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Make your acquaintance. hello. >> animation is often driven by distinctive great voices, and those voices contributed as much as anything to the personalities and the success of those characters. >> i have to create a voice for each character. they show me the character, and bugs i could see was a tough little stinker, and i thought, which is the toughest voice in this country, either brooklyn or the bronx? >> so i put the two of them together, doc. whats up, doc? >> mel blank was an unbelievabl...

People said, well, whos watching tv at that time? the answer was kids. >> it was television that put cartoons into the arena or ghetto, if you will, of saturday morning. before tv, cartoons were for everybody. theres a straitjacket put on animation that you couldnt be as funny as you wanted to be, oh, its for kids and it cant be this interesting. >> didnt anyone ever tell you its not polite to grab? >> by the 80s, we were into pound puppies, strawberry shortcake, a lot of merchandising opportuni...

Seen this year, last ten years are in the animated movies. >> hey, guys? i think were about to crash into the sun. >> yeah, but its going to look really cool. >> animated comedy couldnt be more popular than it is today. theres no question about it. with the lego movie, all the cable cartoons. its an explosion. >> the reason animation is a huge deal is because even if you only made 30 episodes, you can rewatch those episodes 1,000 times. its only going to keep going and there are only going to be...

How it attacked certain institutions. >> oh, yeah, because it was a cartoon. you put your defenses down. >> comedy by its very nature is disrespectful, and animation is a great way to really turn the disrespect into a whole world. >> dont bother with new ghost busters, not funny, chicks ruined it. can we get ice cream now? i want to get the taste of ass out of my mouth. >> they have no fear of boundaries. >> they address so many things so smartly, and theres a lot of poo, poo, fart jokes in ther...

>> thats right, he can be taught. >> the visual jokes, the best of them are often in animated cartoons. >> dont be nervous, kid. >> hes the most gentle dentist in the whole wide world. >> its just the drill that hurts. >> comedy has been to move more and more towards animation. >> cartoons, if theyre done right, can convey comedy very precisely. and if you think of it and its funny, you can make it happen. >> animation and comedy goes right back to the extreme beginning of film. >> at the end of...

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