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Joe Murray

"I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier."

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"I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"Fun? There is no fun."

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Donna Grant

"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."

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Donna Grant

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

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Donna Grant

"Excuse me, I must go and putt."

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Donna Grant

"This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge."

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Donna Grant

"So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun."

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Donna Grant

"A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout."

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Joe Murray
"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass."

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Joe Murray
"Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio."

Environment

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Joe Murray
"When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time."

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Joe Murray
"Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction."

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Joe Murray
"Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not."

Success

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Joe Murray
"The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality."

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Joe Murray
"Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier."

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Joe Murray
"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."

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Joe Murray
"I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for."

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Joe Murray
"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well."

Politics

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