Craig McCracken

Okay.

So Craig McCracken, I feel so similarly about to Don Mancini, which is just like, he's just one of those visual, you know, cause he did Powerpuff Girls.

He did Dexter's Lab.

He did all of those things.

And then he makes a deal with the madam of the orphanage.

That if he goes and visits Blue and plays with the imaginary friends every day, Blue will never be given away.

And I am like, that is a beautiful metaphor for what Craig McCracken is doing, for what we do.

which is that like you have to engage with your imagination and your sense of play all the time, or it will go away.

I'm not Geny Tardikovsky.

And I'm not Craig McCracken.

We're another version of them from another universe, and this is another episode...

Okay, let's do, let's do clean just in case.

Lauren Faust, who was the showrunner for the first two seasons and then stepped out, so she has nothing to do with Equestria Girls.

But her husband, Craig McCracken, speaking for his wife, expressed concern that such approach would have gone against the way Faust wanted to take the television series.

Again, no

idea.

I don't know if you've ever talked to Sam Jim, but he was a force for sure to be reckoned with in the animation industry.

Really helped define, I think, animation and the tenor of animation in the 1990s through today in terms of championing adult animation, different styles, creators like Penn Ward, Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken.

These were his guys.

Yeah.

Was like the Taz kind of a, they, that they were ...

C- Craig McCracken takes his inspiration, which I love about him, from the real world.

And I-

Mm-hmm

interview with oh gosh what's his name

Craig McCracken, who is the guy who created Dexter's Lab in Cartoon Network.

And when Cartoon Network was coming, Cartoon Network

was a new sort of studio in the in the 90s.

Gideon Tartakovsky, just like truly one of the greatest like animators and director of animation ever to do it.

But he was given access to all the old Hanna-Barbera stuff when he was brought into Cartoon Network.

And the thing that he told Craig, he was like, it's a Craig McCracken interview and Craig's like he told me he was like I was kind of bummed and sad to watch these and find out that they were kind of bad like I watched them and I wanted them to be so special because they were so special to me as a kid and they were they weren't they didn't hold up and Craig said he's like and what I told him was our job is to make cartoons that give children what we received from those.

Like that.

And one of the other things that we didn't mention was the "Powerpuff Girls" movie.

This was announced right after the festival and just kind of a, a quick, "Hey, we're developing it with Craig McCracken," the original creator.

Oh, so they, oh, so they are doing that.

Okay, cool.

[laughs]

Yeah.

It, it's-- I'm glad that we're hopefully will finally be seeing the "Powerpuff Girls" again behind like Craig McCracken's like supervision.

Yes.