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.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Futurama' was a big deal. People had already started to hear about me a little bit here and there, but that was the first series I booked to be a regular on.
I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.
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.
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.
I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.
I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.
On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.
My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.