Utkarsh Ambudkar is a man in demand. Not just on TV — though he is there, with his roles on hit shows like Never Have I Ever and Running Point — but in real life, where he’s a father of three. While chatting for this interview, we were interrupted twice by his kids: first by his 10-year-old daughter, who wanted to talk about her run for school president, and second by his toddler, who wanted to get some cuddles in before Ambudkar jets back off to Montreal to film the latest season of his CBS series, Ghosts.

Family-friendly fare like Ghosts calls to Ambudkar, particularly now that he’s a father to three. He’s about to play a villain in the new season of Disney’s SuperKitties alongside Ginnifer Goodwin, and he says one of the reasons Ghosts has made it to its fifth (and already green-lit sixth!) season is because it’s so universally accessible. “It’s actually the one show that my 10-year-old and wife make everyone in the family watch together, too, which is a little embarrassing,” he adds. “Like, it has to be the one I’m on?”

Here’s what else Ambudkar watches and listens to with his family when he’s not onscreen.

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

My 5-year-old went through a Transformers phase, but then he found this show Kipo on Netflix, and that’s his main bag. I’m not really sure what it’s about. I know that there are some burrows and there’s a baddie who gave into the darkness, and I think there’s a big ol’ leopard or tiger, but don’t quote me on that.

That’s So Raven

My 10-year-old has been watching reruns of That’s So Raven. I think she found it by watching other shows on Disney+, like High School Musical: The Musical or whatever, and then it must have said, “If you liked that, try this,” and she did. She’s been on that kick for a little while.

Mira, Royal Detective 

I just started introducing my 2-year-old to a Disney show that I was on called Mira, Royal Detective. I’m trying to get her into it, like, “Doesn’t this look fun?” She can’t really understand that I’m in it, though — like, she can’t compute that when she hears a voice attached to a cartoon mongoose that it’s the same guy sitting next to her. I haven’t really mentioned it, because I’m not trying to break her brain.

’90s kiddo classics, like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Mighty Ducks, and The Sandlot

We have family movie day every weekend. We’ve watched Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Three Ninjas, The Mighty Ducks, The Sandlot, Short Circuit 1 and 2 … they’ve pretty much seen it all. It’s all stuff we loved growing up, but we do have to talk about some of the content on a case-by-case basis. Like, all the movies are very fun for the 5- and 2-year old because they’re so far removed from stuff, but telling my 10-year-old that the Indian guy in Short Circuit wasn’t actually an Indian guy wasn’t really a fun conversation, to be sure.

“Angry Music”

I did a Disney movie called World’s Best and my 5-year-old loves the music from that. He’s been listening to that for a long time. Beyond that, though, he’s a full-blown metalhead. Metallica’s Master of Puppets. Rage Against the Machine. Judas Priest. He wants fully crazy heavy metal on all the time. My daughter listens to more Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, but he just likes, as he calls it, “angry music.”

I have no idea how he got into it, either. I tried playing him my style of music, which is old-school hip-hop, like Naughty by Nature, Tupac, and Biggie, and he was having none of it. He only wants music I’ve never heard and never wanted to hear.

Is It Cake? 

We went through a big Is It Cake? phase in our house. Mikey Day does a great job of pretending that he’s interested in whatever’s going on there, too. I think watching season after season, you can tell that he’s gotten more into it. Like season one, it was like, “What am I doing here?” but by season two, you can see he’s fully invested.

KPop Demon Hunters

The tried-and-true thing right now in our house is KPop Demon Hunters. I think we’re sort of phasing out of it a bit, but not before it really hit a very potent peak. My kids found it on Netflix during a car ride back from somewhere, and when I saw my 5-year-old son watching it again later, I was like, “What is this? I kind of like the animation and I like the music,” and then I just got sucked in with him. Since then, I’ve watched it probably 11 times, and as a family, we’ve watched it a few more on top of that. We even went and saw it in the theater for the sing-along. I don’t even know how many hours we’ve logged listening to the soundtrack. My 2-year-old only ever wants to hear “Soda Pop,” so we’ve really been deep, deep in it.

 The father of three is embracing his inner villain for the new season of Disney Jr.’s SuperKitties.