This show is a rather unique adult comedy, for HBO. It's one of the few adult animations that is made by HBO, and is made through the use of audio taken from pre-existing podcasts by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. This is a relatively new technique in creating comedic animation narratives, taking recordings of normal discussions and putting them in the animator's context. The visuals of the show are very creative and humourous, because the silly discussions actually fit the Hanna-Barbera-esque art style very well, and when the animators put the animated versions of the group in the situations they describe, it really shows a great amount of effort and dedication to making these animations, so that they differentiate from listening to the podcasts to watching them visualised. This use of sound and audio has inspired a large amount of animations based on the Ricky Gervais podcasts, as well as other audio orientated stuff, Plague of Gripes, who I've mentioned before, is an example of this, as well.
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