Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Netificent. I am
Speaker 1: one half of your host, Danny Fernanez, and sitting across
Speaker 1: from me as always. Hey, how's it going. If you
Speaker 1: did you missed me last week? Yeah? Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: we had fun, but we definitely missed you. I would
Speaker 1: have loved some of your takes, even though uh privately
Speaker 1: you've already given me some candy Man takes. Yeah. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle of sp October, so we've been doing
Speaker 1: all Halloween slash like spooky based episodes and today is
Speaker 1: not any different. We're covering a real Monsters, which is
Speaker 1: something that I grew up with, so I think out
Speaker 1: of all of the core Nickelodeon shows, this was the
Speaker 1: one that I resonated with the most. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: have someone who it's very near and dear to his heart.
Speaker 1: He's a writer, producer, and showrunner who's concludes The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: the PJS which we're just seeking out about Lego Star
Speaker 1: Wars F is for Family. It is Michael Price. Hey, Hi, Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: how are you. You have a long list of things? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but this one, Real Monsters Are Real Monsters was one
Speaker 1: of my first so that's why it's such it's such
Speaker 1: a show that I even thought about a lot lately.
Speaker 1: But when you mentioned asked me to come on and
Speaker 1: talk about it, I was so happy too, because it
Speaker 1: was really at the very beginning of my career. It
Speaker 1: was one of the first jobs I ever had, and
Speaker 1: it was I was so thrilled to have it and
Speaker 1: it was a great just a great fun show. Actually,
Speaker 1: I have to shout out it was like a mutual
Speaker 1: follower of ours because I I was like posting I
Speaker 1: love all real monsters. I think I had a picture
Speaker 1: like I have a T shirt, I'll have to post
Speaker 1: it for everybody, and they tagged you and said you
Speaker 1: should have a Michael price on and that's how they
Speaker 1: got connected. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Well, we've been starting
Speaker 1: our show with what we're seeking out about. So what
Speaker 1: are you speaking out about this week? Well, I guess
Speaker 1: it's it's Tuesday right now. So in about two days,
Speaker 1: I just passed a billboard for it, which is the
Speaker 1: El Camino, which is breaking bad sequel movie that I'm
Speaker 1: just so exciting to see. And I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be in theaters, possibly too Netflix, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I imagine it will probably come out like at
Speaker 1: midnight on Thursday night into Friday, and so I think
Speaker 1: I'll be sitting there watching it as soon as it
Speaker 1: comes on. That's a show. Breaking Bad was the show
Speaker 1: that I did not get into until it had been
Speaker 1: on like four years. As I watched the first episode
Speaker 1: and it was so dark and so bleak, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'll try another one. And the second one, if you remember,
Speaker 1: is the one where he's got that guy tied up
Speaker 1: in the basement. Oh yeah, It's like this is too
Speaker 1: much for me. And then a couple of years went
Speaker 1: by and all my friends, uh working on the Simpsons,
Speaker 1: we're talking about it, and then I started reading about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, all right, I'll start it now.
Speaker 1: And boy was I so happy that I did. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a similar one. I had friends who were
Speaker 1: in it, and I think, looking back now, this had
Speaker 1: to be around on season three. But it was when
Speaker 1: the kid uh yeah, yeah, the one on the bike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well not without trying not to give too much away,
Speaker 1: even though you should have already did it. And that
Speaker 1: was like my introduction to it. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a rough one. But then like everyone was
Speaker 1: so hyped for the final season that like I binged
Speaker 1: like the all the win up until the pen ultimate
Speaker 1: season so that I could watch along for the final season.
Speaker 1: Which it was great to be able to watch along
Speaker 1: and wait week by week. But Breaking Bad is not
Speaker 1: a show you should binge. It's very heavy, so you
Speaker 1: was like, after some episodes I'd have to like take
Speaker 1: a break and just put it on this Yeah, although
Speaker 1: last year I went back through and watched it all again.
Speaker 1: I did watch over the course of like two or
Speaker 1: three weeks something. Have you watched better? Oh? Absolutely. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of my really good friends is I'm better call Saul.
Speaker 1: Her name is Eileen Fogerty, and she plays Mrs Wynn,
Speaker 1: the lady who run Salon. So she Spennet and I
Speaker 1: know a couple of old Bill Burr who I work
Speaker 1: with him. I peraps your family is place Koobi Breaking Bad,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I was also an officer. Family
Speaker 1: is We have Matt Jones who plays Badger and Breaking Bad.
Speaker 1: It's one of the voices and family too. So in fact,
Speaker 1: we were at a party, like a season premiere party
Speaker 1: the last November for um Forever your Family, and I
Speaker 1: asked him are you gonna be on a better call, Saul?
Speaker 1: And he goes, no, I don't think so, but maybe
Speaker 1: something better or whatever. I think you just heard about
Speaker 1: this movie. And then like two weeks later they announced
Speaker 1: the movie, you know, like I said, oh, that must yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's in it and it's not a spoiler. He's
Speaker 1: in for it. But now they said, like so many
Speaker 1: other people are in this party last night premiere party
Speaker 1: where they're all there, like Brian Cranston and Dianor and
Speaker 1: they're all there. It's like, how many of you are
Speaker 1: they in the movie? Are you doing in it? You know?
