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Focus Grill is the last episode to be released in the series "Home Movies" it focuses on the trio trying to make an ending for their first movie, about a biker gang of sorts.

Synopsis[]

When Brendon finds an old movie without an ending, he and his boyfriend and girlfriend decide to wrap up the unfinished movie, but when they fight over an ending, the 3 part ways to make their own ending. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk tries to setup the grill.

Plot []

The episode starts with Brendon showing his classmates his latest film, but the classmates disapprove his movie, leaving a sad trio. While finding the flaw in the movie, they come across an abandoned film of theirs, so they go and make a 2nd half, and after the 3 came up with their own endings, the get criticized by the classmates. They then agree that their movies are made only for them to enjoy, and no one else should approve of them. Meanwhile, the Coach helps Paula set up a grill, albeit without much success, after "setting it up", he invites Paula and the 3 kids to see it in action. The grill ignites, but makes an explosion of soot, so Paula takes the kids to eat somewhere, while Brendon is filming, he drops his camera by accident, where it gets crushed by a car. Tears form up in his eyes, but after hearing a conversation about which restaurant to go to, he gets distracted, and forgets about the crushed camera. Later, the group talks about tapas, a Mexican food, and Brendon's camera films an empty road, glitching, before breaking completely, thus ending the episode, and the series.

Cast[]

Credits/Crew[]

Created by: Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard.

Executive Producer: Loren Bouchard.

Executive Producers: Tom Snyder, Bonnie Burns, and Mary Catherine Tucker.

Co-Executive Producers: Brendon Small and Carl W. Adams.

Cartoon Network Executives in Charge of Programming: Khaki Jones and Linda Simensky.

Producer: Jack Ferraiolo.

Director: Loren Bouchard.

Executive Story Editor: Bill Braudis

Writers: Bill Braudis and Brendon Small.

Additional Voices by: Sam Seder.

Creative Consultant: Melissa Bardin Galsky.

Director of Audio: Carl W. Adams.

Audio Editors: Jack Ferraiolo and Will Shepard.

Audio Engineer: Aidas Kupcinskas.

Director of Animation and Video: André Lyman.

Art Created by: Chris Georgenes, André Lyman, and Kim O'Neil.

Art Director: Aya Fukuda.

Storyboarding by: Phil Andrews, Alan Foreman, Jamielyn "Gold Star" Mosca, Davio "Swan Song" SanAngelo, and Damon Wong.

Animators: Phil Andrews, Alan Foreman, Lauren Harman Laura Kozuh, Fatimah Ibrahim, Cory Mitchell, Jamielyn Mosca, Nikolay Nachev, Kim O'Neil, Steve Rogan, Amy Ronayne, Dave SanAngelo, Dave "Pops" Tata, and Mark Usher.

Post Production Director & Video Editor: Jonas Cox.

Coordinating Producer: Niki Hebert.

General Manager: Marc Chusid.

Business Manager: Elizabeth Benjes.

Business Development: Jody Snider.

Interns: Kayla Franklin and Perry Lubin.

Theme Music by: Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard.

"Brazilian Sunspot", "Victory", "Sunset Theme" and "Duane and Clarice's Theme": by Brendon Small.

©Soup2Nuts 2003

References, Notes & Trivia[]

  • This is the series finale of Home Movies.
  • After the series ended, Loren Bouchard went on to create "Lucy the Daughter of the Devil" for Adult Swim and later, "Bob's Burgers" (2011-present) for Fox. Brendon Small went on to create "Metalocalypse" (2006-2012) for Adult Swim.
  • The ending song is called "Brendon's Camera" guitar provided by Brendon Small (the actor), though it was used in the earlier episode Guitarmageddon as a theme for Dwanye and Clarece
  • "Easy Trikers" could be the show's second reference to Mad Max
  • Brendon Small stated that if the show wasn't cancelled, the next season would focus on Brendon branching out and trying new things for a while as he grew up a bit more, due to his camera breaking.

Movies Within The Show[]

DVD Releases[]

This episode was released on the season four DVD set on May 16, 2006.

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