Grimsburg is an American Animated Sitcom created by Catlan McClelland & Matthew Schlissel. It follows Det. Marvin Flute (played by Jon Hamm), who may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown and correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there's one mystery he still can't crack - himself. To do that he must return to Grimsburg and redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow detectives, his ferocious ex-wife and his lovably unstable son.

The show also features Rachel Dratch, Erinn Hayes, Kevin Michael Richardson, Alan Tudyk, Greg Chun, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Kaniehtiio Horn.

It began airing on Fox in 2024. It was renewed in 2022 for a second season.

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Tropes for the series:

• Alliterative Name: Wynona Whitecloud.
• Beyond the Impossible: Flute manages to somehow do the chicken dance so well, he actually defies gravity and flies for a bit.
• Bloody Hilarious: The show is about catching killers, and boy is it not shy about showing the aftermath of their grisly deeds.
• Book Ends: The killer of the first season finale is Chief Stamos, her son being the killer in the first episode.
• Clear My Name: In "The Flute-itive", Marvin is framed for murder and goes on the run to find the one who did it.
• Couch Gag: The slogan on the "Welcome to Grimsburg" billboard in the opening changes in each episode.
• Cyborg: Greg Summers, as he had a serious accident with a carousel prior to the series.
• Evil All Along: Chief Stamos is the Big Bad of season one, as she profited off murders in Grimsburg and brought Marvin back to town for her own agenda.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: The town lawyer, Loni, is a woman from 1984 who fell through a rift in time and space while at the shopping mall.
• Imaginary Friend: Stan has one called Mr. Flesh, a skeleton with flaming eyes and a Camp Gay personality.
• I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Dratch and Tudyk previously worked together on Harley Quinn (2019).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Flesh may be extremely crass and a bad influence on Stan, but he's shown to legitimately care about the latter.
• More Criminals Than Targets: Justified with the titular town, which despite being a small city has a comically high rate of violent crime. Apparently, it's because the town's been cursed since a mass virgin sacrifice during colonial times (although the town couldn't have been that peaceful to begin with, if they were performing mass sacrifices).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The killer in “The Flute-itive” that Stan befriends is an obvious parody of Timothée Chalamet, with Marvin even calling him “Timothee Shallow Grave”.
• One-Word Title: Grimsburg and Pilot.
• The Place: The fictional town of Grimsburg.
• Popping Buttons: In the opening sequence, Marvin Flute is introduced looking trim, until the bottom button of his shirt pops, revealing a beer gut.
• Raised by Wolves: Marvin's ex-wife Harmony was raised by bears.
• Statuesque Stunner: Chief Stamos completely towers over the rest of the cast, being so tall that in "The Danish Dilemma" she ends up banging her head on a parking garage light fixture.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: The man running the town's used appliance store is absolutely NOT Tom Petty, hiding years after his supposed death. Nor is his assistant manager Prince. Really.
• Take That!: Mr. Flesh compares Stan's parents to Ezra Miller in "The Danish Dilemma".
• Wedding Episode: "Say Yes to the Death" has the Grimsburg PD going undercover at a wedding to stop a serial killer who goes after whoever catches the bouquet. Things get complicated when Marvin and Harmony, who both crash the wedding, get in a competition to see which of them is the "fun one".

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