Undergrads

Undergrads is an animated television series centered on the lives of four college undergraduate freshmen. Originally broadcast on MTV during 2001, only thirteen episodes were created. It has since been shown on Comedy Central in the United States, Teletoon in Canada, and Trouble in the United Kingdom. The show was conceived by Pete Williams, when he dropped out of college at the age of 19. Willams does most of the voices on the show. The series was produced by David McGrath.

Undergrads (2001) is a Canadian-American adult animated comedy series created by Pete Williams for MTV, with later airings on Teletoon and Comedy Central. Williams, who drafted the concept after dropping out of college at nineteen, also voices most of the principal characters, including the lead Nitz, Cal, Rocko and Gimpy, alongside Rob Tinkler as Mump, Yannick Bisson as Crougar and Stoner Dave, and Katie Griffin as Charity. The series follows four college freshmen whose days drift between dorm life, parties, and half-hearted attempts at schoolwork, with each thirty-minute episode built from loose, self-contained misadventures rather than a tightly plotted arc. Its engine is the gap between the characters' ambitions and their inertia, and the humor leans crude and irreverent, the kind of slacker satire that found a home on MTV's adult animation lineup. The thirteen-episode run has a scrappy, unpolished energy and a cynical, goofy register. Viewers who enjoy Beavis and Butt-Head, Sealab 2021 or Drawn Together will find a similar appetite for absurd, deliberately rough animated comedy. The short run is a single season that was cut off before the series could build further.

• Beavis and Butt-Headirreverent adult animated comedy following young slacker characters through campus life
• Sealab 2021crude animated sitcom about aimless twenty-somethings with cynical humor
• Drawn Togetheradult animated comedy built on absurd cutaway gags and young adult irreverence

Created by

Pete Williams

Release Date

2001-04-22

Episode runtime

30 min

Rating

7.8 / 10 (40)

What is Undergrads about?

Four college freshmen navigate aimless campus life in this irreverent 2001 adult animated comedy.

What is Undergrads like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Undergrads as brisk, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as simple.

Is Undergrads violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Undergrads as mild.

Which shows are like Undergrads?

Shows with a similar feel include Beavis and Butt-Head, Sealab 2021, and Drawn Together.

How long is Undergrads?

Undergrads: 1 season, 13 episodes.

Is Undergrads still running?

No, Undergrads has ended.