Matthew Prower

Even if something didn’t work for you, you approach it like an adult and not some naive kid or holier than thou online presence. Thank you for being you and I hope you have more thoughts to come.

🥺🥺🥺🥺💛💛💛💛 THIS IS SOOOO SO SO VERY SWEET AND CONSIDERATE OF YOU TO SAY!! Thank you so, so very much, this sincerely means the world to me--I'm flattered you'd think of me as a good example/inverse of the bad!! Ah!! What a sweet thought!

Thank you for listening to me being me and supporting me being me! This very thing has been on my mind a lot lately, I've ferociously rekindled a long-past interest and have been thinking of how much more mature and levelheaded I am about it now than I once was, both due to my [waves hands around] Cartoon Studiousness and also the fact that I'm not 15 years old anymore haha. I can talk about and think and process it more maturely and sensibly, whether that be the Thing itself or the community. And I'm very grateful for that!

I say it constantly and everywhere, whether online or irl and to my coworkers and bosses: cartoons should never, ever, ever be associated with being a cesspool of misery. Just the word "cartoon" should make your heart flutter with excitement, even if the cartoon you're discussing isn't all that exciting or particularly "cartoon-y"--you can still get excited at digging what does and doesn't work. Cartoons sure can be a very very very stressful business, I know firsthand... but it shouldn't have to be this way. And it doesn't have to be! Iunno I'm sort of rambling right now, half just in an inarticulate haze of gratitude and so overwhelmed by it that I'm unable to string my words together, but also because I don't have much to add other than "it doesn't have to be this way and I'll do what I can to assert as such"

Happy to be considered a role model and happy to spread the joy of cartoons around :) because that's what they are! A joy! And I refuse for that to be taken away. You should always strive to be curious and strive to be open and strive to correct yourself if you're misinformed about something, strive to want information and context, and just... re-examine yourself. I love cartoons perhaps more than anyone. I am also the first to say "it is really, really irrational to get this worked up about cartoons". Especially because it's more time you could be spending watching cartoons and expanding your palate and being moved by art, instead of arguing with strangers you're never gonna meet or remember beyond a needlessly bitter context

#MuppetationalMay Day 7. A scene from Muppets From Space.

Pepper Ann's name was based on a dog named Pepper

Nicky and her mannerisms were based on Sue Rose's assistant

The olives on Pepper Ann's skirt were based on Olive Oyl from Popeye, who is Sue Rose's favorite Popeye character

Milo's name is based on the street that Sue's grandparents lived and Sue's cat is named Milo

In the S1 Press Kit, Tessa and Vanessa interview Pepper Ann and she shares details about her life that aren't seen anywhere else, and in this interview the "Jennifer" rumor was finally debunked- as Pepper Ann says she had a phase where she could be called Jennifer, and wanted the name Jennifer as all the kids in her preschool were named Jennifer. Not that all of her classmates were named Jennifer and she had to be Pepper Ann because of that, but she wanted to be Jennifer because all the kids in her preschool were named Jennifer