Phil Lord and Christopher Miller: The Lego Movie
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller on what it was like being nerds before the Internet made it cool, and starting a hunger strike in India.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It always strikes me as interesting how small the world gets. |
| 0:20.2 | If you are a fan of the |
| 0:22.1 | great, the halcyon days of MTV animation, you may know a show called Clone High. We ran that |
| 0:27.9 | great period with Cifflin Ali and all these shows that you just had to, you couldn't just watch |
| 0:31.9 | an episode. You'd watch many episodes to really get into it. My guest today, Phil Lord and Miller, who, of course, did the Lego movie, did one of the |
| 0:40.6 | greatest shows, The History of Animation, Clone High. |
| 0:43.6 | They also did Claudia James Meetballs, 21 Jump Street, and 22 Jump Street's coming up. |
| 0:48.1 | But, guys, I loved that show so much. |
| 0:52.2 | Wow. |
| 0:52.4 | I always connect that in Cifflin Ali, and Liam Lynch worked on both, right? |
| 0:56.1 | That's right. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:57.1 | Liam did the songs for Clone High, and he was a very talented and funny guy. |
| 1:02.2 | And do we fair, because... |
| 1:02.9 | Yes, I'll explain to what the heck of us. |
| 1:04.4 | No one has ever seen this show except the ago on MTV called Clone High and was about clones of historical figures who go to high school together and date. |
| 1:13.0 | So it was Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi and Joan of Arc and JFK and Cleopatra and they all had angst and special appearances by Genghis Khan. |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, everybody, Sigman Freud, everybody was in that show. |
| 1:25.6 | But, you know, for example, the show kind of got into trouble and was canceled because |
| 1:29.6 | the Gandhi character was... |
| 1:33.0 | G-man, he was... |
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