What It's Like Being Alone
What It's Like Being Alone
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What It's Like Being Alone

7.5 / 10 · 2 votes
2006
~30 min / ep
1 season
13 episodes
AnimationComedy

A wondrous and fiendishly humorous stop-motion animation series about freak orphans who are desperately trying to get adopted.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Being Alone for Beginners

    26-06-200630 min

    Lucy discovers that not only is she an orphan but she is also not a princess.

  • Ep 2

    2.Do Orphans Dream of Electric Parents

    03-07-200630 min

    After Brian Brain is rejected by like-minded Adopters, he creates robotic parents to fill the void.

  • Ep 3

    3.An Orphans' Life Indeed

    10-07-200630 min

    Princess Lucy accidentally clones herself in an effort to find the perfect BFF.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Perfect Lesson

    17-07-200630 min

    The Orphans put on a play to prospective Adopters, with disastrous results.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Poster Child

    24-07-200630 min

    Aldous has a chance to avoid a deadly curse by being adopted by Corporate Executives.

  • Ep 6

    6.Fire the Reverend

    31-07-200630 min

    Reverend Gamble mistakes Charlie for the Devil, until the real Satan shows up looking for his son.

  • Ep 7

    7.Red, White and Orphanage

    07-08-200630 min

    After a shiny, new orphanage appears overnight, Brian Brain realizes he wouldn't give up being a free-thinker for all the power and possessions in the world.

  • Ep 8

    8.Sammy's Episode

    14-08-200630 min

    Sammy is convinced he's being watched by a TV audience, and is consequently diagnosed by Brian Brain as being a megalomaniac.

  • Ep 9

    9.A Tale of Almost Unbearable Sadness

    21-08-200630 min

    After a bad day, the Orphans try to find true happiness in the hapless forest.

  • Ep 10

    10.Lucky Lucy/You Got to Know When to Hold'em

    28-08-200630 min

    Princess Lucy obsesses over the high she gets from gambling, resulting in dire consequences.

  • Ep 11

    11.Armie Loves Cigarettes

    04-09-200630 min

    Armie takes up smoking after idolizing Cool Carl, the only Orphan ever to be adopted from the Gurney.

  • Ep 12

    12.The Frightful Flu

    11-09-200630 min

    After all the Orphans come down with the flu, a reformed wicked witch, Karen, is hired to get them under control.

  • Ep 13

    13.Silver Screen Lucy

    18-09-200630 min

    Famed A-list Director, Steven Franchise, has the Orphans compete by making films to impress him into adopting them.

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