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"No Chris Left Behind" (Peter vs. Giant Chicken Fight Sequence)
ACTION, COMEDY
The ultra-violent Chicken Fight saga has been a running gag on Family Guy for 25 years. It was my honor to storyboard two of the brawl's early installments: Fight #2 in "Blind Ambition" (Season Four) and Fight #3 here (Season Five). FOX submitted both storyboards for award consideration. This one won, twice!
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Primetime Emmy Award
& Annie Award
Winning Sequence (2007)
Outstanding Individual Achievement
in Animation (Storyboard Artist)
"Jellyfishing"
COMEDY
I was one of the original writer-directors on the first season of SpongeBob SquarePants at Nickelodeon. "Jellyfishing" was only the third-ever episode to go into production and helped establish the tone of the series. Below is my original production half-inch tape, to give you the full 90s VHS viewing experience.
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Seq. 34C - "Wile E. Coyote/Wizard of Oz"
COMEDY
We needed a clever yet brief showcase for The Wizard of Oz world. I suggested poking fun at the original 1939 film's fake-looking flat backdrop of Emerald City by having the Road Runner speed down the yellow brick road and enter the matte painting, only to have the pursuing Coyote slam into it. An oldie but a goodie.
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Space Jam: A New Legacy
Seq. 46B - "Getting in Shape" (Part Two)
ACTION, COMEDY
LeBron retrains the Tune Squad on basketball fundamentals, getting them back into fighting shape (it has been 25 years since their last game, after all). Choreographing the Heroes vs. Villains scrimmage game was a labor of love, vindication that my absorbing a steady diet of WB cartoons was not a wasted youth.
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Space Jam: A New Legacy
Seq. 05 - "Pam's Apartment" (Episode 208: The Sam Who Came in From the Cold)
DRAMA
Successfully completing their spy mission, Pam flies her son Sam-I-Am back to her hi-tech penthouse apartment for some well earned R&R. This is the series' emotional payoff, the moment Sam's been longing for his entire orphaned life: home cooked green eggs and ham made with love by his real mother.
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Green Eggs and Ham
Seq. 01 - "Z.I.T. Lab Showdown" (Episode 210: The Mom Who Loved Me)
ACTION
Pam confronts Guy over the destructive weapon he's built the Zooks to use against the Yooks. She's on a mission to dismantle his bomb, not realizing Guy's already in the process of taking it apart himself. It's a comedy of errors as they stumble over each other unknowingly trying to achieve the same goal. Hoo boy...
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Green Eggs and Ham
Ep. 321 - "Father's Day Hoedown" (Seq. 14)
ACTION
The hallmark of a kids action show like Firebuds is typically a big dramatic firefighting/rescue sequence in the third act, followed by a life lesson learned. Here, father and son vehicles work together to extinguish a raging fire whirl, healing family rifts in the process. Helicopters have feelings too ya know.
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"Political Correction" (CalArts, 1995)
• CalArts Producers' Show selection
• Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation (1997)
• Showcased on MTV's Cartoon Sushi (1997)
Knowledge is Power! My third-year CalArts film teaches kids politically correct grammar, sung to the infectious melody of "Interjections". This is the earliest known Schoolhouse Rock parody, predating subsequent spoofs from The Simpsons, SNL, Mad TV, Jimmy Kimmel Live and countless others by several years.
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