Billy & Mandy vs. Mr. Warburton and Greg Miller - We Know Where Baby Cartoons Come From!

In this first episode of Billy & Mandy vs. The Entertainment Industry (originally recorded in late 2024), Maxwell Atoms goes deep behind the scenes with his friends Mr. Warburton (creator of Codename: Kids Next Door) and Greg Miller (creator of Whatever Happened to Robot Jones) to talk about what it was like to make a pilot for Cartoon Network during Cartoon Network's turn-of-the-century "Big Pick" era. You can Big Pick your friends, you can Big Pick your nose, but you can't Big Pick your friend's nose. We talk about everything from how we met, to our show pitches, focus testing, unexpected challenges, and bonus challenges we forced on ourselves because we're masochists. We share the biggest wins, hardest lessons, and fun stories about three careers that had only just begun. Whether you're a fan of Cartoon Network, an aspiring animator, or just love love listening to three ageing men reminisce about what it was like to carry 30 pounds of paper everywhere they went, this podcast-like video is for y'all! Crush that like button like the skulls of your foes, subscribe like you've never subscribed before, and let me know what you thought of early Cartoon Network shows in the comments. Or Mandy will get you! Music: Kerosyn - Violence in the Workplace Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist:    • Kerosyn   0:00:00 - Titles 0:00:13 - Polite Introductions 0:01:50 - When Maxwell Met Miller 0:02:38 - Internships, Pitch Bibles, and Early Gigs 0:10:50 - Enter the Warburton 0:15:26 - The Pennsylvania Farm Team 0:17:58 - Pokemon Leaderboard Madness 0:19:22 - Pilots 0:21:50 - The Big Pick Weekend 0:31:32 - Seasoned Math 0:38:37 - Focus Testing 0:47:52 - Exposure Sheets, Animatics, and Cats 0:54:50 - The Times, They Are A-Changin' 0:57:15 - Poor, Poor RichCo. 1:01:45 - Needlessly Challenging Yourself 1:04:50 - The Robot Voice Situation 1:11:57 - Mo Money, Mo Willems 1:14:45 - Harold and Gladys: Origins 1:16:56 - Archiving: Dumpster Diving and Iron Mountain 1:22:19 - Aspiring (or Expiring) Animators 1:33:27 - TV vs. Features 1:37:10 - What Are You Doing Now? 1:41:40 - Standards Stuff 1:46:00 - Until We Meet Again!