Business Tales

Business Tales (also known as Jane & Jake's Business Tales) is an American-Japanese-Canadian adult animated sitcom television series and media franchise created and produced by Puyo Puyo Enterprises. Developed by Russ Carney, Cynthia True and Todd Garfield and co-produced by Catjail Productions for Comedy Central, the series is the fourth installment of the Puyo Puyo Outside franchise, and also the seventh standalone spin-off of the Puyo Puyo franchise. It is also the first (and later only and final) official adult and teen animated entry in the franchise, and also one of the two final remaining entries alongside The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria in the Puyo Puyo Outside franchise. The earliest entry in the franchise aimed at teens was Iron Action Packed Fun Fights, which aired on MTV from 2006 to 2008. 
The series follows the adventures of businesswoman Jane Muchore (voiced by Sarah Jessica Parker) and businessman Jake Blackman (voiced by Sam Rockwell), who must uncover the truth to begin their joint effort despite trouble everywhere. Regardless of how there are always problems at work, Jane and Jake can do whatever they can to fix them while teaming up with Harry Williams (voiced by Michael Cera) and Emma Muchore (voiced by Emily Mortimer), while facing whatever they face, including their boss, Peter Davies (voiced by Thomas Kretschmann). 
The series originally debuted on March 21, 2008 on Comedy Central, before moving to Cartoon Network's late-night adult programming block Adult Swim effective April 22, 2015, while some second-run new episodes were aired on TBS on February 13, 2017, while reruns aired on The Pikmin Network for midnight premieres starting in early December 2022, with new episodes airing starting in early January 2023. The series ran for six seasons and 140 episodes. In February 2023, the series was later renewed for a 10-episode seventh season, which premiered on Sega Channel via its adult-oriented Sega Fun4Adults block on April 7, 2023. 
The series is also the #1 most popular, unique, and most profitable adult animated media franchise, and became the #1 most popular, unique, and most common entertainment series ever, while receiving generally positive reviews praising the humor for adults, jokes, comedic events and lots of profanity. The series was also made into a variety of video games, books, music and a 2011 theatrical feature film called The Business Tales Movie, released on July 22, 2011 by 20th Century Fox, for largely positive reviews.
On November 30, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced on the Sonic Media Post that Business Tales will conclude its run after 16 years. Months earlier, Sonic Media announced the discontinuation of the original ongoing The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria franchise, with later intentions to reboot the whole franchise. The 20-episode eighth and final season was announced to be premiered in March 2024 on Sega Channel via Sega Fun4Adults itself, with the final episode set to debut in summer 2024, concluding the ongoing franchise. Parker stated that the series was meant to be cancelled, although Sega Sammy Group confirmed that the series will end production with the newly-announced eighth and final season, which was the reason The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria franchise was about to get rebooted. Sega Sammy Group will be moving forward to produce adult animated projects due to the success of the newly-launched Sega Fun4Adults block, starting with the Persona Q: Shadows of the Labyrinth television series. 
On December 5, 2023, upon The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company's successful efforts with its original projects including Disney's Rock Gang (in conjunction with The Walt Disney Company) and upcoming ones including Warner Gaming Heroes and Greg & Lucy's Playground Adventures (which would have featured light sets of backs-to-backs, as opposed to the Puyo Puyo franchise's heavy sets of backs-to-backs), Sega Sammy Group announced that the Puyo Puyo Outside franchise will be "coming to its dramatic conclusion", and the franchise will no longer feature any outer spin-offs set in any different continuities. Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios is developing and producing new exclusive internal spin-offs to the Puyo Puyo franchise, including Puyo Puyo Kidzone, as most of them would be solely set in the Puyo Puyo continuity apart from the franchise, including the ones from Business Tales. However, on December 24, The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company mutually announced a new deal to sell the Puyo Puyo Outside series to Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios, continuing the series (although the latter had intended to end the series in favor of internal spin-offs). 
