Animated Night

***Animated Night*** is an American animated sketch comedy television series produced by Universal Television Animation, Amblin Animation and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. The series follows three animated characters as they trying to run their own sketch shows of their very own. Besides the original main characters, the series also featuring Universal and Amblin animated characters (including those of GlobeBox, Illumination and DreamWorks characters) and non-Universal characters. The series first premiered on NBC on November 10, 2002, and is inspired by NBC's own *Saturday Night Live*, Fox's *Mad TV*, and Nickelodeon's *All That* and *The Amanda Show*.

The series was renewed for a twenty season which premiered on November 11, 2022. It is currently NBC's longest-running animated series to date.

## Recurring sketches

* **What If...** - A collection of animated sketches which series alternate (non-canon) scenarios. They are similar to *The Simpsons* "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween episodes in being non-canon and segmented episodes.
* **Commercials** - Episodes usually and generally begin with a parody advertisement for an absurd product.
* **Draw with Danny and Gracie** - A tutorial sketch starring Danny and Gracie Splatt as they learn how to draw various pictures. This sketch was discontinued at the end of the fifth season.
* **Judge Lucy** - A parody of the courtroom show *Judge Judy*, the sketch stars Judge Lucy (played by Lucy Danza), a 13-year-old judge, and the Bailiff (played by Tacker), and features a plaintiff "suing" a defendant for petty grievances, such as receiving detention, being told to "please stop" or other wrongdoings. Regardless of the merit of the defendant's case, Lucy always finds in favor of the plaintiff, if necessary inventing reasons to do so, and sentences the defendant to an absurd punishment. Each Judge Lucy sketch typically involved two cases, and would end with Lucy saying, "Bring in the dancing elves!", after which the elves would enter the courtroom and dance with the spectators.
* **Many Ways to Outsmart Your Enemies** - A parody and spoof of *Wanna Kick Rayman* from *Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc*. This animated sketch focuses on a fictional series of 600 video and DVD episodes created by Howdy to train other characters outsmart their enemies. Each episode starts with a fictional "buy 600 get 1 free!" offer, followed by the main content. The videos show creative and odd ways that Howdy devises to beat up an animal that has the role of other bad guys. Sometimes the animals prevail and manage to attack Howdy.
* **The Boys' Room** - A TV show that takes place in the boys' bathroom of a high school, but for one episode, took place in the girls' bathroom of the same school while a flood was being remedied in the girls' bathroom.
* **Blockblaster** - A parody of *The Amanda Show* sketch Blockblister, this sketch involves customers trying to rent popular movies, (such as *Spider-Man*) and instead ending up with ridiculous knock-off versions which were poorly acted out by the vaguely Eastern European family (played by Daniel, Jamya, Lenny, Cole, and Roy.)
* **Totally Jenny** - A short sketch starring Jenny Clarke who tells vapid, nonsensical stories, usually beginning with the line "One time..." and uses the words "like" and "all" a lot. Following Jenny's departure, this sketch was discontinued at the end of season 16.
* **Ask Zanny & Dayton** - An animated talk show sketch starring Zanny and Dayton, who is always positive to host on their own talk show until they reads hand-written letters and digital email letters sent in by clueless viewers who are the show fans and haters. After reading a hate letter made by a show hater, Dayton would shred the entire letter into pieces and go on a violent tirade against the hate letter's author.
* **Ashley's Point** - An over-the-top parody of teen dramas from the late 90s and early 2000s such as *Dawson's Creek*, *Caitlin's Way*, and *Moody's Point*. The segment is presented as a show-within-a-show, and focuses on Ashley Johnson (played by Lucy Danza), an emotionally exaggerated teen whose mother was lost in a "tragic hot air balloon accident" and whose odd father struggles with losing a finger near the end of the series. At the end of the last episode, the screen shows the words "To Be Continued", but the sketch was discontinued at the end of the fifth season, ending Ashley's Point with a cliffhanger. Tom Ruegger had pitched an actual spin-off series called "Ashley's Point" to GlobeBox, but the series was not green-lit.
* **Frenzy Gaming** - This sketch was introduced in the sixth season.
* **So You Wanna Win Ten Dollars?** - A parody of the game show *Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?* hosted by Dayton. The contestant, usually a character from another recurring skit on the show, who isn't very bright, is asked five questions, with the final question being worth ten U.S. dollars.
* **The Guards Behind the Backstage** - This animated sketch stars Jim, Tom, Dan, Sam, Max and Jeff as security guards for the backstage of the show.
* **COPS: In Toonville**: A parody of police-themed reality television series (mainly *COPS*) that follows incompetent police officers, constables and sheriffs in a city populated by cartoon characters.
* **Stranded** - A parody of the hit CBS reality TV series *Survivor*. The players, usually repertory players and characters from other skits, are stranded in a strange location and were required to stay and deal with one another.
* **Cringeworthy Junk** - A collection of animated sketch that shows cringe stuff. It started with episode 1 of Season 15.
* **When... Attack** - A parody of dramatic crime documentaries, such as *When Animals Attack!*. Kasen introduces himself as a famous character, then explains how a certain inoffensive group have been attacking people. Sketches ended with the attackers showing up in the studio. Kasen also shows no sympathy for the victims of the attack.
* **Animated Night's Storybook Remix** - A sketch detailing remixed versions of popular children's books.
* **Classic (and Modern) Cartoon Parodies**: One-shot spoofs of cartoon characters and shows from Mickey Mouse, *Noveltoons*, *Looney Tunes* and *RandomToons* to Johnny Bravo, Arthur Read, and *The Fairly OddParents*.
* **The Real Princesses of Toonville** - Introduced in the nineteenth season, three princesses who are stuck-up and from Toonville re-live fairy tales in modern day.
* **Animated News** - This animated sketch stars Declan and Lindsey as newscasters who end up delivering the recent news. Starting with Season 2, the sketch serves as the cold opening for every episode. This sketch is also similar to the Weekend Update from SNL and MAD News from Cartoon Network's *MAD*.

### One-shot sketches

*Main article: List of Animated Night one-shot sketches*
## Episodes

*Main article: List of Animated Night episodes*
## Voice cast

### Repertory players

*Coming soon!*

## Trivia

* The series shares various similarities with Adult Swim's *Robot Chicken*.

*More coming soon!*