Reddit AMA Recap: Mr. Pickles producers
Recently, Will Carsola and Dave Stewart dropped by Reddit to do an AMA session, hopefully answering all questions having to do with their brand-new series on Adult Swim known as Mr. Pickles. The series just launched on September 21st, @ 11:30 pm ET/PT, and it already has people talking. Here are some notes from the session which includes what we can look forward to the rest of the way:
To kick off the AMA, Will took a question on how the inspiration for Mr. Pickles came about:
(Will)Our inspiration for the show originally was Lassie. At first we were going to set Mr. Pickles in the 50s or 60s like Lassie, but we wanted the town to have crazier characters, so we made it in modern times, and then the show became more of its own thing, and a little less like Lassie.
But, what was the most difficult part in making the series?
After watching the first few episodes, you come to realize just how MUCH is going on in any given scene, especially when Mr. Pickles REALLY gets going. Seriously, he’s constantly suffocating people, fucking animals, and raising all sorts of hell. However, when you hear Will describe a scene that DIDN’T make it into the scene, you can still sense his pace of thinking and how machine gun quick it really is:
(Will) Well one of the things that we had wrote but never made it into an episode was a story about a hunchback named Victor who’s job is a cab driver but he just puts people on his back and walks them around. In that idea, he was giving Mr. Goodman a ride to work but he made a pit stop to his stone cottage in the woods where Mr. Goodman, still strapped to the Hunchback, had to watch the hunchback make love to his wife while a horse made love to the hunchback and a cat made love to the horse.