TPPTC will be focused solely on original projects and it would began producing adaptations to certain works. Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios would continue to produce the Puyo Puyo Outside franchise by developing new installments within the same universe, although The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company would manage the Puyo Puyo Tetris franchise (including the Tetris franchise but excluding the Puyo Puyo franchise), and it first conversation was for both films (the 2024 film and the 2026 film), both of which have shot back-to-back during development, originally conceived by actors Christine Marie Cabanos and Max Mittelman about the commencement back in late 2020. 
However, on January 14, 2024, amid of the discontinuation of the heavy back-to-back sets for mainline Puyo Puyo productions and the reusage of the 2025 reboot of The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria, president Shigeru Miyamoto announced that the discontinuation of Puyo Puyo Outside series have fully been restored, eventually cancelling all new installments (with the exception of Aaron and the Rusticles, which was reworked from a franchise into a animated film, and was delayed to its new June 2026 release), with Business Tales and the old incarnation of The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria being the true final remaining installments in the series as well.
==Plot==
Business Tales follows the businesswoman named Jane Muchore, an amazing woman who works in the office of Venustiano Carranza, where he works with his boss, Peter Davies, who owns the office. Later, Jane was spoiled by businessman Jake Blackman, who wanted to stare and stare at Jane, and Jane felt troubled by it. 
Jane decided to evaporate her greatest adventures, as she joined Jake on his side, and even though Jake's best friend Harry Williams and Jane's twin sister Emma Muchore had Jane and Jake's back, and come what may they always stick to them. 
Jane and Jake decided to go with the flow and teamed up to fight these opposites who are trying to destroy business as a whole.
==Characters==
The main characters of Business Tales are Jane Muchore and Jake Blackman, both voiced respectively by Sarah Jessica Parker and Sam Rockwell, who are the main protagonists of the series. Jane Muchore is a businesswoman who works in Venustiano Carranza's office, and he lives a pleasant life working in the office. 
One day, Jane was always spoiled by her best friend and co-worker, Jake Blackman, who wanted Jane to be caring in his mind, but Jane was furious with Jake, because Jake wanted to help Jane calm down and help them. Next, Jane Muchore and Jake Blackman's friends are Harry Williams (voiced by Michael Cera), Harry's best friend who is always scared of anything Jake tries to help out and is always nervous about trouble coming up; and Emma Muchore (voiced by Emily Mortimer), Jane's twin sister who had a crush on Harry. Jane and Jake's boss is Peter Davies. 
Recurring Business Tales characters were Ellen Briscott, Craig Reggan, Clark Posson, Caitlin Davies, Brian Lewis, Ben Andrews, Andrew Blutson, Roy Green, Natalie Skudder, Natalie Skiman, Matthew Skudder, Madeline Williams, Lilly Hendall, Jesse Hallstorm and Andre Custorm. Matthew McConaughey made a guest appearance in the episode "Money for Money!", where Matthew hangs out with Jane and Jake, who love each other around.
Caitlin is Peter's wife, while Natalie and Matthew are a husband and wife sibling team, with Natalie's boyfriend being Brian. Jesse is Jane's recurring friend who always turns everything else on its head. Jake and Jane embarked on exciting adventures over the first five seasons, where the season six premiere allowed Jake and Jane to marry and have two children: Max and Lucy, though Harry and Emma married in season seven and gave birth to their twin children: Stephen and Margot, whose aunt is Jane. Jane and Jake always dance at the end of some episodes of the fifth, sixth or ninth season. Jane and Jake's origin stories took place in the first episode of the ninth season.
==Episodes==
June 24, 2011	 	 	 	 	
 	3	22	March 17, 2012 	November 17, 2013	
 	4	6 	April 13, 2014 	January 25, 2015 	
 	4	7 	April 22, 2015 	March 27, 2016 	Adult Swim
 	5	10	June 20, 2016 	January 30, 2017 	Adult Swim
 	5	10	February 13, 2017	April 24, 2017 	TBS
 	6	7 	June 16, 2019 	June 22, 2020 	Adult Swim
 	6	8 	March 15, 2020 	December 21, 2020	TBS
 	7	10	April 7, 2023 	April 7, 2023 	Sega Channel
 	8	20	March 2024 	June 2024 	
==Production==
===Development===
In early 2004, Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced that it had decided to develop more franchises, following the successes of this family-oriented "Puyo Puyo" media franchise, along with spin-offs such as "The Adventures by Lipsy & Victoria and Evangelion Then, Todd Garfield, Executive Writing Consultant at Puyo Puyo Enterprises, said: "We could develop more interactive experiences popular aimed at family audiences, and while the Puyo Puyo franchise has become the No. 1 animated series ever owned, it's still a hit for everyone." Garfield previously wrote over 100 episodes of the long-running animated series "Puyo Puyo", which had been most successful in becoming the most highly rated children's television show, becoming one of the most interesting, profitable and most popular children's television shows behind SpongeBob Squarepants.
