Scott Stuckey

Stuckey was born in Eastman, Georgia, United States. His mother was an English teacher and father, W. S. Stuckey Jr., a Congressman from Georgia’s 8th district.{{cite web |title=Representative W. S. (Bill) Stuckey Jr. |url=https://www.congress.gov/member/w-stuckey/S001039 |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=Congress.gov |ref=1}} His grandfather started Stuckey's, a chain of restaurants on the highway.{{cite web |last=Alexander |first=Kathy |date=2023-01-01 |title=Stuckey’s, Stuckey’s, Everywhere |url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-stuckeys.html |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=Legends of America |ref=2}} Stuckey grew up in Washington, D.C. He later moved to New York City and studied at Parsons School of Design, but did not complete a degree.{{cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Robert |date=24 June 2014 |title=Talking with Scott Stuckey, the man behind Pancake Mountain |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-scott-stuckey-pancake-mountain-interview-20140623-column.html |accessdate=June 24, 2014 |website=Los Angeles Times}}

In 1989, he began recording bands at his home studio in Athens, Georgia. Stuckey and Vic Chesnutt became friends and worked on film and music projects that continued up until Chesnutt’s death.{{cite web |last=Houser |first=Barbette |date=2014-10-03 |title=What Doesn't Kill Me... The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt Premieres at Ciné |url=http://flagpole.com/blogs/culture-briefs/posts/em-what-doesn-t-kill-me-the-life-and-music-of-vic-chesnutt-em-premieres-at-cine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609221036/http://flagpole.com/blogs/culture-briefs/posts/em-what-doesn-t-kill-me-the-life-and-music-of-vic-chesnutt-em-premieres-at-cine |archive-date=2017-06-09 |website=Flagpole}}

While working on an R.E.M video with director Jem Cohen in the early 1990s Stuckey began to move back to filmmaking. He would go on to direct music videos and documentaries for Thievery Corporation,{{cite news|title=On TV's 'Pancake Mountain,' Hot Bands Playing With Hip Tots|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/03/25/AR2005032509135.html/|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=March 14, 2005 }}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Widespread Panic, Vic Chesnutt, Bob Mould, Minor Threat, and Garbage.{{cite web|title=Credits Scott Stuckey |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/scott-stuckey-mn0000252178|website=All Music}}

Through Pancake Mountain he has directed and worked with artists such as Katy Perry, The White Stripes, M.I.A., and Eddie Vedder.{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Harley |date=2014-09-02 |title='Pancake Mountain,' Kid-Friendly and Music-Centric Series, Returns with New Season of (Weird) Programming |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6236577/pancake-mountain-jj-abrams-ian-mackaye-pbs |accessdate=September 2, 2014 |website=Billboard Magazine}} As a songwriter Stuckey has written original songs for the show. Many of the contacts he made as a producer/engineer became early guests on Pancake Mountain.

Pancake Mountain was created by Stuckey as an homage to local TV as well as his fondness for DIY community-based art movements like DC's Dischord Records Scene and The Factory.{{cite web |last=Godfrey |first=Sarah |date=19 December 2003 |title=Youth Brigade The creators of Pancake Mountain hope to bring their old-school-punk aesthetic to the kid-vid set |url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/13028163/youth-brigade |website=Washington City Paper |ref=3}} Early music contributions to the show include The Evens, who wrote a song for the first episode of Pancake Mountain.{{cite web |last=Paul |first=Aubin |title=Dischord distributing "Pancake Mountain" |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/15663/dischord-distributing-pancake-mountain-dvds-with-evens-henry-rollins-anti-flag-ted-leo-more |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=Punk News}} The song "Vowel Movements" was well received by punk audiences, who reviewed the show positively.{{cite web|title=Scott Stuckey in Attendance|url=http://aurorapictureshow.org/print.asp?pageid=83&calid=221&galid=&fid=|website=Aurora Picture Show|access-date=2012-03-02|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062000/http://aurorapictureshow.org/print.asp?pageid=83&calid=221&galid=&fid=|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Thompson |first=Elise |date=2007-09-19 |title=It's All Happening on Pancake Mountain! |url=http://laist.com/2007/09/19/kirk_kirkwood_o.php |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316201501/http://laist.com/2007/09/19/kirk_kirkwood_o.php |archivedate=2008-03-16 |website=LAist}}

In 2009 he found an unlikely fan in producer/director J. J. Abrams who wanted to produce the show. Abrams and Stuckey spent two years pitching the show, without success. In 2011, Stuckey and Abrams decided to cancel the show. The last skit was with Garbage's Shirley Manson and talking dogs.{{cite web |last=Schneider |first=Martin |date=2014-10-02 |title=ACHTUNG KULTUR! Shirley Manson Teaches Tots about the Musik of Germany |url=http://dangerousminds.net/tag/Pancake-Mountain |accessdate=October 2, 2014 |website=Dangerous Minds |ref=14}} Production halted until June 2014, when PBS Digital Studios premiered new episodes of Pancake Mountain with Stuckey having full creative control.{{cite web |last=Augenstein |first=Neal |date=6 June 2014 |title=D.C. show 'Pancake Mountain' launches Monday on PBS |url=http://wtop.com/news/2014/06/dc-show-pancake-mountain-launches-monday-on-pbs/ |website=WTOP News}}

Pancake Mountain was listed as a Critic's Pick in the Los Angeles Times.{{cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Robert |date=13 June 2014 |title=Critic’s Pick: TV Picks: ‘Pancake Mountain,’ ‘Fosters,’ ‘New Black,’ ‘Rectify’ |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-tv-picks-pancake-mountain-fosters-new-black-rectify20140612-column.html |access-date=2014-03-14 |website=Los Angeles Times}}

CNN's Chuck Roberts credited Stuckey with creating a new genre for television.{{cite web|title=SUNDAY MORNING TRANSCRIPTS March 14, 2004|url=

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/14/sm.05.html|website=CNN}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/14/sm.05.html/ CNN Interview]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522041916/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1806822,00.html Time Magazine Profile]
• [http://www.pancakemountain.com/ Pancake Mountain]

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