The Crewmates in Paramount+’s Among Us series spend half the show running from Impostors, and the other half showing off their surprisingly nice butts.
According to series creator Owen Dennis, the deluge of butts in the show began with episode 1, appearing in a few shots of Crewmates walking out of the elevator, or a moment when Green (voiced by Elijah Wood) climbs into a chair.
“Butt was shown a few times,” Dennis told Mashable in a video interview. “Because of this, what happened was that basically every artist on the show saw that I did not say no to the butt, and so from there on out they were like, ‘Well, I’m gonna add some butt too.'”
(On Bluesky, Dennis posted: “Everyone agrees: We like them having little gumdrop booties.”)
About midway through the season, the Among Us team received an email asking to tone down the number of butts in the show. (And looking at just how many butts are currently in the show, you can only imagine how many more were originally in it.)
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“I was like, ‘I’m not going to to be the one to say which butts to take out. I don’t want to take them out!'” Dennis said.
Instead, he asked for a list of which butts could stay in the show and received a detailed, timestamped breakdown in return. From there, Dennis had to remove butts or find creative solutions to tone them down.
“There’s one shot where it’s a close up on Red’s [(voiced by Randall Park)] butt as the camera zoomed out,” Dennis explained. “In animation, you can’t redo a shot. The shot exists as it exists, and we’d already gotten that shot back from animation. I couldn’t redo the shot from the ground up, so instead what I did was I took out the butt, then I put the tiniest little upside-down V of the bottom of a butt cheek.”
Upon seeing that solution, Dennis recalled Among Us co-executive producer and writer Madeline Queripel comparing Red’s butt to another famed animated rear end: that of Hank Hill. So Among Us‘ Crewmates’ butts (or lack thereof) are in good company.
