Supercell has been involved in the series - every idea has to go through the studio before making it into the show - but LaZebnik says that the developer has “really given us a ton of freedom” in terms of crafting the show how they want. “It was great for us to say ‘This is our take on their universe.’”
In Clash-a-Rama, for example, overly-competitive archers have petty squabbles while a villager spends time trying to teach goblins that there’s more to life than stealing gold. The show was inspired in part by Portlandia, a sketch show that crams in lots of different topical bits, often about the mundanity of day-to-day life, and stars a number of recurring characters. It’s a look at familiar characters on their off time, when they aren’t building defensive walls or raiding villages. Each clocks in at around ten minutes and touches on a variety of stories from the Clash universe.
New episodes of Clash-a-Rama are being released weekly, with the fourth - a holiday-themed show called “12 Days of Clashmas” - launching today. The writers pitched the idea to Supercell, the Finnish studio behind the game, and the result is Clash-a-Rama, an ongoing series on YouTube that turns the world of Clash of Clans and its follow up Clash Royale into an animated show. They devised characters based on Clash units like the barbarian and archer, and created new situations to put them in. Inspired by the game’s cartoonish fantasy world, the trio set to work doing what they do best. “I’d say any bad joke that’s been on The Simpsons for the last four or five years,” says writer Joel Cohen, “you can attribute to Clash.”Įventually LaZebnik, Cohen, and fellow longtime Simpsons writer John Frink took on a new side project to turn their obsession into something more productive. It almost became an obsession - one that may have impacted their day job. The staff formed a Simpsons clan in the game, and regularly sent each other messages during the workday to initiate battles. Like the flu, the game spread amongst the show’s writers, and like the flu, it crated work responsibilities. LaZebnik, a writer and producer on The Simpsons since 1999, was hooked almost instantly. Not long after Clash of Clans launched, Rob LaZebnik’s then 12-year-old son introduced him to the mobile strategy game.
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