AMC+ released the first trailer for Ultra City Smiths, a stop-motion animated comedy show developed and executive produced by Steven Conrad -- the creator of Amazon Prime's series Patriot "and other cool stuff," as the trailer playfully words it.

Ultra City Smiths uses baby dolls repurposed as adults who reside in the sinister metropolis known as Ultra City. As seen in the trailer, the series follows Detectives David Mills (Jimmi Simpson) and Gail Johnson (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) as they investigate the mysterious death of Carpenter K. Smith (Kurtwood Smith), a well-respected Ultra City magnate and mayoral candidate who promised to take on the city's rampant crime and corruption. The show gets its title from not only Carpenter Smith but from the last people he was with prior to his murder, all of whom share his last name.

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A parody of the procedural crime drama and neo-noir genres, Ultra City Smiths is a mature stop-motion animated comedy series in the vein of Hulu's M.O.D.O.K. and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken. Each of the first season's half-dozen episodes will feature a comical song-and-dance number, one of which is highlighted in the trailer.

The back-half of the Ultra City Smiths trailer runs through the show's many eccentric characters and the actors who voice them, including Bebe Neuwirth as the wrestler Andrea the Giant, Melissa Villaseñor as Sister Mary Margaret, Tim Heidecker as Mayor Kevin De Maximum, Kristen Bell as Donella Pecker, Dax Shepard as Congressman Chris Pecker, Tim Meadows as Deputy Mayor Jeff Thumb, Terry O'Quinn as Captain Krieger, Hana Mae Lee as Christina, Luis Guzmán as Rodrigo Smalls, Jason Mantzoukas as Tim the TMZ reporter, Chris Conrad as Nico Onasis, Sunita Mani as Detective Jaya Mukherjee, Julian Barratt as The Most Dangerous Man in the World and Tom Waits as The Narrator.

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Robot Chicken co-creator Seth Green serves as an executive producer here, along with John Harvatine IV, Matthew Senreich, Eric Towner, Chris Waters, Jennifer Scher, Jeff Dieter and Thomas J. Glynn. In addition to creating and producing Ultra City Smiths, Steven Conrad acts as showrunner for Season 1.

AMC+ will begin streaming the first two episodes of Ultra City Smiths on Thursday, July 22, with future episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays.

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