In 2003 Stuckey created Pancake Mountain, a music based children’s show that paid homage to local 1960s and 1970s programing. He also credits the DIY community-based art movements like DC's Dischord Records Scene and Warhol’s Factory [4] as inspirations. Stuckey met Warhol through mutual friend Christopher Makos, and became fascinated by Warhol’s experimental films “I’d always wanted to make a kids show the way Warhol or Fellini might have approached it, more like an art project then typical programming”. His friendship and work with Dischord founder, Ian Mackaye led to Ian's group, The Evens, writing a song for the first episode of Pancake Mountain. The song, "Vowel Movements", was controversial in the punk scene, as Mackaye had never embraced music videos or lip-syncing. Despite initial trepidation from the punk community the song was well received and helped launch the show to a greater audience. The show has been credited as influencing a whole new genre of kid-based television, most notably the show Yo Gabba Gabba!, which began airing three years after "Pancake Mountain". 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, but every network either passed or wanted to make changes that Stuckey and Abrams were not willing to make. In February 2012, Stuckey and Abrams decided to stop pitching the show. The last skit was with Garbage's Shirley Manson and talking dogs. On February 28, 2012, the Pancake Mountain website put up an announcement that the show was ending until a network would give them full creative control. Production halted until April 2014, when The New York Times reported that PBS was going to bring Pancake Mountain back as part of their PBS Digital Studios with Stuckey having full creative control. The first episode premiered on June 9, 2014. and is expected to end in September 2016. Critical response He was named a pioneer of children’s television by Time magazine and the show was listed as one of the 10 best of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times. CNN's Chuck Roberts credited Stuckey with creating a new genre for television. Inspiration The Rufus Leaking character (puppet) is loosely based on Ignatius Riley, the protagonist from A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Stuckey took the name Rufus Leaking from Widespread Panic's Dave Schools, who used the name as his