Larger than life

A little known fact about our beloved mascot Chumsley is that he's a good singer even though in most animated bits we've done with him in them he rarely sings. In the rock opera animated special his musical numbers are done in the style of Meatloaf. Chumsley was created way back in the early 80's, he was inspired by John Candy's performances in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Stripes, and Uncle Buck. John Candy first provided the voice of him in the animated short Chumsley And Friends (which also featured such characters and a dimwitted koala named Sidney, a ladybug named Doizee and a cat named Cleo). Chumsley and Friends was the first animated series we worked on. We almost got around to making an animated film about him in the mid ninetees, but unfortunately John Candy's death in 1994 got in the way- and so we had to hire a replacement voice actor- so we got Tino Insana (the voice of Pig in Barnyard, and Uncle Ted in Bobby's World) to take over.



btw, this is a morph of me into a werejohncandy like Chumsley. I also happen to be a werejohncandy myself now and I quite like it.