Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of thirty episodes. Tom Goes to the Mayor began as a web cartoon on timanderic.com. It was popular enough to get a web sequel, in which David Cross guest stars. Bob Odenkirk noticed the show's potential, and began producing it for Adult Swim. Adult Swim has described Tom Goes to the Mayor as "one of the most polarizing shows" they have ever had,... indicating that viewers "either love it or hate it." The show's stories center on Tom Peters , a new citizen to the town of Jefferton who is "full of ideas", and the Mayor who always tweaks Tom's ideas and causes them to backfire. The show features a crude yet distinctive limited animation style made by taking photos of the cast with different facial expressions and body language. The photos are then filtered using the "photocopy" image filter in Adobe Photoshop, resulting in monochromatic blue and white images resembling Ditto machine copies.
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