Garfield said there could be more franchises in development, such as two untitled projects, and proposed a "Lucy & Amanda" spin-off, which focused on two main characters exploring the center of the world together, which is actually a land on the surface. After working on the office, Garfield came up with the idea for an office-themed story, saying, "We'll have to think, but we can focus on two offices, and the office would be a Puyo Puyo show." Puyo Enterprises employees Russ Carney and Cynthia True planned the new spin-off of the franchise, aimed at family audiences. Garfield then emerged in the development of a new franchise that focused on the businesswoman as the lead, while Garfield will draw a new character, which later became Jane Muchore. While Carney and True draw another character, who will be a businessman, thus becoming Jake Blackman. Garfield, Carney, and True show both drawings to the employees of Puyo Puyo Enterprises.
Garfield has set his course on developing a new franchise for release in 2007. In June 2005, the CEO of Puyo Puyo Enterprises Goring Hollander confirmed that the new franchise would be released in late 2007 or early January 2008. Although this never came to fruition, Carney and True decided to develop two more characters, to be respectively Harry's best friend and Jane's twin sister. The two newest character names are Harry Williams and Emma Muchore. Carney then got involved to draw another character, Peter Davies, who is Jane and Jake's boss.
Carney confirmed that the new franchise, in development, is intended for a family audience. But fidelity calmed Garfield because Garfield was about to see other types of shows, which are South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy , Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost Coast to Coast. While Carney, True, and Garfield went to Six Flags Magic Mountain and saw the park office, they suggested an idea about restructuring the planned franchise into an adult-oriented one.
Warner Bros. achieved successes with the Harry Potter series, while approving its $153 million hits for the #1 popular adult block, Adult Swim, a block of adult animated programming that premiered on September 2, 2001 on Cartoon Network. Following this, Brazilian animation studio Vídeo Brinquedo announced a 5-year US broadcast and distribution deal with Adult Swim to release shows on DVD throughout Brazil, and Video Brinquedo and Adult Swim agreed to produce new animated feature films directed at mature audiences, while 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures announced to co-produce an R-rated action film directed by Ridley Scott and scheduled for a Christmas 2009 release. Despite that, Disney put fake or true rumors to the ideas between both companies, whatever it is said to be.
In early mid-2006, Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced that it would cut over $1 million from the production budget, with the box office leasing the reduction. Disney announced that, following the success of the upcoming film The Simpsons Movie, which will be released on July 27, 2007, Puyo Puyo Enterprises will enter the adult animation market. Garfield imagined how Snoopy came to an adult-oriented war against the army of planes that want to annihilate him, but Carney felt that having the planes annihilate Snoopy would be too lazy, as Carney indicated about heroes and villains through the protagonists. and antagonists.
Following the success of the TV series Happy Tree Friends on G4 in the fall of 2006, Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced its expansion, including the Puyo Puyo franchise, to the adult animation category to compete with Stupidyardigans Entertainment, which produces The Stupidyardigans franchise, including Upton Abbey, Doggy Doctors, US Figure Skating and The Magic Crown. 
Drew Edwards confirmed that the producers of the Puyo Puyo franchise wanted to look into adult animated assets that will expand the franchise, in which Maya Feldman, co-executive producer of Puyo Puyo Enterprises, stated that there are plans to that the Puyo Puyo franchise enter the adult animation market, in which Puyo Puyo Outside will get its own entry aimed exclusively at teens and young adults.
Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced that it will invest in the startup of the new spin-off entry in the Puyo Puyo Outside spin-off franchise featuring an adult-oriented office-themed entry, which became Business Tales. In that way, the new adult entry will focus on Jane and Jake, who will be the entry's protagonists, while both Harry and Emma will be the entry's deugonarists, and Peter will be the entry's tritagonist.
Then, in early June 2007, Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced the remodeling of "Business Tales" into the first adult animated sitcom produced by Puyo Puyo Television in the Puyo Puyo franchise, set to premiere on March 21, 2008, making it the first entry in the franchise not to originate as a web series. In July 2007, Comedy Central acquired the premiere rights to Business Tales and obtained a 26-episode order for the series. Catjail Productions, producer of The Hollywood Show, has been hired to co-produce Business Tales. 
===Writing===
Garfield, Carney and True announced the development to have each episode written, while Carney will focus on the new drawing of each episode, although they decided to write scripts with adult humor. This includes references to sex, violence, profanity, and alcohol. Carney sets out to write the scripts, whereas he assumed he would write more iconic episodes that are more generic for adult audiences alike.
Garfield said, "We'll start writing more adult movies that don't look like the original Puyo Puyo movies and TV shows." Carney said there could be drafts for new episodes, which are introduced throughout the series. Garfield led the team of employees at Puyo Puyo Television to develop new episodes that were more aimed at mature audiences.
While Carney stated that there was some solution to writing more episodes aimed at both teens and adults, he stated that there was a responsibility to write more scripted episodes that stemmed from adult-oriented stories. Carney stated that there was some possibility of writing more drafts of the series. Carney wanted to bloody the employees.
Carney wanted to realize that there was something special, that would center around these Puyo Puyo characters working any job. Puyo Puyo characters are admitted to meet these characters, while Puyo Puyo characters are a little different from the Business Tales character cycle.
===Casting===
Edwards passed the show's casting. The Puyo Puyo Television team lined up a actress to voice the main lead, Jane Muchore, who was involved in the action-packed commercial works scene, while Jake Blackman will be played by a male actor, which was discussed by the CEO from Puyo Puyo Enterprises Matthew Burst, who had stated "We'll be ready to start meeting casting, and that casting will focus on these characters who will be voicing the actors."
Kath Soucie was originally going to do the voice of Jane, but later turned it down due to reasonable effect, resulting in Kath never getting involved with the project. While the producers try to reshuffle the plans, the character of Jane Muchore was poorly written by Soucie herself, via Katey Sagal, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kenny, and John DiMaggio tried to get into the casting, but Puyo Puyo Enterprises prevented them from voicing the characters because the series "will be aimed solely at adults 18 to 34 years of age."
Therefore, Sarah Jessica Parker, who would later star in 2008's Sex and the City, was finally assigned to voice the character of Jane Muchore. Sam Rockwell, whose credits included The Statue, Galaxy Quest, The hitchhiker to the Galaxy, among others, came close to leading the charge, voicing the character of Jake Blackman. 
Rockwell and Parker chatted about the misadventures of Jane and Jake, while Parker was very proud to be able to voice any character he wanted. Rockwell didn't have to agree with that, saying, "We'll be ready to start over with a voice." Carney approved Rockwell and Parker to help voice these two characters together, while Parker and Rockwell decided to act as "leads" for these characters. 
Rockwell and Parker voiced the characters along the same lines, as Rockwell and Parker wanted to help these characters pass on that. Michael Cera was cast to help voice Jake's best friend, Harry Williams, who Cera stated to help Carney, who refuses to let Cera do that. Puyo Puyo Enterprises employees rejected Cera's plans to voice Harry, but Cera decided to approve the promise that Garfield would voice Harry again. Whereas, Emily Mortimer was brought to the front to voice Jane's twin sister, Emma. Parker promised Mortimer that voicing Emma would be a "suggested celebrity idea" for the character to voice her. Thomas Kretschmann was later hired to voice the fifth and final Business Tales main character, Peter Davies, Jane and Jake's boss. Kretschmann said, "We'll do a lot to voice Peter, but you might think I'm pretending to be Jane and Jake's boss, but that doesn't mean he's a big possum." 