Speaker 1: I have the funniest story took my mom. She just
Speaker 1: she loves Jimmy Alan, as a lot of moms do,
Speaker 1: and it took her to his show and Brian Cranston
Speaker 1: was the guest, and so we're sitting there in the
Speaker 1: audience and Brian Cranston comes out and very loudly, my
Speaker 1: mom goes, oh my god, the dad from Malcolm in
Speaker 1: the Middle. And I'm like, mom, he's done a lot then,
Speaker 1: he's done a lot since then. But also Malcolm in
Speaker 1: the Middle, he was great. That's such a mom thing
Speaker 1: to say. If he what about you? What are you
Speaker 1: geeking out about? Well, you know, um, you know, as
Speaker 1: a lot of gamers the games listen no Destiny, uh
Speaker 1: you know, shadow Keep was released and everyone everyone was
Speaker 1: asking if I was going to come back forward, if
Speaker 1: I was gonna play, and uh, you know really, uh
Speaker 1: you know, I think this is all I have to
Speaker 1: say about it. People keep asking if I'm back, and
Speaker 1: I haven't really had an answer, but now, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking I'm back. I've been playing. That is like one
Speaker 1: first of all as my favorite on bite from John Wick,
Speaker 1: and I reference that so much, like it's just it
Speaker 1: was such a cool part of the movie too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been playing. I was playing all day. I was streaming,
Speaker 1: uh for like six hours today just playing through. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's it's great if you played like the first Destiny
Speaker 1: because it's on the moon, so it referenced a lot
Speaker 1: of like Krota and like the old raids and you're
Speaker 1: getting to do all that fun stuff. And like a
Speaker 1: lot of people showed up for the stream today of
Speaker 1: flu of Heat came and we we were just bouncing
Speaker 1: around the moon and it's been a fun experience. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm back in Destiny now. Did you, like
Speaker 1: when Tom Holland came back and he did that Wolf
Speaker 1: of Wall Strong that was going anyway, I love a
Speaker 1: good like, like a good reference that will say what
Speaker 1: you're you want to say for you. It's so yeah,
Speaker 1: that was I I watched, like I know that scene,
Speaker 1: but it was so funny to watch it and then
Speaker 1: think of it in reference to the Spider Man in
Speaker 1: the m c U. Uh. The thing that I'm geeking
Speaker 1: out about is well, thank you everyone that came to
Speaker 1: any of my panels at New York Comic Con. It
Speaker 1: was so great getting to meet y'all. And Uh, the
Speaker 1: Disney Princess panel was one of the coolest things that
Speaker 1: I did. I mean, it was so weird slash like.
Speaker 1: I tried to take in the moment to be on
Speaker 1: stage with these iconic women that have voiced I mean,
Speaker 1: Jodie Benson has been the voice of Ariel for over
Speaker 1: thirty years. Uh, and Pedo Harrah, who was Belle Jennifer
Speaker 1: Hale who took over at Cinderella, She's been doing Cinderella's
Speaker 1: voice for over twenty years. And a Nikanoni Rose who's
Speaker 1: a voice of Tiana. And it was just I told
Speaker 1: myself I'm not gonna cry. And I even like I
Speaker 1: didn't have tissues and I brought like toilet paper and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not gonna cry. But a Nika told
Speaker 1: his story and started crying and then I cried. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is such an intimate moment that we get to share,
Speaker 1: and like, just it was. It was amazing and there
Speaker 1: were like a thousand people there, so thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone that came. And that is just I'm geeking out
Speaker 1: about the fact that when I was little, I just
Speaker 1: would dance and sing to their music and their words
Speaker 1: and I knew all of the songs by heart, and
Speaker 1: then to be on stage with them was was awesome.
Speaker 1: So that is my geeky thing this week, and we
Speaker 1: are diving into I want to know who came up
Speaker 1: with all of these Did you all just call you
Speaker 1: called it real monsters so that it was always yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's like or we just called monsters or whatever
Speaker 1: like that. You know, you always you always show folk
Speaker 1: come from the theater originally, so in the theater, you
Speaker 1: sort of just it's not Sweeney Todd, it's Sweeney or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not Oklahoma it's or it's not that
Speaker 1: or the one that the one theater speak out with here,
Speaker 1: because you have to say it this way is Scottish plow.
Speaker 1: That's a whole different thing, the Scottish the Scottish play.
Speaker 1: When I asked you to be on it, though, I
Speaker 1: made sure I didn't want to be disrespectful, so I
Speaker 1: made sure I like all the a's and all of
Speaker 1: the exclamations. I think it's three A, two ages. I
Speaker 1: think that's what it is. You still got it? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: but actually before we dived into that, I wanted to
Speaker 1: know when did you because this was your first was
Speaker 1: this my first animated show that I worked on? When
Speaker 1: did you realize, Because we have a lot of writers
Speaker 1: that listen, when did you realize that you could do
Speaker 1: this professionally? Well, I mean I knew that I wanted
Speaker 1: to do it. I come from the East Coast from
Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey area, and I did a lot
Speaker 1: of theater and then I started doing improv sketch comedy,
Speaker 1: and that was when I first realized, Okay, I think
Speaker 1: I'm funny, you know, I'm not just funny around the
Speaker 1: house whatever. I think I can do this and and
Speaker 1: perform in front of an audience and make somebody laugh.
Speaker 1: So then that got me thinking, all right, maybe there's
Speaker 1: a job in that somehow, you know. And uh, and
Speaker 1: then when I came out here, um, I just started.
Speaker 1: I had, I was, I was. I was doing a show,
Speaker 1: a two person show with a writing partner, And that's
Speaker 1: what got us a little bit of attention out here
Speaker 1: and got us some representation, an agent and a manager.
Speaker 1: So suddenly I was like, Okay, now now I see
Speaker 1: that there's possible way forward into this place. And I
Speaker 1: just wrote like spec scripts and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and um, cook a couple of years of like knocking
Speaker 1: around and not getting anything happening, and taking all kind
Speaker 1: of crazy jobs, like right in this neighborhood, in this
Speaker 1: Hollywood neighborhood, I had so many ridiculously awful jobs that
Speaker 1: he even tell like phone rooms and awful stuff. But um,
Speaker 1: but finally I got hired on a on a sketch
Speaker 1: comedy show with a packet of sketches, a very low
Speaker 1: budget kind of like a Saturday Nette lifestyle show that
Speaker 1: was called The News any w Z. And it was
Speaker 1: on like syndicated. Uh it's early nineties, and um, that
Speaker 1: only lasted a couple of months. But from that I
Speaker 1: met a guy. His name is David Litt, and he
Speaker 1: was that show was one of his first jobs. And
Speaker 1: when that show ended, he called me like a week
Speaker 1: or two, a couple of weeks later saying, oh, I
Speaker 1: just got a job on this Nickelodeon cartoon show called
Speaker 1: Real Monsters. And he was the staff writer on that show.
Speaker 1: But you know, wait, wait, those kind of shows work
Speaker 1: is that this is the staff will write so many episodes,
Speaker 1: but they also need like freelance people to come in
Speaker 1: and write other episodes. So he goes, do you want
Speaker 1: to come in and like talk to us about maybe
Speaker 1: writing an episode? So I did. And that's so David
Speaker 1: got me in there. Uh So, I mean he's always
Speaker 1: been he was a great guy. I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: in a long time, but he went on to an
Speaker 1: amazing career. He co created the sitcom called The King
Speaker 1: of Queens. That's yes, So I mean he doesn't probably
Speaker 1: never need to work every that I was just going
Speaker 1: to say he's super rich. I'm sure he is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's a wonderful guy. But he got me in.
