Kitchen

Kitchen is an American adult animated black comedy television series created by Ralf Hat for Kingson that ran from May 24, 1999 to September 12, 2016. The series revolves around the unusual exploits of three social outcasts who live in a depraved American city shrouded by dysfunctional residents who engage in criminal activities and anti-social behaviors on a regular basis. Their daily lives are consistently intervened by unconventional and extremely life-threatening situations, which they must use their survival instincts and awareness to overcome. The show serves as a satire on social integration, rejection, corruption and conformity, and is notoriously known for its dark subversive comedy, graphic violence, and heavily controversial subject matter. Kitchen is considered to be the first original Kingson programs to be aimed towards an older audience. The success of the series has since led to a media franchise which has received praise from critics and audience alike.

Premise
Kitchen takes place in the major city of New Sodom, which is located in the fictional 51st U.S State of Jefferson. Secluded and socially shunned from the rest of the nation, New Sodom is depicted as a crime-ridden, dystopian cesspool known for being a haven for the mostly depraved and undesirables of society, who regularly convey anti-social behaviors, are poorly educated, indulge in criminal and degenerative activities, and seem to reflect the worst aspects of humanity. The show chronicles Vic McCoy, Pants Schmidt and Chuck Lastname's daily exploits, three self-aware middle school outcasts who happen to be excluded from their own dysfunctional culture, joined by their eccentric peers. Their everyday lives are constantly fraught with danger surrounding every corner through unusual, ridiculous, and unlawful circumstances which they are forced to face on their own. Overtime, the series has also laid focus onto other supporting and recurring characters that are present in the main characters lives.

Main

 * Vic McCoy: The simplistic and frail main protagonist who is depicted as the everyman of the series. Vic is the most fortunate of his friends, born to and raised in a "mostly" average suburban household within one of the safest communities in the city. Having spent much of his childhood isolated from the outside world, Vic appears to be overly wary and unaware of his surroundings as a result. His friends Pants and Chuck normally direct him throughout life, and help him overcome the difficulties which prevent him from living a conventional life. Having had plenty of emotional outbursts and issues, he is arguably the most mentally disrupt of his peers, and the dysfunctional state of life does not seem to help him at all. Alongside this, though, Vic is still the most humble of the cast. The naïveté and gawkiness of Vic, along with his meek nature, are his most prominent flaws in the series. Although older episodes will show Vic's attempts and struggles to adapt to the rest of society, subsequent episodes portray him as embracing the truth of his social rejection.
 * Ezekiel "Pants" Schmidt: Pants is a juvenile delinquent brought up in an impoverished environment. Being an orphan after the death of his criminal parents, Pants grew up in a childhood without positive role models and has taught himself to idolize criminal conduct, a lifestyle of illegal activities, and is shown to hold a disdain for authority in general. Pants is a freeloading, morally inept conman who also spends a lot of his time attempting to cheat the system, and taking advantage of others for his own personal gain. He has been widely disliked by his colleagues as a result of his recklessly arrogant behavior, and is hated by a significant fraction of other characters that he has in some way wronged. His criminal background typically ranges from minor offenses, such as underage smoking and vandalism, to much bigger problems such as assault, armed robbery, kidnapping, and more. He lives with his younger brother Tim and close friend Chuck in a run-down orphanage.
 * Chuck Lastname: The cynical straight man of the group, as well as the most rationally behaved.
 * Christine White: An overachieving, athletic, popular girl at school. Although she is generally played off on the surface as something of a traditionally dim, chatty valley girl stereotype, Christine is relatively talented and . She seems to possess some sort of manic behavior
 * Daisha "Macles" Jakalakalaka: The school "weird girl", and a fellow member of the outcast lunch table.

Supporting

 * James McCoy:
 * Rachel McCoy: Vic's somewhat overly protective loving mother, and James' wife, depicted as a delusional, mentally ill religious fanatic who is sweet and caring nonetheless
 * Tim Schmidt: Pants' introverted ten-year-old younger brother
 * Mr. Henry:
 * John Johnson:
 * Eric Straightface: Another popular kid in school; John’s overly loyal best friend, and the school’s class clown. Despite being the "class clown,” Eric's jokes are not very amusing in the slightest but rather mean spirited, pulling uncalled pranks on peers, joking during the wrong time, or just annoying the cast with his unnecessarily boastfulness. He doesn't seem to do well with criticism and takes himself way too seriously to the point where he resorts to petty backlash whenever he is the one being teased or corrected. He comes across as more reprehensible than Pants (they both seem to have an open disliking for each other), and it is even revealed later on in the series that John is only friends with Eric out of pity.
 * Principal Gruber:

Recurring

 * Nadia Clemmensen:
 * Melvin:
 * Gort:
 * Patty Lee:
 * Mayor Bigg:
 * Betty:
 * Happy Hal:
 * Jerry Vanderbilt:
 * Chief Clayton:
 * Aden and Alex Clayton:
 * Agent "Dick" Hard:
 * J-Dawg:
 * The New Sodom Locos:
 * Erwin, The Wizard King of Belthor:
 * Rebeca Miller:
 * Señorita Eiza:
 * Coach Jim:
 * The Devil: The literal embodiment of evil who is actually a bleeding-heart capitalist business tycoon who views New Sodom as an opportunity to promote his sinful influence.
 * Gel Mibson:
 * Dan-o-Might:
 * Galvin Lemons:
 * Reverend Ugo Shepherd:
 * Helen:
 * Brendon:
 * James McCoy, Sr.:
 * Adam and Ruth Mason: Rachel's parents, James' in-laws, and Vic's maternal grandparents.
 * Mother Mercy: The ruthless power-obsessed owner of Mother Mercy's Orphanage For Unwanted Children, who undergoes the false disguise of an old innocent Catholic nun.
 * Orlando Rodriguez: A friendly immigrant who runs the mostly family-owned Mexican-American fast-food restaurant that Rachel works at, and secretly a member of the Mexican cartel.
 * Ski-Mask Guy:
 * Terrible Terry:
 * Morkel Jonny:

Development
The concept of Kitchen was unconventional to the channel on the basis of its subject matter during the time, and executives originally declined to allow such a boundary-pushing show to air alongside its library of mainly family-friendly content. However, the subsequent influx of an older teenage audience to the network through shows such as the short-ran Wage Guys, had prompted executives to rethink their decision. The development of the first season began in 1998, and the production team was gradually small and ran on a minimal budget.