Drawn Together is an American animated television series that uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. The show's eight cartoon characters are a combination of recognizable parodies of cartoon stock characters and other generic young people whose characters all parody the general personality types that typically are seen in TV reality shows. The characters agreed to live in a house together in a setup similar to that of The Real World. It airs on Comedy Central and was created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, and it first aired on October 27, 2004. Comedy Central advertises it as the first animated reality show.