Speaker 1: He got me in the door a Real Monsters and
Speaker 1: so I wrote my first two episodes on a freelance basis,
Speaker 1: and then UM for the second or third season of Monsters. Uh,
Speaker 1: they knew me for that, and then they brought me
Speaker 1: in the sort of pitch. The people who running it
Speaker 1: were replaced by another guy running it, and they brought
Speaker 1: me in to pitch some stories and they didn't quite
Speaker 1: go all my stories, but then they thought it remembered me,
Speaker 1: and then someone left another guy went on to have
Speaker 1: a huge All these guys I've went worked on this
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon show had like just giant suitcom careers. A guy
Speaker 1: named Steve scro Van who left because he got a
Speaker 1: job on Everybody Loves Raymond. She went off and like
Speaker 1: was on Raymond for its entire run. UM, but I
Speaker 1: replaced Steve on the staff and that was on the
Speaker 1: staff for the rest of that time. So that's why
Speaker 1: I think I wrote about fourteen episodes of that show.
Speaker 1: But the first two were on a freelance spaces and
Speaker 1: the rest were once I got on staff. I mean.
Speaker 1: And also you also went on to have this. I
Speaker 1: didn't create the King of Queens, but yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: been all right, it's been all I mean, Monsters really
Speaker 1: was this bouncing pad for all these great right. Why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great what a great place to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, it was class key Chupo was the
Speaker 1: studio that admit it made it. And they were were
Speaker 1: in this little building on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, right
Speaker 1: the low um By Fountain Avenue. There's a Jack in
Speaker 1: the Box right across the street. It's still there too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the Klassky Chupa wasn't there anymore. Oh it's yes.
Speaker 1: The hairplace, Yeah, it's a hairplace, and there's a little
Speaker 1: there's a little tiny school there and some of the
Speaker 1: some of the characters are still painted on the side.
Speaker 1: Character on the side of the building. I thought it
Speaker 1: was still there because those monsters are still there. They're
Speaker 1: still there. They're still That's where we worked and uh
Speaker 1: we just sat in a little room, a little office
Speaker 1: writing and uh writing our stories. And then the recording
Speaker 1: studio was there, so we get to go see the
Speaker 1: records with these amazing actors. I mean, the people who
Speaker 1: started the show were great. Uh. Um, Charlie Adler, who's
Speaker 1: one of the great voice over people of all time. Um,
Speaker 1: and then uh, I don't have her name from Christine
Speaker 1: Christine Kavanaugh, she's the late Christine Kavanaugh. She was wonderful,
Speaker 1: like named David eccles who it was a sound guy
Speaker 1: at Krassky Chupa had a really interesting funny voice. He
Speaker 1: was became Crumb, the guy with the eyeballs. And but
Speaker 1: then the guest actors would come in. The casting director
Speaker 1: was a woman named Barbara Right who would just cast
Speaker 1: these amazing actors so like people like you would never
Speaker 1: expect to show up, like Tim Curry and uh and
Speaker 1: people who now like have had big careers later like um,
Speaker 1: this guy named Sander Berkeley, you know Xander Berkeley. He's
Speaker 1: in the original term. He's a terminator too. He's the
Speaker 1: guy who who was um John Connor's like step stepfather
Speaker 1: gets killed with like the thing through the face. Yeah, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's Sander Berkeley. Has been in a million things. This
Speaker 1: guy named Toby hass has been in a million things.
Speaker 1: But like Big Margot Kidder, the late Margot kid Like,
Speaker 1: these people just come through just doing like one voice,
Speaker 1: you know, because this woman was a great woman who
Speaker 1: like like these people. So I get to sit in
Speaker 1: and watch these amazing voice sessions, and and the animators
Speaker 1: were great. It was just just a really fun experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So for people that don't know that haven't heard of it,
Speaker 1: I don't know how. But the show focuses on three
Speaker 1: young monsters. It's its Obelina and Crumb, who attend a
Speaker 1: school for monsters under a city dump and learned to
Speaker 1: frighten humans. Uh. Many of the episodes revolve around them
Speaker 1: making it to the surface in order to perform scares
Speaker 1: as class assignments. The series premiered October at eleven am
Speaker 1: on Nickelodeon. That's cute. That was a good slot, running
Speaker 1: a total of fifty two episodes over four seasons. The
Speaker 1: final episode air December six. So, like you were saying,
Speaker 1: Charlie Adler voiced its do you hate? Do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite or like one? I hate to ask this
Speaker 1: good to ask your favorite monster? For sure? I mean
Speaker 1: he was so he was because he was He was
Speaker 1: a little bit me too, because he was like very
Speaker 1: nervous and anxious and always worried. And you know, Crumb
Speaker 1: was the cool one who liked nothing bothered him. And
Speaker 1: Obeliina was super cool and stylish, which I wasn't. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely it is. Yeah, I liked writing for him too.
Speaker 1: He was fun to write for. Yeah, that was always fain.
Speaker 1: He had those uh am, I remember those blue lips, right,
Speaker 1: blue lips. No, I'm tripping. He was kind of purpleish
Speaker 1: rabbit looking thing with big fangs and like giant ears,
Speaker 1: you know. Blini was basically like a cany giant lips,
Speaker 1: and Crumb was a little roy if you weren't off,
Speaker 1: he had blue like they kind of both had blue,
Speaker 1: just depends on the how they were drawn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: no I'm not crazy. Yeah, he had the blue lips,
Speaker 1: and he had the curly legs. Yeah, a little yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was like a little nervous guy. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: love and Charlie was just, I mean, did an amazing
Speaker 1: job performing him. But he was just a fun guy
Speaker 1: to have around. He's still he's still very busy and
Speaker 1: uh he directs a lot voice overacting now, but he
Speaker 1: still acts a lot and he's really amazing. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it is if you also somehow don't know is the
Speaker 1: small Red Monster. He's the main protagonist anti Heroes series,
Speaker 1: and he changes between him and Obilina, and his method
Speaker 1: of scaring humans is the ability to grow bigger. I
Speaker 1: always remember his garden. Uh. And but due to his
Speaker 1: large ears, he's often confused with a bunny rabbit, which
Speaker 1: I think that happened when when he had like a
Speaker 1: fail scare and like they thought he was as Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: it extends to be on the nervous. Uh. It extends
Speaker 1: to be nervous. And he also has a lack of
Speaker 1: self confidence, partly from trying to live up to the
Speaker 1: legacy of his father, slick Ist, who was the academy's
Speaker 1: most renowned student. Yeah. These roommates with Obilina and Crumb,
Speaker 1: and he is also best friends with him. He goes
Speaker 1: to the Monster Academy and he's one of the few
Speaker 1: monsters who can hear the pool of Elders, the source
Speaker 1: of monstery existence that is made of the very substance
Speaker 1: of fears. Right. Can you imagine y'all like in this
Speaker 1: writer's room making up this for quote unquoted kids show.
