"Home Movies" [Bouchard-Small, 1999] Season 2 {Jan.-Mar. '02]

Wikipedia describes this animated comedy (about-- well, nothing, like I've always been told Seinfeld was) as "dialogue-driven"-- which in this case means that both the topics and all the show's other facets (the characters' names/traits, those of the locations) are deliberately marginalized, made ridiculously insignificant, just so that brilliant comic engineering (or, rather, the product(s) thereof) can take the spotlight without cessation. Anyway, it's about three kids-- Brendon Small, Jason, and Melissa-- who all make home movies together, and it's surely one of the best comedy shows of the decade so far. Grade: A