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Ken Pontac(I)

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Ken Pontac is the architect of your childhood and a meme-generating machine. His early work includes the stop-motion series Gumby, as well as the various iterations of the classic video game Clayfighter. Pontac wrote and story-edited multiple episodes of the notorious Happy Tree Friends (a show so violent that it's banned in Russia, but has still enjoyed over a billion hits worldwide). Most famous meme? Wrote the Icelandic ear-worm You Are A Pirate. Give it a listen; it will lay eggs in your brain. His cult classic stop-motion series Bump in the Night is available in a new compilation produced by Mill Creek Entertainment. Pontac's work on the delightfully pro-social animated series Arthur may offset some of the karmic debt incurred by his other literary efforts (MadWorld, anyone?), but will probably only bump him up from tapeworm to tree-frog on the reincarnation cycle. Pontac lives in Sausalito with a beautiful redheaded nurse and a tranquil Xoloitzcuintli named Chalupa.
BornMay 22, 1957
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    Bump in the Night (1994)
    Bump in the Night
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Writer
    ClayFighter (1993)
    ClayFighter
    6.6
    Video Game
    • Writer
    • 1993
    ReBoot (1994)
    ReBoot
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Writer
    Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999)
    Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Writer

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      • Released
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      • 2012



    • Out from the Ashes (2024)
      Out from the Ashes
      • Writer
      • 2024
    • Nat Faxon, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Stephen Tobolowsky in Frog and Toad (2023)
      Frog and Toad
      8.0
      TV Series
      • written by
      • writer
      • 2023–2024
    • Woody Woodpecker (2018)
      Woody Woodpecker
      6.0
      TV Series
      • writer
      • written by
      • 2020–2022
    • Mighty Express (2020)
      Mighty Express
      3.8
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2021
    • Sonic Colors: Ultimate (2021)
      Sonic Colors: Ultimate
      6.2
      Video Game
      • story writer
      • 2021
    • Frank Welker in Curious George (2006)
      Curious George
      7.2
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2020
    • StarBeam (2020)
      StarBeam
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 2020
    • Treasure Trekkers (2019)
      Treasure Trekkers
      7.9
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2019
    • Rusty Rivets (2016)
      Rusty Rivets
      5.3
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2019
    • Team Sonic Racing (2019)
      Team Sonic Racing
      7.2
      Video Game
      • writer
      • 2019
    • Gwen Stefani, Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Sally Taylor-Isherwood, Danny Smith, Madellaine Paxson, Charlotte Nicdao, Gillian Carr, Steve Aranguren, Daisy Masterman, and Maggie Chretien in Kuu Kuu Harajuku (2015)
      Kuu Kuu Harajuku
      3.6
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2018
    • State of Decay 2 (2018)
      State of Decay 2
      6.8
      Video Game
      • writer
      • 2018
    • Kong: King of the Apes (2016)
      Kong: King of the Apes
      5.7
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2016–2018
    • Nobutoshi Canna, Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Mike Pollock, Travis Willingham, Ryô Hirohashi, Liam O'Brien, Takashi Kondô, Kotaro Nakamura, and Roger Craig Smith in Sonic Forces (2017)
      Sonic Forces
      5.4
      Video Game
      • Writer
      • 2017
    • Luna Petunia (2016)
      Luna Petunia
      6.9
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2017

    Art Director



    • Colors of the Spectrum
      • Art Director
      • Pre-production
      • Short



    • Gumby Adventures (1988)
      Gumby Adventures
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Art Director
      • 1988

    Producer



    • Out from the Ashes (2024)
      Out from the Ashes
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Ka-Pow! (2008)
      Ka-Pow!
      8.0
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 2008
    • Bump in the Night (1994)
      Bump in the Night
      7.9
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • producer
      • 1994–1995
    • 'Twas the Night Before Bumpy (1995)
      'Twas the Night Before Bumpy
      6.9
      TV Movie
      • executive producer
      • 1995
    • Battle Chess 4000 (1992)
      Battle Chess 4000
      Video Game
      • producer
      • 1992
    • Danger Team (1991)
      Danger Team
      8.7
      TV Movie
      • producer
      • 1991

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    • Born
      • May 22, 1957
      • Glendale, California, USA

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      He claims that his earliest memory is seeing his mother catch on fire while making breakfast when he was a toddler. This became the inspiration for the Happy Tree Friends (2000) episode ''Who's To Flame''.

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