Butch Hartman is a well-known animator, artist, director, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

He's best known for creating the classic Nickelodeon animated series, The Fairly Odd Parents, and Danny Phantom, along with several others.

Butch, thanks so much for coming on Takeaways.

Hey, Kirk, it's great to be here. Good to see you again, by the way. I don't know if you remember

why I'm saying that, but that's great to see you again. I do. Bro, we are co-stars together from a

hit TV show back in the 80s. I know everyone's going to remember the episode. It was an episode

in 1987. It was the third season, and it was where Dewey

High School had an election for student body president and a scandal broke out when the class clown

Mike Seaver won the election. It was called Michael Gate. I remember what Mike was doing.

You were playing a character named Robert Jordan.

What was Robert Jordan up to back then?

Well, yeah, number one, Robert Jordan had a mullet.

So I had, I had like the John Stamos mullet going on.

Oh, everyone remembers the John Stamos mullet.

Because we all had the same mullet back in the 80s. We did. I did. But I ran against you for student body president. That was actually my first ever sitcom acting gig. And I was on Growing Pains. And I co-starred with you. At the time, I think I was like 23 and you were like 17 and you were a TV star, so we didn't

really have much contact at the time. But we were on the same set and it was such a blast.

I'll never forget. Oh, man. And it's so cool to see all that you're doing now and how God's

taking your path in the entertainment industry. I'm an actor. I understand the casting process.

I've been through it so many times. And then if I'm trying to make a movie, I know what the scripting and the casting process is like from a production standpoint.

But you are an artist that's dreaming the cast up in your mind.

I mean, as an animator, as an entrepreneur, you're creating not just characters, but worlds that your

characters get to live in.

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