Life's a Zoo is a Canadian adult-oriented stop motion-animated sitcom created by Adam Shaheen and Andrew Horne. It is directed by Alexander Gorelick. A co-production between Cuppa Coffee Studios and Teletoon Canada Inc., "Life's a Zoo.tv" was named Best Animated Program or Series at the 24th Annual Gemini Awards. It premiered on September 1, 2008, on Teletoon's late night programming block, Teletoon Detour. It premiered on Smosh's cartoon-themed YouTube channel, Shut Up! Cartoons on June 23, 2013.

Premise

The show is a parody of the reality TV series Big Brother, with a similar plot. The seven very different contestants share a mansion "Somewhere in Saskatchewan..." where they compete in challenges to avoid being (the show's version of elimination), supervised by the show's host, Claude the vulture in the first season, and later Bobbie the harp seal in the second. In the first season, despite being eliminated, characters always come back, as Life's a Zoo doesn't use continuity. However, starting in season two, characters are permanently eliminated. Additionally, each episode features a specially edited music video from a different artist. The show won Best Animated Series at the Canadian Gemini Awards in 2009.

Main characters

Episodes

Shut Up! Cartoons

The rights to the series were bought by Smosh to be aired on their Shut Up! Cartoons YouTube channel. Most of the show remains the same with the exception of the inclusion of ''Shut Up! Cartoons'' intros and outros and notably more censorship of profanity, drug references, and sexual content.

Planned spin-off

There were plans for a child-friendly spin-off called Pen Pals. The series would have feature Jake and Ray as the main characters. The project has been since been scrapped as references to it were removed from the official Cuppa Coffee Studios website.