While Big Mouth (which has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, by the way) tackles pretty much every issue surrounding the phenomenon known as adolescence, a lot of the inspiration for the events of the show came from the lives of two of its creators, Kroll and Goldberg. With Kroll honing his comedic chops doing standup since the ‘90s and Goldberg having worked on Family Guyfor years (not to mention the massive comedic accomplishments of their illustrious cast), there’s no question as to how the show became both painfully honest and ridiculously funny.
That honesty, which is honestly the main thing that tethers this over-the-top acid trip version of a sex-ed video to any sort of reality, is also due in large part to the other half of this quartet: Flackett and Levin. The numerous other writers involved have undoubtedly contributed a great deal to the success of this show, but it would be crazy to think that Levin’s time working on the classic coming-of-age series The Wonder Years and Flackett’s time working on the legendary teenage drama 90210 wasn’t in each case a direct influence/benefit when working on this project.