The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

1988

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

7.6 | TV-G | en | Animation

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is an American animated television series, starring Martin Short's Ed Grimley, that aired on NBC from September 10 to December 3, 1988.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP13 The Irving Who Came To Dinner

Dec. 03,1988

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EP12 Eddy, We Hardly Knew Ye

Nov. 26,1988

Ed Goes To The Hospital To Get His Tonsils Removed.And Share A Room With A Man Who Turns Into A Warewolf.At The Same Time Ed's Friends Think That Ed Died. Count Floyd Short:Ed Has A Dream Of Him When He Was Little In The Sixties At The Count Floyd Show. Gustav Brothers Short: The Bros Goes Inside The Mouth To Teach About Teeth.

EP11 Eyewitness Ed

Nov. 19,1988

Ed Is Eyewitness A Robery.So The Guy Who Robbed The Bank Is Trying To Kill Ed.

EP10 Blowin' In The Wind

Nov. 12,1988

A Tornado Hits Ed And Blows Him To A Farm.

EP9 Driver Ed

Nov. 05,1988

When Trying To Teach Miss Malone How To Drive,Ed And Miss Malone Die In A Car Accident.ANd Now Are Ghost And Haunt Mr. Freebus To Take Care Of Thier Stuff. Count Floyd:????? Gustav Brothers: The Bros Tell About Trains

EP8 Good Neighbor Ed

Oct. 29,1988

Ed has to take a picture of all of his neighbors in order to fulfill the rules of a contest, he has won.

EP7 Moby Is Lost

Oct. 22,1988

Moby Runs Away And Trys To Find Him. Count Floyd:?????? Gustav Brothers:??????

EP6 Grimley, P.F.C

Oct. 15,1988

Accidentally Ed joins the Army after he got on the wrong line to return a library book.

EP5 Crate Expectations

Oct. 08,1988

Ed is trying to find a birthday present for Miss Malone. Unfortunately he gets stuck in a crate. Miss Malone, on the other hand is very depressed after she's been snubbed for a part in a TV movie. She grows older and meets a guardian angel, who shows her what life would be if she had never been born.

EP4 Ed's In Hot Water

Oct. 01,1988

Ed's landlady Deidre Freebus asks him to look after the apartment building, while she's on vacation with her husband. Ed puts his skills into fixing the water heater and goes down the drain into the ocean. He ends up on an island, where he finds Amelia Earhart-esque aviator.

EP3 E.G., Go Home

Sep. 24,1988

Ed is hanging out with Wendall, who is the annoying brother of his crush - the amateur actress Miss Malone. Ed and Wendall go to the amusement park. They are off on a rocket ride to another planet which is ruled by an alien queen.

EP2 Ed's Debut

Sep. 17,1988

Ed foolishly thinks he's been asked to play triangle for the city's philharmonic. Suddenly he's been arrested for a robbery he didn't do on his way to the concert hall.

EP1 Tall, Dark & Hansom

Sep. 10,1988

Ed has agreed to fill in for his cousin Lemar Grimley, driving his hansom cab at the Grand Bilt Hotel for the day (though he must deal with the reluctance of the horse, Leonard). Later at the racetrack, Leonard falls for a pretty filly but is rejected, and Ed suggests they enter the race to impress her.

7.6 | TV-G | en | Animation , Comedy | More Info

Released: 1988-09-10 | Released Producted By: Hanna-Barbera Productions , SEPP International S.A. Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is an American animated television series, starring Martin Short's Ed Grimley, that aired on NBC from September 10 to December 3, 1988.

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Cast

Martin Short , Andrea Martin , Catherine O'Hara

Director

Scott Shaw

Producted By

Hanna-Barbera Productions , SEPP International S.A.

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Cast

Martin Short

as Ed Grimley (voice)

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Andrea Martin

The Calls Are Coming from Inside Diane Little Italy Great News My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Difficult People Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb After All These Years The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas!

