Talk to the Snail

This, year five, is the first season Frederator’s had nothing to do with the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival (other than Fred’s creator credit, course). I’m not sure, but maybe that could be why no one showed up for tonight’s live event at the Nick studio in Burbank (see above).

Ha ha ha. Actually, the event was more crowded than in that misleading picture - that shot was taken after the other six people went home.

Ha ha ha, again. Really, the event was fine and well-attended. Nick’s Brown Johnson interviewed Stan Lee, the highlight of highlights for an audience full of animators. Food, drinks, host Chris Hardwick, a live band, and - oh!- cartoons made for an all-around fun night. Thanks for the invitation.

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So I give props to Aliki last week in this post, and, the next thing I know, she’s buying me lunch at the Disney commissary and showing me around the Phineas and Ferb production offices. (It turns out her storyboard partner on the show when he’s not on vacation is Antoine Guilbaud, the guy who made “Herb” back in the old days of Oh Yeah! Cartoons.) We also ran into Ph & F’s creators, Dan Povenmire and Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh, above. You know, the commissary at Disney’s has bottles of about half a dozen different flavors of syrup you can squirt right into your soda at no extra charge. I went with the standard vanilla Coke. A good afternoon.

— Eric