WEBVTT - Episode 79: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.039 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Netificent. I am 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.680 one half of your host, Danny Fernanez, and sitting across 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.919 from me as always. Hey, how's it going. If you 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.439 did you missed me last week? Yeah? Oh yeah, we 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.960 we had fun, but we definitely missed you. I would 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.840 have loved some of your takes, even though uh privately 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:32.680 you've already given me some candy Man takes. Yeah. We're 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.640 in the middle of sp October, so we've been doing 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:39.159 all Halloween slash like spooky based episodes and today is 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:44.720 not any different. We're covering a real Monsters, which is 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.639 something that I grew up with, so I think out 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.479 of all of the core Nickelodeon shows, this was the 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.120 one that I resonated with the most. Yeah, and we 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.960 have someone who it's very near and dear to his heart. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.240 He's a writer, producer, and showrunner who's concludes The Simpsons, 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.280 the PJS which we're just seeking out about Lego Star 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.639 Wars F is for Family. It is Michael Price. Hey, Hi, Hi, guys, 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.240 how are you. You have a long list of things? Yeah, yeah, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.200 but this one, Real Monsters Are Real Monsters was one 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.680 of my first so that's why it's such it's such 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.640 a show that I even thought about a lot lately. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.280 But when you mentioned asked me to come on and 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.360 talk about it, I was so happy too, because it 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.600 was really at the very beginning of my career. It 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.160 was one of the first jobs I ever had, and 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.560 it was I was so thrilled to have it and 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.639 it was a great just a great fun show. Actually, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.399 I have to shout out it was like a mutual 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.960 follower of ours because I I was like posting I 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.759 love all real monsters. I think I had a picture 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.440 like I have a T shirt, I'll have to post 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.240 it for everybody, and they tagged you and said you 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.680 should have a Michael price on and that's how they 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.560 got connected. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Well, we've been starting 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.720 our show with what we're seeking out about. So what 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.200 are you speaking out about this week? Well, I guess 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.440 it's it's Tuesday right now. So in about two days, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.080 I just passed a billboard for it, which is the 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:08.280 El Camino, which is breaking bad sequel movie that I'm 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.200 just so exciting to see. And I think it's going 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.840 to be in theaters, possibly too Netflix, I don't know, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.320 but I imagine it will probably come out like at 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.000 midnight on Thursday night into Friday, and so I think 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.640 I'll be sitting there watching it as soon as it 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.839 comes on. That's a show. Breaking Bad was the show 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.920 that I did not get into until it had been 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.400 on like four years. As I watched the first episode 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.800 and it was so dark and so bleak, and I said, well, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.920 I'll try another one. And the second one, if you remember, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.200 is the one where he's got that guy tied up 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.840 in the basement. Oh yeah, It's like this is too 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.480 much for me. And then a couple of years went 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.040 by and all my friends, uh working on the Simpsons, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.360 we're talking about it, and then I started reading about it. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.320 I was like, all right, all right, I'll start it now. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.280 And boy was I so happy that I did. Yeah. Yeah, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.840 I had a similar one. I had friends who were 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.360 in it, and I think, looking back now, this had 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.359 to be around on season three. But it was when 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:07.160 the kid uh yeah, yeah, the one on the bike. Yeah, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.480 well not without trying not to give too much away, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.440 even though you should have already did it. And that 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.119 was like my introduction to it. And I was like, oh, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.440 this is a rough one. But then like everyone was 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.080 so hyped for the final season that like I binged 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.520 like the all the win up until the pen ultimate 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.480 season so that I could watch along for the final season. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.600 Which it was great to be able to watch along 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.720 and wait week by week. But Breaking Bad is not 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.960 a show you should binge. It's very heavy, so you 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.120 was like, after some episodes I'd have to like take 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:42.120 a break and just put it on this Yeah, although 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.320 last year I went back through and watched it all again. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.520 I did watch over the course of like two or 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.720 three weeks something. Have you watched better? Oh? Absolutely. In fact, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.960 one of my really good friends is I'm better call Saul. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.080 Her name is Eileen Fogerty, and she plays Mrs Wynn, 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.760 the lady who run Salon. So she Spennet and I 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.480 know a couple of old Bill Burr who I work 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:08.720 with him. I peraps your family is place Koobi Breaking Bad, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.880 and um, you know, I was also an officer. Family 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.640 is We have Matt Jones who plays Badger and Breaking Bad. