My Morning Jacket Animated By American Dad
My Morning Jacket on American Dad
In the 11/22 episode ("My Morning Straitjacket"), Stan becomes a MMJ groupie so Yim Yames shows up in shaggy pre-MOF form, the other guys are angelic in the buff. Six songs by the band will be featured in the episode, and Zach Galifianakis cameos as a super-fan. Take a peek at these stills (via stewiesplayground via TwentyFourBit), and if you're curious how this collaboration happened, read a press release Q&A with American Dad co-creator Mike Barker reprinted below.
How did you first discover My Morning Jacket? One of my writers, Matt Fusfeld, turned me onto them. He played "Bermuda Highway" for me in the office one day and I was instantly transfixed.
How'd this collaboration come about? Who seduced who? "Who seduced who?" That makes it sound like this game is already over. Look, this isn't over until halfway through a live performance of Steam Engine, Jim reaches into the audience and pulls me up on stage like I'm a pre-cougar Courtney Cox.
But if I might be professional for a moment, the word "seduction" implies that there has been some sort of manipulation on either my part or the band's, when in fact, it's the two art forms themselves - Writing and Music, that sought each other out. In the end, we are all just instruments of the Goddess of Art. I'm not sure who that is, but in my head she looks exactly like Scarlett Johanssen.
You're not being very specific... Honestly, it was an organic evolution. I was at Bonnaroo in the summer of 2008, watching MMJ play their guts out in the rain at 4 a.m. when the idea for the episode struck me. I pitched the idea to the guys the next day and thankfully they were on board.
What makes My Morning Jacket a good fit for American Dad? The best band in the world appearing on the 59th top-rated show on television? It's a no-brainer.
What is the spirit of the episode that features the band? I guess you'd call it a quest. A "hero's journey" as Joseph Campbell coined the term in his now-classic autobiography, Thick Enough to Eat Me With A Fork: Growing Up a Campbell in the Halcyon Days of Canned Soups.
Which character is the biggest My Morning Jacket Fan? You'll have to watch the episode to find out! But I'll give you a hint: it's not Francine, Steve, Hayley, Roger, or Klaus.
Did the band have input on how they were animated? We gave the band customary consultation and they signed off on all of the artwork we ran by them. It's always tricky animating real people. Because you're not just animating them to resemble who they are in real life, you also have to make sure they resemble characters that live in the American Dad universe, and that carries with it a whole host of challenging parameters for our animators. But I think our character designers did a great job at capturing Jim and the guys.
If Kiss is the semi-official Family Guy band, does that mean My Morning Jacket is the semi-official American Dad band? Hell, let's just make them the official band.
Don't forget to not set your Tivos. Get it? Because Seth MacFarlane is the the worst?
UPDATE: A preview:
Posted at 10:56 AM by brandon in Photo, Video
Tags: American Dad | Bonnaroo | My Morning Jacket | Seth MacFarlane | Zach Galifianakis
Yuck. To the max.
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Shit. I wonder if "According to Jim" could add Karen O as the bratty sister-in-law.
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Not saying I won't watch it, but I (probably) won't enjoy it.
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Where's the rest of the story, I read that Animal Collective are going to be on Family Guy and Godspeed You! Black Emperor are going to be on The Cleveland Show
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Wow, you name dropped AC! Cool attempt to seem relevant.
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Wow you didn't understand a joke! Cool attempt to seem like you're not a jackass.
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Well, it could be worse. They could have been on The Cleveland Show.
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But it could have been better. It could have been the Simpsons.
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no, you are stupid. the simpsons has not been funny since at least 2001.
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At this point, MacFarlane's shows are even worse than The Simpsons at their worst. Yes, they're THAT bad.
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The real Jim James would never call me stupid.
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hahahahaha, dammit you are right. all apologies.
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No worries.
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A peak?
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The Simpsons are still better than this trash in every way.
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i'm sorry, that is incorrect
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Simpsons at their absolute nadir of shittiness are still better than anything MacFarlane could dream up. The popularity of Family Guy is a tragedy, that show sucks harder than the offspring of a zillion black holes and a zillion vacuum cleaners. If they could somehow all form some sort of powercleaning black hole, Family Guy would STILL SUCK HARDER.
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behold, the only reason to watch american dad ever
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Behold, you are correct. I've never watched, but won't want to miss this. Especially if Steam Engine and Bermuda Highway are going to be in the episode (fingers crossed for those two and I will be there when you die).
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i just realized yesterday phone went west is probably the best song they ever wrote
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WOW can shitty pseudo-indie bands stop appearing in mainstream pop-culture so that i dont have to hear non-music fucktards say dumb shit like "yeah, im just really into music. i like my morning jacket because American Dad told me they were good".
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A guest spot on the Simpson used to be thing a pride for a band so this is cool for MMJ I guess.
I am more concerned with their musical output. After seeing them perform perhaps the best rock show I have seen this decade in 2007 and having one of the best run of albums this decade ( At Dawn>It Still Moves>Z) by any band they released' Evil Urges' album which is an album so bad I almost turn in my fan card. Jim James seriously needs to get his mojo back. Yim Yames WTF is that? Has he jumped the shark?
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