65 actually. Thirteen weeks of 5 episodes each. That’s what Animaniacs got to start with. Then each subsequent “season” was much shorter because they finished with a total of 100 episodes.

The Goodfeathers musical episodes were some of their most inspired. Pigeon on the Roof and West Side Pigeon are classics.

I don’t think Spielberg will allow it to look too cheap.

Here’s something I wrote the day the reboot was first announced, what seems like fifteen years ago now. It stands up, except in addition to Twin Peaks we could add Picard, Fuller House, The Connors, and Will & Grace...

I always thought the repetitive structure was part of the charm, seeing how many different ways they could then subvert or tweak the expectations. I didn’t mind that most episodes would end with the status quo being restored, it was how they got back there that was the fun part.

I just began watching Third Rock from the Sun (on TubiTV-yes, that’s a thing) and explained to my college age kids who Jane Curtin was. They were marginally aware of her but had only seen a few random sketches here and there. And now, watching her on 3rd Rock, I’m even more impressed as she can turn on a dime from…

You’ve never been married, have you?

I met my wife at work and we had our 25th anniversary last April. I also met my first wife at work but that only lasted six years. Granted, I wasn’t in a position of power over either of them.

Just when I was thinking of changing my avatar...

It’s possible that H. Jon Benjamin was busy doing a similar promotional panel for Bob’s Burgers at the same time as the Archer panel. And I don’t picture Jessica Walter (or Mallory Archer) doing a zoom panel.

I didn’t.

I don’t think age ratings are the way to go any more. I think we need IQ ratings. For example, a show could be rated IQ-120 if it requires a complex understanding of racial sensitivity. Most things would be rated around IQ-80. Fox News would get IQ-80M, with the M standing for “Max,” indicating nobody with an IQ over…

I’d love to see a show where everything starts going to crap in typical sitcom manner and Stanley just sits there reading his newspaper and lets everyone else fix everything.

He doesn’t take his work home with him.

I’ve met Rob multiple times and he is among the nicest people you’ll ever meet, in or out of show business. He and Maurice LaMarche recorded greetings for my wife and I to play at our wedding. Voice-over people seem to be the happiest branch of show business, as they get paid well and have just the right amount of…

It was probably a cost-saving move. Union contract structuring make it cheaper for the studio to have a single actor do three different voices in a show than to hire three separate actors. Given Paulsen’s versatility, he’s the kind of guy who if you can get him in the studio, you try your best to get your money’s…

I think Kite-Man struck a chord because he truly was earnest about everything including his feeling for Ivy. There was never any deception or trying to get the upper hand and he wasn’t tying to be someone he wasn’t with Ivy. He put her needs before his own and it was Ivy’s reluctance to be completely honest about how…

They don’t want you to have justice or equality. And that’s why they’re getting violent about it. They don’t understand that extending equal right and consideration to others doesn’t take any of those away from them. In their sick, twisted, bigoted, ignorant heads, they are the top of the social ladder. They feel…

But what will happen if an FG episode ever goes back to Stoolbend and they run into Lester, who was also voiced by KMR? I always figured they asked KMR voice the white redneck Lester since Mike Henry was doing Cleveland and Rollo.

Naked lady story aside, Gilbert has mentioned many times on his podcast that he never had a bar mitzvah, so I think it’s safe to assume that this was more his wife’s doing. Gilbert has described himself as a “boxcar Jew,” meaning he doesn’t practice Judaism, but if the Nazis came back into power they wouldn’t care…