The Oblongs, the WB network’s new animated series that premiered on April Fools’ Day, opens with the sound of a flushing toilet. Chipper voices, who could be singing about the Flintstones or Scooby ...

The WB, which has as its mascot an animated frog, seeks its first primetime animated hit with "The Oblongs," a darkly comic view of a deformed but not dysfunctional family. Based on the Edward ...

The newest--and sickest--addition to prime time’s weird but loving families is “The Oblongs,” an occasionally funny animated WB comedy set in a toxic valley poisoned by industrial waste. So no wonder ...

But there in the ever-darkening territory of TV's toonland lies the toxic waste of Sunday's new WB animated show, The Oblongs. The Oblongs is a not-for-kiddies cartoon mutant, a toon with a mission: a ...