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.640 It's one of the voices and family too. So in fact, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.520 we were at a party, like a season premiere party 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.320 the last November for um Forever your Family, and I 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:26.880 asked him are you gonna be on a better call, Saul? 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.839 And he goes, no, I don't think so, but maybe 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.200 something better or whatever. I think you just heard about 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.880 this movie. And then like two weeks later they announced 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.240 the movie, you know, like I said, oh, that must yeah, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.480 and he's in it and it's not a spoiler. He's 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.880 in for it. But now they said, like so many 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.640 other people are in this party last night premiere party 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.200 where they're all there, like Brian Cranston and Dianor and 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.040 they're all there. It's like, how many of you are 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.720 they in the movie? Are you doing in it? You know? 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.720 I have the funniest story took my mom. She just 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.400 she loves Jimmy Alan, as a lot of moms do, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:06.600 and it took her to his show and Brian Cranston 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.880 was the guest, and so we're sitting there in the 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.960 audience and Brian Cranston comes out and very loudly, my 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.800 mom goes, oh my god, the dad from Malcolm in 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.760 the Middle. And I'm like, mom, he's done a lot then, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.040 he's done a lot since then. But also Malcolm in 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.520 the Middle, he was great. That's such a mom thing 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.160 to say. If he what about you? What are you 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.360 geeking out about? Well, you know, um, you know, as 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.960 a lot of gamers the games listen no Destiny, uh 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.159 you know, shadow Keep was released and everyone everyone was 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.160 asking if I was going to come back forward, if 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.080 I was gonna play, and uh, you know really, uh 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.640 you know, I think this is all I have to 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.440 say about it. People keep asking if I'm back, and 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.719 I haven't really had an answer, but now, yeah, I'm 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.080 thinking I'm back. I've been playing. That is like one 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.120 first of all as my favorite on bite from John Wick, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.039 and I reference that so much, like it's just it 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.200 was such a cool part of the movie too. But yeah, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.839 I've been playing. I was playing all day. I was streaming, 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.160 uh for like six hours today just playing through. Uh. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.919 It's it's great if you played like the first Destiny 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.960 because it's on the moon, so it referenced a lot 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.719 of like Krota and like the old raids and you're 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 getting to do all that fun stuff. And like a 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.200 lot of people showed up for the stream today of 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.960 flu of Heat came and we we were just bouncing 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.080 around the moon and it's been a fun experience. So 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.520 so yeah, I'm back in Destiny now. Did you, like 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.480 when Tom Holland came back and he did that Wolf 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.040 of Wall Strong that was going anyway, I love a 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.839 good like, like a good reference that will say what 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.200 you're you want to say for you. It's so yeah, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.760 that was I I watched, like I know that scene, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.839 but it was so funny to watch it and then 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.560 think of it in reference to the Spider Man in 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.160 the m c U. Uh. The thing that I'm geeking 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.200 out about is well, thank you everyone that came to 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.520 any of my panels at New York Comic Con. It 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.480 was so great getting to meet y'all. And Uh, the 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.680 Disney Princess panel was one of the coolest things that 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.280 I did. I mean, it was so weird slash like. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.160 I tried to take in the moment to be on 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.120 stage with these iconic women that have voiced I mean, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.160 Jodie Benson has been the voice of Ariel for over 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.160 thirty years. Uh, and Pedo Harrah, who was Belle Jennifer 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.800 Hale who took over at Cinderella, She's been doing Cinderella's 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.800 voice for over twenty years. And a Nikanoni Rose who's 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.840 a voice of Tiana. And it was just I told 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.200 myself I'm not gonna cry. And I even like I 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.360 didn't have tissues and I brought like toilet paper and 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.560 I'm like, I'm not gonna cry. But a Nika told 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.680 his story and started crying and then I cried. I'm like, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.080 this is such an intimate moment that we get to share, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.720 and like, just it was. It was amazing and there 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.760 were like a thousand people there, so thank you to 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.120 everyone that came. And that is just I'm geeking out 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.840 about the fact that when I was little, I just 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.080 would dance and sing to their music and their words 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.160 and I knew all of the songs by heart, and 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.080 then to be on stage with them was was awesome. