The Weekenders 21st Anniversary Celebration Week — Vocabulary: “One of the main things I thought abo
The Weekenders 21st Anniversary Celebration Week — Vocabulary: “One of the main things I thought about when working on the show was Peanuts. The old Peanuts specials. The strip. More the strip than the TV specials. The strip had this thing - I don’t know how old the characters were supposed to be, eight or ten or something? But they always talked to each other like adults. Not necessarily about adult stuff, but their vocabularies were not childish at all. They would have these philosophical conversations, and I thought: “I want our show to be more like that.” Originally, in fact, we were gonna have no adults on the show. It was going to be just the kids. Whenever there was an adult, you were gonna see them leaving the room or not quite hear them, which was gonna feel gimmicky. So we decided not to. And then there was a point where I was watching Home Movies. One of the things about Loren Bouchard’s show was that the kids had adult voices - I think they pitched them up a bit, but they didn’t sound like kids. Early on I didn’t want them to sound young, I wanted them to sound like adults but it sounded weird. We did wind up differently, it’s still not kids doing the voices, they are not doing particularly high voices, they sound a little bit more like 12 year olds which is almost like adults. That was in part influenced by Home Movies.” - Doug Langdale (The Movie Podcast) -- source link
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