Kids are always getting shutdown - don't say this, don't do that, shh, watch it, why did you do that. You can't do certain things, you have to be polite. We live in a world and work in a world where you have to watch yourself all the time. My kid that wants to be an animator is probably slightly on the spectrum. TK: Even though, obviously we're all autistic to a degree, especially in this business and animation I think being autistic is helpful to your skill set to some degree. RB: There's a simplicity to it, not only in the gags and the words, but to the colors and the drawings that might appeal to autistic kids or adults also. It's silly roles and kids connect to silly right away. ML: That's what the spirit of the show is. If something comes to their head, it's just going straight out. And my kids, there 11 and 12, but there's a lot of ways there not 11 and 12. JS: It's like you said, there's no filter. It's really interesting, and I know autistic kids fixate on certain things and certain shows, but there' something about Spongebob and it's not just that SpongeBob is bigger than other shows, I don't know, I don't have a theory at all.ĬB: It would be interesting to figure that out. And the autistic thing comes up so insanely often that I wish someone would write a term paper on it or a treatise on it. Obviously you're not thinking about that when you're making it, but once you put it out in the world it has different uses. TK: Yeah, but it's funny, it's this thing where you're just trying to make something is diverting and makes people laugh and makes us laugh, but it's got all this other stuff that it can do. Then I realized it." It's really heavy, like mind-blowing stuff where you're like wow, this thing, this product, this show that's just trying to be funny.ĬB: But there's no guile in him, there is absolutely no guile. I've had people say "I didn't know if my kids understood words until I heard him laughing at a SpongeBob episode. It comes up a lot actually, the autistic thing comes up, like at comic-cons and things like that. He doesn't have a filter, he does what he wants. TK: Somebody just came up to me yesterday on the floor and their kid was was quite severely autistic and 14 years old, but much younger obviously in other ways.ĬB: SpongeBob connects at every level of the spectrum. TK: Yeah, I have a lot to say about this, actually. So I want to know why you think autistic kids relate so well to SpongeBob? With my age, SpongeBob came on in 1999, when I was finishing grad school and I didn't watch the show, but now I watch a lot of SpongeBob. I was talking to Clancy a little bit before actually and my boys are both autistic and I watch a lot of SpongeBob as a result. RB: We enjoy raising the stock of people. (In SpongeBob voice) Suck it, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Krabs, and SpongeBob, and Plankton?!" They were so happy. This year though I told them I'm going to interview SpongeBob, and they were like "You're going to interview Squidward, and Mr. JS: Last year I interviewed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and were like, "I don't know who that is." It was great, but they couldn't care less. JS: First, I want to thank you all, because you helped me impress my kids. The singular in our character.ĬB: (in his Mr. Roger Bumpass: One of the nice things about a long-running show, though, is that our characters can be fleshed out further and further. Commedia dell'arte, as Clancy said earlier. The naive guy, the bad guy, the greedy guy, the dumb guy, and the curmudgeon. They are archetype characters that are kind of ancient comedy tropes. And 2001 is awesome." The world is so different, but SpongeBob and the comedy of SpongeBob and the characters are really the same. What are you watching? Lawrence of Arabia, it's great. TK: I see these animators breaking their backs, slaving for hours a day making everything look great so people can watch it on a screen this big (puts hands into the shape of a typical phone screen). Joshua Stone: Now they watch it on their phones. Journalist: What has changed since you were first on the air? Also at the interview was another member of the media from a different website, and they asked the first question. Lawrence (writer, story editor, and voice of Plankton). Krabs), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), and Mr. The Saturday morning of SDCC, I sat down with Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Clancy Brown (Mr. This is what happened at SDCC this year when I interviewed the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants. Sometimes you go into an interview expecting one thing and you end up with something completely different.
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