Secret Mountain Fort Awesome is an American animated television series created by Peter Browngardt that debuted in 2011 on Cartoon Network.The show revolves around a fraternity of five monsters who unleash wild stunts upon the public from their eponymous mountain fort.The show is loosely based on Browngardt's animated short, Uncle Grandpa, and employs Mike Conte of the heavy metal band Early Man as composer.The show premiered as a sneak peek on Cartoon Network on August 1, 2011, and had a formal premiere on that September 26.The show has been well received, and designers Robert Ryan Cory and Chris Tsirgiotis both won awards for "Outstanding Individual in Animation" at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony.The Uncle Grandpa short that Browngardt had produced was eventually adapted as a full series of the same name, which he felt was a more lighthearted adaptation for children.