We are just so thrilled to have the opportunity to have it operate on all those levels.Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley is a bowling video game released for the PlayStation in 1998. We have three generations of people now watching this show. The goal of our team is to make a show where kids can laugh at it, and adults can laugh at it. In the same second where Pinky gets bopped on the head with a pencil and says something silly, Brain will then make a $17-word insult to him that the adults can crack up about. It doesn’t allow us to be as timely as South Park, for example, but still. Writing the show in 2018, we didn’t know any of the things that would go on at the end of the Trump term, so we’re really making fun of his ego. But the adults get the verbal humour and the misfires, the self-centredness.
That’s something the kids may think is funny-looking, he’s got a weird tan, all of that. In Episode 2, we have a gigantic Donald Trump cyclops.
As a child, I would giggle along, but as an adult, I’m realizing that there are many more layers to the humour. While watching, you have to really catch the joke in that split-second. We’ve never stopped Pinky and the Brain-ing it up. We’ll try to crack people up whenever we can. Engineers now and writers now… they grew up with the show, so we’re like the funny uncles to them. Sometimes Rob and I will talk as Pinky and the Brain, especially if others are listening. We always do the characters for each other when we bump into one another at other jobs over the last 22 years. Yes! It’s almost like a muscle that never went slack. I don’t make the movie star money, but it’s a really nice living. (Laughs) I look at myself as if I won the lottery, but chose the annual payments instead of the lump sum. It’s a wonderful sense of play, and somehow… they send us a cheque for that. Maurice LaMarche: (Laughs) When we recorded the series, thank God it was pre-pandemic, because we could all record in the studio together, work off of each other and play off of each other.
My finger hurts from scrolling through your acting credits. Global News: You have a remarkable career. (“Home,” he assures me, will always be Canada.) Global News caught up with LaMarche over the phone from Los Angeles, where he now resides.
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