You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is "How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?" Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.