It went up the food chain and was approved for air by Ohlmeyer. Then Bob Wright, the president of NBC saw it and was basically shocked. Years later I asked him (he’s actually a great guy) if we could put it on the Saturday TV Funhouse DVD and he was fine with it.
That would be me, Robert, when I was EPing Dana Carvey’s prime time variety show in 1996. We wanted to to do cartoons on the show, and pretty much anything that make it feel different than SNL. The great writer and deviant Dino Stamatopoulos pitched me something entirely different – what if characters like Wallace and Gromit were clearly having a sexual relationship? I didn’t know much about what would be acceptable to the ABC audience watching after Home Improvement but I correctly identified that as unacceptable. Anyway, for some reason, the AGD idea just came to me at the end of that conversation. What if we did two superheroes and everyone suspects they’re gay? It was always more about the people obsessed with their sexuality than the heroes themselves.
Just cancel this bird already. The chicken is beyond cooked. It's burnt to a crisp.