History WesternAnimation / CloseEnough

Originally scheduled to air in 2018 as part of a new adult animation block on Creator/{{TBS}}, it [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment fell into limbo]] after production on companion show Creator/LouisCK's ''The Cops'' was cancelled due to C.K. being outed for sexual misconduct[[note]]though ''Final Space'' ended up airing anyway, a short-lived and mostly forgotten series ''Tarantula!'' also aired, but didn't get renewed for another season; and ''American Dad'' is still on TBS[[/note]]. ''Close Enough'' would premiere two years later through Creator/HBOMax on July 9, 2020. Season two released on February 25th, 2021, following the announcement that HBO has ordered [[https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/hbo-max-orders-three-adult-animated-series-clone-high-velma-and-fired-mars-picks-two a third and fourth season]]. The third season premiered on April 7, 2022. International distribution via Creator/{{Netflix}} began on September 14, 2020.

Originally scheduled to air in 2018 as part of a new adult animation block on Creator/{{TBS}}, it [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment fell into limbo]] after production on companion show Creator/LouisCK's ''The Cops'' was cancelled due to C.K. being outed for sexual misconduct[[note]]though ''Final Space'' ended up airing anyway, a short-lived and mostly forgotten series ''Tarantula!'' also aired, but didn't get renewed for another season; and ''American Dad'' is still on TBS[[/note]]. ''Close Enough'' would premiere two years later through Creator/HBOMax on July 9, 2020. Season two released on February 25th, 2021, following the announcement that HBO has ordered [[https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/hbo-max-orders-three-adult-animated-series-clone-high-velma-and-fired-mars-picks-two a third and fourth season]]. The third season premiered on April 7, 2022. International distribution via Creator/{{Netflix}} began on September 14 2020.

Originally scheduled to air in 2018 as part of a new adult animation block on Creator/{{TBS}}, it [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment fell into limbo]] after production on companion show Creator/LouisCK's ''The Cops'' was cancelled due to C.K. being outed for sexual misconduct[[note]]though ''Final Space'' ended up airing anyway, a short-lived and mostly forgotten series ''Tarantula!'' also aired, but didn't get renewed for another season; and ''American Dad'' is still on TBS[[/note]]. ''Close Enough'' would premiere two years later through Creator/HBOMax on July 9, 2020. Season two released on February 25th, 2021, following the announcement that HBO has ordered [[https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/hbo-max-orders-three-adult-animated-series-clone-high-velma-and-fired-mars-picks-two a third and fourth season]]. The third season is currently set for April 7, 2022. International distribution via Creator/{{Netflix}} began on September 14 2020.

** There are numerous references to Quintel's previous series ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': for example, the park house is put up for sale on "The Perfect House", Josh and Emily's kitchen wallpaper have silhouettes of Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, Benson, and Pops; there's a [[SubliminalSeduction backmasked message]] in "Skate Dad" urging the viewer to buy ''Regular Show'' [=DVDs=] (on the shot of the demonic skateboard), "Cool Moms" has one of the little girls in the arm wrestling gym wearing an "I'm Eggscellent" trucker cap, and a set of condoms seen in "The Canine Guy" have Mordecai's face on them. In season 2, "Sauceface" repeatedly shows [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvKLE3hXUAIxozX.jpg a lunchbox]] with a picture of Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Pops and Benson. "Cyber Matrix" starts out at the Park.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: The appropriately titled ''Houseguest from Hell'' centers around Emily's horrible college friend moving into the house, with her having to find the courage to tell her to leave.
* TimeyWimeyBall: ''Time Hooch'' has Alex and Josh go on a trip through time using the eponymous hooch to try and keep Alex's relationship from falling apart. They successively visit various milestone arguments in their journey and bring the Alex's of those times back with them, all the way to their first meeting. In the end all the extra Alex's end up in prehistory, where they end up preserved in amber, leaving them to be discovered by a more recent but still in the past company that wants to clone a caveman, implied to be where Alex himself comes from in a StableTimeLoop.

* VocalDissonance: The youtuber who Bridget tries to hit on ends up being a literal ''baby'' with a deep voice.

* VomitChainReaction: In ''The Erotic Awakening of A. P. La Pearle'', this is everyone's [[BrownNote reaction]] to finding out Alex wrote ''[[EroticLiterature The Rigid Helmet]]''. Or saying anything sexual in general.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Happens on occasion, such as the stripper clowns in "No Stress Day", one of the drunken moms in "Birthdaze", and Emily in "Secret Horse".

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: "Venice Vengance reveals the show takes place in 2026.

* {{20MinutesIntoTheFuture}}: "Venice Vengance reveals the show at present takes place in 2026.

* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: "Venice Vengance reveals the show at present takes place in 2026.

Originally scheduled to air in 2018 as part of a new adult animation block on Creator/{{TBS}}, it [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment fell into limbo]] after production on companion show Creator/LouisCK's ''The Cops'' was cancelled due to C.K. being outed for sexual misconduct[[note]]though ''Final Space'' ended up airing anyway, a short-lived and mostly forgotten series ''Tarantula!'' also aired, but didn't get renewed for another season; and ''American Dad'' is still on TBS[[/note]]. ''Close Enough'' would premiere two years later through Creator/HBOMax on July 9, 2020. Season two released on February 25th, 2021, following the announcement that HBO has ordered [[https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/hbo-max-orders-three-adult-animated-series-clone-high-velma-and-fired-mars-picks-two a third and fourth season]]. International distribution via Creator/{{Netflix}} began on September 14 2020.

