Work With Pancake Mountain
Pancake Mountain was created by Stuckey as an homage to local TV as well as his fondness for DIY community-based art movements like DC's Dischord Records Scene and The Factory .
Introduced to pop artist Andy Warhol through mutual friend Christopher Makos, about whom he had made a documentary, Stuckey created the show more like an experimental film than a children’s television show. His friendship and work with Dischord founder, Ian Mackaye led to Ian's group, The Evens, writing a song for the first episode of Pancake Mountain. The song, Vowel Movements, was controversial in the punk scene, as Mackaye had never embraced music videos or lip-syncing. Despite initial trepidation from the punk community the song was well received and helped launch the show to a greater audience .
The show has been credited as influencing a whole new genre of kid-based television, most notably the show Yo Gabba Gabba, which began airing three years after Pancake Mountain .
In 2009 he found an unlikely fan in producer/director J. J. Abrams who wanted to produce the show. Abrams and Stuckey spent two years pitching the show, but every network either passed or wanted to make changes that Stuckey and Abrams were not willing to make .
In February 2012, Stuckey decided to halt production. The last shoot was with comedian, Reggie Watts. He and Rufus Leaking did a commercial for their hair salon, R&R Barbershop .
On February 28, 2012, the Pancake Mountain website put up an announcement that the show had shut-down.
He is currently finishing a documentary on singer-songwriter, Vic Chesnutt.
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