Mother Knows Best (song) songs. While the majority of "Tangled"'s music was inspired by the work of Canadian musician Joni Mitchell, Menken envisioned Gothel's song as "classic" Broadway. Before writing "Mother Knows Best", Menken and Slater researched appropriate moments in the film during which its main characters could potentially perform, ultimately determining that "Mother Knows Best" "flows directly out of the conflict between" Mother Gothel and Rapunzel. Menken observed similarities between Gothel and Claude Frollo, another Disney villain for whom he had written songs while working as a composer on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996). Menken described Gothel as "a scary piece of
Villainous (web series) Villainous (web series) Villainous () is a Mexican-American animated web series created by Alan Ituriel. It is based on a 2012 web series which he had previously created and was initially picked up by Cartoon Network Latin America as a miniseries of ten one-minute episodes for the Cartoon Network Anything app. (Further episodes, along with a series of specials, began to be released later.) The series is co-produced by CN and A.I. Animation Studios. Due to the success of the episodes released on YouTube, a television series is currently in development. The "Villainous" concept was pitched by Alan Ituriel at