Genndy Tartakovsky

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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There aren't many animators more beloved than Genndy Tartakovsky. He created two golden era Cartoon Network shows: Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack. He has worked on countless other animated projects including Star Wars: Clone Wars, Batman: The Animated Series, Hotel Transylvania and many more. Genndy joins us to talk about his latest animated project: Fixed – a raunchy comedy about dogs, their private parts and friendship. He also takes us back to the early days of Cartoon Network.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from the Walton Family Foundation,
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0:17.1	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.6	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:39.2	There aren't many animators more beloved than my next guest, Gendi Tardikovsky.
0:45.8	Like, if you named five animated things you like that came out in the last 25 years,
0:51.2	I'll bet my bottom dollar, at least one of them, is something he made or worked on.
0:55.5	There's just a few. Dexter's Laboratory, the Hotel Transylvania films, Samurai Jack,
1:01.0	the Powerpuff Girls. I could go on, but I mean, at some point we got to do a public radio show.
1:07.1	Tartikovsky grew up in the 1970s and 80s, which was not exactly a golden age of cartoons and animation.
1:14.6	But the stuff he could find that he liked, he really, really liked.
1:19.0	Disney classics, of course, Don Bluth movies like The Land Before Time and American Tale.
1:25.1	Gendie started drawing obsessively, got a job on tiny-tune adventures in 1991,
1:30.3	and never looked back. Now, dear listener, my guest, Gendi Tardikovsky, has a brand-new
1:36.7	animated film, one you should definitely not show to your children. Fixed is an animated movie
1:43.6	about dogs. The protagonist, Bull, is a bull terrier,
1:48.0	voiced by Adam Devine, and Bull is due to get fixed. So he and his dog friends go out on the town
1:56.6	for one last wild night before, you know.
2:04.2	Yes, it is a raunchy movie, a horny movie.
2:08.3	There are many, many butts in this movie, dog butts.
2:10.0	It's very funny.
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