Chris and Shane Houghton’s charming and big-hearted collection Big City Greens will probably be celebrating its one hundredth episode subsequent week. The present, which debuted on June 18, 2018, facilities on the Green Family (siblings Cricket and Tilly, their dad Bill and their Gramma Alice), who needed to depart their farm within the nation and modify to life within the massive metropolis.
We had the prospect to meet up with the all the time pleasant brothers to seek out out concerning the plans for the massive one hundredth episode, and take a look at some first-look photos from the Greens’ milestone journey:
![<strong>Big City Celebrations!</strong> Shane (left) and Chris Houghton joined with the cast and creative team of 'Big City Greens' to celebrate the 100th episode ahead of its May 3 premiere. [ph. c/o Disney / Frank Micelotta]](https://i0.wp.com/www.animationmagazine.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Shane-Houghton_Chris-Houghton_100th_176736_FM2_1840.jpg?ssl=1)
Animation Magazine: It appears similar to yesterday once we chatted concerning the premiere of your present! How do you guys really feel now that the present is about to debut its one hundredth episode?
Chris Houghton: It’s unbelievable. Reflecting on 100 episodes, I’m overcome with an incredible quantity of gratitude. I’m grateful to our hardworking crew, lots of whom have been with us because the starting. I’m grateful for our hilarious solid, our wonderful abroad associate studios, and the great quantity of help Disney has proven the collection over time. But there’s nobody we owe due to greater than the followers of Big City Greens. We by no means might have made it to 100 episodes with out them.
Shane Houghton: As of April twenty fifth, Chris and I’ve been in collection manufacturing of Big City Greens for a full 9 years! Wild! Making it to 100 episodes is a big milestone. We are thrilled, honored, and grateful that our viewers has supported the present for thus a few years and continues to develop. When we had been first growing Big City Greens again in 2014, the execs would all the time ask if we thought this collection might run for 100 episodes, so in a method, this can be a milestone we’ve been taking pictures in the direction of for over a decade.
What is the most important lesson you have got realized alongside the best way?
Chris: When making a choice, it’s useful to assemble enter from others however finally, belief your intestine.
Shane: Hold on, let me seek the advice of Chris … Yeah, trusting your intestine is nice recommendation.
What are the massive plans for the one hundredth Episode celebration?
Shane: Disney TVA has deliberate a celebration within the studio the place we the crew will rejoice with the remainder of the productions and have the one hundredth episode taking part in on a loop within the theaters. Recently at Disney’s Bring Your Kids to Work Day, there was a packed advance screening of the one hundredth episode for the youngsters who had been on the Disney lot that day. Our private plans? Take one other dose of that particular serum that permits us to go one other 100 episodes.
We put as a lot of the celebration as we might into the episode. The episode itself is a celebration of all of the issues we predict Big City Greens does nicely. Hopefully we contact on all of the issues followers like concerning the present. It’s received an enormous solid, plenty of jokes, and a few actually touching moments. We had been ready so as to add an extra three minutes to the overall runtime for an additional packed episode of enjoyable. Mark Hamill visitor stars as a really enjoyable and goofy new character, and I received to voice my dream character: an enormous hen.
Chris: Yup, we’ll all collect and toast to the one hundredth episode! … Then get to work on the following episode.
What are you able to inform us about future episodes of the present?
Shane: After “One Hundred,” we roll proper into one other half-hour particular, all concerning the return of BCG baddie, Chip Whistler! After that, we’ve received a Downton Abbey-esque episode with Tilly’s stuffed potato sack, Saxon; Wayne goes to the Big City; Gramma fights some porch pirates; The Greens get swole on the fitness center! The season finale is a really particular pairing of two episodes… In “Rehashed History” we revive the one shelved episode from season one, beforehand titled “Hands-On History.” There has been some on-line fan buzz across the episode because it’s the one “lost” episode. We thought it was time to mud it off and current it because the historic artifact it’s. The second episode of the finale is a enjoyable and emotional story the place Cricket learns one thing about his genesis.
Chris: Fans of Chip Whistler are in for a deal with with the episode, “Chip’s Revenge”! The final episode of season 4 is an enormous swing and I really like the way it turned out. Shane wrote the script and I used to be blown away after I first learn it. It impressed me to put in writing a brand new finish credit score track for the season finale. Also, season 5 is shaping as much as be one in all our funniest seasons ever.
Who is essentially the most well-known fan of the present (that you realize of?)
Shane: If they’re a well-known fan of the present and we all know of it, we’ve solid them! Plenty of the instances we solid people after which discover out they love the present after they are available in to document. Many have children and love that they’ll watch one thing collectively that they each take pleasure in. Jeffery Dean Morgan voices Wolf Fang, and it seems he was an enormous fan. Dan Stevens voices Saxon in an upcoming episode, and seems he loves the present as nicely. Later in Season 4, we additionally produce other creators of exhibits that we’re followers of showing as visitor stars together with Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack (the creators of Smiling Friends) and J.G. Quintel (creator of Regular Show).
The solely well-known one who we’d like to solid is Bob Iger! Bob, come do a voice!
What is your tackle the state of animation in 2025?
Chris: The trade is certainly in a tricky spot. Between YouTube, video video games and social media, the panorama is extra aggressive than ever. Plus, the enterprise mannequin shifted from cable to streaming which is a really completely different beast. It’s one of many primary causes we’re producing a lot short-form content material and new partnerships with Big City Greens.
I hear you managed to sort out the scary subject of AI in one of many episodes?
Shane: Like lots of issues in our lives, we sort out the difficulty of AI in an upcoming Season 4 episode, “Spinned Off.” In the episode, Gwendolyn Zapp (BCG‘s delusional billionaire and tech genius) uses her company, BigTech, to use AI to create custom TV shows based on Big City citizens. Gwendolyn sums it up best in the episode by saying, “Finally, we can end humanity’s lengthy nightmare of making artwork!”
Any nice piece of recommendation for aspiring creators of animated exhibits?
Chris: There’s lots of doom and gloom discuss proper now, however do not forget that chaotic instances additionally deliver alternatives. Hollywood will all the time be within the enterprise of creating stuff that captures the eye of as many individuals as doable. That’s it. If you possibly can assist try this, you’ll discover success.
Shane: We’ve discovered that nice, long-lasting TV exhibits are all about nice characters and being humorous. This isn’t a brand new idea, however one which has been round because the daybreak of tv. We’re simply fortunate sufficient to have created enduring characters that hundreds of thousands around the globe discover charming, relatable and humorous.
Big City Greens episode “One Hundred” premieres May 3 on Disney Channel and May 7 on Disney+.
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