Jul 14, 2026 · 32 min · 15 segments
According to Bob's Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, you can either go the formal route of establishing a creative career—or just make shit. Both have their merits, to be sure. But to Bouchard, the…
Loren BouchardGuest
KC IfeanyiHost
When I talk to people about how to get into this industry, I always try and remind people that there are kind of two big choices.
It can be a little scary, but what we were doing with Tom championed at that, you know, the size of the company we were, which was very small.
And, and, if it's like, if it's, you're doing a little bit of this and I'm doing a little bit of this and he's doing a little bit of this, that made sense to us.
It was very collaborative and improvisational and literally improv, like the actors were improvising, but also the act of making it was improvisatory.
And it was very, I sort of equate it now when I look back on like being in a band or something like that, where you got to Figure each other out and who's good at what.
And of course, you have some specialization, so you're not all truly doing everything.
I didn't draw after the first couple times that I tried to help out on the drawing side.
It wasn't what I was going to be useful at, but I would stay up all night editing the audio.
And so, you know, we specialized, but it wasn't like a bigger company or like a production in L.A. where you have all these defined roles and a really defined paths.
And you can do that if you are like, you know, like, for example, writers can.
What else do you, they say, you know, but when, where we were coming from, it was, you would almost certainly be, and this was on a hundred percent true that we did have a couple of folks who just wrote, but mostly you were really going to be writing, but also directing, but also editing, et cetera, et cetera.
When I talk to people about how to get into this industry, I always try and remind people that there are kind of two big choices.
It can be a little scary, but what we were doing with Tom championed at that, you know, the size of the company we were, which was very small.
And, and, if it's like, if it's, you're doing a little bit of this and I'm doing a little bit of this and he's doing a little bit of this, that made sense to us.
It was very collaborative and improvisational and literally improv, like the actors were improvising, but also the act of making it was improvisatory.
And it was very, I sort of equate it now when I look back on like being in a band or something like that, where you got to Figure each other out and who's good at what.
And of course, you have some specialization, so you're not all truly doing everything.
I didn't draw after the first couple times that I tried to help out on the drawing side.
It wasn't what I was going to be useful at, but I would stay up all night editing the audio.
And so, you know, we specialized, but it wasn't like a bigger company or like a production in L.A. where you have all these defined roles and a really defined paths.
And you can do that if you are like, you know, like, for example, writers can.
What else do you, they say, you know, but when, where we were coming from, it was, you would almost certainly be, and this was on a hundred percent true that we did have a couple of folks who just wrote, but mostly you were really going to be writing, but also directing, but also editing, et cetera, et cetera.
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