Harvey Birdman: Attorney General

Harvey Birdman: Attorney General is an American adult animated political satirical television special based on the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law TV series, which ran from 2000 to 2007. It aired on October 15, 2018 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It was written by creators, Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter, produced by Evan W. Adler, and directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull. The main reason behind this special was to ridicule the concurrent infamous American presidency of 45th Donald Trump.

The presumed deceased Harvey is back and living a new life of leisure from the hard work of being both an attorney and a superhero. But when his old boss, Phil, has suddenly become the most powerful man in the free world, he, in turn, is appointed the new Attorney General to take him down before he destroys it.

Memorable quotes
Phil: Peter Potamus. Phil Ken Sebben. Potamus: Mr. President! What an honor! Phil: Listen. I'm wondering if you'd be interested in bringing your brand of populist, shadily financed wisdom here to D.C., to join my administration? Potamus: Can I still speak truth to power, except when truth becomes inconvenient to power?

Phil: You gotta impeach me! Harvey: Eh... Potamus: We're waiting. Harvey: I'll... take the case?

Mentok: You were dead, hit by a bus! I swooped in, mind-broke you, and repaired your body here in the lab. And, while I was at it, used you as an external hard drive for my extensive airport-thriller audiobook collection. You were the first Mindbreaker, the prototype, which is why I named you... Adam. Harvey: But my name's Harvey. Mentok: I call you Adam.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Phil Ken Sebben
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stephen Colbert
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Turtle
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Jason Voorhees
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Doctor Quincy
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| George Washington (picture)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Hippo Wars announcer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peter Potamus
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Chris Edgerly
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cubby McQuilken
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Avenger
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Morocco Mole
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Baba Looey
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Harvey Birdman
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Gary Cole
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Harvey Birdman's wife
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Vice President of the United States
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Abraham Lincoln (picture)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scrappy-Doo
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Janitor
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Birdgirl
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Paget Brewster
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Jones
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daphne Blake
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Velma Dinkley
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Myron Reducto
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stephen Colbert
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Inch High
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Reporter
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Jill Stein
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Book guest
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rollie
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Barnes & Noble manager
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Zardo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Michael Higgins
 * style="background-color:#clear"| X the Eliminator
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peter MacNicol
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ernie Devlin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toby Huss
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mentok, the Mindtaker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Michael Higgins
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Elon Musk
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peanut
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Thomas Allen
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Black Vulcan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Phil LaMarr
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's butler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tangy Devlin (picture)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| TV host
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Tyler Perry
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's date
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rollie
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Barnes & Noble manager
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Zardo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Michael Higgins
 * style="background-color:#clear"| X the Eliminator
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peter MacNicol
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ernie Devlin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toby Huss
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mentok, the Mindtaker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Michael Higgins
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Elon Musk
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peanut
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Thomas Allen
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Black Vulcan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Phil LaMarr
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's butler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tangy Devlin (picture)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| TV host
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Tyler Perry
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's date
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Phil LaMarr
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's butler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tangy Devlin (picture)
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| TV host
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Tyler Perry
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's date
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Tyler Perry
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's date
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil's date
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin

Organizations

 * KHPO
 * United States Department of Justice
 * Mystery Incorporated
 * Barnes & Noble
 * Amazon
 * Blue Origin
 * Alibaba
 * Twitter
 * Sebben and Sebben
 * UPS (mentioned)
 * YouTube (mentioned)
 * Ursus
 * 7-Eleven

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Washington, D.C.
 * The White House
 * Turner Room
 * Time Warner Room
 * AOL-Time Warner Room
 * WarnerMedia Room
 * Tiny Details
 * Bethseda Hotel and Suites
 * Sebben and Sebben offices
 * Birdman residence
 * National Mall
 * Washington Monument
 * Capitol Hill
 * United States Capitol
 * Sebben residence
 * Samuel Hahnemann Monument
 * Nevada
 * Pahrump
 * KHPO station
 * Maine
 * Lubec
 * Harvey's cabin
 * Peters Mountain
 * Los Angeles
 * California
 * San Joaquin County
 * French Camp
 * New York
 * Upstate New York
 * Virginia
 * Alexandria
 * 7-Eleven store
 * South Dakota
 * Mount Rushmore
 * Devland
 * China (mentioned)
 * Russia
 * Moscow
 * Rorotonga
 * Iceland
 * Gunnarsdottir Terrace
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Dream Dictionary
 * A Matter of Wife and Death
 * Final Approach
 * Violent, Deadly People
 * Full Upright and Dead
 * Fight Attendant
 * Hit or Missile
 * Cross Death and All Fall
 * Terror on the Tarmac
 * Peanuts, Pretzels, or Death
 * Scare Pocket
 * Approved for Bump Off
 * One Personal Item
 * Dial MTA for Murder
 * Overheadless Compartment
 * Cleared for Stabbing
 * Ice or No Ice?
 * Fright Train
 * Full Scream Ahead
 * Die Priority
 * Connecting Fright
 * Frequent Diet
 * The Slayover
 * The Terminal Station
 * Fright Plan
 * Greyhound of the Baskevilles
 * Exit of Fear
 * Violent Deadly Peep Hole
 * Holy Crap, They're Dead
 * Reducto's shrink gun
 * Deidre (voiced by Grey Griffin)
 * Lucky mug
 * Juicealux 3000