Catherine O'Hara

as Miss Malone

The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You Extinct Back Home Again An Audience with Adele The Addams Family The Last Kids on Earth Being Canadian Schitt's Creek What Lives Inside

Reviews

S.R. Dipaling This show was released when I was junior in high school,and by that age,Saturday Morning 'toons and shows(with maybe the exception of "Pee Wee's Playhouse",a show I personally wasn't all that keen on)were something you didn't frequent anymore(assuming you ever did)and if you did(actually found myself watching "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future" somewhat regularly back then),you didn't really admit to. But my familiarity with Martin Short(at that time almost entirely based on his short stint on SNL and his movie career to that point)was what lured me back into unabashed Saturday morning viewing and,I must say(!!)it was quite a treat!Fusing Short's Ed Grimley character--a guy who is absolutely WAY too intensely emotional about pretty much everything--with some other staples of SCTV(where the character originated) such as "Count Floyd's Scary Stories" and some inspired Hanna Barbera animation,this show was enough eye candy and silliness for younger kids(read:ages 5 thru 10) and scattered with enough adult humor to amuse older "kids". The added contributions of SCTV mates Joe Flaherty,Catherine O'Hara,Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas as well as comedic Hall-of-Famer Jonathan Winters made this about as well-rounded a show as possible. Alas,NBC didn't see the response to the show it wanted to see and thus quietly escorted this show off the air after one season. Here's rooting for a DVD release of this show to be forthcoming.

Lawrence Network executives made a huge error by putting this on the Saturday morning roster because the humor was so fresh, biting, witty, and sharp that it was WAY over kids' heads. And THAT is the reason it disappeared after only one season. This was a phenomenally clever show and if it ever comes out on DVD I will be one of the first to grab it, immediately.The wit and zingers are fast and furious here and along with Ren and Stimpy and, on many occasions, the Simpsons, this should be counted as the best use of animation in a series for TV. But definitely, as mentioned, not for kiddies. I mean, let's face it. There was actually a total BABE in this show whose beautiful chest was definitely noticeable. Is THAT a kid's cartoon show character??? I think not.I was sad to see this go, just as I was sad to see Ren and Stimpy go, and also another show, not animated, Get A Life with Chris Elliot which, luckily, WAS released on DVD--at least eight of the episodes anyway. Zany TV shows that poke fun at social conventions don't last. That's really too bad. It's too bad the majority of the public wants safe pablum to swallow like so much warm mush which they just dribble all over themselves. The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was one of those shows that, rather than being warm bland tasteless mush, had some real kick, zing, and bite.It's sorely missed.

edewaal This has to be the single funniest Saturday morning cartoon ever. It should have run in prime-time. The Show follows Martin Shorts genius character through some of the craziest adventures ever. In one episode he goes into outerspace to cook a Tuna Casserole for some aliens who are going to destroy the earth if they don't get a good Casserole. It is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

Mister-6 What is the ultimate compliment to a comedian's comic genius and creativity (I mean, besides the marketing deals and royalty checks?) Getting your own series, of course.And boy, was Martin Short ever complimented by getting a Saturday morning cartoon show like "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley". I was always a big fan of Martin and when I saw this I immediately thought, "this is some kind of a joke!" But when I saw it, I never realized how funny a joke it actually was!As indicated by the title, Short supplies the voice for his most famous creation, the hyper-kinetic Ed Grimley - a man whose every action is a convulsion, every word an exhaustive gasp and every rudimentary thought treated like a brainstorm. He was a living cartoon anyway, so why not just take that next logical step?In this show, Ed lives in a apartment building next door to the beautiful Ms. Malone who is voiced by Catherine O'Hara as a cross between Marilyn Monroe and a heavy breather. He, of course, would do anything for her, which served as a catalyst for many of the series' episodes, as his simple actions would have nearly catastrophic results.But, of course, every episode had Ed desperate to catch his favorite TV show - "The Count Floyd Show", starring SCTV's own Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) in live action segments that proved Murphy's Law time and again.This, of course, was even more popular with grown-ups than kids, especially fans of Short and SCTV, of which I am both. But since we are an elite group, no wonder the series didn't last very long. Oh well, there's always video....Ten stars for "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley"; a most excellent television show, I must say....