Hey Monie! is an American adult animated sitcom produced by Soup2Nuts. It features heavily improvised dialogue by the Second City cast, similarly to Soup2Nuts animated sitcom Home Movies.
Its creator and executive producer was Dorothea Gillim, creator of WordGirl, who also produced animated series Curious George, Pinkalicious & Peterrific, Molly of Denali, and Time Warp Trio.
The show began as 5-minute shorts that were part of Oxygen's animation series X-Chromosome. It achieved 11-minute episodes Hey Monie! aired on BET and, afterward, on Oxygen in 2003. It was BET's first in-house animated series; BET stated that it followed "the tradition of entertaining and satirical animated programming like The Simpsons, The Critic, and Daria."
In 2003, Seattle PI described the series as "smart, and at times wickedly funny."
It was the only adult animated series to feature a Black woman as its protagonist until Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances which ran for one season on Adult Swim in 2025.
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