Harvey Birdman: Attorney General

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Harvey Birdman: Attorney General
Promotional poster.
Network	Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)
Production company	Awesome Inc. 11:36 Entertainment Williams Street
Distributor	Cartoon Network Warner Bros. Television
Release date	October 15, 2018
Run time	21:42
Starring	Gary Gole Stephen Colbert Chris Edgerly Paget Brewster Peter MacNicol Thomas Allen
Executive producer(s):	Michael Ouweleen Erik Richter Evan W Adler Richard Ferguson-Hull Christina Miller
Producer(s)	Evan W. Adler
Music composed by	Michael Kohler
Screenplay by	Michael Ouweleen Erik Richter
Director(s)	Richard Ferguson-Hull
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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.

Detailed summary

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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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

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

Production

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.

Legacy

• 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 was 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.