Tom Goes to the Mayor
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Tom Goes to the Mayor is an animated series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
The series premiered on [adult swim] in November 2004.
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Plot
Budding entrepreneur Tom Peters moves to the sleepy little town of Jefferton, ("best known for its strip malls, buffet restaurants and run-down parks") with his wife and stepsons, hoping to make a name for himself. He presents his latest strange idea to the Mayor, who obligingly endorses them, though fairly often things don't go as planned.
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History
The series is based on an Internet short Tim and Eric produced in 2002 which they posted on their website, timanderic.com, and submitted to a number of film festivals as well as many of their favorite comedians. One of them, Mr. Show co-creator Bob Odenkirk, liked it so much he collaborated with them to adapt the short into a TV series, which premiered on [adult swim] in November 2004 with Odenkirk as executive producer.
The show has polarized [adult swim] viewers since its premiere, in large part because of its limited animation technique which involves taking pictures of the cast with different expressions and running them through a Photoshop filter to make them look like mimeographs.
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Main Cast
- Tim Heidecker as Tom Peters/Jan Skylar
- Eric Wareheim as the Mayor/Wayne Skylar
- Stephanie Courtney as Renee the Receptionist/Joy Peters
- Ron Lynch, Craig Anton as City Council Members
- Bob Odenkirk as various roles
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Episodes
| # | Title | Air Date | Guest Star(s) |
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Season One
| 1 | Bear Traps | 11/14/2004 | Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) |
| Tom and the Mayor devise a plan to encourage child safety in Jefferton by planting thousands of bear traps all over town. | |||
| 2 | WWLazerz | 11/21/2004 | |
| After Tom buys some World War II relics online, he decides to use the Mayor's education grant money to open a WWII-themed restaurant. The Mayor's nephew Terry, however, turns it into a pizza arcade. | |||
| 3 | Pioneer Island | 12/5/2004 | Patton Oswalt |
| Tom and the Mayor decide to commemorate Jefferton's past by rebuilding its frontier-themed amusement park. The Mayor decides to further relive the old days by shutting off the power in Jefferton. | |||
| 4 | Toodle Day | 12/12/2004 | Jeff Goldblum |
| Toodle Day is a Jefferton holiday where all the dogs in town get married, and the Mayor puts Tom in charge of it. | |||
| 5 | Rats Off to Ya | 12/19/2004 | Jeff Garlin |
| Christmas comes to Jefferton, and Tom has an idea for a line of novelty T-shirts which don't sell well...until the owner of Jester's Novelty Store steals it; then it becomes an overnight success. |
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| 6 | Porcelain Birds | 4/17/2005 | Maria Bamford, John Ennis, Edward Herrmann |
| The Mayor suggests that Tom invest in (worthless) porcelain birds to save the Jefferton bird sanctuary. | |||
| 7 | Vehicular Manslaughter | 4/24/2005 | Michael Ian Black |
| An old friend of the Mayor's pays him a visit while Tom has a plan to convert the town's fecal waste into renewable energy. | |||
| 8 | Boy Meets Mayor | 5/1/2005 | |
| Tom and the Mayor attempt to break a hot air balloon record to divert attention from the Mayor's recent sex scandal. | |||
| 9 | Calcucorn | 5/8/2005 | David Cross |
| Joy's ex-husband Todd films Tom's new reality series "Mi$ter Entrepreneur", as Tom markets a new invention which combines a calculator with a unicorn. | |||
