Exclusive Interview: Regular Show’s JG Quintel @JGQuintel)

We’ve got seasons one and two on Blu-ray coming out in a few weeks. Can you talk about some of the extras we’ll be seeing on the home release?

  Yeah. So it’s got the first two seasons, which is 40 episodes, and it’s a lot of my favorite episodes like The Power, Just Set Up the Chairs, Mordecai and the Rigbys. We got Karaoke Video with Pops singing Footloose. I mean, there’s a ton of really cool episodes. As far as special features go we did commentary on every episode. So there’s 40 episodes of commentary plus some of the episodes have multiple layers of commentary, so you have to pick who you’re going to listen to. Like sometimes it’s the storyboard artist, sometimes it’s the background artists, like I’m on almost all of them. Like we’ve got some voice actors on some of them. So it’s really cool to hear what  everybody thought about the show back when they first got on it. We have animatics that have never been seen before. We have the unaired pilot, that’s going to be on there. My student film, The Naïve Man from Lolliland will be on the DVD as well as like there’s a recording of me pitching a storyboard with my thumbnail drawings like flashing in the corner, so you can see what a board pitch looks like. Just interviews and promos and commercials. We really tried to like put as much as we physically could on to these DVDs for everybody.

Regular Show has been able to lend itself to a lot of different mediums such as comics and games. How much of a challenge is it to transfer the show’s look and feel to those mediums?

You know, with the comic books, which those just came out recently and we made the conscious decision to kind of let new artists come in and take their own shot at the characters, so that it’s not perfectly on model ’cause we feel like the show kind of already exists. So it’s okay to push it and let it be something else, so the same thing with the writing. Like we try to keep it to the tone of the show but it’s really cool to see it in print and let it be kind of its own thing, The Regular Show Comic. And then for video games, I feel like that was a really easy transition because with the way the show is and everything with what we do with the ’80s like the 8-bit graphics and the really basic game play and everything, they were really clear road map of what we wanted the game to look like and to feel like and to sound like ’cause it was just like everything that we’ve grown up on playing video games all the time. So that video game is coming out later this year and I’m really excited for it.

Would you ever consider a Regular Show feature film or do you prefer the normally 12 or 30 minute time range for a show?

You know, I would really like to do that; however, I understand that it would be incredibly difficult because the 11 minutes, which is what we’re really comfortable with. That’s what we do most of the time and then when we go up to 30 minutes those become probably like three to four times more difficult for some reason. It’s really hard to make longer stories. So for a movie I can only imagine. I mean, it would really hard but it would a really fun challenge and it’d be great to put some really epic concepts in there to make it worth everybody’s while to see. So you never know.