"I hate the idea of a super, master race, and of a Big Brother, authoritarian America in which those, who are not exactly like the self-anointed 'real' Americans, are to be excluded, segregated, feared, hated, and ejected without recourse. I'm old enough to smell Nazi Germany whenever demagogues seek to revive it, no matter how tightly they wrap Old Glory around their lies."
Ron Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2016
"It was only about, I would say, like four or five or maybe even six scripts that into the series we began to realize how weird we could actually get with that show. [Laughter] And then once it started it couldn't be stopped. It got stranger and stranger right up until the end."
Steve Gerber, Comics Interview, 1986