Sean’s Zany Sitcom

Sean’s Zany Sitcom is an American animated independent web-series featuring Sean and the intimate few from previous animated media produced by the gradually developing production of Remarkable Toons Inc. The series follows the continuing moments of Sean and his friends in the imaginary comically-created dimension based off of the original drawings and comic strips respectively.

The series debuted on September 27, 2020 on the Remarkable Toons YouTube channel (originally promoted as Sean’s Elusive Adventures: The Animated Series) being spun-off from the 3 animated short films Sean’s Christmas, Sean’s Valentine Blowout, and Sean’s Rapid Runaway. The first season of episodes originally premiered every 2-3 weeks until 2021 premiering every few Saturdays with episodes that run at approximately 10 minutes in running time. By mid 2021, the series went back to premiering episodes without a specific day of the week since deadlines weren’t being met properly.

Show Format
The episodes follow the traditional sympathetic every-day lifestyle of Sean and his friends in their adaptive universe. It mostly takes place at the high school Southmoore High with the main characters Sean, Jaylyn, and Stampy. The school is introduced where Sean and Jaylyn both start taking their regular academic classes (mostly focusing on the English class) along with them meeting the character Stampy who becomes one of the main characters as Sean’s second closest friend. They all three encounter numerous situations that they try to solve when dealing with forcible rules, intense disasters, encountering heavy social interferences, or sometimes unexpected mysteries. While in school, Sean usually deals with the ups and downs of his educational and social life along with his supportive peers. When elsewhere outside of school, he is seen dealing with the bizarre world in some quirky adventures.

Episodes
Sean’s Zany Sitcom episode list

Main Characters
Sean (voiced by Sean Malin himself)

Jaylyn (voiced by Jaylyn Dickens himself)

Stampy (voiced by Sebastian “Stampy” Adams himself)

Recurring Characters
Sam the Cat (voiced by Sean Malin)

Mrs. Wells (voiced by Abby Robinson)

Shrill (voiced by Shrill Desjard himself) (departed)

Dylan (voiced by Devin Bevil)

Aimee the Cheerleader (voiced by Abby Robinson)

Brittany the Cheerleader (voiced by Dylan Plank)

Ziyah the Cheerleader (voiced by Brianna Quinn S1E2-S1E5) (voiced by Brenda Curtis S1E8-Present)

Principal Wilson (voiced by Tavron Plato S1E2-S1E2) (voiced by Gavin Tuttle S1E4-Present)

The Coach (voiced by Andy Flynn)

Illusion (voiced by Ian Gallegos)

Minor Characters
Aiden (voiced by Matthew Edmunds)

Josh - News Reporter (voiced by Josh Britt)

Marcus (voiced by Luke Frisbee)

Sophie (voiced by Madison Meckert)

Mr. Krueger (voiced by Mikey Bennett)

Cafeteria Lady (voiced by Mason Adams)

Gravity - Stampy’s Dog

Cameos
Gerardo (voiced by Jaylyn Dickens)

Character Roles
Sean is portrayed as the sympathetic protagonist of the series usually getting himself into his antics. Jaylyn is portrayed as the more relaxed dude who is Sean’s best friend that’s usually pointing out the bad ideas in certain terms and has minor goof-arounds himself at times. Stampy is known to be a popular “cool kid” that’s witnessed amongst many others around him who involves an enthusiastic attitude. Dylan (and also Shrill before his departure) usually tag along in Sean’s antics in ways to help out. Illusion is a character portrayed as the comical imbecile who usually causes trouble or sometimes intends to act ahead of everyone’s time. The cheerleaders Aimee, Brittany, and Ziyah are all three the usual side-plot antagonists that are portrayed as egotistical and annoyingly stuck-up that intend to continuously bully the protagonist. Sophie is portrayed as a young carefree girl who lives her life in certain child-like ways. Aiden is portrayed as a typically clever problem-solver. Josh is portrayed as a news reporter on live television. Marcus is portrayed as an eager science lover.

In the faculty of Southmoore High, Mrs. Wells is the energetic English teacher who is obsessed with her particular subject. Principal Wilson is the somewhat bossy grouch leading the entire school. Mr. Krueger is the semi-British world-history/geography teacher, and science professor who’s firmly engaged to presenting historical facts to his classmates. The Coach handles the P.E. and athletic activites with a positive personality.

