“So we kept her through the testing and then she tested really well. Gretel is voiced by Povenmire’s daughter, Meli Povenmire, in her first major role, and that also came by happenstance: Povenmire had her do the temp voice for Gretel in his first animatic. Gretel doesn’t even know all the powers she has, but ‘I have super strength and I can fly and I’ve got heat vision.’ We just added a really bizarre superhero power in the second half of the season that we’re trying to figure out whether or not there’s a way we can use that power.” And that’s sort of what we’ve been doing here. So he doesn’t know all the things he can do and sometimes things just happen to him. “I love the fact that when he got the superhero powers, he loses the instruction manual. That bit was inspired by the cult classic 1980s TV series “The Greatest American Hero.” “That’s sort of a spiritual grandfather of this show,” Povenmire said. Except Kevin doesn’t get the powers: Gretel’s pet hamster does. In the series, teenage Kevin is driving his younger sister Gretel in the family van when aliens show up and grant the duo superpowers. So while on vacation, he created the pilot that would become his latest series, “ Hamster and Gretel,” which premieres Friday on Disney Channel (9:35 p.m. Povenmire had just wrapped Disney+’s “Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe,” and was ready to pitch something new. I was able to come up with a whole bunch of ideas for it right away.” I brought it home, and then I pitched a bunch of ideas for a show for it to my daughter when I was tucking her in one night. “I liked it and I set it aside and took a picture of it. “It just came from my subconscious somewhere,” he told Variety. “ Phineas and Ferb” co-creator Dan Povenmire was absent-mindedly doodling on a scrap of paper during a meeting when he realized he had sketched his way into his next TV show: It was a hamster, in a superhero outfit.
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