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.840 So that is my geeky thing this week, and we 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:13.080 are diving into I want to know who came up 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.440 with all of these Did you all just call you 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.640 called it real monsters so that it was always yeah, yeah, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.760 because it's like or we just called monsters or whatever 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.160 like that. You know, you always you always show folk 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.360 come from the theater originally, so in the theater, you 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.679 sort of just it's not Sweeney Todd, it's Sweeney or whatever. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.960 You know, it's not Oklahoma it's or it's not that 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.000 or the one that the one theater speak out with here, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.720 because you have to say it this way is Scottish plow. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.240 That's a whole different thing, the Scottish the Scottish play. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.360 When I asked you to be on it, though, I 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.640 made sure I didn't want to be disrespectful, so I 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.040 made sure I like all the a's and all of 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.400 the exclamations. I think it's three A, two ages. I 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.480 think that's what it is. You still got it? Yeah? Well, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.640 but actually before we dived into that, I wanted to 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.960 know when did you because this was your first was 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.800 this my first animated show that I worked on? When 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.880 did you realize, Because we have a lot of writers 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.440 that listen, when did you realize that you could do 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.880 this professionally? Well, I mean I knew that I wanted 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.640 to do it. I come from the East Coast from 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.760 New York, New Jersey area, and I did a lot 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.120 of theater and then I started doing improv sketch comedy, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.719 and that was when I first realized, Okay, I think 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.719 I'm funny, you know, I'm not just funny around the 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.079 house whatever. I think I can do this and and 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.000 perform in front of an audience and make somebody laugh. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.120 So then that got me thinking, all right, maybe there's 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.679 a job in that somehow, you know. And uh, and 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.040 then when I came out here, um, I just started. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.040 I had, I was, I was. I was doing a show, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.360 a two person show with a writing partner, And that's 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.920 what got us a little bit of attention out here 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.640 and got us some representation, an agent and a manager. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.120 So suddenly I was like, Okay, now now I see 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.240 that there's possible way forward into this place. And I 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.000 just wrote like spec scripts and all that kind of stuff, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.080 and um, cook a couple of years of like knocking 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.600 around and not getting anything happening, and taking all kind 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.040 of crazy jobs, like right in this neighborhood, in this 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.280 Hollywood neighborhood, I had so many ridiculously awful jobs that 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:25.800 he even tell like phone rooms and awful stuff. But um, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.440 but finally I got hired on a on a sketch 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.400 comedy show with a packet of sketches, a very low 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.520 budget kind of like a Saturday Nette lifestyle show that 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.160 was called The News any w Z. And it was 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:42.480 on like syndicated. Uh it's early nineties, and um, that 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.600 only lasted a couple of months. But from that I 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.959 met a guy. His name is David Litt, and he 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.840 was that show was one of his first jobs. And 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.560 when that show ended, he called me like a week 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.520 or two, a couple of weeks later saying, oh, I 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.600 just got a job on this Nickelodeon cartoon show called 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.560 Real Monsters. And he was the staff writer on that show. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.560 But you know, wait, wait, those kind of shows work 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.600 is that this is the staff will write so many episodes, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.640 but they also need like freelance people to come in 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.640 and write other episodes. So he goes, do you want 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.440 to come in and like talk to us about maybe 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.079 writing an episode? So I did. And that's so David 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.760 got me in there. Uh So, I mean he's always 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.240 been he was a great guy. I haven't seen him 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.000 in a long time, but he went on to an 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.920 amazing career. He co created the sitcom called The King 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.240 of Queens. That's yes, So I mean he doesn't probably 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.360 never need to work every that I was just going 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.640 to say he's super rich. I'm sure he is. Yeah, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.440 but he's a wonderful guy. But he got me in. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.280 He got me in the door a Real Monsters and 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.800 so I wrote my first two episodes on a freelance basis, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:48.200 and then UM for the second or third season of Monsters. Uh, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.240 they knew me for that, and then they brought me 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.480 in the sort of pitch. The people who running it 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.840 were replaced by another guy running it, and they brought 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.719 me in to pitch some stories and they didn't quite 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.679 go all my stories, but then they thought it remembered me, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.440 and then someone left another guy went on to have 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.600 a huge All these guys I've went worked on this 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.439 Nickelodeon show had like just giant suitcom careers. A guy 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.240 named Steve scro Van who left because he got a 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.960 job on Everybody Loves Raymond. She went off and like 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:22.240 was on Raymond for its entire run. UM, but I 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.240 replaced Steve on the staff and that was on the 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.520 staff for the rest of that time. So that's why 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.559 I think I wrote about fourteen episodes of that show. