In keeping with animation tradition, “Big Mouth” co-creator Andrew Goldberg conceded that – like “The Simpsons” or “South Park” before it – the adult-geared series would remain stable over time. So much for Charles Bradley’s “Change” theme song.
Thankfully, though, no one else agreed: The crux of the in-face, honest, and raunchy Netflix show about puberty is just that—the rapid changes that come with adolescence, from pesky zits to rising emotional maturity that would have stopped everything. is in its tracks.
“Puberty is a defining time of life, and our kids are growing up on the show,” fellow co-creator Mark Levine told TheWrap in an interview. “Bart Simpson is the same age as 30 years or whatever, but for our show, we really want him to move with the times, and he’s moving on from eighth grade now. We’re in for a time of life. We want to be able to tell the story of puberty, and as we go through that, we’ll see where we are with the show, but we’re definitely still in it. We have a lot of stories to tell The rest are.”
There’s already a writers room open for “Big Mouth” Season 7, executive producers Levine, Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett and Nick Kroll hope to move past that goalpost, though they’re not exactly sure how many additional seasons there will be.
“We would like to see our kids in high school,” Goldberg said. “I think it would be really interesting and fun, because like you said, it’s unusual – one of the things about animation is they usually stay the same age. Frankly that was my impression when we first The bar had started. I remember [Levin and Flackett] were like, ‘I disagree.’ And I remember one of our writers, Victor Quinaz, actually vehemently disagreeing. The thing that really convinced me was Victor said, ‘The show is about changing everything. How could they not change?’ And I was like, ‘Okay, well, yeah, you’re right.'”
The comedy has already tinkered with notions of the future, exploring a post-apocalyptic scenario where the wealthy and lonely version of the future of Nick (Kroll) has to choose the perfect plus-one with whom to self- The title is an escape from Earth in the season 4 episode. “Nick Starr.” In a brief post-credits clip in Season 6, the old and tired iterations of Nick and Jay (Jason Mantzoukas) keep their promise of completing the final two runes of the Rice Purity Test, which will be able to check back later. was not. middle School.
“Part of the flash forward, to me, is about the idea that your future isn’t certain, and that everything you do when you’re 13, 14 strangely affects what you become. And you have all these different paths to go down at this age,” Goldberg explained.
As far as what else is in store for the vast world of “Big Mouth” (which now includes workplace comedy “Human Resources”), the co-creators tease another special in the vein of the show’s past Valentine’s Day and Christmas shenanigans .
“One might call it a Fourth of July episode,” Goldberg said—at which point Flackett said, “a could, yeah” – “In a future season that we’re working on, it’s not what you’d expect for a Fourth of July episode. Should I leave it there? Is that flirting enough?”
All episodes of ‘Big Mouth’ Season 6 are now streaming on Netflix.
