Get Away From My Mom [SEP] series
Get Away From My Mom
"Get Away From My Mom" is the pilot episode of the American animated sitcom "Home Movies." It originally aired on the UPN network in the United States on April 26, 1999. In the episode, eight-year-old Brendon Small discovers that his mother, Paula, is set to have a date with Brendon's soccer coach, the lazy, profane alcoholic John McGuirk. Brendon resents McGuirk for this and expresses his outrage throughout the episode. The date goes terribly and
. This sweet ass series[...]is not always subtle - unless a child showing another how to have fun with a runny nose is intellectual - but it nicely plays off the inherent absurdities and weirdness of everyday modern life." Dennis Landmann of DVD Freak wrote that the episode "sets up the tone quite well, for it develops the aspirations of Brendon becoming a filmmaker," and praised the confrontational scenes that occur between McGuirk and Brendon.
External links.
- "Get Away From My Mom" at Adultswim.com