Paradise PD

Paradise PD
Genre	Animated sitcom Crime Action Surreal humor Dark comedy
Created by	Waco O'Guin & Roger Black
Voices of	Sarah Chalke David Herman Tom Kenny Kyle Kinane Cedric Yarbrough Dana Snyder
Composers	Nicolas Barry Tomas Jacobi Rene Garza Aldape Alejandro Valencia
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	30
Production
Executive producers	Waco O'Guin Roger Black Scott Greenberg Joel Kuwahara Marc Provissiero
Producers	Rocky Russo Jeremy Sosenko Amy Pocha Seth Cohen
Editor	Jeff Cannell
Running time	23–30 minutes
Production companies	Damn! Show Productions Bento Box Entertainment Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment
Distributor	Netflix
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	August 31, 2018 (2018-08-31) – present (present)
Chronology
Preceded by	Brickleberry
External links
Official website

Paradise PD is an American adult animated sitcom created by Waco O'Guin and Roger Black that premiered on August 31, 2018, on Netflix. The series stars Dana Snyder, Cedric Yarbrough, David Herman, Tom Kenny, Sarah Chalke, and Kyle Kinane. On October 30, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had renewed the series for a second season.^[1][2] The third season was announced in April 2020 and was released on March 12, 2021.^[3][4]

Premise[]

Paradise PD follows a small-town police department where crime is rampant and the police are seriously incompetent. The force consists of Chief Randall Crawford, the violent Gina Jabowski, the morbidly obese Dusty Marlow, the perverted senior citizen Stanley Hopson, the cowardly Gerald "Fitz" Fitzgerald, the addicted drug dog Bullet, and Crawford's son Kevin. The town is also home to many weird characters, including Crawford's ex-wife Karen, the hillbillies Robby and Delbert, Hobo Cop, Dr. Funtlicher, Preacher Paul, Terry Two-Toes, and his mom. Continuing arcs of the show include Gina's lust over Dusty, Kevin's wish to impress his father, Fitz's double life as a drug kingpin simply known as the Kingpin, and the Crawfords' wish to get back together.^[5]

Cast and characters[]

Main[]

• Sarah Chalke as Gina Jabowski, a psychotic and violent police officer who is the most feared enforcer in the town of Paradise. As a fat fetishist, she is obsessed with and often sexually harasses her obese coworker Dusty Marlow, much to his mild disdain. When she was a little girl, her father made her a human shield to block a bullet shot from Randall and got hit in the back of her head. She survived the shot with the bullet still inside her skull, which was revealed to be the cause of her being a hot-tempered violent psychopath and a obese-loving harasser. Over the course of the series, she and Kevin slowly fall in love leading her to surgically remove the bullet in her brain so she can be faithful to him. During their wedding, Isis attacks and takes everyone hostage, forcing Kevin to shoot her in the head to return her to her angry persona, much to their shared sadness. Following the season three finale, Gina disappeared without explanation. She is the PD counterpart of Brickleberry main cast member Ethel Anderson.
• David Herman as Kevin Crawford, a newly hired police officer and the son of Chief Randall Crawford and Mayor Karen Crawford. Initially as dim witted and incompetent as the others, as the series progresses, it is shown he is actually a capable and competent officer, though he could be better if he had the proper equipment and funding for his work. Kevin has faced constant abuse from his parents after he accidentally shot his father's testicles thirteen years prior to the beginning of the series. In seasons two and three, Kevin developed a crush on Gina when she began to be more soften towards Kevin. While these feelings were initially unrequited, they eventually entered into a relationship, and became engaged near the end of season three. He is left heartbroken when she leaves him in remorse for nearly killing him on their wedding day after reverting back into her violent persona following an Isis attack. He is the PD counterpart of Brickleberry main cast member Steve Williams.
• Tom Kenny as Chief Randall Crawford, the police chief of Paradise PD and Kevin's father. Once a fine and proud cop, following an incident where his son shot off both of his testicles, he became incredibly bitter, which eventually led to his divorce with his wife. He has frequently been seen to use testosterone patches in order to maintain his hormone levels. Throughout season one he reignites his relationship with Mayor Karen, and they get remarried in season two. He is the PD counterpart of Brickleberry main cast member Woody Johnson.
• Kyle Kinane as Bullet, a anthropomorphic police dog who is addicted to the confiscated drugs that he is tasked with guarding. He is the PD counterpart of Brickleberry main cast member Malloy.
• Cedric Yarbrough as Gerald "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a police officer whose PTSD sometimes hinders his police work. He has been shown to cope through therapeutic piccolo playing. He often struggles to have his troubles understood by the other officers, leading to discourse within the team, especially in the second season. In the season one finale, it revealed that Fitz was the mysterious Kingpin but in the season two finale, Fitz's kingpin persona is actually a split personality that is based from the original Kingpin, who was an overweight criminal that has an obsession with Deep Dish Pizza and took over Fitz's body to continue his crime empire. In the season two finale, Fitz defeats the Kingpin persona in his mind and takes control of his body again. He is the PD counterpart of Brickleberry main cast member Denzel Jackson.
• Dana Snyder as Dusty Marlow (seasons 2–3; recurring season 1), an obese police officer who is constantly sexually harassed by Gina. He is very childlike and owns several cats. He has been shown to hold a grudge with everyone who laughs at him when he ripped his pants every time he bends over and yells at employees of fast food restaurants for giving him meals that are impossible to be ordered. In season three, he acts as a manipulative bully who harasses food store owners in Restaurant Road and blackmails his coworkers to get whatever he wants (possibly due to his time at the female prison in the season one finale and season two premiere). He is the PD counterpart of Brickleberry main cast member Connie Cunaman.
  • Snyder also voices Stanley Hopson (seasons 2–3; recurring season 1), an elderly bisexual police officer who often gets out-of-the-ordinary assignments from Chief Crawford. Even at his advanced age, Hopson is a sexually active deviant, who often recounts his sexual endeavors with other men. He is also senile, which leads to many comical misunderstandings. In the pilot episode, Randall reveals that they cannot retire Stanley because the city lacks the funds to pay his pension. He is the only main cast member to not have a Brickleberry counterpart, implying that he is naturally a Paradise PD character (or a standalone), while the other 6 are cop versions of the Brickleberry main cast (rangers).

