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What It's Like Being Alone

TV·2006–2006·1 season, 13 episodes·CBC Television·Animation, Comedy·30m·Created by Brad Peyton

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A wondrous and fiendishly humorous stop-motion animation series about freak orphans who are desperately trying to get adopted.

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Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes2006AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Being Alone for BeginnersJune 26, 2006Lucy discovers that not only is she an orphan but she is also not a princess.
  2. S01E02Do Orphans Dream of Electric ParentsJuly 3, 2006After Brian Brain is rejected by like-minded Adopters, he creates robotic parents to fill the void.
  3. S01E03An Orphans' Life IndeedJuly 10, 2006Princess Lucy accidentally clones herself in an effort to find the perfect BFF.
  4. S01E04The Perfect LessonJuly 17, 2006The Orphans put on a play to prospective Adopters, with disastrous results.
  5. S01E05The Poster ChildJuly 24, 2006Aldous has a chance to avoid a deadly curse by being adopted by Corporate Executives.
  6. S01E06Fire the ReverendJuly 31, 2006Reverend Gamble mistakes Charlie for the Devil, until the real Satan shows up looking for his son.
  7. S01E07Red, White and OrphanageAugust 7, 2006After a shiny, new orphanage appears overnight, Brian Brain realizes he wouldn't give up being a free-thinker for all the power and possessi
  8. S01E08Sammy's EpisodeAugust 14, 2006Sammy is convinced he's being watched by a TV audience, and is consequently diagnosed by Brian Brain as being a megalomaniac.
  9. S01E09A Tale of Almost Unbearable SadnessAugust 21, 2006After a bad day, the Orphans try to find true happiness in the hapless forest.
  10. S01E10Lucky Lucy/You Got to Know When to Hold'emAugust 28, 2006Princess Lucy obsesses over the high she gets from gambling, resulting in dire consequences.
  11. S01E11Armie Loves CigarettesSeptember 4, 2006Armie takes up smoking after idolizing Cool Carl, the only Orphan ever to be adopted from the Gurney.
  12. S01E12The Frightful FluSeptember 11, 2006After all the Orphans come down with the flu, a reformed wicked witch, Karen, is hired to get them under control.
  13. S01E13Silver Screen LucySeptember 18, 2006Famed A-list Director, Steven Franchise, has the Orphans compete by making films to impress him into adopting them.

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