I Pledge Impertinence To The Flag Waving,

With "futurama," I Wanted To Do Unrequited Love, And David Cohen Agreed, And Although Our Original Plan Was Never To Have Fry And Leela Get Together, We Finally Just Said, "you Can Only String The Fans Along So Far."

The Nice Thing About 'futurama' For Me Personally Was That It Was A Way To Honor Some Of The Traditional Ideas In Literary Science Fiction, Not So Much Movie Or Television Science Fiction - Although We Have That Too, Obviously. Our Situation, A Workplace Comedy, Led To All Sorts Of Stuff.

We Have 'doctor Who' References On 'futurama,' But We Have A Lot Of Science Fiction References That I Don't Get; But In The Staff We Have Experts On 'star Trek,' 'star Wars,' 'doctor Who' And 'dungeons And Dragons.'

Our Solution On 'the Simpsons' Is To Do Jokes That People Who Have An Education, Or Some Frame Of Reference, Can Get. And For The Ones Who Don't, It Doesn't Matter, Because We Have Homer Banging His Head And Saying, 'd'oh!'

I'm Normally Not A Praying Man, But If You're Up There, Please Save Me, Superman. Homer Simpson