“Get out of my office!” – Matt Groening Happy birthday!
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“I’m glad we’re stranded. It’ll be just like the Swiss Family Robinson, only with more cursing. We’re gonna live like kings! Damn hell ass kings!” – Bart Simpson Happy birthday Matt Groening!
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“You don’t look so rich.” – Homer Simpson “Don’t let the haircut fool you, I’m exceedingly wealthy.” – Bill Gates Happy birthday Matt Groening!
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“Young man, you need to do some serious boning!” – Principal Skinner Happy 20th Anniversary to “Das Bus”! Original airdate 15 Feb 1998. (Oh, and happy birthday to some guy name Groening.)
Dear Matt Groening, Are You Really Okay With Video Slot Machines?
“Once something has been approved by the government, it’s no longer immoral!” – Reverend Lovejoy Ever since Bartmania back in 1990, FOX has been keen to use licensed merchandise (often of dubious quality) to pad its bottom line on the Simpsons. This can be alarm clocks that eat batteries and can’t be plugged in, drink trays that misquote the show, or a seemingly endless number of “collectible” dolls and figurines. Tchotchkes and t-shirts may be soulless consumerism at its most blatant, but they’re also relatively harmless. The same cannot be said of video slot machines. Video slots are (as those of…
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“Daddy, when I grow up, I wanna be just like you.” – Ralph Wiggum “Better start eating, kid.” – Skinny Boy “Start eating?” – Wiggum P.I. “I didn’t mean that way!” – Ralph Wiggum Happy Birthday Matt Groening!
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“I’m a star again. I don’t know how to thank you kids.” – Krusty the Klown “That’s alright, Krusty.” – Bart Simpson “We’re getting fifty percent of the t-shirt sales.” – Lisa Simpson “What? That’s the sweetest plum!” – Krusty the Klown Happy (one day belated) birthday, Matt Groening!
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“Get out here, son! There’s a doings a transpiring!” – Shelbyville Homer Happy birthday Matt Groening!
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“Cartoons don’t have messages, Lisa. They’re just a bunch of hilarious stuff, you know? Like people getting hurt and stuff, stuff like that-” – Bart Simpson Happy birthday Matt Groening!
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“Bart! Aw, you remembered my birthday!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Huh? . . . Oh, I sure did! Here’s a bus schedule.” – Bart Simpson “Wow! Fits right in my pocket.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson Happy birthday Matt Groening!
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Image taken from Wikimedia Commons. “Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts.” – Troy McClure Happy birthday Matt Groening!
Groening on The Tonight Show in 1991
On Simpsons Day last year I posted an old video of Groening on Letterman right before “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” premiered. He wasn’t exactly camera comfortable then. Here’s an interview with him from The Tonight Show in 1991 (this must be Leno guest hosting for Carson), and he’s got his shtick down much better. This has to be shortly after the premier of the third season when the show couldn’t get a bigger, and even then Groening only rates as the third guest. What’s funny is…
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“Get outta my office!” – Matt Groening Happy Birthday Matt Groening! Tequila shots for everybody!
Simpsons Alumni Update: Groening & Azaria
Unbeknownst to me there’s a spinoff of that Top Chef program called Top Chef Masters. According to Wikipedia, “In the series, 24 world-renowned chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.” Also, there are regular judges and guest judges. For Season 2 Matt Groening and Hank Azaria will be among the guest judges. Okay. (A hearty middle finger to IGN for bringing me this news but screwing up the link to the original Entertainment Weekly story. That meant I had to wade through ew.com, as over designed and seizure inducing as any commercial website you’ll ever visit.)
Matt Groening Documentary
The BBC made this way back in 2000, so for all I know every other Simpsons fan on the internet has seen this already. But it was new to me and I thought I’d collect it in one handy place for everyone. Plus, there’s an absolute knockout quote in the second part. Part 1 – Enter Groening and his teevee infused childhood: Part 2 – Groening becomes a cartoonist and moves to Los Angeles: And at about the 8:45 mark of Part 2 he shatters my irony meter (emphasis mine): “I finally got out of school in 1977 and I…
Groening on Letterman in 1989 & NBC News in 1990
Matt Groening was a guest on David Letterman’s 12:30 show (the one Conan O’Brien would be taking over just a few years later) in 1989 to help promote “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”: You can really see how Groening hasn’t yet got the hang of being interviewed. He’s not uncomfortable exactly, but he’s very unpolished. His stories are too long and Letterman has to bail him out a couple of times to keep things going. This was a week before the special when nobody had any real idea of how it was going to go. He’s nervous enough that…
Matt Groening’s a little confused
“Matt Groening? What’s he doing in a museum? He can barely draw.” – Homer Simpson We just caught wind that Matt Groening was interviewed last week by the folks over at the A.V. Club. In the interview, Mr. Groening revealed his insights into the past and future of animation and humor, while pontificating about the meaning of heaven and earth. Well, he didn’t really discuss the last bit so much, but he did offer some choice words for critics of Zombie Simpsons, with which we naturally take issue. To wit: “The criticism of the show, that it’s not as good…