Waylon Wong
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What I really liked about the humor is that it's not modern.
It's not sophomoric, right?
Like Linda, you pointed out, they don't rely on like poop jokes and stuff.
It's also not like glib and modern in the way that a lot of kids' movies are now where you can feel the sweatiness of like, oh, we have to like stuff in a bunch of current references and stuff.
And here they just really...
And instead they rely on jokes that are kind of timeless.
Like there's a literal counting sheep joke that I laughed so hard at.
And then there's these visual gags.
Like at one point in this teeny tiny town, you see that there's a small business that makes neon signs.
And it says discounts for locals and neon outside.
And they filmed this scene that's just in front of this neon shop.
And then later on, you see that the police station has a neon sign outside.
This is police station, which is so funny to me.
You know, it's like they didn't have to do that, but they did.
And I guess I appreciate that, you know, Craig Mazin, who adapted the book into this screenplay, you know, I know him from Chernobyl.