Joel Hodgson

“Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.”

“The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.”

“When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.”

“Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.”

“Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.”