Business Tales features the recurring cast of Jane Krakowski, Russ Carney, Kyle Massey, Rihanna, Josh Peck, Taylor Kitsch, Elliott Gould, Jessica Alba, Brooklyn Decker, Thomas McCarthy and Rob Huebel, providing voices to all of the series' recurring characters. It was assumed that Todd Garfield would provide the voice of Brian Lewis's character, while Jessica Alba approved voicing Madeline Williams, who is obsessed with helping make something new for Jane and Jake, which she felt nervous about it, though Jane and Jake decided to go ahead and make a great team with him. Bill Hader and Amy Poehler approved and voiced the characters Natalie and Matthew Skudder, the Skudder twins, whose girlfriend of Natalie's is Brian Lewis. 
Amy Poehler said, "We're really looking forward to being able to voice the Skudder twins, but Business Tales wanted to have twins." Hader said it's a special idea to act with "adorable grandeur."
===Animation===
Rough Draft Korea, which animates various projects in the Puyo Puyo franchise starting in 2002, was hired to provide animation for Business Tales. Carney wanted to include sex, language, blood and gore because he would have the special effects capability to help provide resolution between the show and he wanted to include domestic graphic nudistic content, which can be explicit. Carney said: "We'll be ready to get into the swing of the action, because all we want is to have entertainment." 
Carney said that they needed blood, gore and violence to achieve the action scenes, while Garfield adds nudity and profanity in the scenes, making Business Tales the most common black comedy. Carney said, "We'll take care of providing and bringing something for these things, but we may know how to work out this animation that's implicit in Business Tales." Animation was handled by Rough Draft Korea from the show's debut until 2010, when Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced its major restructuring, which will eventually move into mainstream entertainment content, lineups, and new stories. Starting with the second season, Titmouse took over the animation production of Business Tales. 
Although the Puyo Puyo franchise had its animation halted by Rough Draft Korea in 2010 when Puyo Puyo Enterprises transferred from original digital ink and paint production to successful anime-influenced Western animation work, Business Tales kept its digital ink. and paint production until 2012, when the animation studio founded by Puyo Puyo Enterprises employees, Aktuelle Animations Casts, took over animation for the Puyo Puyo franchise, including Business Tales. In 2012, Sega of America plans to acquire the potential rights to the Puyo Puyo franchise by acquiring Puyo Puyo Enterprises for $14 million, thus redistributing the library. After Puyo Puyo Enterprises merged with Sega of America in early 2013, Rockville Worldwide Studios acquired the merchandising rights to the "Puyo Puyo" franchise. 
Aktuelle Animations Casts was spun off as an independent, publicly traded company and continued to provide animation for the franchise, including Business Tales until 2018, when animation was switched to TMS Entertainment, which acquired the animation rights to the franchise, beginning with Puyo Puyo Orphans.
===Music===
In mid-2007, David Holmes, whose music credits include Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, was Hired to write the musical score for Business Tales, while Holmes sets out to have a successful opportunity to write music for Business Tales, in which Holmes stated We may be approved to produce new music. ' Holmes said: "It's not at all like there could be, wondering that we can talk about playing music for Business Tales, because our work followed something else." He wrote: "While he realizes that they're trying to refer to something that's legitimate, it developed through the same reaction to it. Holmes agreed to do instrumental effects, while making experimental music for the Business Tales score. Holmes agreed to develop more music for"Business Tales." In 2015, Theodore Shapiro announced that he will rewrite the music for Business Tales, while Shapiro said he can acquire music for Holmes' one for Business Tales, which he left to work on another music. Edward Shearmur composed the score for the film adaptation, which was released in 2011.
==Broadcast==
===Original domestic airing===
Business Tales debuted on March 21, 2008 on Comedy Central with the series pilot episode "Jane and Jake's Friendship". The series increased its run on Comedy Central for its second season on April 18, 2010, while all episodes of the first season aired under "Business Tales Marathon". The second season of the series debuted with two episodes airing at the same time for the debut of the second season. 
