Freak Show is an animated series about a band of freak show performers called the Freak Squad, who also happen to be substandard superheroes. The plot of the show focuses on the adventures and mostly misadventures of the carnival freaks who are secretly employed to accomplish trivial and insignificant missions from the Pentagon. Apart from being superheroes, the Freak Squad performs for Bob and Helen Hartsdale's Funtyme Freak Show.