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When did you become interested in cartoons?

1. I was born with the animation bug.
2. My sister made me watch TV and I never got over "Turbo Teen".
3. My father owns an animation studio and I was forced into the family business.
4. It was the first job I saw in the want ads. Actually I wanted to be a fireman.

What did your mother think of your new interest in animation?

1. Told all of her friends.
2. Burned candles.
3. Burned my comic book collection.
4. Threatened to chop off my fingers.

What did your father say when you got your first animation job?

1. I'm so proud of you.
2. I'll buy you your own animation studio.
3. You can have a better life if you join the circus.
4. Go out and get a real job.

What kind of people are best suited to work in an animation studio?

1. Intensely aggressive.
2. Ambitious and outgoing.
3. Optimistic and trusting.
4. Misanthropic and saturnine.

What was the most influencial aspect of your career to date?

1. I'm still waiting for it to happen.
2. Getting fired from MTV.
3. Flunking out of Harvard Business School.
4. Watching my brother fall down the stairs.

With your talent, where are you most likely to find work?

1. In the gift shop at Disneyland.
2. In the Seoul office of Rough Draft.
3. In the research department at Dixie Cup.
4. In the animation department of Filmation.

Where do you find the words "walk", "run", "single", and "double"?

1. In the animation department of Filmation.
2. With Howard Hughes on the top floor of the Desert Inn.
3. At Boardner's on Cherokee Avenue.
4. At Dodger Stadium.

When are the terms, "slow in", "take", "anticipation", "hold" and "frame" used?

1. Chatting up a first date.
2. Explaining what you do to your family.
3. When providing an alibi.
4. At the parole board hearing.

What do you think motivates a person to become an animator?

1. Growing up without TV.
2. Desiring to forsake material gain.
3. Seeking fulfillment in obsessive repetitive behavior.
4. Researching the ambulatory activity of the opposite sex.

How motivated are you?

1. I didn't notice that the plants had died.
2. My cat peed on my Wacom tablet to get some attention.
3. I'm in debt up to my eyeballs.
4. I've failed at everything else.

What is your favorite cartoon?

1. Teeny Little Super Guy
2. Turbo Teen
3. Flexo the Rubber Man
4. Cartoons are just a living to me.

What would it take to get you to quit the animation business?

1. Some self respect.
2. A ticket home.
3. A real job.
4. Turbo Teen