On June 14, 2014, Time Warner (predecessor of The Onward Company) acquired the broadcast rights to Business Tales for new episodes, beginning in 2015. After the fourth season, the show's first six episodes last aired on Comedy Central from September 2014 to January 2015, while the last seven episodes of the shows aired later on Cartoon Network's adult-oriented late-night programming block, Adult Swim. Adult Swim renewed "Business Tales" for a fifth season after airing the next seven episodes, with Comedy Central selling the rights to Business Tales to Adult Swim. TBS began airing reruns of Business Tales in October 2015, while FX and FXX aired the series from March 2015 to October 2019 in the US. 
The CW has acquired the rerun rights to Business Tales beginning in November 2020, to air new episodes beginning in late 2022 and early 2023. 
The full-length 20-episode seventh season of Business Tales was split into two 10-episode new runs: a 10-episode slot airing on Adult Swim and another 10-episode slot airing on TBS. Adult Swim aired the set of 10 episodes of Business Tales from June 20, 2016 to January 30, 2017, while TBS aired another set of 10 episodes of the show from February 13, 2017 to April 24, 2017. The eighth 15-episode season aired on both Adult Swim (for the 7-episode slot of the show) and TBS (for the 8-episode slot) from June 16, 2019 to December 21, 2020. 
Following The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company's acquisition of the Puyo Puyo franchise (which includes Business Tales) on February 1, 2021 upon its founding, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company took over the new-episodic running rights of Business Tales, in which the president of the newly established company Liam Mulvena stated that there's an easy way to venture this into adult animation. Adult Swim and TBS will maintain the off-network co-rights for "Business Tales" starting on September 18, 2021, after their broadcast of "Family Guy" ends.
In February 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced the renewal of "Business Tales" for a 7-episode seventh season, and the series will air on Sega Channel through its upcoming new adult-oriented series Sega Fun4Adults, which will feature live-action and animated programming content for adults produced by the Sega Sammy Group. Sega Fun4Adults will debut on April 7, 2023 at night of 10:00PM ET. 
===International airings===
Disney distributed Business Tales internationally outside the US. In Canada, the series premiered on Teletoon at Night beginning in January 2009, before later airing on the Canadian television network Global TV on April 11, 2010. In the UK, UK television channel Channel 4 has acquired the UK broadcast rights to Business Tales, debuting on April 11, 2010. January 2009. 
Comedy Central premiered Business Tales in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 11, 2009. MTV Networks International later acquired the international broadcast rights to Business Tales in 26 countries, to air the series on 28 different MTV and Comedy Central channels worldwide. Comedy Central is the current international broadcaster for Business Tales, while MTV is the former international broadcaster for Business Tales.
== Other media==
Business Tales has became a media franchise upon its debut. While the series was a longer popular celebrity hit, it has spawned into a number of video games, publications, toy lines, and merchandising. While Business Tales is one of the #1 adult animated comedy properties in history, it has rated over 45 million viewers to make adult-oriented Business Tales content support.
===Video games===
*Business Tales (2008)
* Business Tales: The Adventures of Jane and Jake (2010)
*Business Tales: Powerpot Pinball (2013)
*Business Tales: Our World (2015)
* Business Tales: Rockabye Business! (2019)
*Business Tales Racing (2023)
===Films===
Following the series' debut, Puyo Puyo Enterprises announced that it will produce a feature film based on Business Tales. In early summer 2008, it was announced that a feature film based on "Business Tales" was in development, with Carney set to direct it. Garfield was set to write the film's story, along with Thomas Krajewski, who wrote the film's story and screenplay. Edward Shearmur composed the score for the film, as opposed to the series itself, which was composed by Holmes.
John Davis of Davis Entertainment was set to produce a feature film based on Business Tales, titled The Business Tales Movie, which was joined by both Parker and Rockwell. In the film, Jane and Jake discover something new, as they embark on a wonderful meaning of family and friends. While Emma and Harry decided to continue the fight against the imperstors of the General Office, Jane and Jake decided to find a place that would save the life of Peter Davies before his death from a magical infection caused by the evil vampire Don Reckles, who had heard things and wanted to invade the city. 
The Business Tales Movie was released theatrically in the United States (followed by its international release in 16 countries between July and August 2011) by 20th Century Fox on July 22, 2011, three years after the series' debut. The Business Tales Movie grossed over $14.3 million domestically and $24.5 million internationally, on a worldwide budget of $38.8 million, while the film garnered mostly positive reviews for its story, humor, characters, music and comic elements.
