PH: When me and Ev met, we were at Sony Animation, and we were both story artists. We were both kind of lamenting that we’re kind of not getting to work on the kind of stuff we wanted to work on. And this show is basically an answer to that. The show is everything we felt like wasn’t getting made right now. And to me, I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like perfect families are boring families. I don’t relate to it. I’m like, ‘That’s not like my family.’ And it was people who were doing a lot of that. And we want to do something where it’s like, ‘No, no, no. There’s a real family, real problems.’ And we wanted to showcase the stuff I grew up watching, like in E.T. where it’s the mom is talking about the dad not being in the picture, very openly in front of the kids, and just how refreshing those movies feel now where stuff where they don’t want to include that in kids’ stuff. So that was kind of a guiding light for us.

I kind of draw from the kid’s point of view a lot because with my dad, we didn’t have a babysitter a lot of the time. He would just be like, ‘Nope, you guys are just going to come with me, Get in the work van. You’re going to old dad today.’ And so it was kind of one of those things where we wanted to show a dad who is trying. He doesn’t have a ton of resources at his disposal, but at least he’s trying to connect with them, even if he sometimes screws up.

My Dad the Bounty Hunter