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.840 But the first two were on a freelance spaces and 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.800 the rest were once I got on staff. I mean. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:38.160 And also you also went on to have this. I 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.600 didn't create the King of Queens, but yeah, it's it's 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.040 been all right, it's been all I mean, Monsters really 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.960 was this bouncing pad for all these great right. Why. Yeah, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.720 it was a great what a great place to be. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.520 I mean, uh, it was class key Chupo was the 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.480 studio that admit it made it. And they were were 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.760 in this little building on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, right 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.600 the low um By Fountain Avenue. There's a Jack in 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.400 the Box right across the street. It's still there too, Yeah, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:10.280 And the Klassky Chupa wasn't there anymore. Oh it's yes. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.120 The hairplace, Yeah, it's a hairplace, and there's a little 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.680 there's a little tiny school there and some of the 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.720 some of the characters are still painted on the side. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.880 Character on the side of the building. I thought it 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.280 was still there because those monsters are still there. They're 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.679 still there. They're still That's where we worked and uh 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.680 we just sat in a little room, a little office 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.319 writing and uh writing our stories. And then the recording 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.160 studio was there, so we get to go see the 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.760 records with these amazing actors. I mean, the people who 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.560 started the show were great. Uh. Um, Charlie Adler, who's 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.520 one of the great voice over people of all time. Um, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.720 and then uh, I don't have her name from Christine 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.679 Christine Kavanaugh, she's the late Christine Kavanaugh. She was wonderful, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.400 like named David eccles who it was a sound guy 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.200 at Krassky Chupa had a really interesting funny voice. He 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.760 was became Crumb, the guy with the eyeballs. And but 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.800 then the guest actors would come in. The casting director 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.760 was a woman named Barbara Right who would just cast 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.160 these amazing actors so like people like you would never 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.760 expect to show up, like Tim Curry and uh and 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.640 people who now like have had big careers later like um, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.520 this guy named Sander Berkeley, you know Xander Berkeley. He's 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.400 in the original term. He's a terminator too. He's the 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:29.320 guy who who was um John Connor's like step stepfather 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.400 gets killed with like the thing through the face. Yeah, Uh, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.880 that's Sander Berkeley. Has been in a million things. This 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.120 guy named Toby hass has been in a million things. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.280 But like Big Margot Kidder, the late Margot kid Like, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.680 these people just come through just doing like one voice, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.240 you know, because this woman was a great woman who 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:48.960 like like these people. So I get to sit in 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.200 and watch these amazing voice sessions, and and the animators 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.800 were great. It was just just a really fun experience. Yeah. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.400 So for people that don't know that haven't heard of it, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.720 I don't know how. But the show focuses on three 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.400 young monsters. It's its Obelina and Crumb, who attend a 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.560 school for monsters under a city dump and learned to 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.040 frighten humans. Uh. Many of the episodes revolve around them 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.320 making it to the surface in order to perform scares 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:21.320 as class assignments. The series premiered October at eleven am 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.200 on Nickelodeon. That's cute. That was a good slot, running 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.120 a total of fifty two episodes over four seasons. The 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.440 final episode air December six. So, like you were saying, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.760 Charlie Adler voiced its do you hate? Do you have 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.920 a favorite or like one? I hate to ask this 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.600 good to ask your favorite monster? For sure? I mean 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.360 he was so he was because he was He was 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.160 a little bit me too, because he was like very 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.480 nervous and anxious and always worried. And you know, Crumb 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.200 was the cool one who liked nothing bothered him. And 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:59.400 Obeliina was super cool and stylish, which I wasn't. So uh, yeah, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.280 definitely it is. Yeah, I liked writing for him too. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.640 He was fun to write for. Yeah, that was always fain. