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Its just pure imagination.
You walk in and theres this magical living room.
It was really emotional, frankly, seeing it for the first time.
Its a place that attempts to make someones childhood better and thats a fun place to work.
Holstein andKiddings team of writers and crew builtMr.
It all started with the name Mr. Pickles.
He agreed to come onboard as a story editor.
And then, hes there just hanging out with you and being a real person, Mazzarino said.
On TV, nobody gets to hear Bob say the F-word, but I do.
Not that he curses crazily, but these are real people.
When he said that, I knew we were in it, Holstein said.
It took him 15 seconds to come up with that.
Its like breathing for me to come up with puppet characters, Mazzarino said.
I just love it.
A lot of the stuff inPuppet Timecomes from Jeffs life, Mazzarino said.
We were building the world ofPuppet Timearound who Jeff Pickles was and what he went through.
There are little things youd never notice.
Jim had a lot of little details that I really like.
I was upset about that one, I thought it was really fun, Mazzarino said.
Otherwise, one just turns into candy and the other is too depressing by itself.
I dont think any of us knew how far we would go to flesh outPuppet Time.
Production worked with a dozen puppeteers to bring the puppets to life.
Each of the puppets homelands needed to fit in a cohesive universe, too.
There were so many ways it could have been addressed, Orgell said.
It was a rear projection at one point, but it ended up being traditional Michel Gondry.
I was so glad we did that instead of going into an animation sequence or something of that nature.
A small paper barrel transports the tiny Jeff cutout over a waterfall.
The intention was to take a very low-fi approach to a childrens show, Holstein said.
It wasnt about crazy colors or lab cuts or fast cuts.
It was about creating a sense of a show built from a childs imagination.
Each time a child watches that, they might be inspired to make something like it at home.
After all of that work, Holstein and Mazzarino said theyd love to produce an entire episode ofMr.
It makes it a real person.
