It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'