| 10 | Gibbons | 5/15/2005 | Brian Posehn |
| Tom's annoying friend Gibbons drops in for a visit just in time for the Jefferton Friendship Expo. | |||
| 11 | Pipe Camp | 5/22/2005 | Sarah Silverman |
| Tom's idea for a health camp for boys doesn't go exactly as planned. | |||
| 12 | Re-Birth | 6/5/2005 | Scott Chernoff |
| While Tom is starting up a counseling firm, he finds out that his family is not registered with the Jefferton Department of Families. | |||
| 13 | Vice Mayor | 6/12/2005 | Fred Willard |
| The Mayor names Tom the new mayor of Jefferton's hobo slums. | |||
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Season Two
| 14 | My Big Cups | 6/5/2006 | Sir Mix-a-Lot, Dustin Diamond |
| Tom opens a store which sells 1.8-liter cups, while the Mayor is enamored with his stepsons' macaroni art. | |||
| 15 | Bass Fest | 6/12/2006 | Sean Hayes |
| Jefferton's annual Bass Fest is being held at the Richardson Family Dam, and Tom is concerned when he discovers the low bass frequencies produced could rupture it. | |||
| 16 | Jeffy the Sea Serpent | 6/19/2006 | Fred Armisen |
| Tom and the Mayor try to boost tourism by starting a legend of a (man-made) sea serpent in Jefferton's Man-made Lake. | |||
| 17 | White Collarless | 6/26/2006 | Mike Hitchcock, Louie Anderson |
| The Mayor puts Tom in charge of a top-secret project, which is not the white-collar job he had in mind. | |||
| 18 | Wrestling | 7/3/2006 | Gary Busey |
| Tom is made the new coach of Jefferton's junior wrestling team. He soon learns they have been using a muscle enhancer for racehorses to bulk up--and then gets hooked on it himself. | |||
| 19 | Saxman | 7/10/2006 | Robert Loggia, Tom Kenny |
| The Mayor hires a smooth jazz musician to perform at the opening of a new Waterbed Galleria, and appoints Tom as his manager. | |||
| 20 | Spray a Carpet or Rug | 7/17/2006 | Judd Hirsch |
| The Mayor fires his lawnmower man and replaces all the grass in Memorial Park with Tom's new (toxic) instant carpet spray. | |||
| 21 | Surprise Party | 7/24/2006 | Brian Posehn |
| Tom resorts to extreme measures to get the ideal gift for Gibbons' birthday party. | |||
| 22 | CNE | 7/31/2006 | Michael Ian Black, Zack Galifianakis |
| Michael Ian Black returns as Tom signs an endorsement deal for medication for his chronic nocturnal emissions. | |||
| 23 | Friendship Alliance | 8/7/2006 | John C. Reilly, Brian Posehn |
| Tom makes a new friend on the Internet, who accidentally snipes Gibbons and holds everyone hostage. | |||
| 24 | Zoo Trouble | 8/14/2006 | Brian Doyle-Murphy |
| Tom and the Mayor try to revamp the Jefferton Zoo, which is losing business to Bernie Fusterillo's Real Life Animal Experience across the street. | |||
| 25 | The Layover | 8/21/2005 | Bob Balaban |
| Tom's father is in town for a few minutes, and Tom seizes the oppportunity to spend some quality time with him. | |||
| 26 | Couple's Therapy | 8/28/2006 | Janeane Garofalo, Garry Shandling |
| Tom goes on a couple's therapy cruise to bond with his wife Joy, despite the fact that Joy is not on the cruise herself. The Mayor is, though. | |||
| 27 | Glass Eyes | 9/4/2006 | Dave Foley |
| Tom needs the Mayor's help when the father-son barrel goat hunt is about to be shut down. | |||
| 28 | Undercover | 9/11/2006 | Michael Cera, Zack Galifianakis |
| Tom infiltrates his son's school to see just how much starch the kids are eating. | |||
| 29 | Puddins | 9/18/2006 | Paul Reubens, Brian Posehn |
| A depressed Tom goes on a pudding diet after one of his stepsons dies from eating too much of it. | |||
| 30 | Joy's Ex | 9/25/2006 | Todd Barry |
| Tom spends the weekend with the Mayor at Jefferton Castle when one of Joy's ex-husbands (the one who does interesting things with cow diarrhea) pays him a visit. | |||
