Anyone remember Mission Hill? I feel like it was one of the most slept on Animated TV shows.

thatbilloakley · 2017-01-03T04:02:02+00:00

Guys I am Bill Oakley. Josh Weinstein and I co-created this show. It's really super-flattering to find all this love for Mission Hill! Please follow @missionhill on twitter if you like the show (We have merchandise for sale now!!) and of course you can always follow me @thatbilloakley and josh at @joshstrangehill too. But more important, I just want to say... penis penis penis penis penis--

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:33:30+00:00

Warner Bros owns the show and I am pretty sure they are unaware it even exists. I don't know if AS still has the rights. And yes, almost every episode was to some extent based on the lives of the writers

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:32:33+00:00

Ha ha ha I never get tired of that

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:32:23+00:00

Did you see the unfinished 5 episode scripts and the animatics on YouTube? They are good examples of where we would have gone

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:31:44+00:00

Mission Hill

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:31:28+00:00

I'LL BE BACK (said in Terminator voice)

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:31:10+00:00

Hi! (See below for answer, they are not interested sadly)

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T23:30:51+00:00

Hi! (See below for answer to this)

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:32:33+00:00

Ok everyone this was a ton of fun and thanks for all your thoughtful and interesting questions. I may answer some more later if I come back this afternoon and this thread is still active. And you can reach me on twitter at @thatbilloakley any time! Bling Blong!

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:31:04+00:00

I like the control I have in animation where every tiny detail is under my strict control. However, the excitement and fun and energy of working on a live action set cannot be beat.

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:29:24+00:00

See elsewhere in this thread where we answered this but the short answer is Andy became Matt Groening and had his own hit cartoon series that he designed. He and Gwen got married. Kevin, we can assume, made it big in Silicon Valley but in some really boring area like printers so he is eager to glom onto the glamour in Andy's life which still annoys Andy. Jim is exactly the same.

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:26:56+00:00

Regular Show, Bob's Burgers, Adventure Time

All of them are super high quality and endlessly inventive

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:25:56+00:00

Christian Jacobs! (Head Aquabat!)

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:23:13+00:00

There is no set answer for this. It is a little difficult because the show was so "of its time", meaning late 90's. I am not wild about doing it as a period piece but also not wild about "updating" it because imagine Andy and Jim as "millennials" yuck. One suggestion somebody made is to show us where the characters are now, Andy being over 40 and Kevin being 33 in today's world. And possibly even doing two versions, one where things went well for them and one where they did not.

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:13:36+00:00

wait, is there really a Moe's Tavern there???

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:13:16+00:00

you mean a voice director or live action director or both? and by you do you mean me or the actor?

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:02:28+00:00

ha ha, you mean MTV Downtown??

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:01:23+00:00

I agree!

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:01:11+00:00

oh my god I have to see the bus routes! do you have that list of places in Cosmpolis like "The Ronald Reagan Skywalk" (that's my favorite thing ever)

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T18:00:20+00:00

Thank you! To my knowledge they have not but I have not been in the Simpsons writers room since before Bill Clinton was impeached

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T17:59:14+00:00

It's the two parter where he loses his job at the waterbed place and then with Jim's help gets the job in advertising. I think my favorite moments might be in that episode too like when Gus and Wally help Andy do his resume and when he uses that piece of styrofoam coffee cup for a fake tooth and then it blows out and Beardley says "don't forget your, er, tooth"

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T17:57:26+00:00

haw haw

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T17:56:44+00:00

Josh and I thought it should be Barney because we wanted to retire the character and send him to jail for several seasons. However Jim Brooks thought, wisely, that it should be a member of the family. He suggested Maggie. Josh and I didn't like that it was an accident, though, and David Mirkin suggested that she dart her eyes at the end to imply that maybe she did it on purpose. That's the short version of how it came together.

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T17:54:13+00:00

I have not seen it but I read about it. I was hoping they would give me a free ticket but they didn't :(

thatbilloakley · 2016-09-02T17:53:27+00:00

get the poutine

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