And so that's what we comprise all of Penny's surroundings with. And we wanted to make sure that this show looks like when you walk outside of your door and get together with all your peers and your friends, this is what the world looks like. We didn't want to place that aside in telling our stories, we want to integrate those stories because, at the end of the day, our show really is the pinnacle of diversity and inclusion. And so now we're living in an era that included social media and, as Ralph mentioned, you know, the presence of the LGBTQ community. SMITH: Yeah, we were all excited about it because we knew that one of the things that Proud Family was always true to was our audience, and being truthful to the stories that we told. So they gave us license with Michael, whose character design is just simply fabulous all the time. Just so you know, Bruce and I have only aged two years since then too. And then on the character design side, which we decided just in general to age up the entire cast, or the entire world two years by the way. We had him voiced by an authentic voice from the LGBTQ community, that's EJ Johnson, that's why we brought him on board.
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So right off the bat, we looked at the Michael character and said, "OK, we gotta do justice by this character." So Michael got the biggest upgrade of all our characters. And so that's where we knew we had to take the show. FARQUHAR: Well, we knew from 2001, when we first started doing the show, that maybe the two biggest things that we could see that changed, especially as it related to young people, was the emergence of social media and gender and identity issues - the LGBTQ community rising in prominence and demanding its rightful recognition if you will.
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