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Janice Karman

Co-Owner and Producer, Bagdasarian Productions · 2 appearances on the record.

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Alongside her husband Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Karman revived the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise through Bagdasarian Productions and created The Chipettes. She is best known for voicing Theodore and all three Chipettes across animated television series, specials, and feature films.

4statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.75/5average certainty → 1/5average debate potential → 7said about them ↓

1 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Janice argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Karman explains the Alvin and the Chipmunks half-speed vocal technique
“Well, it sounds, it's the same speed as we speak, but it's at a higher pitch.”
Janice Karman Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 18:08 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Karman: 'Chipmunk Punk' sold over one million albums overnight
“And as it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”
Janice Karman Dec 24, 2018 ▶ 17:06 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)

Everything Janice Karman said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Karman: 'Chipmunk Punk' sold over one million albums overnight
“And as it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”
Janice Karman Dec 24, 2018 ▶ 17:06 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
Assertion Partly supported
The 1980 album 'Chipmunk Punk' sold over one million copies overnight
“As it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”
Janice Karman Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 15:54 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
The 1980s Chipmunks animated series drew 15 to 20 million weekly viewers
“Like twenty million a week, or 15 to twenty million a week.”
Janice Karman Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 29:59 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
Assertion Supported
Karman explains the Alvin and the Chipmunks half-speed vocal technique
“Well, it sounds, it's the same speed as we speak, but it's at a higher pitch.”
Janice Karman Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 18:08 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman

The other half of the tape: Janice Karman's own voice is left out of every number here. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Janice Karman, by other people (7)

Assertion Supported
Bagdasarian: Sold Chipmunks syndication rights for $25 million
“And then a couple of years later, we sold those rights for twenty five million dollars.”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Dec 24, 2018 ▶ 33:27 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
Assertion Supported
Bagdasarian: Hired legendary Warner Bros. animators for A Chipmunk Christmas
“Some of the great animators from Warner Brothers including Chuck Jones, and Phil Monroe, and Virgil Ross, and these guys who had done the greatest Bugs Bunny cartoons in the forties and fifties were available, and they weren't being used, and Janice and I hire…”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Dec 24, 2018 ▶ 23:24 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
Disclosure
Bagdasarian Jr. invested the $25 million syndication windfall into a feature film
“We took most of that money and made an animated feature, The Chipmunk Adventure, and that, which came out in 87.”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 33:39 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
Disclosure
The 2007 Chipmunks film villain was based on a real record executive
“In any event, we're all excited and want to now talk about the national plans that they're going to do, and this is a quote, and it's, it, so it explains why David Cross is, as Ian is, is that character. So the record executive, the tells Janice and me, well w…”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 44:45 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
Assertion Supported
Bagdasarian and Karman hired legendary Looney Tunes animators for Christmas special
“Some of the great animators from Warner Brothers including Chuck Jones, and Phil Monroe, and Virgil Ross, and these guys who had done the greatest Bugs Bunny cartoons in the forties and fifties were available, and they weren't being used, and Janice and I hire…”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 22:12 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Bagdasarian Jr. and Karman bought back Universal's Chipmunks stake for $2.5 million
“Two and a half million dollars for their-”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Sep 18, 2017 ▶ 41:52 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
Disclosure
Bagdasarian: Creative disputes are resolved by deferring to stronger conviction
“If Janice had a different point of view and she felt more strongly about it than I did, then I would defer to her. If I, Conversely, I had a stronger feeling about it than she did. She would defer to me.”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Dec 24, 2018 ▶ 49:31 The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017) Dec 24, 2018 9m
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman Sep 18, 2017 9m
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