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" I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain. "
Seth MacFarlane
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" The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny. "
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" 'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political. "
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" Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it. "
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" I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no. "
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" The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television. "
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" I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. "
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" I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time. "
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" The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget. "
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" The resistance to science is idiotic. "
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" You would not want me on your football team. "
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" I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing. "
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" The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show. "
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