An Interview with Rob Renzetti on Gravity Falls, Horrible Bag, Journal 3, More!

I don’t know how I managed an interview with Rob Renzetti and Alex Hirsch in the same year either. Frankly, I’m as shocked as you are. Transcript Link: IN REPAIR The Horrible Bag Of Terrible Things: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/702712/the-horrible-bag-of-terrible-things-1-by-rob-renzetti/ Jay Myers’ video on voice acting for THBOTT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTzXUppkWc Info on the Search for the Blind Eye website: https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/Search_for_the_Blindeye Rob Renzetti’s Podcast ep with Mystery Shack Lookback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J81v8eoxpA Rob Renzetti’s twitter: https://twitter.com/RobRenzetti Arrangement of My Life As a Teenage Robot Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN5lMkGT9OU 0:00 - Intro and rundown 3:59 - Interview Begins 5:28 - HORRIBLE BAG 7:06 - Choosing a VA for the audiobook 11:24 - Making scary children's media 14:51 - *Spoilers* Fading memories and other themes 21:52 - M.C. Escher's impact (On Horrible Bag AND Gravity Falls) 24:43 - Alex Hirsch's influence in Horrible Bag 26:54 - What's up with all the dolls??? 30:44 - Concept art and visualizing a book 33:46 - Twisted Tower spoilers? 36:19 - GRAVITY FALLS 36:48 - Creating Ford's character 38:43 - Ford's recklessness? Or ego? 48:50 - Lost Journal 3 pages? 50:04 - Illustrative "codes" in J3 51:50 - Which pages were toughest to translate into J3? 56:51 - THE TIMELINE 1:01:14 - Were the Dipper and Mabel pages tougher? 1:03:39 - Darker, grimmer J3 material? 1:06:40 - The Oracle 1:10:24 - Ford's relationship with Bill 1:14:14 - Ford's paranoid era 1:15:16 - Rob's thoughts on the Blacklight Edition 1:16:13 - Chatting about pets 1:17:44 - Stan reading J3 1:20:25 - Ford's Diary 1:21:36 - Small (Unintentional) Changes (and Fandom reactions) 1:22:40 - "LOST" & pre-planned endings 1:24:40 - Stan in "A Better World" In J3 1:27:33 - MLAATR, identity, and trans coding 1:35:49 - Speed questions 1:36:01 - SearchForTheBlindEye Website 1:36:50 - Cut Guide to Mystery pages? 1:37:35 - BOOK OF BILL 1:40:17 - Being on Twitter these days... 1:42:35 - Wrapping up 1:44:20 - Outro & More :)