LB: I love the Ruby of the Sea song being in it!
SR: We get to hear Matt sing. What could be better?
MM: I mean, Spice Guy was hilarious. When we recorded it, we didn’t know what he was going to look like. And, like the animation team likes to do, we’ll go and do art approval passes, and all of a sudden, it’s my face for the character again, and I’m like, “God damn it! Yeah, that’s really funny. Okay.”
TJ: The Spice Matt is just the best Matt. Actually, I was not expecting spice to even show up at all in the series. I thought that was going to get left in the bin.
SR: It was almost. When we watched the first animatic of that episode, these episodes are 22 minutes, and I think with that animatic scene, it came in at 23 minutes. So everyone was like, “Well, I guess we gotta cut the spice scene because it doesn’t really have anything to do with the story.” And I was like, [laughing] ”NO! WE’RE KEEPING IT. CUT OTHER STUFF!”
MM: It happens a lot. You’d be surprised how often it’s like, “Yeah, I know it doesn’t serve the plot, but it STAYS.”