozone Lair" | John Martinez | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
32 | 2 | "Diddy's Home" | Beth Wollman | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
33 | 3 | "A Star Is Porn" | Brian Mainolfi | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
34 | 4 | "Good Jeans" | Beth Wollman | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
35 | 5 | "The Shartist" | John Martinez | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
36 | 6 | "The Butt Cut" | Brian Mainolfi | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
37 | 7 | "Boat!" | Beth Wollman | Roger Black & Waco O'Guin | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
38 | 8 | "King of the Norf" | John Martinez | Rocky Russo & Jeremy Sosenko | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
39 | 9 | "Sack to the Future" | Brian Mainolfi | Kyle Stegina & Josh Lehrman | December 16, 2022 | |||||||
40 | 10 | "The Eternal Reckoning" | Beth Wollman | Waco O'Guin & Roger Black | December 16, 2022 |
On April 4, 2018, Netflix announced that they had given the production a straight-to-series order for a first season consisting of ten episodes. The series was created by Waco O'Guin and Roger Black. [3] Production company and animation studio Bento Box Entertainment was expected to produce the series alongside Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. [2] [4] [5] [6] On October 30, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had renewed the series for a second season. [7] [8] The third season was announced in April 2020 and was released on March 12, 2021. [9] [10] The second season features a crossover episode with Brickleberry while making references throughout the latter half of the first season such as Fitz, the only black police officer on Paradise PD, being called Denzel, the only black park ranger on Brickleberry by Kevin, Steve's doppelgänger. Netflix renewed the show for a fourth and final season which premiered on December 16, 2022. [1]
Alongside the initial series announcement, it was reported that Dana Snyder, Cedric Yarbrough, David Herman, Tom Kenny, Sarah Chalke, and Kyle Kinane had been cast in series regular roles. [2]
On July 25, 2018, the first trailer for the series was released alongside the announcement that it would premiere on August 31, 2018. [11]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an approval rating of 40% with an average rating of 5.03/10, based on 5 reviews. [12] In a negative review, The Daily Dot 's Audra Schroeder gave the series a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five and criticized the series, describing it as "blunt-force humor without much emotional attachment." [13] In a similarly unfavorable critique, Decider's Joel Keller recommended that viewers skip the series, saying, "If it were just a little bit funnier, we'd recommend it. But it's just not worth sitting through the many unfunny, dirty gags to get to the good stuff." [14] In a more favorable assessment, Konbini's Florian Ques praised the series saying, "The most thrilling aspect of Paradise PD is its natural ability to slip in some real burns aimed at pop culture figures...The humor used to criticize them is very well-executed." [15]
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