The Fairly Odd-Blog

Five-year-old Gary Conrad, destined to wear a tux

Where would any of us be without Fairly OddParents director Gary Conrad? Let’s cross our fingers and hope we never have to find out. Mr Conrad was kind enough to answer a few questions for this interview where we learn… Something About Gary.

Frederator: Where did you grow up?

Gary: I grew up in August, Kentucky. Augusta is like a real-life Mayberry… truly Smalltown, USA. It’s also the hometown of George Clooney. And I want to say publicly that I wish George would stop boasting about us having the same hometown. Jeesh.

Frederator: Wait. So you grew up in Mayberry and Jim Worthy comes from a town like in Leave it to Beaver. Is this background common among animators?

Gary: Yes. I know several from Hooterville. But don’t get me started.

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Jim Worthy by Craig Kellman

As we’ve been posting interviews with the Fanboy and Chum Chum cast and crew, we figured it’d be a good thing to go over to the main building at Nick and visit with the folks behind Butch Hartman’s Fairly OddParents (and over the 5 freeway with the gang at Adventure Time, too). No. 1 on the FOP list is a guy who’s probably worked on more cartoons than you’ve seen, background and layout designer Jim Worthy.

Frederator: Where did you grow up?

Jim: I was born and raised in Holland, Michigan, a small town on the big lake that is known for its Tulip Time Festival every year in May. It has many tourist trappings like Windmill Island and the Wooden Shoe Factory. You can watch an episode of Leave It To Beaver from the 60’s and that was my childhood.

Frederator: What made you decide to go into cartoons?

Jim: I didn’t choose it, it chose [Read more…]