Rockstar Made a Whole Cartoon Series You Can Watch Inside GTA 6

Macca & Friends, about an alligator and his wetland pals, premieres Nov. 19 on the fictional Weazel network, the day GTA 6 launches.

A crab landlord is threatening to throw an alligator named Macca out over unpaid rent. The only place anyone will ever see how that turns out is on a TV set inside GTA 6.

A 30-second teaser for Macca & Friends, an animated series Rockstar Games made for Weazel, the made-up TV network in Grand Theft Auto VI, went up Friday as an "exclusive first look" from the DiscussingFilm account on X, IGN reported. The post says the show is coming Nov. 19 on Weazel. That's the same Thursday the game launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Push Square took the cartoon as a hint at the game's "absurd scope."

The teaser has talking animals, a police station and a talking sun, which Insider Gaming noted is wearing sunglasses. IGN said it had "big Adult Swim vibes." According to Insider Gaming, players will be able to watch the entire show without ever leaving the game.

TV inside GTA is an old joke. Weazel is the series' in-house media company, the network behind Weazel News since GTA IV, Output Lag noted. What's different this time is how hard Rockstar is selling its cartoon gator. Insider Gaming reported that Macca and his friends feature prominently on the physical Leonida maps and on the Collector's Box.

The more useful number is how long the game takes to finish. Rob Nelson, a co-head of Rockstar North, told The New York Times his February run through GTA 6 lasted roughly 80 hours, IGN reported, a count covering the main story plus some "optional goals with narrative ramifications." IGN puts GTA 4 and GTA 5 at around 30 hours each and Red Dead Redemption 2 at 50 to 60. None of those hours, as far as anyone has said, went to sitting through a crab's eviction notices.

The scale has a payroll behind it. Rockstar now employs 4,711 people in a dozen offices, according to a Bloomberg report IGN cited. That same report set the count at 2,441 back in 2018, the year Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped. IGN also reported that the studio opened a Los Angeles office full of writers, producers and directors whose only job is making the game's NPCs, the strangers who fill Leonida's streets. A cartoon that most players will flip past is what a studio that size can afford to make anyway.

Macca has also turned up outside the game. In October, Output Lag reported fan photos of a real billboard in downtown Miami advertising Macca & Friends as "Coming November 19 on Weazel," an ad for a show on a network that doesn't exist. Six days from now, the channel goes live.

Source: ign.com, retrieved November 13, 2026. Other sources: insider-gaming.com, outputlag.com.