===Toy series===
The Business Tales toy line began in 2009. In 2013, Hasbro released a variety of Business Tales toys aimed at mature audiences, while as of 2014 there were over 100 products available. Funko released toys under the brand name Business Tales beginning in mid-2017. The "Business Tales" toy line features a variety of dolls, picnic figures, and character balls. The Business Tales collectible sets were released in Australia on April 22, 2022.
===Publications===
*Business Tales: Book from the TV Series (2010)
*Business Tales: Coloring & Activity Book (2015)
*Business Tales: Our Show is On! (2017)
*Enjoy the Best of Business Tales (2020)
==Conclusion==
The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company bought the Puyo Puyo video game series and franchise in 2021. The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company was founded as the successor to Puyo Puyo Enterprises in 2022 to produce original projects using the Puyo Puyo style and influences, acquiring the entire Puyo Puyo back catalog, including those produced by Puyo Puyo Enterprises.
On November 30, 2023, nine days after the launch of Sega+, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced on the Sonic Media Post that Business Tales will conclude its run after 16 years, announcing the eighth and final season for the series, consisting of 20 episodes. The eighth and final season will premiere in March 2024, ahead of the release of the Nintendo MovieToons' upcoming King of the Penguins, which is scheduled to be released on March 1, 2024, a week before the release of the upcoming Kung Fu Panda 4. 
On December 5, 2023, upon The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company's successful efforts with its original projects including Disney's Rock Gang (in conjunction with The Walt Disney Company) and upcoming ones including Warner Gaming Heroes and Greg & Lucy's Playground Adventures (which would have featured light sets of backs-to-backs, as opposed to the Puyo Puyo franchise's heavy sets of backs-to-backs), Sega Sammy Group announced that the Puyo Puyo Outside franchise will be "coming to its dramatic conclusion", while Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios is developing and producing new exclusive internal spin-offs to the Puyo Puyo franchise, including Puyo Puyo Kidzone, as most of them would be solely set in the Puyo Puyo continuity apart from the Puyo Puyo Outside series, which will be sold to The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company, which now owns the entire Puyo Puyo Outside library, including the original incarnation of The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria itself, following the conclusion of Business Tales.
However, on December 24, it was suddenly announced that The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company and The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company would scrap the resistance, and planning a adversarial collaboration to both sell the Puyo Puyo Outside series to Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios and even letting TPPTC focusing on original projects and adaptations. Also, Sarah Jessica Parker expressed interest in rebooting Business Tales itself. Business Tales, alongside other installments in the franchise, was retained by The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, but consolidated under the Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios banner.
A year later, on January 14, 2024, it was announced that all of the planned Puyo Puyo Outside projects have been shelved, excluding Aaron and the Rusticles, which was redeveloped into a animated film and is delayed to 2026. As a result, Business Tales and the old incarnation of The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria served as the final external spin-offs in the Puyo Puyo franchise as well as the final remaining adult entry in the franchise itself, leaving the Puyo Puyo franchise to be now fully aimed solely at children and families.
==Reception==
Business Tales had received generally positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Business Tales" had an approval rating of 86% based on 124 critics, with an average rating of 8.34/10. Roger Friedman of The Hollywood Reporter described the series as having to feature the "greatest, most talented story ever told" in Business Tales. 
Jason Anderson of Buena Vista Archive praised the series for "stew of explicit and graphic content", with popularity rising through the efforts of "Business Tales" with positive reviews. Mark Pinaco of Record World stated that Business Tales is the biggest adult-oriented Puyo Puyo spin-off ever made, praising shows like The Simpsons' ', Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, Futurama, King of the Hill, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and among others. 
Jason Moore called "Business Tales" the most popular reception show ever made, and was praised for being #1 Greatest Famous Stories Ever. Business Tales is the unique, famous, loudest, coolest show that everyone ever wanted.
==See also==
*Family Guy
*The Puyo Puyo franchise
*The Simpsons
*Comedy Central
*Adult Swim
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