I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

You only live once and, usually, not even then.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.