GTA 6's Macca & Friends trailer: the cartoon inside the game, about a gator who can't make rent

Grand Theft Auto VI has a cartoon of its own. Macca & Friends, an animated series about Macca the Gator and his friends from Leonida's wetlands, got a 30-second teaser on Friday, Nov. 13, and its title card says it's "coming November 19 on Weazel," the TV network of the GTA world. Nov. 19 is the day the game comes out.

The trailer premiered as an exclusive first look on DiscussingFilm, a film and TV news account, on X and YouTube at 9 a.m. Eastern. Rockstar Games reposted it on X at 12:02 p.m., and the YouTube upload's description ends with a plug for the game: out Nov. 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with pre-orders open now.

What happens in the trailer

The setup is a very GTA problem: Macca can't make rent. His landlord, a crab in a gold chain that spells out Pinche, is about to throw him out. Macca himself is a pink alligator in purple sunglasses and a blue palm-print shirt, and the trailer follows him from a cluttered shack to the swamp, where an airboat skims past, and on to a purple convertible on monster-truck wheels with "The Bouncer" painted on its side.

He isn't alone. A big purple manatee in a blue fedora, sunglasses and a gold chain rides along, with a heart tattoo that says MOM. In one shot, the letters CHUNKE run across his chest before the frame cuts them off; Rockstar's collector's box, below, includes a Chunkee the Manatee shot glass. A flamingo in goggles squeezes into a car with the gang and a shouting, mustached man in aviators, a grinning sun in sunglasses talks to the camera, and the last scenes take place at a police station, where Macca and the manatee turn up in police caps and a boar in uniform stands near the front desk.

The title card puts the whole cast together over a skyline of low white buildings, with a Vice City logo in the corner and Weazel's at the bottom. Weazel's logo also sits in the corner of every shot, the way a real channel brands its shows.

Macca was already everywhere

Rockstar has been building Macca up since September. Its announcement of the Goodtime State: Vice City Collection, the $399.99 collector's box, called him the star of a hit Leonida TV show and named that show Macca the Gator. The box holds a 6-inch Macca figure with a stash compartment, a Macca magnetic mirror, a Chunkee the Manatee shot glass and a poster with the show's characters on the front. It doesn't include the game.

In the game, the Ultimate Edition's Goodtime Gear is apparel inspired by Macca; our price and editions guide lists all 16 Ultimate Edition items. The Rockstar Store sells a white Macca the Gator tee. And in October, one of the fake-brand billboards that went up in Miami advertised the cartoon with the same Nov. 19 date, under the name the trailer uses, Macca & Friends.

TV in the GTA world

Weazel is the series' media company. Weazel News covered the news in GTA IV and GTA V, and in GTA 6's first trailer, it carries a crash live; our guide to GTA 6's callbacks has more names Rockstar has brought back. Earlier games had TV channels with shows of their own, cartoons among them: Republican Space Rangers in GTA IV and Impotent Rage in GTA V.

Rockstar hasn't said how many episodes of Macca & Friends there are, how long they run or where in Leonida you can watch them. DiscussingFilm's post calls it a series that follows Macca and his friends across the state.

Macca has his own page in our library, and our character guide lists everyone else Rockstar has named so far. GTA 6 comes out Nov. 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.