Adam Devine’s Freak Brothers to premiere for free on Tubi in November

This is the notorious underground comic The Fabulous Furry Freak BrothersTubi will be receiving it this November The Workaholics Blake Anderson and Adam Devine will be the voice cast’s executive producers, with Mark Canton as well.Energie 300Courtney Solomon (American Haunting Dungeons & Dragons King of the Hill AndAmerican Dad Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland, executive producers, will serve as showrunners. Silicon Valley John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky and Dave Krinsky are co-creators. Freak BrothersThe adaptation will premiere on Fox’s Tubi on November 14. It is the first animated series to be shown on Tubi. Tubi hopes that the show can siphon some of its energy from the traditional Animation Domination Sunday block by cross-promotion.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, created by Gilbert Shelton, centered on a trio of stoner “freak” characters; freak, in this context, being a subculture commonly associated with the hippie scene in San Francisco, falling somewhere in the post-hippie, pre-punk era. The characters — Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek, Phineas T. Phreak, and Fat Freddy Freekowtski — first appeared in the late 1960s in an underground Texas newspaper called the Rag. In the ensuing decade, the strip was a huge success.

During that era, American comics printers adhered to a draconian set of content rules known as the Comics Code, rejecting anything that didn’t conform to its standards. Hence, the rise of Underground Comix (with the homophonic X denoting a big helping of adults-only content) in the late ’60s, which were largely self-published and distributed alongside or within subculture zines and newspapers. Over 40 million Freak Brothers comics were sold to date. The Freak Brothers’ first comic, Freak Brothers, was published in 1971. A claymation movie based on these characters was produced in 2006. It was abandoned in 2013.

This series, however, won’t be claymation, but more traditionally animated by Starburns Industries (Rick & Morty) and Pure Imagination Studios (The SimpsonsShelton will serve as Executive Producer. Shelton will act as executive producer. Two episodes from the first season of Freak BrothersNew episodes will drop every Sunday until December 26.

“When the opportunity arose to get involved not just as talent but also on a creative level, we jumped at the chance,” Devine and Anderson said when the project was announced in 2019. “And also WEED, man!”