Behind-the-Scenes Round Up: “Archer” ; “Corner Gas Animated”

Watch how the pros do it.

The Comedy Network has posted a behind-the-scenes featurette for their smash-hit animated comedy, Corner Gas Animated and you can watch it below. It features interviews with cast, crew, and more in giving us the scoop on how the producers took a live-action series that was a Canadian sensation and turning it into the series that we get today.

Corner Gas Animated is a currently running 13-episode Canadian animated television series, created and written by Brent Butt and David Storey. The series is an animated revival of the sitcom Corner Gas (2004–2009)

The series will follow the everyday lives of the residents of the small town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. This series will be similar to the original, live-action series, but the creators have acknowledged that the animated format will give them opportunities to do stranger and more unrealistic things that the live-action version could not have depicted or filmed.  For instance, cutaway gags in the animated version have included a Mad Max spoof and a gory fight between a Sasquatch and a unicorn.

 

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FXX has begun releasing a featurette docu-series that takes us behind the scenes of the network’s lone animated offering, Archer: Danger Island. In it, we get to hang out with the cast and crew of the series and get a bit of a taste of what goes into producing the show including interviews with cast and crew.

 

 

FXX’s Archer is an original animated, half-hour comedy that, in its ninth season, centers on the semi-functioning alcoholic seaplane pilot, Sterling Archer, a lush on the lush South Pacific island of Mitimotu in 1939. While the rest of the world is concerned about the impending Second World War, Archer is only concerned with who’s buying his next drink. Along with his trusty co-pilot Pam, Sterling must navigate quicksand, cannibals, super-intelligent monkeys, poison darts, pirates, and did we mention quicksand? Welcome to the mysterious and deadly world of Archer: Danger Island. The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the hard-drinking pilot, “Sterling Archer;” Jessica Walter as Archer’s acid-tongued mother and hotel owner, “Malory Archer;” Aisha Tyler as island royalty and local revolutionary, “Princess Lanaluakalani;” Judy Greer as the abandoned heiress, “Charlotte Vandertunt;” Chris Parnell as the obvious German spy posing as a businessman, “Siegbert Fuchs;” Amber Nash as Archer’s co-pilot and loyal sidekick, “Pam Poovey;” Adam Reed as impeccably uniformed French Capitaine, “Reynaud;” and Lucky Yates as the audacious scarlet macaw, “Crackers.”