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

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 love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

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

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

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.