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Gonna be honest: This episode might have actually been one of the most difficult to make. You see, Brian is young enough that he barely has memories of the late 1990s, so the '80s are basically foreign to him in every way. Sure, he's watched movies from the '80s (in fact, he watched a movie recently that inspired this episode), but the slang and stuff is hard. Brian had to break out his amateur linguistics skills to figure out if any of the slang I said was right. (If it isn't, I guess you'll just have to live with that.) The trouble is that some Totally '80s Slang™ is still pretty normal here 'round this decade, so it wouldn't actually feel '80s, even though it would technically be authentic. Sort-of a Tiffany Problem, y'know?
But anyway, I'm sure you're wondering what movie it was that inspired this episode, and here you go: It was…(drumroll)…I bet you can't wait…Here it comes!…It was Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. It is definitely one of the movies of all time. They do a bunch of rollerskating in it, though, and that, combined with the fact that I am a versatile and dynamic character, inspired this episode. Fortunately, we all remember how I do with roller skates, so Brian mercifully drew me riding a skateboard (even if it is one of those dinky, little '80s ones). I think it's pretty cool!
Another pretty cool thing is how Brian did my hair in this one. Normally, he just draws it in pencils and then inks over it. Here, though, Brian just used his ink brush to loosely capture the curly teased look that was totally radical in the 1980s, which he then scribbled over with a white gel pen! I think that's neat. I'm sure some people think sharing this ruins the magic, but I think magic is more magical when you know how it's done. Otherwise, you're just a willfully ignorant twat.
Speaking of which, these leggings are starting to ride up, so I think I'm gonna go change into some nice, comfy, baggy cargo pants. Are they all the rage right now? I'm not sure, but I like 'em, and that's what matters. And hey! At least I wear pants. You wouldn't want me to be like Bonnie the Bottomless (Siobhán and Séamus's fourth cousin who nobody wants to talk about, because I just made her up), right? That would be weird.