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Big Mouth (American TV series)

Big Mouth is an American adult animated coming-of-age musical sitcom created by Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett for Netflix. The series aired for eight seasons between 2017 and 2025. The series centers on students based on Kroll and Goldberg's upbringing in suburban New York, with Kroll voicing his fictionalized younger self. Big Mouth explores puberty while embracing an openness about the human body and sex.

Plot
The series follows a group of middle school teenagers, including best friends Nick Birch and Andrew Glouberman, as they navigate their way through puberty with struggles such as masturbation and sexual arousal all in the Westchester County suburbs of New York. Acting as over-sexualized shoulder angels are the hormone monsters: Maurice (who pesters Andrew and Matthew and occasionally Nick), Connie (who pesters Jessi and Nick and occasionally Missy) and Mona (who mainly pesters Missy). Throughout the series, the kids interact with people and objects who are often personified and offer helpful, yet confusing, advice in their puberty-filled lives including the ghost of Duke Ellington, a French-accented Statue of Liberty, a pillow capable of getting pregnant, a capsule of Adderall, and even Jessi's own vulva, alongside other supernatural creatures that represent a human emotion like The Shame Wizard, the Depression Kitty, Tito the Anxiety Mosquito, and the Lovebugs Walter, Sonya and Rochelle. They seek out their destiny as puberty challenges them mentally and physically. ==Cast and characters==
Cast and characters
MainNick Kroll as: • Nicholas Arsenio "Nick" Birch, an adolescent boy living with his loving and open-minded parents. He also has an older brother named Judd and an older sister named Leah. Throughout the series, Nick is increasingly insecure about his masculinity and overall development as it becomes evident that he is a late bloomer compared to his friends. Occasionally, he learns to appreciate his body and his emotions, with the help of his loved ones and a few other figures. • Maurice the Hormone Monster, also known as "Maury", full name Maurice Beverly, is a raspy-voiced monster who follows Andrew around and is responsible for his brooding sexual desires, which frequently occur at inappropriate moments. He is revealed to hail from an alternate dimension where several different creatures, such as himself, represent and manage the stages of human life. He is shown to be able to interact with other boys, such as Nick and Jay. He is also Matthew's hormone monster. • Coach Steve, the shrill-voiced middle school gym class teacher who is incompetent and overly talkative, often trying to get his colleagues—or even the students—to hang out (usually to no avail). He is extremely childlike. It is revealed in season 2 that he is a virgin, though he ultimately loses his virginity to Jay's mom, with whom he has a one-night stand after she sexually approaches him. He is the only character unaffected by The Shame Wizard because he is incapable of experiencing shame. In season 3, he has a different job every time he appears until in the episode "Disclosure the Movie: The Musical!" he gets his job back as a gym coach. • Rick the Hormone Monster, an old, dysfunctional yet enthusiastic hormone monster who follows Coach Steve and later Nick. He soon retires, however, after Steve loses his virginity, handing his position as Nick's hormone monster to Tyler. He becomes Nick's hormone monster again after Nick and Connie part ways. • Lola Ugfuglio Skumpy, an ill-tempered popular girl who is terrified of losing her social status and the approval of her best friend Devin. She has a relationship with Jay in season 4, but it ends badly. Her relationship with Jay becomes on again-off again in the following season. • Nick Starr, the future version of Nick who hosts a game show and lives alone with a robot version of Andrew. • Stu, Marty's old and weak lovebug, Marty is only convinced to stay by his lovebug. Marty blames Barbara for changing, but she points out that he used to be a sweet romantic, and he is shocked to find out she's been unhappy for years. • Kroll also voices Mila and Lotte Janssen, the Statue of Liberty, a profane ladybug, Joe Walsh, the ghosts of Picasso and Richard Burton, Sylvester Stallone, a webcam girl, several tampons, Gina's Abuela, Bad Mitten and Rabbi Poblart. • Kroll also appears as himself in live-action in the season five finale, as the person in charge of Human Resources. • John Mulaney as Andrew Glouberman, Nick's best friend who spends much of his time furtively masturbating. He is Jewish and his dysfunctional family annoys him. • Mulaney also voices Mint, Grandpa Andrew, Babe the Blue Ox, and Detective Florez. • Jessi Klein as Jessica Cobain "Jessi" Glaser, a sarcastic and smart girl. Her father, Greg, is an unemployed stoner and her mother, Shannon, is secretly dating another woman. Her parents later divorce. She gets her period for the first time on a school trip to the Statue of Liberty. Though Jessi has kissed Nick before, specifically in the first episode "Ejaculation", she later has many French kissing make-out sessions with Jay. Like Andrew, she is Jewish, as she has a Bat Mitzvah in "I Survived Jessi's Bat Mitzvah". • Klein also voices Jessi's possible ancestor, Margaret Daniels, in "Duke". • Jason Mantzoukas as Jayzerian Ricflairian "Jay" Bilzerian, a brash teenage boy who is obsessed with magic and sex. He has sex with a pillow that he made into a sex toy. His mom has a one-night stand with Coach Steve in Season 2. He has two older brothers, Kurt and Val, who frequently bully him. His dad is a divorce lawyer, and Jay has a habit