Uploaded February 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Richard Crouse interviews Rob Minkoff, director of "Mr Peabody & Sherman."
Rob Minkoff may always be best known as the co-director of The Lion King, one of the biggest animated hits of all time, but long before he brought Simba, Mufasa and Scar to life he was a fan of a dog named Mr. Peabody.
Mr. Peabody is a beagle in the world of humans—imagine Family Guy's Brian with less attitude but more PhDs. He's a Harvard grad, a Nobel Prize winner, advisor to heads of state and in his spare time he invented planking and auto tune.
With his adopted human son Sherman he's also a time traveller, taking the WABAC machine—"It's not WHERE we're going, but WHEN!"—to various spots in history in a in a weekly segment on the show Rocky and His Friends called Peabody's Improbable History.
Richard Crouse interviews Rob Minkoff, director of "Mr Peabody & Sherman."
Rob Minkoff may always be best known as the co-director of The Lion King, one of the biggest animated hits of all time, but long before he brought Simba, Mufasa and Scar to life he was a fan of a dog named Mr. Peabody.
Mr. Peabody is a beagle in the world of humans—imagine Family Guy's Brian with less attitude but more PhDs. He's a Harvard grad, a Nobel Prize winner, advisor to heads of state and in his spare time he invented planking and auto tune.
With his adopted human son Sherman he's also a time traveller, taking the WABAC machine—"It's not WHERE we're going, but WHEN!"—to various spots in history in a in a weekly segment on the show Rocky and His Friends called Peabody's Improbable History.