* CoolCar: Josh and Emily's red mid-90s Corolla is a mundane sight, especially in a car-centric climate like Southern California, but it's pushed to its limits and remains faithful to its owners without missing a beat. Not to mention, for a single-child 30-something married couple living in a shared apartment, very appropriate.

** In "Robot Tutor", Alex tries to convincing Bridgette to get off of her phone by asking her "Why don't you put your phone down and get in the shell? There's a pearl in here". A [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Pearl in a shell]] sounds pretty familiar.

A surreal take on transitioning from an irresponsible twenty-something to a somewhat responsible thirty-something, the series revolves around a married couple, Josh (an aspiring video game developer who works at a Best Buy-style electronics store) and Emily (an aspiring musical comedian), who live in a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles apartment alongside their five-year-old daughter, Candice; their two divorced best friends, Alex (a community college professor) and Bridgette (a social media influencer who doesn't have a regular 9-to-5 job because she's from a wealthy family; their landlord, an elderly black former policewoman named Pearle, and her white, adopted son, Randy, employed as the apartment's handyman.

** "So Long Boys" shows how there's nothing inherently wrong with deciding to have or not have kids. Any good parent would tell you that raising kids can be just as rewarding as it is difficult, but parenting isn't for everyone and that's okay.

** In ''The Erotic Awakening of A.P. LaPearle'', Alex makes an erotic novel set in the Viking era and the use of pink is predominant. Lady Saveria wears pink lipstick and goes to a pink bed with Rothgar to have sex but Alex is cut off before he read out the sex scene.

* RuderAndCruder: ''Close Enough'' is raunchier than ''Regular Show''. Justified, since ''Close Enough'' is an actual adult cartoon rather than a kids' cartoon [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar with questionable jokes meant for adults]].

A surreal take on transitioning from an irresponsible twenty-something to a somewhat responsible thirty-something, the series revolves around a married couple, Josh (an aspiring video game developer who works at a Best Buy-style electronics store) and Emily (an aspiring musical comedian), who live in a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles apartment alongside their five-year-old daughter, Candice; their two divorced best friends, Alex (a community college professor) and Bridgette (a social media influencer who doesn't have a regular 9-to-5 job because she's from a wealthy family); and an elderly black former policewoman named Pearle and her white, adopted son, Randy (revealed in season 2 to be a handyman).

** There are numerous references to Quintel's previous series ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': for example, the park house is put up for sale on "The Perfect House", Josh and Emily's kitchen wallpaper have silhouettes of Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, Benson, and Pops; there's a [[SubliminalSeduction backmasked message]] in "Skate Dad" urging the viewer to buy ''Regular Show'' [=DVDs=] (on the shot of the demonic skateboard), "Cool Moms" has one of the little girls in the arm wrestling gym wearing an "I'm Eggscellent" trucker cap, and a set of condoms seen in "The Canine Guy" have Mordecai's face on them. In season 2, "Sauceface" repeatedly shows [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvKLE3hXUAIxozX.jpg a lunchbox]] with a picture of Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Pops and Benson. "Cyber Matrix" starts out as the Park.

** There are numerous references to Quintel's previous series ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': for example, the park house is put up for sale on "The Perfect House", Josh and Emily's kitchen wallpaper have silhouettes of Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, Benson, and Pops; there's a [[SubliminalSeduction backmasked message]] in "Skate Dad" urging the viewer to buy ''Regular Show'' [=DVDs=] (on the shot of the demonic skateboard), "Cool Moms" has one of the little girls in the arm wrestling gym wearing an "I'm Eggscellent" trucker cap, and a set of condoms seen in "The Canine Guy" have Mordecai's face on them. In season 2, "Sauceface" repeatedly shows [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvKLE3hXUAIxozX.jpg a lunchbox]] with a picture of Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Pops and Benson.

** HulkSpeak: He also briefly degenerates to this after becoming a muscle-bound monster in the same episode.

** MadeOfExplodium: Just like its predecessor, anything - from an [[spoiler: alleged]] orphan hitting a mailbox, to skateboards - ''will'' explode or [[IncendiaryExponent burst into flames]] if it's sufficiently funny or dramatic enough.

A surreal take on transitioning from an irresponsible twenty-something to a somewhat responsible thirty-something, the series revolves around a married couple, Josh (an aspiring video game developer who works at a Best Buy-style electronics store) and Emily (an aspiring musical comedian), who live in a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles apartment alongside their five-year-old daughter, Candice; their two divorced best friends, Alex (a community college professor) and Bridgette (a social media influencer who doesn't have a regular 9-to-5 job because she's from a wealthy family); and an elderly black former policewoman named Pearle and her white, adopted son, Randy (whose job hasn't been revealed yet).

*** The same episode also has Josh and Emily recreating the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU Turn Down for What]]" [[Music/LilJohn music video]].

** The same episode also has Josh and Emily recreating the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU Turn Down for What]]" [[Music/LilJohn music video]].