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‘#1 Happy Family USA’: Ramy Yousef on How ‘Money for Meat’ Was Inspired By Real-Life Memories of Halal Carts and Birds Pecking at Leftover Food
"#1 Happy Family USA": Ramy Yousef on the real-life inspiration for "Money for Meat"
The adult animated sitcom co-created by Yousef with Pam Brady (“South Park”) follows a Muslim family in New Jersey during Sept. 11, 2001. Youssef voices the family’s teen son, Rumi, and his father, Hussein, a halal food cart owner. There’s something about doing music with her where all of a sudden you feel there’s a vulnerable undercurrent to him, and we wanted to bake that into the show.” However, Yousef reveals, “I hadn’t picked up the guitar since high school in any meaningful way, and so I said, ‘Okay, you know what?
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