What's been the biggest change in your process in that time? Matt Chapman You've been making animated shorts for the internet for 15 years now. On their process: "We just start barfing it out" Usually that cop car scene was funnier than the pilot we were trying to write. It's just asking, who are these characters? Put them all in the back of a cop car and write a scene, and that became the way we would try to find out what these characters were like. When we were working on, Mike and I would finally come to the thing of, "All right let's put all in the back of a cop car." This isn't the plot of an episode. Whereas when you're writing a bible, when you've invented these characters, you're like, "All right, I guess this will be the guy who likes food, and maybe this will be the guy that's real nervous." Mike ChapmanĮventually, those things get worked out by putting them in a bunch of situations to get there. You discover the nuances of the character. You put the character in situations, and then that stuff happens naturally. It's hard to nail that stuff down arbitrarily early on and just decide these things. What's consistent is those characters and how they interact. This week they're sign painters, and the next week they're delivering ice. It's a way to keep it fresh, where it's like the Three Stooges. "We'd like to think it'd be hard to bore someone in 90 seconds"Įven though we've made maybe the same kinds of jokes, we don't want to do the exact the same thing over and over again. We don't want to repeat ourselves too often. Do you think pinning down that stuff is inherently hard to do with this format? Mike Chapmanįor us, it's one of those things where you could argue that we've been doing the same thing over and over and over again. If you think about the great characters from animated shorts, they had certain consistent things, but their occupations or other biographical details could change wildly. We'd like to think it'd be hard to bore someone in 90 seconds.
Getting in and out as quickly as possible. If we can get some sort of brain earworm out of it, even if it wasn't like, "That was the funniest thing I ever saw!" but it's like, "I can't stop thinking about the way that weird guy said 'continue,'" that's all we're really looking for. It's like having some little thing that afterward you might accidentally say in conversation because you heard it one of these shorts earlier. If it's a weird way this guy says something, maybe it's an awesome gag that you end on, maybe it's a song that's in it.
If there's one thing you come away with, it's like the hook in a song. What's at the core of a great animated short? Matt Chapman Either intentionally or unintentionally, that's what we're doing: family vacation, inside joke humor. There would be these jokes in that that I was just like, "No one else in the world gets that joke but me." I feel like that's something that we really love. Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a thing like that. Inside joke humor, where if there's an element of it you get, it feels special to you even if a bunch of other people feel the same way.
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Making people crack up and having these little jokes that you associate with a time and a place - for some weird reason that element of our childhood formed our humor a lot. We just had to entertain ourselves when we would go on 12-hour drives. There were five of us kids, Matt and I were the two youngest, and we had a big van. What would you define your sense of humor as? Mike Chapman Your style of humor is very whimsical and has been, I think, pretty influential on other shows and videos. Mike Chapman (left) and Matt Chapman make one of their new animated shorts. On what's funny: "No one else in the world gets that joke but me!" This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
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I recently talked to the Chapmans about their creative process, what's changed from the early Homestar days to the Two More Eggs days, and what working in episodic TV taught them about writing shorts for the web. (The latest of these shorts premieres today on Vox.) Between the two, there's more Chapman content than ever before, and it's a great reminder of why their whimsical riff on the weirdness of humankind caught on in the first place.
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The two have returned to the world of Homestar, but they've also launched a series of animated shorts for DisneyXD called Two More Eggs, which allow them to experiment with new characters and ideas. It just didn't happen.īut the past 12 months have proved incredibly productive. They always planned to make more Homestar cartoons. In the long, fallow period between 20, their website sat dormant while the two of them wrote for kids' television. Related Homestar Runner was the best web cartoon ever
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