# The Cleveland Show (2009)

> An animated Fox spin-off following Cleveland Brown as he rebuilds his family life in a new town with crude, absurd comedy.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/14576

## Facts

- Seasons: 4
- Episodes: 88
- Episode runtime: 22 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy
- Created by: Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Mike Henry
- Network: FOX
- Cast: Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Jason Sudeikis, Seth MacFarlane, Nia Long, Fergie
- TMDB rating: 5.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1195935/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: crude, irreverent, breezy, absurd, raunchy

## What critics say

Audience reception is negative, with viewers finding the crude family humor and spinoff-style antics uneven across its four seasons.

## Synopsis

The Cleveland Show (2009-2013) is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel and Mike Henry for FOX. Mike Henry voices Cleveland Brown, a good-natured former resident of Quahog who relocates with his family to a new town and tries to build a stable life in a blended household. Sanaa Lathan voices his wife Donna Tubbs, Reagan Gomez-Preston voices her daughter Roberta, and Jason Sudeikis voices Holt Richter, a neighbor whose rivalry and friendship with Cleveland drive many episodes. The engine of the show is simple: Cleveland wants a peaceful family life, but his blundering schemes, his neighbors' antics and his own impulsive appetites keep upending it. Each twenty-two minute episode is a self-contained case of the week built from cartoon set pieces, sight gags and escalating misadventures rather than a continuing serialized plot. Across four seasons the show stays a loose, episodic comedy with a warm domestic core. Its tone is crude, irreverent and breezy, with raunchy jokes and absurd humor layered over familiar sitcom family dynamics. Fans of Family Guy, The Simpsons and American Dad will find a similar spirit of cartoon satire, though this series leans more openly on blended-family comedy and its spin-off roots.

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