Shaytards

Shaytards (also known as Shaycarl and the Shaytard Blogs) (or simply The Shaytards) is an American television sitcom created by Shonda Rhimes, Ken Cabanting, & David S. Andrews for Xtranormal Network. The series made its official debut on October 2, 2008, and ended on May 12, 2022, with a total of 318 episodes over the course of 14 seasons.

The series is about the Butler family, living in their home in Buckskin Rd., Pocatello, Idaho. Shay (Tyler Labine) and his wife, Colette (Alyson Hannigan) have 5 children. Shay and Colette do call their children by their real names nowadays, but they all have "tard" names, too. Shay came up with "tard" because of his obsession with unitards. The oldest child is Gavin (Brendan Barney), Avia (Brooke Monk), Emmi (Jules LeBlanc, was recently featured on the cover of James Blunt's photo album "Some Kind of Trouble"), Brock (Mason Dash Disick), and Daxton (Kaden Roque). They also had a dog named Malachi (Ruby Rose Turner) who passed away in 2012, a few months before his 9th birthday. They have since got a new dog, which they named Ezekiel, or Zeke (Diezel Ortiz), in 2013. They also have Cooper (Jace Norman) and Carlie Butler (Elizabeth Olsen).

The series also airs in syndication in other countries and has been released on various DVD sets and other forms of home media.

On July 24, 2022, Xtranormal Network cancelled the series after fourteen seasons.

Setting and premise
Shaytards follows the exploits of the Butler family and their interactions with the local populace, as they are said to be the last twisted remnants of a federally protected endangered species. Shay and his family lived in their home in Buckskin Rd., Pocatello, Idaho. In the words of Los Angeles, the show takes "backwoods stereotypes" and turns them into "a cudgel with which to pound maniacally on all manner of topical subjects".

Production
Shaytards is produced by Shondaland, Stoop!d Productions, ACME Crime Net, and Mibao Information Technology, Ltd.

International broadcast
In Canada, It aired on Citytv and Global.

Soundtrack
In 2008, Peter Shukoff wrote the Shaycarl and the Shaytards song which has been used for the intro music to the daily vlogs on several occasions. Jackson Harris published on June 6, 2014 "Life Through a Lens" to YouTube which has also been used as the intro music.

Home releases
The series is also available on Hulu since June 16, 2009, and HBO Max since September 6, 2020.