Bill Oakley

Oakley: (talking about Adult Swim) I love Futurama, and I'm thrilled that it's on there. It's another show that I think is perfect for Adult Swim. I have only seen a little bit of Sealab and Harvey Birdman, but both are very funny.

Oakley: The Simpsons has a big audience. Well, first of all, The Simpsons is now an institution, so it defies all traditional things. However, I think The Simpsons attracts -- or it used to -- every kid in the universe, some of their parents and then some grown-ups too. But if kids didn't watch it, the ratings wouldn't be very good. My suspicion is if adults who didn't have children were watching The Simpsons, their audience would be miniscule. And that's the audience we had for Mission Hill, I think.

Oakley: (talking about Mission Hill) I've let my daughter watch every episode except for the masturbation one.

Oakley: We actually have a top secret idea for a Simpsons film, but they have to ask us to do it first. But the Simpsons film may be a great mythological thing that is always talked about and never done. It requires a lot of time!

Oakley: (talking about Mission Hill) Well, it's all about satirizing parts of American culture. There's only about 30 percent that is goofing off and zany stuff. The whole construction of the show is about satirizing culture, from the characters to everything else.

Bill: (Talking about The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase episode.) Right off the bat we wanted to let people know they weren't watching a regular episode.