Kitchen

Kitchen is an American adult animated black comedy series that ran on Tetragon from June 7, 1999 to TBA, 2016. Developed from various comic strips and earlier concept art by Ralf Hat, Kitchen's components consists mainly of surrealism mixed with graphic violence and off-color humor. It centers through the daily lives of three young delinquents: Victor, Pants, and Chuck, who struggle to cope within the fictional city of New Sodom, overwhelmed with mentally insane citizens, a corrupt government, and quite peculiar disasters and mayhem. Considerably infamous for its violent nature and darkly bizarre scenarios, Kitchen is marked as Deadpan Productions' first adult-orientated series. Tetragon gained quite success with the series, as it was slowly gaining popularity (later dragging the series into multiple controversies, whether intentional or not).

Premise
Kitchen’s alternate universe is an unusual one where humans coexist with sentient vegetables and other foods. In its version of the United States, a 51st state, (which takes up northern California and Southern Oregon) holds America’s most dangerous city, New Sodom ― the main setting of the series. Surrounded by rural areas, dense forests, and numerous nuclear test sights, New Sodom remains as an isolated American boundary. Due to its lack of a stable government, the city is heavily overran with extreme crime rates and casualties, with a low life expectancy for most of its citizens.

The series focuses around the daily exploits of three middle school friends, which consists of Victor McCoy, a paranoid religious fundamentalist from an upper middle-class family, who posses a secretly perverted mindset; Adolfo “Pants Goldstein, a chain-smoking aggressively egocentric orphaned child with criminal tendencies; and Charles “Chuck” Daucus, Pants' roommate and a -esque super genius with a snarky temper. Quite aware of their surroundings, unlike the other residents, the trio struggle to cope within their society and seek ways to avoid the perilous situations they usually drive themselves into. Like average American children, the main characters go to school with their peers, experience the challenges of preadolescence, and explore their surroundings. Being a long-running series, Kitchen has introduced many secondary and recurring characters over the coarse of its run.

The series emphasizes a bizarre satirical take on topics including childhood innocence and trauma, society, American culture, the media, violence and various taboo subjects varying per episode. Unlike most mainstream adult animation, the series tends to stray away from pop culture references and mainstream politics. Surrealism, violence, and psychedelic imagery are three elements which gives the series its identity. are hidden within its optimistic and colorful tone. Examples of this include Kitchen's condoning of underage drinking and smoking, mass murder, and crude humor which many would find sickening.

Every episode of Kitchen features violence, whether it be displaying a killing spree or simple ridiculous slapstick humor. Modern seasons depict the violent nature as more intense and extreme, while older seasons feature less detail and fatalities. A crucial running gag within the series is when main or secondary characters die within an episode and later on return alive in the following episodes.

Main characters

 * Victor:
 * Pants:
 * Chuck: A half-carrot and half-pea; Chuck is a well mannered child prodigy whose first appearance was in the series' second season finale, Go Chuck Yourself.

Secondary characters

 * Christine:
 * Tim:


 * Mr. Henry:
 * James:
 * Nora:
 * Macles:
 * John: The most popular guy in school; A chickpea from Brooklyn who wears 60's greaser attire.

Recurring characters

 * Eric:
 * Mayor Bigg: The power-hungry, corrupt, and childlike mayor of New Sodom ― a green pea. Bigg is a diminutive person who never takes his job as mayor really seriously. His smug egomaniac personality helps drive his urge for wealth and power, to the point where he will even sell out his own citizens in return for useless offers. Having much power over the city, Bigg has managed to commit acts of amoral tasks all over New Sodom (e.g. turning animal shelters into Chinese restaurants, dumping raw sewage into the national parks, allowing underage drinking and smoking, and even manipulating the city's ethnic groups against one another for his own amusement). He has been regarded as the series main antagonist, especially during seasons thirteen through sixteen.
 * Betty: The mayor's beloved assistant; a stick of asparagus. Sarcastic, depressed, and being held against her own will, Betty is always dragged into Bigg's greedy shenanigans which always end up backfiring on the two of them.
 * Principal Brühwurst: A German sausage; The principal of the middle school.
 * Lester The Molester: Lester is a humanoid figure with a lemon for a head; A local con-man, sex offender, and drug dealer, who owns various businesses and retails around the city, and most notably runs the city's black market. He has plenty of sexual fetishes and perverted undertones (hence his name). His criminal lifestyle, successful swindles, and short temper often relates to Pants, who sees Lester as some kind of role-model or father figure, and Lester will occasionally drag Pants along to accompany him during his crimes.
 * Happy Hal: A well respected popular celebrity, entertainer, and star poster child of the city. Hal is a fun-loving optimistic person, who seems to be a parody of Pee-wee Herman and Bob Ross. His gleeful character is oblivious to the chaos surrounding him, and his gentle ways of generosity contrasts against the typical majority of residents. Hal's tenderhearted personality and popularity displays a tone of friendship that even the most psychopathic criminals wouldn't dare harm him. He is a common inspiration of Victor, Pants, and Chuck, who are large fans of his.
 * Maddi:
 * Bricks: One of the most recurring antagonists in the series; the self-proclaimed "arch nemeses" of the main cast.
 * Eugene:
 * Sarah:
 * Boss Baldwin:
 * Coach Jim Coach:
 * Señorita Pacito: The school's promiscuous hooker Spanish teacher; a Mexican-American college graduate with a talkative and snappy attitude. She is a complete flirt for the most part, often teasing most of the male staff in school and her numerous lovers (which she will always takes advantage of, only to part with them within a few days).
 * Sheriff Markson:
 * The Cops:
 * Gregly Geewhiz:
 * Aden and Alex Bigg: Mayor Bigg's spoiled sons; fraternal twins with obvious sociopathic minds. They are widely infamous within school for being such nuisances and bullies. They find joy in other's misery, and will often use their cruel chaotic pranks for their own amusement, just as their father does. Aden is the "leader" of the two, and possess a unibrow and a bowl cut, while Alex is bigger and has a light mustache.
 * Keith, Robert, Miller:
 * Simon:
 * Satan:
 * Super Sam:
 * Melvin:

Other characters

 * Lady Lilith:
 * Ms. Lard:
 * Mitchell Michaels:
 * Blake:
 * Julian:
 * Broccles:
 * Epic Deezys:
 * Spoon:
 * Terry The Tree:
 * Santa Clause:
 * The Vanderbilts:
 * The Newmans: A remotely average middle-class family from California, whom recently moved to New Sodom for business duties. Being straight up average American citizens, the Newmans are completely unaware of their surroundings, and will usually experience the many oddities and casualties the city has to offer. They replace the Vanderbilt family as the McCoy family's neighbors in season six.
 * Regal Warmonger Imperial III:
 * Jose and The Esés:

Seasons
"Main article(s): List of Kitchen episodes"

Film
"Main article(s): Kitchen: Real & Raunchy"Deadpan Productions worked alongside with 3 Arts Entertainment, and Titmouse, Inc to release Kitchen: Real & Raunchy, an animated film adaption of the series, in 2009.