His friend, Stuart Horn an eccentric, dreamy, sometimes charmingly sleazy and enormously creative gay guy wrote the song’s lyrics. "I had a couple of months to create the hundreds of cups that were needed to play out any possible scenario and create the sound tracks." Dave Thurman and Jim Thurman (Sesame Street writer who became the TLSG writer and V.O.) liked the results and I was given a budget to create 3 spots in 3 weeks (2 minutes each I think, but they might have been longer)." "We ended up cutting the character out of the cels and pasting to the inside of Clear Plastic Dixie cups with Scotch spray (it’s transparent) and ran a test, using Larry's (Larry Gold) house as backgrounds (read “we” as X wife, Helena and two little sons Peter and Philip and little daughter Emily). instead of cycling them as flat sheets on an animation stand, I could roll them up to look like cups and move them around real household objects – just the way kids do when they play with ordinary objects." ![]() Here's some background production quotes from Paul Fierlinger via a Wikipedia LiveJournal posting: The films' unique look was achieved by pasting cels inside transparent plastic cups, so that a movement cycle could be achieved by simply rotating the cups. The character was voiced by writer Jim Thurman. I don't believe they've been shown since. ![]() They debuted in 1982 (after a two year production) and ran until 2001. NOTES: A series of 13 animated shorts created by Paul Fierlinger. The Teeny Little Super Guy The Teeny Little Super Guy
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