Sam is Sean’s pet housecat who is usually well-behaved but does have an aggressive side when he or someone he cares about feels threatened. Gravity is Stampy’s pet dog who loves to get himself into mischief most of the time.

Characters such as Gerardo and the Cafeteria Lady are used as rare supporting roles to keep a scene or two flowing properly.

Production
After Sean’s successful releases of 3 short animated cartoons up to the third and most recent one being Sean’s Rapid Runaway (2020), the creator Sean Malin decided to continue his work making an animated series. In late July Sean immediately started jotting down new ideas for a series continuation. After the ideas were written, him and his supervising writer Devin Bevil from Los Angeles, California looked over the planning and both discussed the writing for Season 1. Devin became the associate producer of the show as they organized the time management for the pre-production. Once ideas were finished, Season 1 started to get written originally planning to have over 26 episodes. However as the time went by throughout the month episodes had to be shortened down to 21, they were later shortened to 14 since Sean did not want the episodes to feel too rushed or cliché. A proper title was still in a process for the series which was originally going to either be The Sean and Jaylyn Show, Sean’s Elusive Sitcom, The Adventures of Sean and Jaylyn, and Yo It’s Sean’s Show. Devin said these titles were either too cheesy or bland. The series title became Sean’s Elusive Adventures: The Animated Series until Season 1 Episode 2 since they both realized their episodes do not focus on adventures very much. The title then became Sean’s Zany Sitcom since the series is written more as an animated situational comedy.

Once writing was mostly completed, Sean Malin and most of the previous crew got to work on their parts. For the voice cast, everyone reprises their roles from the last short film. Some however from the first two do not return to the cast which are Jeff Wheeler since the character Johnczz was expelled from his character role, Alyssa Cruz as the original voice of Aimee The Cheerleader, and others such as Layden Lacy who are awaiting future roles in later episodes. New voice actors joined the cast which are Andy Flynn as the Coach, Gavin Tuttle as Principal Wilson, Matthew Edmunds as Aiden, and additional roles from Isaac Grenton, JJ Humphrey, Dominic Dacoco, and Luke Frisbee.

For the animation, Sean Malin of course realized he had to animate several episodes within a certain amount of time. Animation quality had to be slightly reduced from the quality of Sean’s Rapid Runaway with however more background detail than before. Jaylyn and Dylan’s skin tone is also more pale than in the last film since color mixing was a bit stressful with time. When making character or inanimate shadows they sometimes appear softly shaded than straight out translucent with special brushes. Shading effects would sometimes appear but usually when in front of a bright light or zoomed angle in more of the style of television quality. Backgrounds are usually made to be flawless with continuity but are not always kept as perfectly in detail when in a second or third shot since work has to be finished on time.

The soundtrack has assistance from royalty free sites like incompetech by Kevin MacLeod and a British royalty free music group, NCS who performed the show’s theme song being the song “Out Here” sung by Kasger. Matthew Edmunds who’s helped with voices, writing, and sound composed background orchestra tracks for the series. The end credits theme is also by Kevin Macleod which is a song called “Quirky Dog” that can be heard in many other YouTube videos. Some other parts of the soundtrack are also by Kinemaster Music and others such as Alrota Music.

The series officially released on the Remarkable Toons Inc. YouTube channel where Sean’s Rapid Runaway released approximately 2 months prior to this series. Episodes premiered every 2-3 weeks until the production of Episode 4 making them release every 3-5 Saturdays if not longer. Sean Malin was on a hiatus throughout most of November 2020-January 2021 due to mental health problems. He was back to normal health by early January returning to work. By summer 2021 the premiere schedule was changed again making episodes release whenever they’re completed since Sean released episodes at the dawn of Sunday morning in Central and Eastern time. Sean Malin stated he did not want to rush anything during production to keep the right amount of quality at best.

Reception
Viewers of Sean’s animation media had found the series quite impressive for his young talents in filmmaking. However reactions to the trailers were mixed mostly on Newgrounds. Despite the cheesy promos, the series itself had audiences finding the show’s quality to be well entertaining and appealing to watch for all ages.

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