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With 'futurama,' I Was Just Worried That Somebody Would Beat Us To It; It Seemed So Obvious That There Should Be An Animated Science Fiction Show Set In The Future. And One Of The Reasons Why It's Not, I Learned, Is That It's Really, Really Difficult.

On 'the Simpsons,' I Will Say That We Definitely Like To Comment On What's Going On In The World, And We Try To Be Funny. If We Can Figure Out A Way Of Being Funny About It, Then We've Gone Part Of The Way Of Accomplishing Our Task.

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.

I Grew Up Completely Overwhelmed By Tv, And Part Of The Reason Why I Have Gone Into Television Is As A Way To Justify To Myself All Those Wasted Hours Of Watching Tv As A Kid. I Can Now Look Back And Say, 'oh, That Was Research.'

I Was Very Disturbed When Jesus Found A Demon In A Guy, And He Put The Demon In A Herd Of Pigs, Then Sent Them Off A Cliff. What Did The Pigs Do? I Could Never Figure That Out. It Just Seemed Very Un-christian. Technically, I'm An Agnostic, But I Definitely Believe In Hell -- Especially After Watching The Fall Tv Schedule.