Mike Trapp

My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁

[Daughter makes little worms out of play-doh]

Wife, jokingly: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Daughter, without hesitation: YES!

Wife: Awww—

Daughter: I LOVE worms!

Wife: ah.

New episode of Big City Greens this morning! “Saxon Saxability” might be my favorite script I wrote for season 4. And man, the art, the music, the casting…. Everyone hit it out of the park. Watch on Disney Channel now (and Disney+ at some point in the future)

I can’t wait

This one, a pitch that became Saxon Saxability, and a third idea that didn’t go anywhere

Animation timelines are wild. In January 2023, I interviewed for a staffing job on Big City Greens and pitched an idea called “Chocolate Santa.” Tomorrow, after working here for over two years, it’ll finally air on Disney+

So, check out my first episode… and the many more that will come after!

A Great War is brewing…

I feel bad for you. Thanks it's been a rough week

this is my new kink

You want thingamabobs?
I’ve got twenty
But who cares
No big deal
I want mooooooooore

I want 21 thingamabobs

If I’m reading this sign correctly, this faucet sprays spaghetti

An excerpt from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”: The King Crow flew at the Scarecrow, who caught it by the head and twisted its neck until it died. And then another crow flew at him, and the Scarecrow twisted its neck also. There were forty crows, and forty times the Scarecrow twisted a neck, until at last all were lying dead beside him.”

This moment from L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was immortalized in the movie with the Scarecrow’s beloved song, “If I Only Had A Psychopathic Ability To Kill Forty Crows With My Hands, One By One, By Breaking Their Necks”

🎶 It’s the Mickey Mouse
Roadhouse
Come inside
There’s blood inside

“Legs! I Need Legs! LEGS!”

An image and description from Wikipedia of the culinary abomination known as Altoona-style pizza: "Altoona-style pizza is a distinct type of pizza created in the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania, by the Altoona Hotel. The definitive characteristics of Altoona-style pizza are a Sicilian-style pizza dough, tomato sauce, sliced green bell pepper, salami, topped with American cheese and pizzas cut into squares instead of wedges."

Altoona desperately trying to be known for something other than its pizza

Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

An actor should embody their character truthfully. A bold character may take up more physical space, while a meek one will make little xylophone tinkles when they tiptoe

“Oh god! [stab] what are you doing [stabs harder]”

Yeah, yeah! Now you’re talkin’ with springs in your throat!

Acting tip: if you have a line like “what are you doing?” Or “where are you going?” pronounce the last word so it rhymes with “boing.” This is called “making a choice”

“Many?” Really?

MANY cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse?

Sir, I believe that you know precisely one. And we ALL know that one.

Playing with my food, Friday

Look, I developed a sense of humor to hide my complete lack of athletic ability

It’s stunning. On top of that, quite a choice to call them “the people I Thanksgiving with” instead of, say, “friends” or “family”

A comment on a cranberry sauce recipe reading, “I have a far more refined palette than the people I Thanksgiving with, so I’m forced to keep it simple lest it doesn’t get touched. I add some vanilla beans taken from one of my jars of extract and one slice of orange peel. A delicious happy medium, methinks. So simple!”

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, but especially to Heather F.’s family, who, if this comment on a cranberry sauce recipe is any indication, will be putting up with all kinds of bullshit today

One day I will find out what vanilla chili or hickory flan tastes like, but today is not that day

Another day storing my vanilla extract and liquid smoke next to each other, knowing I’m asking for disaster, doing nothing about it

“Harry Potter on the island”
- my wife, trying to remember the movie “Swiss Army Man”