Squidbillies Season 13 Trailer Teases Final Season

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Adult Swim has unveiled a trailer for Squidbillies’ upcoming thirteenth and final season. Squidbillies first premiered in 2005 alongside Robot Chicken as part of the network’s late night programming block. The animated series is one of Adult Swim's longest-running shows, with over 120 episodes under its belt. The show follows the Cuylers, a family of anthropomorphized, ne’er-do-well mud squids living in northern Georgia.

Squidbillies was created by Jim Fortier and Dave Willis, who is best known for creating and voicing several characters in Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The pair had previously worked together on cult hit, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. They would combine their irreverent sense of humor on Squidbillies, which focuses on the redneck misadventures of the denizens of Douglas County, GA. Through season 12, Stuart D. Baker voiced Early Cuyler, a deadbeat alcoholic. Daniel McDevitt plays Early’s illegitimate son Rusty, with Dana Snyder as Granny and Patricia French as the young squid’s dysfunctional Aunt Lil.

Now Adult Swim has released a new trailer for Squidbillies season 13, confirming that it will be the long-running show’s last hurrah. “Squidbillies, the show you love to overlook, is back for a 13th and final season,” reads the network’s official release. “Join Early, Rusty, and Granny Cuyler for 10 brand new episodes of jackwoods backassery. Sorry – backwoods jackassery.” Over footage of explosions at Bubba’s Discount Burials and tentacular strip club encounters, a voiceover hammers home the finality of the upcoming season. “The Cuylers are finally fixing to ride off into the sunset,” it says before teasing a big finish. “Get ready for one more heaping helping of down-home country wisdom, and one heck of a surprise.” Watch the uncouth cephalopods in the season 13 trailer below:

The trailer arrives a little over one year after Baker was fired from his Squidbillies role as Early. In Summer of 2020, Baker—also known by his stage name Unknown Hinson—posted racist and sexist comments on social media in regards to an article in which Dolly Parton expressed her support for Black Lives Matter activists. Soon after, the voice actor was let go from his Squidbillies gig. While the trailer confirms that the show will go on without Baker, the search for a new Early Cuyler is still underway, with Adult Swim actively holding auditions. Indeed, the character's voice is conspicuously absent from the trailer, his yet-to-be-cast line readings covered up by a din of horns.

Baker’s dismissal will likely have some effect on the future of Squidbillies, with the show’s writers perhaps pivoting to more Rusty-centered plotlines. They’re certainly not the first animated show to carry on with a new voice actor. Last year, Jenny Slate quit her role as Missy on Netflix’s Big Mouth, asserting that the part should be played by a Black actor (comedian Ayo Edibiri took over at the end of the show’s fourth season). Still, Baker’s falling out with Squidbillies is a considerably more dishonorable departure, begging the question of whether the writers—not ones to typically shy away from uncomfortable humor—will include an in-joke on his firing. Fans can watch the new Early and the gang when Squidbillies premieres on November 7 at midnight on Adult Swim.