Subtitles section Play video
-
- I haven't done this before.
-
I could learn stuff and this could be really fun,
-
just, how does Disney make a show,
-
you know what I mean?
-
Like what kind of checks and balances
-
and nets of mediocrity are we gonna be working with here?
-
I'm Justin Roiland.
-
And this is the timeline of my career!
-
[whimsical music]
-
[alarm beeping]
-
♪ There's something out in space that could use ♪
-
♪ Just a little investigation ♪
-
All right, Most Extraordinary Space Investigations,
-
that was a Channel 101 show that me, Dan Harmon
-
and Sevan Najarian put together for fun one night.
-
We wrote it, or we didn't even write it,
-
we just kind of outlined it, and then we shot it
-
in one night, and then Dan took the footage.
-
And we kind of forgot about it.
-
And then at the panel meeting, we were watching tapes
-
and Dan produced it, and he's like, "I've got a tape."
-
And he put it in, and he had edited it
-
and made it into this ridiculous show
-
and it was really funny
-
and it got screened, it got voted back
-
and we just kept making episodes.
-
Sarah Silverman joined us, I think on the second
-
or third episode, as like a regular cast member
-
of the space investigators.
-
[laughing] It's so dumb.
-
We would shoot it in my old apartment in Sherman Oaks
-
and just like, it was the most lo-fi,
-
like there was zero production value.
-
But people liked it.
-
Anyways, whatever.
-
It was a lot of fun to make that show
-
because we weren't allowed to write anything
-
until we got together the night we were gonna shoot it.
-
So we would get together,
-
having no idea what the story was gonna be,
-
and then we would all sit around
-
and just kind of smoke weed and, [laughing]
-
and you know, then we'd just come up with the story
-
and then just start shooting it all night long.
-
We'd usually wrap shooting around like four in the morning.
-
In my apartment.
-
[laughs] It was like everything was in my apartment
-
or around my apartment.
-
It was so funny.
-
- Here goes nothing.
-
- I just wanna let you know, that I don't trust you.
-
[upbeat music]
-
- Mharti, Mharti we have a problem.
-
- So "The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti"
-
was, I wanted to just do those voices
-
and kinda screw around, but I also wanted to make something
-
really shocking and disgusting on purpose.
-
I had done it before with a thing
-
called "Unbelievable Tales".
-
I got a huge rush off of being in the audience
-
and hearing the audience like just scream
-
and cover their eyes and, I don't know,
-
there was something really cool about having
-
that kind of effect on, you know, 400 people in a theater.
-
It was like, it was just insane
-
to elicit reactions like that.
-
And so that was kind of the primary motivation.
-
And then as I was making it, I kind of found,
-
I really liked the characters and the voices a lot
-
and I liked, I just liked, you know,
-
the talking to myself as those voices
-
and there was a lot about it that I liked
-
so I kind of accidentally stumbled upon that
-
throughout the course of making it.
-
But the audience definitely freaked the [beep] out,
-
which was amazing.
-
- But I don't understand how that would work, Doc,
-
I don't, I don't, I'm confused, I don't--
-
- Mharti, trust me, I built this car with my
-
own two hands. - You just need
-
to adjust.
-
I can help you have fun.
-
I'm a friend you can trust.
-
- Hmm.
-
- [screaming] - Leave him alone!
-
- No rhyming.
-
- Acceptable TV, that was a show on VH1 for a minute.
-
The show was kind of a little microcosm of Channel 101.
-
So we basically banked a bunch of sketches and animations
-
and then when the show was live,
-
the audience would vote on their favorite two shows
-
through this website that was designed, on Ruby on Rails.
-
And I remember that being a huge problem
-
because the website sucked and it was easy to hack
-
and all this shit.
-
So the show would air and there would be
-
five little mini TV shows that were like sketches.
-
And then people would vote on their favorite two.
-
We would find out Sunday which shows came back
-
and then we would get to work and basically start writing
-
the second episode of whatever shows they'd voted on
-
and start producing them.
-
We did a thing called Mr. Sprinkles
-
for the first episode, it got voted back,
-
and I had an animation department that I was running
-
where we were having to animate the second episode
-
in basically three and 1/2 days.
-
It was [beep]ing insane 'cause it was on light boards,
-
you know, classic animation,
-
painted backgrounds and After Effects.
-
And then the show kept, the animation kept getting
-
voted back eight weeks in a row,
-
and we were [beep]ing dead, the animation department
-
was just on fumes, 'cause we weren't sleeping.
-
I remember eight weeks, I was just like,
-
"I can't [beep]ing do this."
-
And I was also bummed because all these cartoons
-
we had banked are never gonna air.
-
Like we had animated I think four different
-
cool, fun little cartoon TV show ideas
-
and it was just Mr. Sprinkles the whole time.
-
The audience really likes this Mr. Sprinkles stuff.
-
It was good, I like Mr. Sprinkles, it's fun.
