The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
Genre
Based onEd Grimley
by Martin Short
Developed byColossal Pictures, Inc.
Directed by
Starring
Voices of
ComposerMichael Tavera
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Scott Shaw
  • John Hays
  • Mark Young (The Count Floyd Show)
EditorGil Iverson
Running time23 minutes approx.
Production companiesHanna-Barbera Productions
SEPP International S.A.
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 10 (1988-09-10) 
December 3, 1988 (1988-12-03)
Related
SCTV
Saturday Night Live

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and featuring Martin Short's fictional character Ed Grimley (with Short reprising his role as Grimley). The show aired on NBC from September 10 to December 3, 1988 for a single season of 13 episodes. The show is the only Saturday morning animated adaptation of both an SCTV character and a Saturday Night Live character, and the first Saturday morning cartoon featuring an SCTV cast member (later joined by Camp Candy, featuring John Candy, and Rick Moranis's Gravedale High).

Guest stars on the show included Christopher Guest and SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas. The show also featured the voices of René Auberjonois, Kenneth Mars, and Arte Johnson. Though the show was not renewed for a second season, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was later seen in reruns in 1996 on Cartoon Network's unnamed pre-Adult Swim-era late-night programming block, which consisted of such shows as Space Ghost Coast to Coast and reruns of classic Looney Tunes shorts and Hanna-Barbera programming, before it was rerun again on Boomerang. The live-action Count Floyd segments were also recycled for use in episodes of Cartoon Planet (featuring many of the same characters as SGC2C and produced by the same team). The show is airing on METV Toons as of 2025 on the weekends. Hanna-Barbera sponsored an Ed Grimley look-alike contest midway through the first season, which was won by 10-year-old Matt Mitchell from Des Moines, Iowa. MTV expressed interest in a second season but budget issues shut down any further discussion.