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.480 He had those uh am, I remember those blue lips, right, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.200 blue lips. No, I'm tripping. He was kind of purpleish 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.760 rabbit looking thing with big fangs and like giant ears, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.200 you know. Blini was basically like a cany giant lips, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.640 and Crumb was a little roy if you weren't off, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.600 he had blue like they kind of both had blue, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:32.560 just depends on the how they were drawn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.160 no I'm not crazy. Yeah, he had the blue lips, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.760 and he had the curly legs. Yeah, a little yeah, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.160 and he was like a little nervous guy. Yeah. I 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.600 love and Charlie was just, I mean, did an amazing 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.520 job performing him. But he was just a fun guy 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.120 to have around. He's still he's still very busy and 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.000 uh he directs a lot voice overacting now, but he 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.320 still acts a lot and he's really amazing. Yeah, so 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.600 it is if you also somehow don't know is the 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.080 small Red Monster. He's the main protagonist anti Heroes series, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.480 and he changes between him and Obilina, and his method 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.919 of scaring humans is the ability to grow bigger. I 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.000 always remember his garden. Uh. And but due to his 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.720 large ears, he's often confused with a bunny rabbit, which 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.639 I think that happened when when he had like a 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:21.640 fail scare and like they thought he was as Yeah. Uh, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.800 it extends to be on the nervous. Uh. It extends 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.760 to be nervous. And he also has a lack of 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.840 self confidence, partly from trying to live up to the 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.840 legacy of his father, slick Ist, who was the academy's 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.000 most renowned student. Yeah. These roommates with Obilina and Crumb, 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.960 and he is also best friends with him. He goes 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.720 to the Monster Academy and he's one of the few 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.639 monsters who can hear the pool of Elders, the source 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.840 of monstery existence that is made of the very substance 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.720 of fears. Right. Can you imagine y'all like in this 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.080 writer's room making up this for quote unquoted kids show. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.679 But you know who came up? Do you? Were you 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.880 there with a pool of elders? No? I was not. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.440 The show was created by man name Peter Gaffney and 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.880 Gabar Chupo, who was the head of studios. Uh So 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.600 by the time I joined, it was already well on 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.560 the work, so I just came in and did my 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.440 first couple of episodes. But my first episode, I'm trying 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.440 to remember. I don't think I pitched the story. It 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.600 couldn't have been because I didn't know anything about it. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.200 But it's the one that people seem to remember the most. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.840 Was my first one, which is where Crumb got a 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.000 pimple that that came alive and started talking to him 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:37.000 and it was voiced by Jim Belushi. But I remember 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.120 writing that having a good time and that the pimple 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.159 became more popular than him and he sang a song, 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.720 and um, yeah. It was just I was like, oh 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.479 my god, I can't believe. Because I grew up as 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.560 a kid just loving cartoons, uh specifically Bugs Bunny cartoons. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.320 So I would come home from school every day, and 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.359 where I lived in New York, there was a Channel 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.600 five in New York, which is show Bugs Bunny from 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.560 half and from like three o'clock to three thirty. So 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.160 I come home from school, turn on the TV half 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.800 an hour of Bugs Bunny. But I became so obsessed 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.919 about it, like that's if if I was doing that 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:10.399 show all these years ago when I was a kid. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.040 I'd say I was nerding out about Chuck Jones because 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:14.920 I knew the names of all that I could recognize 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.480 the director's style. Tell it Chuck Jones from Frizz Feeling 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:24.040 from a Bob Mackimson from a Frank tash Lyn. Uh, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.600 you know, and and I so so I have a 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.320 chance to work in animation. Was just I had planned 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.320 on it, but it just really because that guy David 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.480 Litzon you want to try and right on this cartoon, 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.280 and I just ended up loving it. I couldn't believe 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.639 here I was this kid from Jersey, like you know, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.959 in Hollywood, like working for a cartoon show. It just 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.199 was a thrill. Did you collect any of the like 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.240 do you still have any of the real A couple 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.200 of dolls, Yeah, they're in a box somewhere. And they 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:55.520 gave us a cool Nickelodeon bathrobe for Christmas one year 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:00.240 character it. Yeah, yeah, you had the Nick magazine right, Yeah. 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.560 I used to want that so badly. They would just 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.239 show those commercials constantly. I just want to show the 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:11.119 power of our own monsters lore that in two thousand 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:16.160 and fourteen, you know, Goslin sixty on Devian Art fan 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.680 art of Slick is iks his dad and his mother 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:25.879 with her pregnant with wow, that's a lot if I 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.720 mean it's not I mean it's it's p g. It's 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.320 not like it's well, I know, Danny's making it seem 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:41.400 like I'm going now this Danny fan some and no flash, 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.480