Disney Junior Muppet Babies Series Is Co
Humanitas Prizes will be handed out at an event on Feb. The episode, “You Say Potato, I Say Best Friend,” written by Laura Sreebny, is nominated in the Children’s Teleplay category along with the “Winter Formal, Part 2” episode of “Alexa & Katie, written by Matthew Carlson the “Surf and/or Turf” episode of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” written by Brian Hohlfeld and “Z-O-M-B-I-E-S,” an adaptation of “Zombies & Cheerleaders,” written by David Light and Joseph Raso. The series is co-produced by Disney Junior, Odd Bot Animation, Snowball Studios and The Muppets.
The show has been picked up for a second season set to begin this summer, and the potato itself has made subsequent appearances.The episode’s impact not only on children, but their parents is particularly touching for Warburton. “Every one of them, was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’d totally be friends with a potato.’ At that age, they don’t have any prejudices or anything.”“For me, this episode was really special because this was sort of our litmus test for the rest of the show,” explains Matt Danner, co-producer, supervising animator, and the voice of Kermit in “Muppet Babies.” “Tom told us, ‘OK, we’re gonna do this story where Gonzo becomes friends with a potato let’s see how it goes.” I thought this is basically going to decide what our fates are for the rest of this.”“You Say Potato, I Say Best Friend” was in the third episode of the series. “When we showed early story ideas about it to kids, not one of them said, ‘You can’t be friends with a potato,'” Warburton says. At first, the rest of the Muppet Babies think, ‘Well, you can’t be friends with a potato,’ and eventually they come around and they find a way.”The team shows all its stories to kids to see how they’ll react to the storylines. It demonstrates that not all kids can play the same way. “That episode about Gonzo becoming best friends with a potato is really about inclusion.
As a writer, as a director, as a creator, as anyone who works on the show, to be able to pull that emotion out of people is fantastic.
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