Speaker 1: But you know who came up? Do you? Were you
Speaker 1: there with a pool of elders? No? I was not.
Speaker 1: The show was created by man name Peter Gaffney and
Speaker 1: Gabar Chupo, who was the head of studios. Uh So
Speaker 1: by the time I joined, it was already well on
Speaker 1: the work, so I just came in and did my
Speaker 1: first couple of episodes. But my first episode, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember. I don't think I pitched the story. It
Speaker 1: couldn't have been because I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: But it's the one that people seem to remember the most.
Speaker 1: Was my first one, which is where Crumb got a
Speaker 1: pimple that that came alive and started talking to him
Speaker 1: and it was voiced by Jim Belushi. But I remember
Speaker 1: writing that having a good time and that the pimple
Speaker 1: became more popular than him and he sang a song,
Speaker 1: and um, yeah. It was just I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe. Because I grew up as
Speaker 1: a kid just loving cartoons, uh specifically Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Speaker 1: So I would come home from school every day, and
Speaker 1: where I lived in New York, there was a Channel
Speaker 1: five in New York, which is show Bugs Bunny from
Speaker 1: half and from like three o'clock to three thirty. So
Speaker 1: I come home from school, turn on the TV half
Speaker 1: an hour of Bugs Bunny. But I became so obsessed
Speaker 1: about it, like that's if if I was doing that
Speaker 1: show all these years ago when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I'd say I was nerding out about Chuck Jones because
Speaker 1: I knew the names of all that I could recognize
Speaker 1: the director's style. Tell it Chuck Jones from Frizz Feeling
Speaker 1: from a Bob Mackimson from a Frank tash Lyn. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and and I so so I have a
Speaker 1: chance to work in animation. Was just I had planned
Speaker 1: on it, but it just really because that guy David
Speaker 1: Litzon you want to try and right on this cartoon,
Speaker 1: and I just ended up loving it. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: here I was this kid from Jersey, like you know,
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, like working for a cartoon show. It just
Speaker 1: was a thrill. Did you collect any of the like
Speaker 1: do you still have any of the real A couple
Speaker 1: of dolls, Yeah, they're in a box somewhere. And they
Speaker 1: gave us a cool Nickelodeon bathrobe for Christmas one year
Speaker 1: character it. Yeah, yeah, you had the Nick magazine right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to want that so badly. They would just
Speaker 1: show those commercials constantly. I just want to show the
Speaker 1: power of our own monsters lore that in two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen, you know, Goslin sixty on Devian Art fan
Speaker 1: art of Slick is iks his dad and his mother
Speaker 1: with her pregnant with wow, that's a lot if I
Speaker 1: mean it's not I mean it's it's p g. It's
Speaker 1: not like it's well, I know, Danny's making it seem
Speaker 1: like I'm going now this Danny fan some and no flash,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm gonna try not to go that this
Speaker 1: if it was ever drawn anywhere on anything that they're
Speaker 1: you know, weird, weird. We have to do it the
Speaker 1: the the Nerdificent episode on Rule thirty four. We will
Speaker 1: do that. But also I know, because you follow me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and haven't unfollowed me, that you have to
Speaker 1: deal with a lot of my crap. Moving into Oblina,
Speaker 1: who was voiced by Christine Kavanaugh. Um So Obelina often
Speaker 1: Biggers I related to her the most. That felt like
Speaker 1: those were my brothers. I have two brothers and I
Speaker 1: was Obelina growing up. Um often Bigger's with it is
Speaker 1: one of her two roommates. Oblina also goes to Monster Academy.
Speaker 1: She's the brains of the group and is very well
Speaker 1: behaved on like I or Crumb, but she does treat
Speaker 1: Crumb very well. There was a note in here. It
Speaker 1: was like she's the one woman that treats him well.
Speaker 1: Sad Um Obelina comes from a wealthy monster family and
Speaker 1: is considered by Gromble to be his best student. She's
Speaker 1: shaped like a black and white upside down Candy Cane.
Speaker 1: One of her favorite methods of scaring humans is reaching
Speaker 1: within herself and pulling out her internal organs. She has
Speaker 1: considerable talent for shape shifting into various terrifying forms. She
Speaker 1: also has a talent for inducing nightmares and humans by
Speaker 1: sticking her finger in their ear and tickling their brains
Speaker 1: while they sleep. So I have seen cause play of her,
Speaker 1: and I respect that because it's very hard to cause
Speaker 1: playing upside down Candy Cane. Absolutely, Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think the greatest thing of Obleina and really the
Speaker 1: design of all the monsters they're they're all ugly. Everything
Speaker 1: is ugly, but like there's even with Obliina, like the
Speaker 1: way her lips are designed. They're always so lumpy in
Speaker 1: a way that you're like, what is going on here? Crumb,
Speaker 1: who actually was one of my favorite short, smelly, very
Speaker 1: hairy monster I lives with a Blina and ICUs Uh,
Speaker 1: his teacher the Gromble often yells at him. Crumb holds
Speaker 1: his eyes in his hands since they're detached, and he's
Speaker 1: treated very very nicely by But that's what I would say,
Speaker 1: his only female friends. Only female friends. Like the rest
Speaker 1: of his family, crumbs eyeballs are not attached to his body.
