“Oh, hey, Ted... do you have a minute?”
Ted the Animator: “…oh no.”
Carl the Animator: “What?”
Ted the Animator: “You’re being calm and polite. That’s never a good sign.”
Carl the Animator: “It’s no big deal, just a quick question. Remember last spring when you said I could direct the aesthetic of the next show ?”
Ted the Animator: “…no? Not at all?”
Carl the Animator: “It was a maybe-3-AM session… you were mumbling, face down, in a plate of pad thai….”
Ted the Animator: “Still no memory, but I do feel overtime should pay more if one wakes up after with noodles on their forehead.”
Carl the Animator: “True. Now, you know the stuff I’m best at, right?”
Ted the Animator: “Stealing my pens?”
Carl the Animator: “No, in animation, you dingus.”
Ted the Animator: “…bumping cels?”
Carl the Animator: “No! Exaggerated action! Smears! Tornado Discus Scooby!”
Ted the Animator: “Ohhhhhhh! Actually, yeah, I can’t deny you’re good at ‘em, even though they come out terrifying half the time.”
Carl the Animator: “That’s no mistake. It’s just the way Shaggy would look if designed by Pablo Picasso. That’s vision, right there.”
Ted the Animator: “…I don’t like where this conversation is headed.”
Carl the Animator: “Look, this’ll be a show for little kids, right? Kids like wild, insane, over-the-top action.”
Ted the Animator: “…I think you’re thinking of BMX bikers, but I get the gist.”
Carl the Animator: “Wild bed-bouncing! Weird motion! Bodies moving all creepy and flowy like sock monkeys filled with jello!”
Ted the Animator: “…wait, what?”
Carl the Animator: “We need smears. Lots of smears. Dozens, if not hundreds, all of the most exquisite nature!”
Ted the Animator: “…4-eyed-Scooby is gonna haunt my nightmares now.”
Carl the Animator: “Constant, madness! It’ll keep the little buggers engaged while mom goes to get a smoke.”
Ted the Animator: “These aren’t 1950s educational shorts, Carl.”
Carl the Animator: “More eyes! As many eyes as the frames can hold! A cornucopia of corneas!”
Carl the Animator: “Stretchiness is key as well. The human spine should be a spring that puts Tigger to shame!”
Ted the Animator: “Well… that’s at least a little more normal in animation, ok.”
Carl the Animator: “Stretches that – when compressed horizontally – offer a mortifying vision of the denizens of The Abyss!”
Ted the Animator: “…I stand corrected, and increasingly creeped out.”
Carl the Animator: “Surrealism! Every frame, a–…
…ok, I’m all out of monologue. Sanity is restored.”
Ted the Animator: “I don’t know whether to applaud or call a psychiatrist.”
Carl the Animator: “Well, on top of the obvious, wha’d’ya think?”
Ted the Animator: “I’m all for mixing things up, but… won’t it get old, having this much insanity in only one episode?”
Carl the Animator: “…who said anything about one episode? This plus waaaaay more is all gonna happen in the first 3 minutes of episode 1* ”
*no, seriously, it actually does
Ted the Animator: “…ohhhhhhhhhhhhh my.”
Carl the Animator: “Bask in the glory.”
Ted the Animator: “This is either going to be a masterpiece, a disaster, or a disasterpiece.”
Carl the Animator: “Get ready, fine art scene. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is comin’ to town.”
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