Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.