*Season two of “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!” is now streaming on Apple TV+, marking a brand new chapter for co-creators Scott Schultz and Christian Jacobs. Impressed by the unique “Yo Gabba Gabba!,” the 10-episode season follows Kamryn Smith as Kammy Kam alongside Brobee, Foofa, Muno, Toodee and Plex. By means of music, motion and playful storytelling, the collection encourages youngsters and households to find life classes collectively.
For Scott, the muse stays musical. “Nicely, look, my coronary heart is at all times in music…. it’s a music present at coronary heart. And I’m over the moon by all of the songs that we made.”
He continues, “It’s not like different youngsters exhibits the place it’s one songwriter. It’s the bands that we love, the artists. Everyone seems to be pitching in to this fantastically. So music is the place my coronary heart is, however there’s a lot extra… like animation stuff.”
Season two delivers on that promise with an all-star slate of Tremendous Music Mates, together with Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Sharon Van Etten, Sleigh Bells, Yola, Nonetheless Woozy, Silversun Pickups, Chicano Batman, The Aquabats! and Hemlocke Springs. Contemporary jingles arrive courtesy of Freedom Fry, Turnpike Troubadours, Ginger Root, CHVRCHES, King Tuff, Mates of State, Hatchie, Sylvan Esso and Chai. Visitor appearances this season embody Billy Eichner, Tiffany Haddish, David Arquette, Brendan Hunt and Jaime Camil.
Past the music, the world of GabbaLand itself grows in scope. “There’s new characters. We get to satisfy the King of Spaghetti. There’s all types of recent locations to go to yo Gabba GabbaLand,” Christian stated.
“That’s what we’re most enthusiastic about in bringing Yo Gabba GabbaLand! to life with Kamryn, and the chance that youngsters need to go and discover all these new locations and issues and uncover new horizons,” he added. “And never solely in actually the world of Yo Gabba Gabba, but additionally figuratively, we’re introducing new music to them and new animation kinds. It’s type of like a giant pot of affection for teenagers. It’s a giant bowl of enjoyable.”
Creativeness performs a central position in that growth. “One of many issues that we did within the opening title sequence, when Kammy brings the magic, that’s very a lot consultant of a kid that’s bringing their creativeness to the desk, to the sport. It was one thing all of us did as youngsters, whether or not it was a bit piece of wooden or an motion determine or one thing, however we at all times had an creativeness about what we’re doing or going someplace. Yo Gabba GabbaLand fixes to unlock all of that.”
Christian continues, “And actually the opening title, opening it up, we talked about this many occasions, Scott and I, is like, if we’re singing a track about turning the lights on or turning the lights off or tying your footwear, there’s a child that’s watching the present and so they’re distracted by someplace up on a mountain within the background, or they marvel what’s occurring over there within the woods. That’s virtually extra necessary than what’s occurring within the foreground is to proceed to offer kids the creativeness that they’ve.”
He provides, “We constructed it to allow them to see it on the market and so they can suppose, wow, there’s locations to go. There’s issues to do. There’s new folks to satisfy. And, you recognize, of all colours of the rainbow, let’s go meet all of them. In order that’s thrilling for us.”
For Scott, the mission in the end comes right down to empowerment. “We’re sparking their creativeness in order that after they’re sufficiently old, they are often the creators identical to us and create their actuality fairly than simply being subjected to it. We’re making an attempt to empower them within the earliest phases of life.”
On the middle of all of it is Kamryn Smith as Kammy Kam, whose casting took place unexpectedly. Christian recollects, “It is a loopy story, however on the finish of 2020, I wasn’t working. We weren’t doing something. Nobody was doing very a lot. A pal referred to as and stated, Hey, what are you doing? I’m like nothing. I’m in search of work, like assist.”
He continues, “It was a panicky time for all of us. We didn’t know what was going to go on with Gabba. And he stated, nicely, I want a prop man for a industrial I’m taking pictures in Arizona. Would you want to come back be my prop man? And I used to be like, I’ll do it.”
What adopted was a second of destiny. “So lengthy story quick, Kamryn and her father had been starring on this industrial and I stated this woman is particular. She is so pure and magic. I watched her take course so nicely and truly do higher than the director advised her to do.”
Christian remembers connecting together with her household on set. “I turned to her mother and I stated, Hey, I do know this sounds bizarre, however I make a present referred to as Yo Gabba Gabba. And Adriana, her mother was like, what? We love that present. And I stated, I don’t know what’s going to occur, however I’d love for Kamryn to be part of the present. If we ever make it once more. And she or he stated, sure, please. So we saved in contact and it was undoubtedly meant to occur.”
When the time got here to forged the position, Kamryn earned it on her personal benefit. “She was up in opposition to many different skilled actors and much and above she received out. It was not as a result of we knew her, however we type of knew nobody might do higher than her.”
Season certainly one of “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!” was lately nominated for a 2026 Youngsters’s & Household Emmy Award. With season two now streaming, the creators say the world they envisioned feels full — constructed to encourage creativeness, creativity and joyful discovery.
Watch our full dialog with Scott and Christian under.
*This interview has been edited for size and readability.
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