>> it would feature early mike judge cartoons. >> okay, but i'm going to set the building on fire. >> lupo, the butcher, a gory cartoon. spike & mike had taboo things you wouldn't see in normal cartoons, like gore, lie violence, like sex. >> before the internet, they were critical, they were connecting people with an audience that they just otherwise wouldn't have had. >> all of us who are working in that business, we would try to slip something in that's funny or pitch a show that was funny. so when new opportunities came along to work on something that we thought could blossom into actually a funny animated show we were always eager to jump at that. >> there we are. >> it may be an -- channel, but the simpsons are on tv. y weathe