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The Houghton Brothers of Big City Greens

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.3666 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

One of the mainstays of Disney+ and the Disney Channel is a delightfully funny show called Big City Greens. Like all great cartoons, it's not just for kids. It's bright and funny, and once you hear the two brothers who created it you'll know why. Chris (who also voices the main character, Cricket) and Shane draw on their own experiences as country boys who moved to the city to make good—and they have done just that. Their heartfelt ambition and positivity are an inspiration to fans like Leonard and Jessie.

 

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0:23.3

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0:33.3

Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

0:38.3

You're listening to Malton on movies and our guests today make animated movies for television.

0:44.3

And it makes one of the most endearing and delightful shows on the air.

0:53.3

Do they still call it air?

0:55.0

I don't know, man.

0:56.7

I don't know.

0:57.9

It's called Big City Greens.

0:59.8

It's on Disney Plus and Disney Jr.

1:02.4

And they are called Chris and Shane Houghton.

1:06.0

Welcome, guys.

1:07.0

Is Houghton or Houghton or Houghton or Houton?

1:10.3

This is a very good question. These are all Houghton, but even we're not sure. Even if we'll respond to any of those, but I mean, it's telling. You said three variations of the name and we say a fourth one, Houghton. So you know, you can tell we're from the Midwest because the first question is how how do we pronounce your name and we're like, whatever you want. Whatever you want, right? Right? My favorite always is when we get a phone call here and the way you know that they don't know is they go, is Leo Naurd Maltin there? And we go, sure isn't. How dare they? Yeah. No such a day. Is they not watch TV? Yeah. With three decades, three and a half decades? By the way, it's a pleasure. More than that. Yeah. You're so sweet. Well, that's very kind. Thank you. How many, I don't want to say it, but five decades? Well, yeah.

2:01.1

Wow.

2:02.4

I mean, that's impressive.

2:03.8

This is, look, this is an honor.

2:05.3

We're thrilled to be here, Chadman. Really?

2:06.5

We've been looking forward to this all week.

2:08.4

Thank you.

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