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{{quote|'''Gus''': ''I need some condoms so I can make love to my lover. And don't smirk - they're for gay sex.''}}
''[[Mission Hill]]'' (1999-2000, 2002) was a short-lived animated series about 24-year-old slacker Andy French and his [[Fish Out of Water]] brother Kevin, an [[Odd Couple]] forced to share a loft apartment in a [[Quirky Town|quirky downtown neighborhood]]. A total of 18 episodes were produced, but only 13 were ever broadcast.
For a failed program, Mission Hill was surprisingly noteworthy:
* It was one of the last animated shows to use hand-painted cels (Later shows, like ''[[Drawn Together]]'', did so mostly for stylistic reasons).
* It was the one of the first TV shows ''of any kind'' to feature an on-screen homosexual kiss (Gus and Wally, in the pilot episode) from a couple established to be male homosexuals. It was predated by a 1990 episode of "[[The Simpsons Did It|The Simpsons]]" ("Simpson and Delilah") and the
* In what must be one of the great [[Averted Trope|trope aversions]] of all time, elderly gay couple Gus and Wally had such rich personalities and unique storylines that the examples list below contains no [[Stereotype Gay]] entries. It is also unlikely that "Gay men fall in love while making a [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K-worthy]] sci-fi movie" and "Gay man gets knife stuck in head; gay partner welds birdcage and tennis racket to it" will become tropes. The show actually won an award from [[wikipedia:GLAAD|GLAAD]] for showing homosexual characters in a positive and non-stereotypical light.
* It was the birthplace of one of the most distinctive cartoon voices of all time. Voice actor [[Tom Kenny]]'s take on one-off character Jimmy Briskin (a diminutive actor who played an [[Alien Scrappy|Ewok]] in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'') was so well-received that he re-used the voice for a slightly more famous cartoon character: [[SpongeBob SquarePants]].
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* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: Andy during his time on ''[[The Real World]]'' quips to the producers, "You think I'm MTV material? I'm not even WB material!" Guess which channel this show was on.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Jim at his job.
* [[Character Development]]: After the "Happy Birthday Kevin" episode, Andy starts to make an effort to be alot nicer to Kevin in any episodes made after this, compare this to the earlier episodes, where Andy would [[Took a Level
* [[Closeup on Head]]
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies are in Oslo in Norway, not in Stockholm.
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** On the episode where Kevin tries to crack the SAT code and Posey puts out an ad for massages (only to have men think she's a hooker who does erotic massages due to a misprint), when the pimp knocks at the door, Andy says, "Yeah, keep banging. That'll make me come faster."
* [[Girlfriend in Canada]]: Played straight with Kevin and George in the pilot, where Toby states that George had a girlfriend in Singapore, to which Kevin mentions that he used to claim that he had a girlfriend in Canada ("because it's so far away, no one could ever check). He asks George if it's the same for him, whereupon he replies that "it's a more believable ethnic variation."
* [[Girl of the Week]] (Andy had several, Kevin had one, and they fought over one.)
* [[Granola Girl]] (Posey; also a subversion, in that she had a mean streak and a capitalistic urge she was all too eager to indulge.)
* [["Happy Ending" Massage]] (A typo makes people think Posey's perfectly legit massage service is this.)
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] (Andy and Jim.)
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** Jim's voice is quite recognizable as that of [[Brian Posehn]].
** Kevin is [[Scott Menville]]
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**** They had to give a title to the network before airing.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Everyone in the apartment building, to varying degrees, the youngest, not counting Baby Nameless who is only 1 at this point, being Kevin at 17, to Wally and Gus who are in their late 60s.
* [[Late to
* [[No Name Given]]: Baby Nameless, the child of Carlos and Natalie, who they havent named yet to avoid imprinting traditional gender roles upon him/her.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Gwen and Andy share an on-off relationship for the produced episodes, the finished cinematics of the unfinished ''Pretty In Pink'' has them indeed form a lasting romantic relationship.
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* [[Quirky Town]] (The Mission Hill neighborhood.)
* [[Scott Menville]] (voices Kevin)
* [[
* [[Ted Baxter]] (Andy seems to view his abilities and life as much better than they actually are, except in cartooning, which he's actually pretty good at.)
** His life ''is'' pretty damn awesome. Minimal work for maximum profit, a sweet-ass apartment with neighbors he likes (a rarity) and the uncanny ability to charm women so incredibly out-of-his-league.
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