of quoting his father's law commercials, often being told by his friends to stop. Jay is obsessed with Nick's mother and father and wishes for a loving family. In season 2, Jay shares a kiss with Matthew, an openly gay boy in school, during a game of "Smooch or Share". After the two kiss, Jay questions his sexual orientation. During season 3, Jay continues to question his sexual orientation but comes to the conclusion he is bisexual. In Season 5, Matthew breaks up with Aiden because he has truer feelings for Jay. Jay and Matthew decide to go to Devin and Devon's New Year's party together. • Mantzoukas also voices Guy Bilzerian, Jay's father who is a corrupt divorce lawyer, and the landlord of a seedy all-men motel called "Guy Town". His commercials are well known in the neighborhood and Jay takes every opportunity he can to quote them, to the ire of his classmates. • Mantzoukas also voices the ghost of Socrates. • Jenny Slate (seasons 1–4) and Ayo Edebiri (seasons 4–8) • Josie Totah as Natalie el-Khoury, a transgender camper. • Lena WaitheKeke Palmer as Rochelle Hillhurst, Missy's lovebug who was a hate-worm. • Chris O'Dowd as Flanny O'Lympic, Andrew's Irish accented lovebug that debuted in Human Resources. • Cole Escola as Montel, Maury's and Connie's biological non-binary child. • Zazie Beetz as Danni, Megan's client. • Billy Porter as Ocean, a High School Student at Bridgeton High who leads the School's Queer Choir. • Annaleigh Ashford as The Rice Purity Test, an anthropomorphic quiz. • Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink, Andrew Rubenfeld's cat. • Holly Hunter as Coco, the Compassion Pachyderm. • James III as Cat Stevens, Camden's depression kitty. • Cynthia Erivo as Missy's vagina. ==Episodes==
Production
Development TV writer Andrew Goldberg and screenwriter-directors Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin approached Nick Kroll, Goldberg's best friend since childhood, with the idea to develop a show about going through puberty. Kroll and Goldberg used their divergent pubertal experiences as a centerpiece of the show, because Kroll was a late bloomer while Goldberg went through the physical changes of puberty very early. Big Mouth was also partially inspired to help aid teenagers in states with abstinence-based sex education. On June 24, 2020, Jenny Slate stepped down from voicing Missy Foreman-Greenwald so that a Black actress could have the role in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Slate's final time voicing Missy is in the fourth season as she recorded her lines in advance. Ayo Edebiri was cast to replace Slate as Missy. Her first appearance as Missy is in "Horrority House", the penultimate episode of the fourth season. On April 24, 2023, Netflix renewed the series for an eighth and final season. In April 2024, Netflix confirmed that the eighth and final season was set to air in 2025. The final season was released May 23, 2025. ==Music==
Music
The first soundtrack album of songs from the TV series was released alongside season three on October 4, 2019. The second soundtrack album of songs from the TV series was released alongside season six on October 28, 2022. All songs written by Mark Rivers except where indicated. ==Release==
Release
The first season, consisting of ten episodes, premiered on Netflix on September 29, 2017. On October 24, 2017, it was confirmed that a second season had been ordered, which was released on October 5, 2018. On November 17, 2018, Netflix announced that Big Mouth had been renewed for a third season. The third season was preceded by a Valentine's Day special episode on February 8, 2019. On July 26, 2019, Netflix renewed the series through to a sixth season. On August 21, 2019, it was reported that the third season was set to be released on October 4, 2019. The fourth season was released on December 4, 2020. The fifth season was released on November 5, 2021. In April 2022, Netflix renewed the show for a seventh season, ahead of the sixth-season premiere. The sixth season was released on October 28, 2022. The seventh season was released on October 20, 2023. The eighth and final season was released on May 23, 2025. ==Reception==
Reception
Critical response Big Mouth has received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has an approval rating of 100% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10 out of 10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Big Mouths simplistic animation and scatological humor belie its finely sketched characters and smart, empathetic approach to the messiness of adolescence." Erik Adams from The A.V. Club awarded the second season an "A−". Adams praised the cast, especially Thewlis, and the experimentation of this season, commenting that "it's shown that it deserves to be included in any conversation about TV's animated greats." Accolades ==Spin-off==
Spin-off
On October 3, 2019, Netflix announced a straight-to-series order for a spin-off series titled Human Resources, set within the show's universe. Kroll, Goldberg, Levin, Flackett and Kelly Galuska will produce. On June 14, 2021, more details of the series were announced, including casting. Kroll, Rudolph, Thewlis, Bryant, Cannavale, Newton, Bamford, Goodman, Palmer, Clement and Adlon reprised their roles for the spin-off, with additional cast members Randall Park, Rosie Perez, and Henry Winkler joining the series. It was released on March 18, 2022. Human Resources then released its second and final season on June 9, 2023. ==In other media==
In other media
Detective Florez made a silent cameo appearance in the 2022 live-action/animated hybrid film ''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers''. ==References==
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