Times wrote that "Gracie executives had been unhappy with the producer Csupó had assigned to The Simpsons and said the company also hoped to obtain better wages and working conditions for animators at Film Roman." "The Gracie statement to the Times was a bogus statement, as their action was for revenge and nothing else. All of my employees were better paid than anywhere else in the industry, and my producer did an excellent job. I stood up for my producer (Sherry Gunther), because the only thing she did was asking Fox TV to pay for all of Gracie Films' changes after their approval of all aspects of production. Gracie Films did not like that their mistakes were revealed to the Network and demanded firing of an innocent hard working producer", Csupo states. "Of course I refused to do that!" Of the 110 people he employed to animate The Simpsons, Csupó had to lay off 75. In the same year, Klasky Csupo went on to produce other shows for Viacom/Nickelodeon and USA Networks, and hired almost all of the laid-off artists back plus hired about 500 more. Shows, short films, and films produced include Technological Threat, Rugrats, Duckman, The Wild Thornberrys, Rocket Power, As Told by Ginger, All Grown Up!, Santo Bugito, Stressed Eric, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Immigrants, Recycle Rex, The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, What's Inside Heidi's Head?, Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. His company Klasky Csupo also produced several television films and four feature animated films for Paramount Pictures: The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats in Paris, Rugrats Go Wild, and The Wild Thornberrys Movie. The Rugrats Movie became the first non-Disney animated film in the world to earn more than $100M at the domestic box office. His record label, Tone Casualties, founded in 1994, released several industrial, noise, ambient and experimental music releases, including discs by Holger Czukay, Drew Neumann, Paul Schütze, Kuroi Mori, Borut Kržišnik, András Wahorn, Controlled Bleeding, and his own works (sometimes under the pseudonym "Opus Crobag"). He also directed three live-action films outside of Klasky Csupo: Bridge to Terabithia for Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, The Secret of Moonacre for Warner Bros. and Lionsgate, and the musical comedy Pappa Pia for Zene Nelkul KFT, Hungary. Discography 1993 Allegro Absurdito (by Accidental Orchestra, Tone Casualties) 1994 Zombient Music (Tone Casualties) 1996