# Axe Cop (2013)

> A child's imagination runs wild as a wannabe lawman battles dinosaurs and villains with his flute-playing sidekick.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/43991

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 22
- Episode runtime: 10 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, action
- Created by: Malachai Nicolle, Ethan Nicolle
- Network: FOX, FXX
- Cast: Nick Offerman, Ken Marino, Deborah Ann Woll, Olivia Cooke
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2497834/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: breakneck
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: absurd, chaotic, irreverent, gleeful, crude

## What critics say

Audiences rate the absurd, over-the-top animated spin on the webcomic positively, enjoying its chaotic energy and comic logic.

## Synopsis

Axe Cop (2013-2015) is an American adult animated comedy series created by Malachai Nicolle and Ethan Nicolle for FOX and FXX. Based on the brothers' webcomic, it follows Axe Cop (voiced by Nick Offerman), a lawman with an axe for a hand, and his partner Flute Cop (Ken Marino), as they hunt criminals, dinosaurs and villains in a world invented by an imaginative child. Each short episode is a freewheeling, escalating adventure in which logic bends to whatever a kid would dream up, so every story spins from one wild idea to the next. The engine is pure momentum: a crime to solve, a monster to stop, and an ever larger pile of absurd complications. The series is a rapid-fire sequence of brief, self-contained episodes rather than a continuing plot, with crude, cartoonish violence and frequent profanity played for laughs. Its tone is gleeful, chaotic and irreverent, a surreal blend of childlike wonder and adult crudeness. Fans of Adventure Time, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Rick and Morty will find a similar appetite for nonsense, sharp satire and anarchic cartoon energy. The show runs for two seasons and twenty-two episodes, a short, spirited comedy best enjoyed in small doses.

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