Speaker 1: If he requires the use of both, hay and he
Speaker 1: can carry his eyes in his mouth his most valuable
Speaker 1: tool and scaring. It's his own overwhelming armpit stitch as
Speaker 1: well as using his eyeball. Remember that's true. I wonder
Speaker 1: if Gama de Toro maybe borrowed a little bit of
Speaker 1: after Yeah, oh possibly, Yeah. I just remember they would
Speaker 1: do such close views of his armpit, like the hair
Speaker 1: coming out and just like such up close. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a time. I mean, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: shows like this exists, because this was also the time
Speaker 1: of Ren and Stempy was out on Nickelodeon. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if I see stuff like this on nick anymore.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like it was more allowed at that time?
Speaker 1: I guess that just have been. I'm sure he could
Speaker 1: probably do that now, it's just been like people don't
Speaker 1: go into that stuff as much anymore. I remember I
Speaker 1: always love the ren and Snippy thing. I love ar
Speaker 1: and Snippy anyway. But my favorite thing and Sponge about
Speaker 1: this that a lot, which is when you go to
Speaker 1: a close up and it's when he was like super insane,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the skin and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: like super ugly and grotesque. I love that. I'm always
Speaker 1: trying to work that into the simp for the Simpsons. Yeah, family,
Speaker 1: we have to take a really quick break. Then we're
Speaker 1: going to hop back into all real monsters right after
Speaker 1: this and we're back. Michael. I wanted to know, because
Speaker 1: you're you talked about the Pimple episode, was there other
Speaker 1: ones that you remember that? Yeah, out for you the
Speaker 1: first two I wrote. Maybe that's the ones I remember
Speaker 1: the most because they were the first was the Pimple,
Speaker 1: then they wrote one because the other the fourth main
Speaker 1: character was called the Gromble, their teacher, uh, and he
Speaker 1: was this weird, four legged green thing that wore red pumps.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite. So he's a little bit of
Speaker 1: you know whatever queer. I'm very happy about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great, and he was voiced by a great actor
Speaker 1: named Gregg Berger, who um I still run into occasionally.
Speaker 1: You know he occasionally does some stuff on The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: so he's a really nice guy. And I followed him
Speaker 1: on Twitter and he's incredible. He still was working all
Speaker 1: the time. Uh, he was great. So the other one
Speaker 1: I wrote, the second one that wrote that first season,
Speaker 1: was about the Grombel's mother coming to hang out, and
Speaker 1: we got Andrea Martin from SCTV to play the ground. Um.
Speaker 1: I did a couple. I was looking at them yesterday
Speaker 1: earlier today. I was like, I remember that now, I
Speaker 1: remember that now, I remember that now. There was one
Speaker 1: with um Obelina's lips. I think that I broke where
Speaker 1: she lost her lips, but then they found they landed
Speaker 1: on the face of like a supermodel and turned the
Speaker 1: supermodel into a bigger supermodel and they had to get
Speaker 1: the lips back. I think that turned into one of
Speaker 1: the stories I love to tell, which is because we
Speaker 1: have to deal with the people at nicol At Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: were for the most part, we're pretty cool, but we
Speaker 1: would have to their Nickelodeon at that time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's the same way, but they were very
Speaker 1: kind of uh kind of micromanaging in Wayne, like giving
Speaker 1: notes on everything, so we you know, you think she's
Speaker 1: a silly cartoon show, but we would have to go
Speaker 1: to them every time we wanted to do a new story.
Speaker 1: We we'd go meet with them, the executives Nickelodeon, like
Speaker 1: once every couple of weeks and pitch all our stories
Speaker 1: and then that we wanted to do and they could
Speaker 1: say yes or no. So once we got through that,
Speaker 1: then we would write the stories and then we go
Speaker 1: in and have these modest conferences with them. And it
Speaker 1: might have been that one about the lips where you
Speaker 1: know the three because carminal Blina they had to get
Speaker 1: the lips back and the supermodel had them. The idea
Speaker 1: was that they're going to break into her house late
Speaker 1: at night and and like do like a heist and
Speaker 1: steal the lips back and so uh so in the
Speaker 1: scene I wrote in the script, they wrote, there's a
Speaker 1: scene earlier in the day when they go, okay, I
Speaker 1: know we have to do and then you cut to
Speaker 1: that night and they're doing like the kind of mission
Speaker 1: impossible thing, like sneaking in and one of the executive
Speaker 1: from Nickelodeon said, well, you know in this scene here
Speaker 1: on page eleven, they say we're going to hoist it
Speaker 1: and that's during the daytime, and then you cut to
Speaker 1: the heist and it's at night and I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they go, well, what were they doing in the
Speaker 1: hours in between? I said, I said, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I went to the movies. Like thanks about that, you know,
Speaker 1: so I definitely not children. So I literally like I
Speaker 1: couldn't help it, Like usually you're trying to be nice
Speaker 1: to them, but I kind of like just I just
Speaker 1: burst out laughing. So I think it was that episode.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, there's there are so many of that
Speaker 1: I did. Most of my memories are about like being
Speaker 1: there and writing and working on and being with the
Speaker 1: people you know, and yeah, and like that. It was
Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy experience. It was just a wonderful group
Speaker 1: of people. Was there like episode that you wish you
Speaker 1: could have done, or maybe an episode you pitched that
Speaker 1: you're like, I wish we did that? Well, yeah, the
Speaker 1: one there was one because I remember after I had
Speaker 1: done this first two uh, then they called me in
Speaker 1: after it. They were in the starting the second season
Speaker 1: and I got a call from the people who would
Speaker 1: work to Classy Tupo saying, would you like to come
Speaker 1: in and pitch stories to the new the new head writers.
Speaker 1: So I said absolutely, and I was out of work.
Speaker 1: Right then the other show i'd been on, that news
Speaker 1: show got canceled, and I, you know, I was out
Speaker 1: of work, and I was like, I gotta try to
Speaker 1: get something going. And I went and I pitched them
Speaker 1: this story and they didn't go with it, but it
Speaker 1: was about how I think it ended up being in
Speaker 1: a later episode where it was a thing because they
Speaker 1: lived under the source system, and so my idea was
Speaker 1: that it was super Bowl Day in in the above
Speaker 1: world the super Bowl, and used to be the thing
Speaker 1: they used to say, like during the super Bowl, during
Speaker 1: the halftime the Super Bowl, that's when everybody across the
Speaker 1: United States goes to the bathroom, you know. So it
Speaker 1: was the thing about they would have like a big
Speaker 1: surfing competition and it was time to the half time
Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl. So I remember pitching that story
Speaker 1: and they were like okay, okay, um, but they said, oh,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, none of my pitches went got to
Speaker 1: you know. And I'll never forget because I was just
Speaker 1: still starting out. I was newly married, and um. I
Speaker 1: left that day and it was really cold and rainy,
Speaker 1: and went. My wife and I had one car and
Speaker 1: uh and I went and I sat in that sizzler.
