We also had the idea early on that the whole song would be in falsetto — a very silly, Muppet-y kind of falsetto. But David Wain (who played the villain, Grover Fischoeder) couldn’t do it. We tried to transpose the song into a different key, but it wasn’t quite right. He even worked with a singing coach and still couldn’t get it. I then thought I could do the voice and sound like him, but that didn’t work either. Finally, he came in and asked to do it one more time, and he did it all in one take!
Afterwards, we sent him the song and asked him to dance to it like he likes to dance, with his very specific, David Wain movements. Then our director, Bernard Derriman, watched it and used that for the animation. That’s also why Bernard got the job in the first place — we wanted him because he directs dancing so well.
“My Burger Buns”
This was Gene’s arc, and we love his band, The Itty Bitty Ditty Committee, from the series. This song is more of a jam, and we wanted it to be something big and uplifting to bring you into the closing credits with all these characters dancing. We knew the idea was to have the song lift off, and even if many people didn’t show up for their concert, in Gene’s mind, it was a packed house.