Hair High

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• A scene in the film involves this magic sexual potion called Tijuana Tonic and a chicken mascot. It was inspired by a story related to Bill Plympton about a guy who started work at a stud farm and accidentally gave the stud horse an overdose of aphrodisiac. He claimed that the last time he saw the poor stallion he had broken out of the corral and was humping a Volkswagen.
• Bill Plympton's distant cousin and friend Martha Plimpton came on board as a producer on the film and enlisted the talents of some of her fellow thespians.
• The entire process of animating the feature (approximately 30,000 drawings over a 1-year period) was captured by a revolutionary device called the "Plympton Ani-Cam". This contraption is simply a small camera, situated about a foot above Bill's drawing board, that is connected to an internet server and allows people all over the world to watch the slow, methodical process of an animated feature being created. It was an interesting innovation, because Bill found out that there were thousands of people around the globe who were tuning in daily and became obsessed watching the whole animation process so openly displayed
• Since the concept behind the film is the romantic mythology that pervaded American high-school culture in the 1950's, the music in the film is a mix of 50's-style ballads and period rockabilly by frequent Plympton collaborators Maureen McElheron and Hank Bones. They have worked with Bill in tandem ever since his film "The Tune" in 1991.