Speaker 1: It's a sizzler on Highland Avenue. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think there anymore. I think it shut out. But I
Speaker 1: sat there and this year, so that's how long that
Speaker 1: sizzler has been. Yeah, it was there forever. And then,
Speaker 1: like she said, she would pick me up at like
Speaker 1: five o'clock, and it was four three. I sat there
Speaker 1: really sad. Tell my story about the monsters surfing on
Speaker 1: the you know, super Bowl Day. Uh so that was
Speaker 1: the one that got away. But I think I think
Speaker 1: later on they used it like as a as like
Speaker 1: a piece of another story. So I felt good about
Speaker 1: it later. Okay, hopefully they paid you for them. Well,
Speaker 1: I think by that point I might have been on
Speaker 1: the step. I'm already. Yeah, I do have to say
Speaker 1: from it. I think I've told this story in here.
Speaker 1: But my mom used to be teased for her lips.
Speaker 1: She had big, full lips, and she they would call
Speaker 1: her Sandy big lips. Also like kids were like, couldn't
Speaker 1: think of the better. Yeah, you old Sandy big lips.
Speaker 1: But that was one of the things because the women
Speaker 1: in my family have really full lips, and I remembered
Speaker 1: that about Oblina, Like it was just so we'll look,
Speaker 1: we'll take representation wherever we can get it. And that
Speaker 1: was the thing that I loved about her having these big,
Speaker 1: full lips. It just like reminded me of the women
Speaker 1: in my family and I loved that so much. Um.
Speaker 1: And then when my mom grew up, everybody was getting
Speaker 1: them injected to get their lips like her. So there,
Speaker 1: you gons was a good representation for people who are
Speaker 1: growers not showers. Wow, the joke was right there. I
Speaker 1: couldn't leave it sitting. It was right there. Um, this
Speaker 1: is going to be fun because I would love talking
Speaker 1: about the production and you can be like no our role.
Speaker 1: Monsters was created by Godboard Chopo and Peter Gaffney and
Speaker 1: was the third animated series produced by Chupo's company Class
Speaker 1: Class Key Chupo. Which it's so funny because I'm relearning
Speaker 1: it because as a kid, I was always was like
Speaker 1: class by goose Bow. This classy Chupo cowboys wife was
Speaker 1: Arlene Arline. Yeah, started the studio together so tight. Um,
Speaker 1: just a power couple. You have to stand, which also
Speaker 1: created the animated shows road Rats and Duckman on the USA. Okay,
Speaker 1: I knew about rug Rats, I didn't know that was
Speaker 1: them who did duck Man. Yeah. One of my great
Speaker 1: memories was that once they started working on that show,
Speaker 1: that same guy David let He he I wasn't like
Speaker 1: on the staff of the show yet, but he was.
Speaker 1: And they had a premiere party for the premiere of
Speaker 1: duck Man at the Chubo's house and I went to
Speaker 1: see it. That was my first like Hollywood party, and
Speaker 1: I went to Yeah, that was a great I mean,
Speaker 1: anybody there who's listening duck Man. It was a really
Speaker 1: amazingly funny show. Yeah, well, I think kind ahead of
Speaker 1: its time a thousand percent. Yeah, I totally agree. Before
Speaker 1: the final title was chosen, which took over five years,
Speaker 1: the series had a working titles Monsters and Real Monsters,
Speaker 1: which you already said, yeah, I know the Park Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Exacts. Yeah yeah, thats like it said. It took
Speaker 1: five years and then it was like, uh, that was
Speaker 1: what they needed, the extra magic they needed to seal
Speaker 1: the deal. And whoever whoever wanted the three a's to
Speaker 1: two h is and the three exclamation points, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: probably focused tested in it, Like the kids were like,
Speaker 1: we like when you scream, Like all right, well that's
Speaker 1: the name of it. Yeah. The show was conceived after
Speaker 1: Chubo and his wife's uh and creative partner Arlene Klasky,
Speaker 1: were approached by the network Nickelodeon create a follow up
Speaker 1: series to rug Rats That begs the next question, how
Speaker 1: do we go from rug Rats to this? Are too
Speaker 1: wildly different shows, but I love both. They were both
Speaker 1: big parts of my childhood. Chubo drew some sketches of
Speaker 1: possible monsters on a piece of paper and successfully pitched
Speaker 1: the idea to the network. Well that's because I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that he was a genius, but also because
Speaker 1: he had rug Rats, because the idea of ever Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear these stories of it, and I just told
Speaker 1: him a joke in the room and they bought it.
Speaker 1: I had to make an entire bible for this for
Speaker 1: them to want to buy by show. You get you
Speaker 1: get to those points, you know, like I think when
Speaker 1: the news was going around where like Lena Waite just
Speaker 1: came in and she didn't have an idea and it
Speaker 1: was like yeah, but she also made tiny furniture, which
Speaker 1: was this like Indie Darling that blew up Festival Festival.
Speaker 1: So they're like, we want to make something with you,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, okay that when they already
Speaker 1: want you, When when they already want you there will
Speaker 1: help work it with you. Plus like in the long run,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's a lot less work when they can feel
Speaker 1: like they were a big part of it. That's that's
Speaker 1: what I find. It's like we made it, oh man um.
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon programming director Herb Scannel said the character design and
Speaker 1: all Monsters was partially inspired by Yellow Yellow Submarine in
Speaker 1: ninety animated films inspired by the Beatles. I can see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really that's an amazing movie too, very weird characters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially I think they said in that Nickelodeon I mean
Speaker 1: that Wikipedia article like the Gromble looks a lot like
Speaker 1: Blue Meanies. Yeah, that's a crazy movie. It's not really good.
Speaker 1: It's no sense. But I on the era of the Beatles.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're supposed to watch it sober No,
Speaker 1: probably not, probably not. I saw it first as a
Speaker 1: little kid. Oh my god, I did too, because they
Speaker 1: is that the one like don't they have like I
Speaker 1: don't know because you know, there's the way, especially like
Speaker 1: early nineties media, there's like stuff that is the I P.
