suspendersofdisbelief:Tonight’s episode of Wander Over Yonder features the first two cartoons I wrot
suspendersofdisbelief:Tonight’s episode of Wander Over Yonder features the first two cartoons I wrote for the season, “The Fremergency Fronfract” and “The Boy Wander”!“Fremergency Fronfract” started from the place of “What if Hater got drunk and didn’t realize he was hanging out with Wander?” Of course, this being a kids show, we changed it to “What if Hater was still loopy from the dentist and Wander had to get him home?” The cartoon features one of my favorite musical moments of season 2, homages to two films I love dearly, and a very special cameo: immediately after I wrote this script, my daughter was born. As a surprise, Craig changed the name of the little girl in this ep to Olive in honor of her. Back before boarding began, we had the distinct honor of having owner-of-wendys, Eddie Trigueros, Alex Kirwan, and a bunch of artists in the Writers’ Room with us to help break story. This always resulted in great visual story beats and some fantastic gags, including the above karaoke sketch which, sadly, did not make it into the episode, by indomitable Fremergency director/board artist Eddie Trigueros.As for Boy Wander, we spent a full day and a half trying desperately to figure out a fish-out-of-water noir story where Wander was on a planet where he didn’t speak the language and was being chased by competing spies when he accidentally stole some microfilm. It was way too complicated and we were getting absolutely nowhere when Dave said “Why don’t you just do that stupid goofball villain thing you guys keep talking about?”We figured out that entire story in an hour. When something works, it works. The cartoon includes references to two of the best television shows in history, one of which will be very familiar to fans of crackmccraigen .About half-way into writing the episode, I found out that we had secured Weird Al Yankovic for the role of Dr. Screwball Jones, and suddenly the writing became twice as hard. Weird Al has been one of my all-time heroes, so this had to be perfect. I wrote the lyrics to the tune of Al’s polka cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and, as he always does, noveltymusicservices completely overhauled the melody and made it one of my all time favorite villain songs. I mean, how could Wander face off against Weird Al and NOT have an epic banjo/accordion showdown? Also, any time a character sings exactly what’s happening (“Accordion!” “Banjo retort!” “String Break!”), you can thank the lyrical genius of Andy Bean.On a side note, here’s the vocal direction we gave to Jack on playing Boy Wander: “You’re Wander as Christian Bale playing Adam West.”To this day, I’m confident he has no idea what that means. -- source link