241 | Bob's Burgers Executive Producers & The Great North Creators Discuss Adult Animation

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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JOIN TSL WORKSHOPS: https://twslworkshops.circle.so The Molyneux Sisters believe that character is at the center of all great comedy. For them, specificity, character quirks, and close observations about the friends (and strangers) around them will always provide the cocktail for a great character. Hear about these two found their voice, honed their craft, and became important voices in the adult animated world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hey everyone. Welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lauren McKenna. And today I'm thrilled to be welcoming Lizzie Molyneau, Logalin, and Wendy Malinow to the show.
0:43.7	Lizzie and Wendy are best known for their work in adult animation, serving as creators, showrunners, and executive producers on the Fox Hulu series The Great North, which was recently nominated for the Annie Award for Best TV Media Program, Mature.
0:56.6	I love that that's the way to talk about adult animation, that it's mature.
1:00.6	Yeah, it's hot.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:03.2	In addition, Lizzie and Wendy are writers and producers of the long-running hit series Bob's Burgers on Fox,
1:09.2	for which they won an Emmy Award in 2017.
1:11.9	On the feature side, they wrote The People We Hate at the Wedding, starring Kristen Bell and
1:17.1	Allison Janney.
1:18.4	They are what I like to call cross-medium writers, meaning they work in TV and film in both
1:23.4	live action and animation, which is something I'd really like to get your take on, Lizzie and Wendy.
1:29.2	So welcome to the show.
1:31.3	Thanks for having us.
1:32.5	Yeah.
1:32.9	Are you also cross the genre or do you've focused primarily in comedy?
1:37.5	I don't think we've ever written a straight up drama.
1:41.3	We toy with comedic sci-fi or, you know, like genre, but still a little more
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