Speaker 1: And there's stuff like inspired by it that might not
Speaker 1: be but wasn't. There was there like thing where they're
Speaker 1: all wearing yellow suits and someone's like spring them with
Speaker 1: sugar water or something. Probably, I mean that movie is
Speaker 1: really nuts. It's really beautifully insane. The fun part is
Speaker 1: going to be either I'm right or someone probably what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about and tell me. I remember there were
Speaker 1: these guys in that movie called the Apple Knockers that
Speaker 1: were these giant guys like with They were like twenty
Speaker 1: feet tall and they carried big apples and they would
Speaker 1: knock you on the head with them. It's all crazy.
Speaker 1: We have to take another quick break and then we're
Speaker 1: going to hop back into Auto Monsters right after this
Speaker 1: and we're back. I didn't know, so David eccles, was
Speaker 1: the voice of Crumb, said okay, yeah, I did not
Speaker 1: know that. He voiced the monster under Chucky's bed in
Speaker 1: The rug Rats, So that comes full circle. He was
Speaker 1: a monster in that world, and then a monster he was,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure a guy who just worked in the
Speaker 1: sound department at class Key Tupo and then he had
Speaker 1: a really was a funny guy, had interesting voice, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe he did that thing in rug Rats.
Speaker 1: And then when they came up with the Monsters, they said,
Speaker 1: if you want to do this too, yeah, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love just have a weird voice. Yeah. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they did actually have an official crossover. So in the
Speaker 1: sixth season of Rugrats, Kasblina and Crumb crashed Tommy Chucky,
Speaker 1: Phil Little Dill and Angelica's Spooky slumber Party. It was
Speaker 1: called ghost Story and uh, this iconic crossover. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: we were talking about at the break, we were talking
Speaker 1: about the fact that Nickelodeons rebooting a bunch of these shows.
Speaker 1: Apparently right there. I think they're doing new rug Rats,
Speaker 1: They're doing new Hey Arnold. They had a movie for
Speaker 1: Hey Arnold, uh, that came out last year, and then
Speaker 1: they also had Rocko's movie came out Rocko. That's right,
Speaker 1: So why not Monsters. I'm right here to give me
Speaker 1: a call, call me up, get the gang back together.
Speaker 1: There were the writers on that show were one. I
Speaker 1: mentioned some of the other guys already, but Mark Steen
Speaker 1: was the guy who ran it most of the time
Speaker 1: that I was there. And was a guy named Mark Palmer, uh,
Speaker 1: Spencer Greene, Mary Elizabeth Williams. Just we were the main staff.
Speaker 1: They're just great, great people to work with and really
Speaker 1: talented and funny people. Yeah. And also it was just
Speaker 1: like such weird. I love that it embraced the weird grossness,
Speaker 1: you know, especially because children love that. But also I
Speaker 1: think that that might be why all of these iconic
Speaker 1: writers that came together to kind of start in this room.
Speaker 1: I think that that's why it resonated with us even
Speaker 1: now decades later, that it was just such a It
Speaker 1: was just doing something different that I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of the other shows weren't doing at the time.
Speaker 1: That's right. I mean they were very encouraging, the people Nickelodeon.
Speaker 1: I made some jokes about them before. They were really
Speaker 1: very encouraging and they love what we did and they
Speaker 1: let us do crazy things and then so you know,
Speaker 1: it was fun. Is there anyone you'd want to shout
Speaker 1: out that you know you worked with? Uh? Yeah, someone
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to mention until now is
Speaker 1: a guy named Chuck Swinson who was our animation director
Speaker 1: and kind of the main producer of the animation. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know Chupo Chupo, you know was ahead of the studio,
Speaker 1: but Chuck really was the main director and worked with
Speaker 1: animation people, and he also did all the directing like
Speaker 1: he would direct the voice actors. So I was so happy,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, to get to see these amazing actors.
Speaker 1: So I admired come in. But then I really learned
Speaker 1: how to do it, you know, from Chuck, because I
Speaker 1: training as a theater director, but I had never seen
Speaker 1: vocal directing before and he was just just great and
Speaker 1: it's a real wonderful guy. Who I hope he's out
Speaker 1: there if you can hear this high check. But I
Speaker 1: learned so much from him, and he was a really
Speaker 1: a real sweet and wonderful kind of like he kind
Speaker 1: of was a teacher as well, because he's a little
Speaker 1: bit older and he had been in the animation business
Speaker 1: for a long time, so he was very patient with
Speaker 1: us and sort of explained to us like why maybe
Speaker 1: something we had written maybe should be different because it
Speaker 1: would be better for the animation. And he was just
Speaker 1: a really a real great guy. Yeah, this year was
Speaker 1: like the first time I did like writing for animation.
Speaker 1: And it is funny how like you know, um so
Speaker 1: I wrote for season two of Ticktone, and so you
Speaker 1: know before that you're just in a with all the
Speaker 1: writers and the showrunnering. You're just you know, goofing off
Speaker 1: doing the jokes. And for Takedown we had you know,
Speaker 1: the animation director in there with us, and it was
Speaker 1: always interesting to like pitch something and be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that does sound cool. That's very expensive. I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and tone it back then. That's always
Speaker 1: a funny note. I remember at when I was writing
Speaker 1: at full Screen, they just wanted everything to like go
Speaker 1: viral or whatever, and they'd be like, this guy's limit
Speaker 1: whatever you want and we'd like send in our script
Speaker 1: and then get it back like okay, so not so much,
Speaker 1: you know, tone it back. Yeah. I actually did an
Speaker 1: animation workshop at six point Harness, which is great animation studio.
Speaker 1: They're awesome. They've done so many shows and I have
Speaker 1: such They had some animation directors and I'm like, such
Speaker 1: a different world than being in the writer world. Jumping over.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you have to do now, but
Speaker 1: like just seeing yeah, there's responsible for so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting too, because you know there's like two different
Speaker 1: kinds of animated shows, or maybe they're like there's the
Speaker 1: kind that are more writer driven, like the Simpsons is
Speaker 1: completely right or driven. An Officer Family, because I come
Speaker 1: from the Simpsons, is very right or driven, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, like the Nickelodeon or the Cartoon Network
Speaker 1: style shows are more for the most part of kind
Speaker 1: of more animator animator driven. So I worked on the
Speaker 1: show with Disney, uh like almost twenty years ago now,
Speaker 1: and I was called Teacher's Pet. That was great, but
Speaker 1: that was sort of a melding of both. So it
Speaker 1: was very right or heavy. But our director was a
Speaker 1: guy in tim Bi Workland who had come from Rocco's
Speaker 1: Modern Life, and so he was used to like just
Speaker 1: sort of like the animator does it all, you know.
