Dig Dug Adventures

Dig Dug Adventures is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening and produced by the National Brodcasting Company. The main characters are a satire of a working class family, consisting of Taizo Hori, Toby Masuyo, Susumu Hori, and Ataru Hori. The series lampoons many aspects of American culture, society, politics and history.

The cartoon made its debut as 60-second animated bumpers for the The Tracey Ullman Show, with the first short airing on February 26, 1986. The shorts were then expanded into a full-length 30-minute television spin-off by NBC, first airing on April 26, 1989, known as Dig Dug Adventures Z. As of 2012, 14 seasons of the Dig Dug Z Kai series have been produced and the 15th season is currently airing.

The series currently holds the record for the longest-running prime-time sitcom in the history of television, running for 26 years since 1986, and becoming the longest-running program on NBC.

Animation
Toei Animation animates  Dig Dug Adventures. The studio receives the completed script of an episode and  storyboards it into over 100 drawings. It then creates a pencil-drawn  animatic with 1000 frames. Toei Animation's sister studio in Japan renders the 30,000-frame finished episode.