-
Whatever.
-
- I'm fine all day when the sun is out,
-
but when it rains I scream and shout.
-
- But this isn't about screaming and shouting,
-
is it Mr. Sprinkles?
-
♪ Oh I found a perfect roomie ♪
-
♪ Who could be a perfect buddy ♪
-
♪ Together we'll make a lovely pair ♪
-
- I took a meeting with Mike Moon at Disney.
-
Alex Hirsch was there, that was the first time I met Alex.
-
And then they pitched me this Fish Hooks thing.
-
And Alex was looking for someone to help him develop it.
-
It was very different, I was like,
-
oh, I haven't done this before.
-
I could learn stuff and this could be really fun,
-
just how does Disney make a show, you know what I mean?
-
Like what kind of checks and balances
-
and nets of mediocrity are we gonna be working with here?
-
So, and how can I rise to that challenge
-
and try to help make something that's really good
-
or as good as it can be?
-
- Okay Bea, then it's a date!
-
See you tomorrow!
-
I mean, not a date date, because you know,
-
why would I want that?
-
[laughing nervously]
-
- This castle is in
-
unacceptable condition!
-
Unacceptable!
-
- Ah, Adventure Time.
-
Ah, the French wine. [laughing]
-
Adventure Time was fun, that was Pen Ward.
-
He was a fan of my podcast, called Grandma's Virginity,
-
check it out, all the episodes are still online.
-
And, actually don't check it out, don't even, who cares.
-
But he came on an episode and then I think,
-
I feel like on the episode, I was like,
-
"Come on Pen, put me in this show."
-
I might have been doing that.
-
And then he ended up like actually offering me a part
-
and I didn't know what it was gonna be.
-
And I went and recorded, I went there
-
and I just started, I just was like, "How about this?"
-
And I screamed.
-
I just did the screamy voice.
-
And he was like, "That'll do."
-
It was really cool and I did the first episode
-
and then by the third episode, it was,
-
there was so much of Lemongrab,
-
there were a bunch of clones of him
-
and I was doing all of them and they all screamed.
-
And I was in the booth for about three hours.
-
- Unacceptable!
-
- Hm, acceptable.
-
- What!?
-
- And after that I went back
-
to the Rick and Morty writers room
-
and I remember that we were talking about something
-
and I tried to do Morty's voice and I couldn't do his voice,
-
it just wouldn't happen.
-
And then Tom Kenny told me,
-
I think I was recording him for an episode, and he was like,
-
"You need to go to this doctor."
-
I went to see this doctor and he,
-
he was like, "Okay, yeah.
-
"You don't have any vocal nodules
-
"but your vocal cords are super, super swollen.
-
"You need to not talk for like two weeks.
-
"And here's a cortisone shot."
-
Boom!
-
Cortisone.
-
That stuff.
-
No, it doesn't, it just hurts, I don't know.
-
I couldn't talk and so I had to download this app,
-
this text-to-speech app called, like, Talkbot.
-
It sounds really depressed.
-
Like everything you type and,
-
if you type out what you want or what you need to say
-
and you hit play, and the voice sounds really sad.
-
And so people thought I was sad the whole time and I wasn't.
-
We ended up using that voice for the butter robot.
-
That's literally how I was talking.
-
If you listen to the butter robot
-
in that Rick and Morty episode,
-
that one famous Rick and Morty episode
-
with the butter robot, you know the one I'm talking about.
-
- What is my purpose?
-
- Pass the butter.
-
Thank you!
-
- That's literally what I sounded like for two weeks.
-
All because of Lemongrab.
-
- [screaming]
-
- There's only one way out of here.
-
- Through me!
-
[dramatic music]
-
Oh, ugh, sorry.
-
Come on.
-
Through me!
-
- Gravity Falls.
-
I knew Alex.
-
He was around when we were working on Fish Hooks,
-
he was literally like down the hall.
-
And he always had his door closed
-
and he was developing Gravity Falls in that room.
-
When they got going with the first season,
-
he had me come in and do a few different characters.
-
He knew he wanted me in there somewhere
-
and so it was just like, coming in and doing a voice
-
and then it wouldn't stick.
-
And then I'd come in and I think I did maybe two,
-
I can't remember what characters.
-
And then I came in and did Blendin and that one clicked.
-
It was like, okay, this one feels right.
-
That was fun.
-
It was fun to be that character because I knew,
-
there was a lot of stuff that that character
-
was involved in, a lot of Easter eggs,
-
like throughout the course of the season.
-
So that was really cool to be that character.
-
- Blendin Blenjamin Blandin!
-
How could you not know my name after you ruin my life?
-
- No you can't.
-
Jessica doesn't even know I exist.
-
But, but, but, but forget about that because
-
you can't blow up the planet--
-
- I get what you're trying to say, Morty.
-
Listen, I'm not, you don't, you don't gotta worry about me
-
trying to fool around with Jessica