If you lived here, you’d be dead already.
Grimsburg is an American Animated Sitcom created by Catlan McClelland & Matthew Schlissel. It follows Det. Marvin Flute (played by Jon Hamm), who may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown and correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there's one mystery he still can't crack - himself. To do that he must return to Grimsburg and redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow detectives, his ferocious ex-wife and his lovably unstable son.The show also features Rachel Dratch, Erinn Hayes, Kevin Michael Richardson, Alan Tudyk, Greg Chun, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Kaniehtiio Horn.
It began airing on Fox in 2024. It was renewed in 2022 for a second season.
Tropes for the series:
- Alliterative Name: Wynona Whitecloud.
- Beyond the Impossible: Flute manages to somehow do the chicken dance so well, he actually defies gravity and flies for a bit.
- Bloody Hilarious: The show is about catching killers, and boy is it not shy about showing the aftermath of their grisly deeds.
- Clear My Name: In "The Flute-itive", Marvin is framed for murder and goes on the run to find the one who did it.
- Couch Gag: The slogan on the "Welcome to Grimsburg" billboard in the opening changes in each episode.
- Cyborg: Greg Summers, as he had a serious accident with a carousel prior to the series.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: The town lawyer, Loni, is a woman from 1984 who fell through a rift in time and space while at the shopping mall.
- Imaginary Friend: Stan has one called Mr. Flesh, a skeleton with flaming eyes and a Camp Gay personality.
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Dratch and Tudyk previously worked together on Harley Quinn (2019).
- More Criminals Than Targets: Justified with the titular town, which despite being a small city, has a comically high rate of violent crime. That's because the town's been cursed since a mass virgin sacrifice during colonial time (although the town can't have been that peaceful to begin with, if they're performing mass sacrifices).
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The killer in “The Flute-itive” that Stan befriends is an obvious parody of Timothée Chalamet, with Marvin even calling him “Timothee Shallow Grave”.
- One-Word Title: Grimsburg and Pilot.
- The Place: The fictional town of Grimsburg.
- Popping Buttons: In the opening sequence, Marvin Flute is introduced looking trim, until the bottom button of his shirt pops, revealing a beer gut.
- Raised by Wolves: Marvin's ex-wife Harmony was raised by bears.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: The man running the town's used appliance store is absolutely NOT Tom Petty, hiding years after his supposed death. Nor is his assistant manager Prince. Really.
- Wedding Episode: "Say Yes to the Death" has the Grimsburg PD going undercover at a wedding to stop a serial killer who goes after whoever catches the bouquet. Things get complicated when Marvin and Harmony, who crashed the wedding, get in a competition to see which of them is the "fun one".
