’Allen Gregory’ came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn’t do that in real life.

Hill is describing the creative premise behind the animated series Allen Gregory: animation makes it plausible for an adult performer to inhabit a child character without the physical and practical limits of live action. The quote highlights how medium shapes concept—voice acting and cartoon design allow age, appearance, and behavior to be “cast” imaginatively. It also gestures at the show’s self-aware, pitch-room origin: a playful “what if” (Hill as a 7-year-old) becomes the seed for a full series. More broadly, it reflects how comedy development often starts from a single, high-concept role reversal that animation can execute cleanly.