During an exclusive interview with CBR, Big Hero 6: The Series Executive Producers Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle and Nick Filippi spoke about the upcoming third season, the rise of Noodle Burger Boy and making a karaoke episode.

Following the end of season 2, Big Hero 6 has established itself as the premier superhero team for San Fransokyo. Trina has been defeated, Hiro has received an honorary degree in memory of his deceased brother and three members of the team (GoGo, Wasabi and Honey Lemon) have graduated from San Fransokyo Institute of Technology.

However, along with normal post-college life changes, the team dynamic also shifts in unexpected ways. Hiro will have to learn how to deal with that, while still protecting his home.

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"We kind of painted ourselves into a corner a little bit with that season 2 finale," McCorkle said. "We gave Tadashi his honorary degree, and we could have cheated and said everyone had another year or so. But then we thought that was an interesting dynamic shift, that they were on the same track as Tadashi. They're on their way to another chapter in their lives -- what does that mean for Hiro and Fred?"

Schooley added, "We wanted to emphasize that Hiro is younger than them, too. That feeling of people you're at school with being ahead of you. It happened to my daughter; her roommate was a year ahead of her and so suddenly she was graduating and my daughter had a year left. It was an interesting thing to explore."

Hiro isn't the only one going through changes this season. Fred is also facing a possible shift in his friend group, and at least initially bristles against the change. McCorkle explained, "We tried to put Fred through the wringer in the season premiere... we put everyone through different kinds of paces in Season 3. Fred gets some spotlight that you wouldn't expect."

"We've been blessed with a really talented cast," said Schooley. "It's always a pleasure to write for them and to see the board artists and directors bring their lines to life. Wheelan Brooks was definitely a discovery to us. He brings a lot to [the role], a lot of [Fred's] sweetness comes from Brooks and reaches the final screen."

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Big Hero 6: The Series Season 3 sees an elevation of Noodle Burger Boy, who's been a consistent presence throughout the series. The minor villain and former restaurant mascot has become one of the most enjoyable aspects of the show, with the new season giving him a twisted mission to create a new family for himself -- by force, if necessary.

Reflecting on Noodle Burger Boy's development across the series, McCorkle spoke about how the entire staff "always loved [Noodle Burger Boy's] design. We think the design team created this great character. Lucas Neff is so funny. Everyone gravitated to writing him through all the seasons. And when we had the idea for this season where he's seeking to fill a void and create a family, we just had so much fun with him."

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"What's fun about Noodle Burger Boy," Filippi said, "why we can do so much with him, he's equal parts lovable and dangerous. We love what Lucas does with him, we love his design... through these episodes, we learn more about his personality, and he's great because he's still got that Obake chip in there, causing chaos. But he absolutely wants to be loved all the time."

McCorkle explained, "One of the things that I really like about him is that his evil plans aren't all that smart. He's just this general force for chaos. His plans can be quite stupid. We have one where he and his team steal a bunch of robot vacuum cleaners to free them. He's mischief force for chaos who could still seriously endanger the city. His schemes aren't top-shelf diabolical. They are more random mischief."

Schooley added, "I think when you're doing a show like this, you're exploring all sorts of robot possibilities, and once we hit the Chuckie Cheese character with him, it felt natural to play against the cuteness. Over the course of the series, we've seen every kind of robot you can think of, and more new ones keep popping up this season... the whole series has explored family. Takashi in the background of everything in the way Obake is with the villains. Definitely a theme of the season is the nature of family, and good family dynamics versus bad family dynamics."

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The series is going through a slight format change, as the show will now primarily consist of two 11-minute shorts per episode instead of one 22-minute storyline.

"We'd done The Penguins of Madagascar," Schooley explained, "So we had some experience doing 11-minute episodes. It was fun after doing 46, 22-minute episodes. it was really fun to let everyone loosen up and work new [creative] muscles. We really let the board artists and the directors go to town with a lot of different techniques that you wouldn't do in a twenty-two-minute show. Stuff that had its origins when we did the TV shorts, sillier technique, and a much looser storytelling and comedy-focus. It was a way to let everyone have some fun, which hopefully shows up on the screen for people."

Filippi noted how "11-minute episodes and 22-minute episodes have their strengths and limitations. The 22s, you have to set things up a certain way. Eleven-minute episodes, you can set them up a different way. You can have more possibilities for random fun that you wouldn't have in a twenty-two-minute episode."

Schooley revealed, "There were some ideas that we had early on that we decided would be better as shorter stories... there's an episode where everyone does karaoke, mainly because we wanted Jennifer Lewis sing."

McCorkle noted, "Sometimes you work backward from an end-goal," and Filippi exclaimed, "I've been fighting for a karaoke episode since day one!" Schooley laughed and added, "It would have been a stretch for twenty-two minutes. But like this, it worked really well."

Check out a clip from the first episode of the third season, "The Hyper-Potamus Pizza-Party-Torium," below.

Returning Monday, Sept. 21, on Disney XD and DisneyNOW, Big Hero 6: The Series stars Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung, Khary Payton, Genesis Rodriguez, Brooks Wheelan, Maya Rudolph, & Alan Tudyk.

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