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TalKing of the Hill - The Wes Archer Interview

Talking Simpsons

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Film History, Lisa, Maggie, Comedy Interviews, Homer, Simpsons, Talkingsimpsons, Bart, Marge, Comedy, Thesimpsons, Springfield, Krusty, Tv & Film

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We're about to do a new TalKing of the Hill podcast miniseries on Patreon, making this the perfect time to interview KotH's Supervising Director Wes Archer! Not only was Wes the first animator ever hired to work on Simpsons during the Ullman days, but Archer is also the creator of the Twister Mouth, director of some of the best episodes in the first seven Simpsons seasons, defined the look of King of the Hill, and still works on shows like Rick & Morty and Disenchantment to this day. Wes Archer tells us all about it, and if you enjoy this, please consider subscribing to Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons for our discussion of King of the Hill Season 2 Part 1 (plus all our previous interviews)!

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Oh, listen to this. It's from an old student of mine. He's on death row.

0:06.0

And as I raise my hand for possibly my final question,

0:10.0

I hope that Ms. Peggy Hill will call on me one more time,

0:14.0

because she is the person who has had the most positive impact on my life.

0:19.0

Sincerely, Wesley Martin Archer.

0:22.0

That's a good name for a killer!

0:30.0

Hello everybody and welcome to another Talking Simpsons interview.

0:38.0

I am one of your hosts for this one, Bob Mackie, who is here with me today, as always.

0:42.0

Howdy y'all, Henry Gilbert.

0:44.0

And today we are talking to Wes Archer.

0:46.0

He was the very first artist to be hired to be part of the classical chupo short for the Tracy Almond show.

0:51.0

So he is the grandfather of the Simpsons in a way.

0:54.0

And of course, he was on that show for seasons 1-7.

0:57.0

He went over to King of the Hill to be the supervising director.

0:59.0

He's done so much since then, Rick and Morty, disenchantment.

1:02.0

You name it, Wes has done it.

1:04.0

A legendary career in animation.

1:05.0

And we are talking to him for an hour today.

1:07.0

Yes, we have so many questions.

1:09.0

We pretty much split it between like half Simpsons, half King of the Hill.

1:14.0

So many interesting stories he has to share about.

1:16.0

What we have questions about, Twister Mouth.

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