Vehicles

 * Peter's hot air balloon

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2018.

Music
The theme song was composed by Reg Tisley, with the lyrics performed by Erik Richter. The music was composed by Michael Kohler.

Crew credits

 * Executive producers: Michael Ouweleen, Erik Richter, Evan W Adler, Richard Ferguson-Hull, Christina Miller
 * Animation services: Awesome Inc.
 * Executive producer: Ashley Kohler
 * Associate producer: Lauren Teasley
 * Producer: Brandon Betts
 * Supervising director and lead storyboard artist: Richard Ferguson-Hull
 * Storyboard clean-up artists: Mark McDonald, Melissa Wolfert
 * Character designer: Jake Bauming
 * Character set-up artists: Steve Vitale, Melissa Wolfert, Aaron M. Miller
 * Lead background designer: David DiMatteo
 * Background designers: Natalie Barahona, Karen Castillo, Bradford D. Smith II, Laura Ceredona, Craig Sheldon, Jamie Galatas
 * Lead animator: Steve Vitale
 * Animators: Dan Sousa, Justin King, Katelyn Walsh, Mark McDonald, Melissa Wolfert, Tiffany Rishel Droke, Matthew J. Simpson, Laura Ceredona, Kathy Kissinger, Brian De Tagyos
 * Lead CG artist: J Griffin
 * CG artists: Mike Brandt, Christopher Cheng, Jeremy Peacock
 * Compositors: Jamie Galatas, Nathan Churney, Craig Sheldon, Daniel Cantelm
 * Intern: Aiden Ouweleen
 * Prep and conform editors: Jamie Galatas, Thomas Fine
 * Editor: Jon Dilling
 * Sound designers and mixers: Bluetube, Michael Kohler
 * Casting director: Dawn Hershey
 * Video post production: Turner Studios
 * Recording facilities: Margarita Mix Hollywood, bMediaNY, Studiopolis!
 * Title sequence animator: Primal Screen
 * Designer and director: Rick Newcomb
 * Creative director: Doug Grimmett
 * Producer for Williams Street: Melissa Warrenburg
 * Production supervisor: Sasha Brown
 * Production coordinator: Roger Black
 * Production assistant: George Baby Doll Banks
 * Interns: Baker Murrill, Erik Snyder, Alec Castillo, Ellenor Brown
 * Executive producers for Williams Street: Keith Crofford, Mike Lazzo

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: October 12, 2018 on the Adult Swim website; October 15, 2018 on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)
 * United Kingdom and Ireland: October 29, 2019 on E4

Behind the scenes

 * The theme song begins at 7:38.
 * Deidre is a parody of Amazon's Echo.
 * Barnes & Noble is a real bookstore.
 * The Barnes & Noble manager was previously on the jury of Harvey's cases.
 * The inaugurpeachment invitation gives Phil's full name as Philippian Kenneth Sebben.
 * When Mentok said he "swooped" in to save Harvey, a photo shows him dressed like Mary Poppins.
 * Despite clearly having a prominent role, Colbert isn't credited with a starring role like in the series, but as a special guest star.
 * 1964 and roughly 1978 are given as the birth dates for Potamus and Birdgirl, respectively.

Errors

 * Birdgirl is still trying to hide her identity from her father, despite the fact he found out in "The Death of Harvey."
 * Reducto's resurrection is unexplained.

Everlasting influence

 * In the Birdgirl episodes "Pilot" and "Thirdgirl," there are photos of Birdgirl's time at the White House in Judy's apartment. There's also a photo in the Sebben & Sebben conference room in "Baltimo."

Home availability

 * This is available to watch on the US geo-restricted (via paid subscription): HBO Max. It's counted as the last episode of season four of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
 * This is free to watch on the UK geo-restricted All 4 website.