To celebrate today’s Season 3 premiere of The Freak Brothers — with all six episodes dropping at once — Lionsgate TV is rolling out a unique, culture-forward marketing stunt: a “freak”-ishly slow-burn YouTube livestream designed for the highest holiday. It’s a one-of-a-kind activation that fully embraces the show’s hazy, heady vibe and is built to stay lit with your audience. At exactly 4:20 AM ET, they went live with a “slow TV” stunt: a Yule Log-style video – except the log is weed. A single “Festive Fatty” burns in real time—hypnotic, oddly soothing, and just a little bit mind-bending.
Festive Fatty
• A 4 hour, 20 minute livestream that unfolds in real time—mesmerizing, hypnotic, and impossible to look away from
• A slow, visual burn—embers pulsing, ash drifting, the glow constantly evolving
• Sound that starts as a raw crackle and gradually melts into warped, time-bending distortion—like the ‘70s colliding with the 2020s
• Hidden Season 3 Easter eggs scattered throughout—blink-and-you-miss-it visuals, trippy audio glitches, and surreal moments fans will chase, decode, and pass around like a secret stash
The Freak Brothers are back for Season 3—and they’re lighting up April 20 with a fresh stash of gloriously surreal misadventures. The original adult animated series, inspired by Gilbert Shelton’s cult-classic underground comic, rolls back in with more hazy, high-concept chaos. After some very magical weed knocks them out cold, three ‘70s stoners (and their cat) come to 50 years later—thrown into the fast-moving, totally unchill world of the 2020s.
Now that Franklin, Phineas, Freddy, and Kitty are small business owners running their own pot shop, they’re proving that you can’t spell CEO without THC… okay, maybe that’s not quite right. The point is, their hairy, harebrained misadventures take them from Colombia, where they get mixed up with the cartel, to 1980s Hollywood, and all the way into a futuristic dystopian hellscape — it’s a far-out trip, man.
Season 3 of “The Freak Brothers” premieres April 20 on Tubi featuring the voices of Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Pete Davidson, Tiffany Haddish, Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, Andrea Savage, La La Anthony, Joe Sikora and Berner. Executive producers are Courtney Solomon, Mark Canton, Alan Cohen, Alan Freedland and Harrelson, Haddish, Davidson, Devine, Anderson, Shelton and Manfred Mroczkowski. The series is produced by WTG Enterprises and distributed by Lionsgate. Seasons One And Two Available Now On Tubi.