Housemates (Flarlandian television series)

Housemates is a Flarlandian animated series created by Colin Armitage and Ajakoo Johnson-Roberts. The series is a "pseudo-continuation" of Colin's webtoon of the same name, cancelled in the previous year, acting as a revision. The series airs on Channel 14 and has been renewed for a second season.

The series is produced by Intense Entertainment, Ajakoo's production company, as means to battle the Couch Slave domination. The series has become successful that it has been sold to about forty countries worldwide, aside from showings on F Vibe from Flarland TV. The series has been renewed for two more seasons.

Premise

Cody and AJ used to share the same apartment. Now they live in a luxurious house.

The series often references the webtoon of the same name and many of the characters are aesthetically stuck in 2003 while living a modern-day life.

Season 4 depicts the entire building complex being duplicated and sent to another dimension to avoid an invasion from the so-called "Republic of People", as a stand-in to Flarland's reaction to the pandemic and in turn the People's Republic of Kaizhung, as well as other events that happened in the year.

Characters

Merpeople (seven main characters)

• Cody: In season 2, he becomes a call center attendant.
• AJ: AJ is a black merman. In season 2 he acts slightly more like a family father rather than having interests over Cody. He apparently works with the real Ajakoo Johnson-Roberts as his fictional "father".
• Priscilla Marie:
• Serwaah: Serwaah is AJ's sister.
• Milo: Milo is AJ's brother.
• Cory: Cory is Cody's brother.
• Whyber Katerman (voiced by Khyber Waterman): Whyber is a rip-off of Khyber. He is annoyed due to the fact that he can't be in the house.

Minor characters (humans and merpeople)

• Herks (voiced by Michael Dumfries): a solitary merman in season one where he used to live in a peripheral area of Wembley. He then moved nearby in the second season whem he found the love of his life. The name is an anagram of Shrek, a famous fictional ogre character from the film series of the same name, with the anagram, Sarian accent and solitary attitudes being homages to him.
• Wayne (voiced by Ajakoo Johnson-Roberts): Wayne is a Wakelandian immigrant who secretly lives in the same apartment as AJ. His desire is to become a merman.
• Perky: Cory's pet merhamster.
• Merky: Milo's pet "merhamster-bear" (as a merbear with hamster appearance), who he got at the start of season 3 as a "solid deal from Hopeland".

Notable guests

• George Tuohy as himself, presenting a fictional current affairs program called Now Spoon.

Episodes

Season 1

• 1: How We Got Our House (September 25th, 2017)

Pilot episode.

• 6: Caribbean Fall (November 30th, 2017)

AJ receives a human guest from Wakeland in his room.

• 8: Flarland Yonkor (December 14th, 2017)

AJ directs his own faux-budget film, financed using money from The Trade Game.

• 9: Christmas Special Revisited (December 21st, 2017)

A remake of the first Housemates Christmas special, which inevitably turns into nostalgia waffle about the golden days of web animation - and when RealPlayer was buffering all the time.

• 10: Flarland Yonkor Again (January 4th, 2018)

AJ reveals his film, Flarland Yonkor, to mixed results from the Flarlandian internet.

• 11: Acid Dream (January 11th, 2018)
• 12: Back to the 80s (January 18th, 2018)

Cody discovers a computer from 1989. It is known to work quite well, but ends up infuriating the house with its avert aesthetics.

• 18: Remain Indoors (April 12th, 2018)

It's raining heavily and the housemates have to conform with a new law about the ban of explicit comics.

Season 2

• 1: Return of Poseidon

Poseidon, who alongside some other Hellenians have visited the house last year, return for another "ambitious crossover". (September 24th, 2018)

• 2: Return to Alantis

As a consequence of the previous episode, the main characters are forced to have a new trial in Atlantis.

• 6: AJ's House of Horror

In an episode directed entirely by Ajakoo, the Halloween special focuses on a film where Rockson Emmanuel's influence on AJ's film-making skills make furniture all over the world fly around by hurting and killing people. It is later revealed to be a film called "Wickedness Falling to the Floor".

• 12: Sick

Cody gets sick. AJ, Serwaah and Cory all occupy his rooms and cause debauchery.

Season 5

In this season the Republic of People arc continues.

Reception

The series was well-received by critics in Flarland.

International broadcast

Bensonia

The series broadcasts on Sentry Entertainment.

Hopeland

NBN picked up the series for the Southern Hemisphere 2018 television season, to the huge success from the mercommunity and the local merculture.

Season 2 will premiere around November after many requests and reruns will be seen during the summer silly season.

The series moved to the Hopelandian version of Freeform.

Latin Sierra

The series has been sold to TV Azteca and RPC Televisión in Huasco and Mérida, respectively. It is unknown if the series will air on a cable channel, yet I-Sat is seen as a likely candidate by the regional community.

Both channels stopped airing the series due to lack of interest and refused to air season 2.

In 2021 the series moved to YouTube after streaming platforms unilaterally rejected the series.

Lenapore

The series airs on Mediacorp Channel 5 after the main news. Subtitles in Mandarin and Japanese are also available.

Recently, Entertainment Plus, Channel 5's sister channel, began airing reruns with additional Malay subtitles as well.

There is speculation that the series is heading to LPBS 1 soon.

North Arlesbury

The series aired exclusively on TNA 3.

Northulia

The series airs on SBS 2. The channel promoted it as "the series where merpeople dominated humans in Flarlandian ratings".