Speaker 1: So we would write these elaborate scripts and be like,
Speaker 1: what what is this? I don't need this? He would say,
Speaker 1: all I need is like three words on a cocktail
Speaker 1: navka And why do you write all this stuff? You know?
Speaker 1: So it was a real tug of war sometimes between
Speaker 1: the two styles, you know. Uh So, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: so funny. Uh speaking of Rocco's Modern Life, I did
Speaker 1: want to say that Charlie Adler, who again is the
Speaker 1: voice of it, is also voiced Ed Bighead. As another
Speaker 1: inside joke, it is sometimes says ed Bigheads catch phrase,
Speaker 1: I hate my life. So yeah, that's just another thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go over some trivia real quick before
Speaker 1: we head out. It is has two uv las. I
Speaker 1: don't know who decided that. I do remember that, though,
Speaker 1: I remember that. I have one last question that I
Speaker 1: want to ask just and then this one's more of
Speaker 1: a general writing question. You know, you said you wrote
Speaker 1: for Disney, and you wrote for AH, and now you
Speaker 1: write for like more adult comedies like f Is for
Speaker 1: Family and Simpsons. What do you feel is like the
Speaker 1: main difference between writing for the two mediums. It's not
Speaker 1: much different. I don't feel like even with Monsters and
Speaker 1: even with Disney the Disney shows, we were mostly just
Speaker 1: trying to make ourselves laugh and enjoy, you know, make
Speaker 1: entertain ourselves and as long as we didn't hear anything
Speaker 1: saying like you can't do that little kids are watching it,
Speaker 1: um not that much different. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: you you learned to adapt to the characters you're working for,
Speaker 1: writing for, and and this the stuff that you're doing.
Speaker 1: But the general way the shows are created are very
Speaker 1: very very similar. Yeah, except except on Monsters. We didn't
Speaker 1: really have a room like like a Simpsons has written
Speaker 1: like a sitcom with like a writer's room. Um. With Monsters,
Speaker 1: we had mostly are we would go off and maybe
Speaker 1: we'd sort of break the stories together with each other,
Speaker 1: but then you just go off and write and then
Speaker 1: the show writer would say, okay, here's notes and he's
Speaker 1: finished writing in the script. But we never did like
Speaker 1: kind of punch ups like that. That's the only thing
Speaker 1: that's different. Have you gotten to go to any cons
Speaker 1: or anything and see people, cause playing is like the
Speaker 1: characters you've written for. Not yet, not yet. I mean
Speaker 1: I've seen some Simpsons people, of course, because everywhere, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's family, But I've seen some pictures of them,
Speaker 1: but I've never seen them in in life, you know,
Speaker 1: some dying to go. I'm sorry I miss New York
Speaker 1: comic con um, but I've got a standing of a
Speaker 1: comic con a couple of times, and yeah, just to
Speaker 1: see somebody dressed as one of our characters would be
Speaker 1: really hilarious for I would love that. Alright, people, if
Speaker 1: you have it out there. Halloween's coming up to it
Speaker 1: for Family. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you're allowed to plug or we? Uh?
Speaker 1: Season four R Family is in the works right now.
Speaker 1: It'll be coming out sometime early in the first three
Speaker 1: or four months of twenty We don't know exactly yet,
Speaker 1: but uh, certainly by by like April, it should be
Speaker 1: out on Netflix. So uh. And The Simpsons just continues
Speaker 1: to run, run, and run, although Simpson is going to
Speaker 1: start airing not airing, I guess streaming on Disney Plus
Speaker 1: in November and while continuing to be also on cable
Speaker 1: on the f X channel f x X channel. Yeah. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: and we have a new they're putting out a new
Speaker 1: DVD set, like a first twenty season complete box set
Speaker 1: of The Simpsons, very limited edition, like only a thousand
Speaker 1: of them are being sold. Wow. Yeah, so dang, but
Speaker 1: most of them are out most of the DVDs are
Speaker 1: already out there, but they're selling it as one big box. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also follow you on Twitter where we became. Yes,
Speaker 1: my Twitter handle is Mike Price in l A, which
Speaker 1: is a Twitter handle I chose very hastily ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Everyone says every says I could change it, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just that's what it is. I almost
Speaker 1: had that too. There's so many Danny fernandez is that
Speaker 1: I had to do m s. I did Miss Danny
Speaker 1: for it, and it sounds even when people are mad
Speaker 1: at me, it sounds like they're addressing me. Miss Danny
Speaker 1: fernand is awful thing that I can't say. And if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of us, your family. There's a writer's
Speaker 1: account which is f I F F Netflix, which is
Speaker 1: like our writer's account. So I I usually it's usually me,
Speaker 1: it's just me in my house, but we put up
Speaker 1: we put up photographs of like if you like the show,
Speaker 1: Like just last night, we were editing a show, so
Speaker 1: I like take a little screen grabs and throw all
Speaker 1: pictures so you have a sort of given idea of
Speaker 1: like how we're doing or if we do if we
Speaker 1: were doing hoarding session, maybe I'll take a picture of
Speaker 1: a recording session or things like that so you can
Speaker 1: sort of keep track of how we're doing when we're
Speaker 1: coming out. Yeah, you know who's good friends with Bill Burt?
Speaker 1: Our friend Marcella. Yeah, she's friends with his wife. We
Speaker 1: talk o'nea for him many times. He is Bill is
Speaker 1: the greatest guy in the world. I'm so thrilled that
Speaker 1: I got to work with him. He's great. Tooth too
Speaker 1: Younger comics, Yeah, that's what I've heard. Yeah, he's and
Speaker 1: he's phenomenal. I mean I've seen him. I've now seen him,
Speaker 1: uh you know, live several times. Usually I've ever seen
Speaker 1: him at a small club. Usually get to see him
Speaker 1: at like Madison Square Garden or something like that. But
Speaker 1: he's amazing and it's just a great guy. And me
Speaker 1: always if you want away on Twitter and Instagram, if
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