Digging into ‘Doug’

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The story of “Doug,” the Nickelodeon cartoon from the ’90s that used a minimalist approach but had a profound impact on young viewers. Kurt Andersen talks with Rina Banerjee, who makes enchanting installations and who is the subject of a retrospective show at just 55. And the breathtaking backstory and staging for “The Jungle,” the play that replicates an Afghan restaurant in a migrant camp.

This episode is brought to you by Doctors Without Borders. Donate today at doctorswithoutborders.org.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.0	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.0	This first level of garden.
0:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
0:17.9	Very well done.
0:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.7	Studio 360.
0:27.8	It's Kurt Anderson.
0:30.3	When I was a kid, one comic strip character pretty perfectly represented the anxieties and insecurities of growing up,
0:38.9	this middling, hopeful-slash-melancholy eight-year-old named Charlie Brown.
0:44.2	Those kids look like they're having a lot of fun.
0:47.5	I wish they liked me.
0:49.4	Nobody likes me.
0:51.5	But for kids growing up in the 1990s, there was another lovable humdrum cartoon boy.
1:02.1	Doug wasn't competing to, like, be the coolest or like be the bro-yest.
1:08.8	He's like not the smartest.
1:10.0	He's not the popular kid. He's not the popular kid.
1:11.8	He's not the rich kid.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PRX, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of PRX and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.