Hey, you got your cartoon in my live-action comedy!
No, you got your live-action comedy in my cartoon!
Before you tune into the series premiere on Sunday night at 8 p.m. JOHNNY PEMBERTON:I thought it was interesting and there were some really cool nouns in there.
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I like weird proper nouns like Glombeast and Zephyria and all the specifics were funny.
I really thought it wasnt going to happen it was just too interesting.
It took me a couple weeks.
And then you see what they do with it afterwards and youre like, Wow, it was good!
HINES:Its ahugeadjustment.
Its kind of the opposite ofCurb Your Enthusiasmbecause onCurbits all improvised.
In every scene youre really listening to your scene partner and watching whats going on.
OnZornits all in your head.
CHRIS MILLER:We are attracted to difficult ambitious ideas that seem hard to execute.
Maybe were masochists or maybe we just enjoy the challenge.
So at what point do you want to be stressed now or later?
Its a bull in a china shop.
When Zorn is like, I AM ZORN!!
!, everyones like, you gotta be quiet.
Okay, sir, you cant act like that.
between Zorn and Edie.
If you were together and youre not together now, theres a reason, and thats part of life.
And then, once is a while, its complicated [Laughs].
AGNEW:Shes like, Zorn, Im different now!
But she still has that in her.
Shes [engaged] to the opposite of Zorn.
I think Alan feels bad for Zorn, but at the same time its complicated.
HINES:Its part of what everybody goes through, and I like that.
NEXT: If Alans dad is animated, then what does that mean for him?
He also takes after Edie because Edie has the same attitude toward Zorn: Theres this resentment.
Alan follows Edies lead on that.
How could we use a hybrid animated show to say something about regular people?
It made it something really interesting.
Everyone is saying, She was bad for you.
She literally was radioactive.
And then we see Zorn getting back into a toxic relationship and its foolish: She literally is toxic.
So he starts deteriorating because hes dating a radioactive woman.
AGNEW:We have the luxury of [reinventing] any old trope that youve seen a million times.
instead, its a giant bird you might fly on.
Youre not buying our kid a car!
you gotta be a dad!
It would probably be the opposite.
So we explore that a lot with Alan, where hes trying to hide it.
Theres also the gift of it, the power of having those legs we explore that a lot.
It is like a superpower.
The football coach finds out about his legs because Alan becomes confident enough to debut them at school.
Okay, you want to do that again?
I guess it doesnt matter, right?
Because Im the least interesting thing in this room.
Get back to her wild days.
Son of Zornpremieres Sunday at 8 p.m.
ET, following an NFL doubleheader on Fox.
Preview a clip from the series premiere, below.
