Sam and Mickey

NOTE: This article cross references information from the Everything Barbie Wiki

Sam and Mickey are two Australian women who run a channel under the same name. They currently produce Barbie parody videos on YouTube using stop-motion. Their videos are intended for mature audiences. In the series, Ken is Barbie's spouse and Skipper, Stacie, Chelsea and Krissy are her children but are called her sisters to maintain Barbie's innocence from the public.

Official Channel Description
The home of more dirty Barbie stop motion films than your innocent minds can handle - and a brand spankin new one on the 15th of each month! You're welcome Youtube!

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About Sam & Mickey: We are the same age, we grew up with the same Barbies, we like musicals, we like movies - particularly ones intended for kids. We are currently both blonde, though Sam needs her roots dyed badly. Sam studied Film Making, Mickey studied Graphic Design, with our powers combined I am Captain Planet.

About
Sam (Samantha) and Mickey (Michelle) attended high school together in Sydney, Australia. They reportedly became best friends after being forced to sit together in Year 9 Math class. In their final year of high school, Sam performed a drama monologue as a satirical version of 'Barbie' as part of her final drama grade. The monologue was written with Mickey's help, and a large number of ideas had to be cut for time.

After school, Sam studied film-making and Mickey studied graphic design. 3 Years after performing the Barbie monologue, Sam decided to turn the monologue into a stop motion film, as part of a 'creative techniques' class at film school. Sam and Mickey once again worked together to adapt the parody material they had, adding new characters and appropriating it for the screen. Using her skills as a graphic designer, Mickey became the production designer for Sam's film, entitled 'Sold Separately', which was completed in April 2010. 'Sold Separately' was subsequently released on YouTube some months later in it's original format, citing Sam as the writer and Mickey as the production designer.

Following the popularity of this film on Youtube, Sam and Mickey decided to create a series of Barbie parodies, largely drawing on ideas and story arcs that they had already come up with back in high school. The second film on their channel, 'Career Girl', is the first of their films to co-credit Sam and Mickey as dual creators, and also the first to feature the 'Sam' and 'Mickey' dolls, who have appeared in every subsequent stop motion film. While their earliest films did not follow a set schedule, Sam and Mickey's stop motion films are now released on the 15th of each month. Sam and Mickey had decided to make monthly films after their Valentine's Day episode, which was made on the 14th. The two thought that the 15th sounded better, and a film was released on the 15th ever since.

As of February 2021, Sam and Mickey have more than 400,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel. They were a part of YouTube Creator Academy, and even met Idina Menzel.

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