Drawn Together is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 animated television series, which ran on Comedy Central

Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....

 from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007. The series was created by Dave Jeser

Dave Jeser

Dave Jeser & Matt Silverstein are American television writers, co-executive producers of Napoleon Dynamite, and co-creators of Drawn Together...

 and Matt Silverstein, and uses a sitcom

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 format with a TV reality show setting. Like that of The Surreal Life

The Surreal Life

The Surreal Life is a reality television series that sets a select group of past-their-prime celebrities and records them as they live together in Glen Campbell's former mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks...

, the show's eight characters are a combination of personalities that were recognizable and familiar prior to the series. Drawn Together, however, uses cartoon parodies of stock character

Stock character

A Stock character is a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype. Stock characters rely heavily on cultural types or names for their personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics. In their most general form, stock characters are related to literary archetypes,...

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