The Jon & Michael Show

0 CommentsThursday • March 11, 2010 • by jon

This was the original short that prompted the Mtv Pilot.  Sadly the show never got picked up.  It was changed quite a bit after Mtv contracted the pilot but I’m not complaining – the process was fun and the most rewarding thing was to be able to do something with my brother Michael.

Background on the idea:

I was living at home with my younger brother who was 16 at the time.  He started talking like this after seeing Napolean Dynamite.  My mom hated the Napolean Dynamite voice because it was too rude and aggressive so my brother started putting a happy stoner spin on the voice, dropped it an octave and suddenly it caught on.  Pretty soon his whole school (even the teachers) were talking like him.  I was writing a lot more than animating at the time and he and I would but heads because I wasn’t being positive enough so…this show was born.

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