Recurring[]

• Grey Griffin as Mayor Karen Crawford, the mayor of Paradise, Kevin's mother, and Randall's ex-wife.
• Waco O'Guin as Robbie, a blonde redneck who sells argyle meth. Bears a striking resemblance to Brickleberry character, Bobby Possumcods. Which in the Season 2 announcement video, revealed that Bobby and Robbie are related cousins.
• Roger Black as Delbert, Robbie's best friend and sidekick who also sells argyle meth. Also bears a striking resemblance to a Brickleberry character. In this case, it's BoDean (Bobby Possumcods' dim-witted friend). In the season one episode Task Force, Delbert gets attacked by the Kingpin's goons due to a decline in argyle meth sales and loses his right arm in the process; by the end of the first season, he gains a robotic prosthetic. In the season two episode Who Ate Wally's Waffles, it is revealed that Delbert's birth name was Wally and he was artificially created by imagineers at The Walt Disney Company to be their next Disney star; he is stolen by Robbie's family as a kid, renamed Delbert, and de facto adopted by Robbie's family after Robbie wanted Wally for his birthday.
• Dana Snyder as Thester Carbomb IV, Fitz's assistant and therapist found out in the season two finale. He first appeared in the season two episode Paradise Found. In season 3 episode Showdown at the O-bese Corral, he became overweight from eating his feelings when he was depressed for looking like Patton Oswalt.

Episodes[]

Season 1 (2018)[]

Season 2 (2020)[]

Season 3 (2021)[]

Production[]

Development[]

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.^[6] Production company and animation studio Bento Box Entertainment was expected to produce the series alongside Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.^[5][7][8][9] On October 30, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had renewed the series for a second season.^[1][2] The third season was announced in April 2020 and was released on March 12, 2021.^[3][4] The second season features a crossover episode with Brickleberry while making references throughout the latter half of the first season such as S01E09 (07:15) with Fitz, the only black police officer on Paradise PD, being called Denzel, the only black park ranger on Brickleberry by Kevin, Steve’s doppelgänger.

Casting[]

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.^[5]

Release[]

On July 25, 2018, the first trailer for the series was released alongside the announcement that it would premiere on August 31, 2018.^[10]

Reception[]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an approval rating of 40% with an average rating of 5.03/10, based on 5 reviews.^[11] 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."^[12] 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."^[13] 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."^[14]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Paradise PD at IMDb