The Jumping Ground (season 14)

The fourteenth season of The Jumping Ground, an internationally co-produced animated television science fiction comedy series, originally aired in the United States on FX between September 8, 2010 and April 13, 2011. The season was headed by the series creators Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon, who served as executive producers along with Mic Graves. The season focused on the ever-continuing exploits of protagonists PuffPuff, Zowie, Lance, and Rob in the fictional Ohio city of Pencaster and across the Ida galaxy.
The season was the first of three new seasons Eisenhower and Vernon agreed to produce for the network under a renewal deal. It consisted of fourteen half-hour episodes, which aired in two groups of seven episodes separated by a three-month gap.
The season lampooned various topics, including the legalization of medical marijuana and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The season also parodied various cultural touchstones, such as The Catcher in the Rye, Tron, Facebook, Jersey Shore, Hoarders, and Inception. The parody of celebrities, a Jumping Ground tradition, continued in the fourteenth season, with depictions of Tiger Woods, Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the devotion of the entire episodes of "200" and "201" to past celebrities suing the city of Pencaster for defamation, as well as the Asgard giving the Langham student body their technology ahead of their impending extinction. The original broadcasts of "200" and "201" were altered to censor depictions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, to protect from threats delivered by radical Islamic extremists, which resulted in strong criticism against FX.
The fourteenth season received mixed to positive reviews, with some reviewers deeming it as an important season in the series' history, and others regarding it as progressively weak and stale. The season maintained the average Nielsen rating viewership for the series, around 3 million viewers per episode, with a slight decline in the latter half of the season. The episodes "200" and "201" were nominated for the 2011 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).
==Episodes==
No. inseries	No. inseason	Title 	Directed by 	Written by 	Original air date
196 	1 	"Sexual Healing" 	Danny Cannon 	Josh Holt and Joe Hanson 	September 8, 2010
197 	2 	"The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs"	Vincent Waller 	Jonathan Littman 	September 15, 2010
198 	3 	"Medicinal Fried Chicken" 	Joe Hanson 	Alan McCullough 	September 22, 2010
199 	4 	"You Have 0 Friends" 	William Gereghty 	Ryan Todd 	September 29, 2010
200 	5 	"200" 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	October 5, 2010
201 	6 	"201" 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	October 12, 2010
202 	7 	"Can You Spare a Dime?" 	Andy Mikita 	John G. Lenic 	October 19, 2010
203 	8 	"Poor and Stupid" 	William Gereghty 	Josh Holt 	March 2, 2011
204 	9 	"It's Good to Be King" 	Vincent Waller 	Josh Holt and Jon Hooker 	March 9, 2011
205 	10 	"Resurrection" 	Ron Wilkerson 	Andy Mikita and Ryan Todd 	March 16, 2011
206 	11 	"Coon 2: Highsight" 	William Waring 	Andy Mikita 	March 23, 2011
207 	12 	"Mysterion Rises" 	Danny Cannon 	Ryan Todd 	March 30, 2011
208 	13 	"Coon vs. Coon and Friends" 	Conrad Vernon 	Jonathan Littman 	April 6, 2011
209 	14 	"Crème Fraiche" 	Joe Hanson 	Josh Holt 	April 13, 2011
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