• Art and Culture

  'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

  3.8 · 26 votes · 157 reads

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  A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

  3.3 · 51 votes · 69 reads

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• Nature

  A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

  4.8 · 51 votes · 186 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

  3.2 · 20 votes · 72 reads

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  Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

  4.5 · 34 votes · 142 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

  5.0 · 8 votes · 125 reads

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  Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

  3.1 · 60 votes · 167 reads

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  Don't have a cow, man.

  4.7 · 8 votes · 108 reads

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  Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

  3.2 · 33 votes · 12 reads

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  Eat my shorts!

  3.9 · 21 votes · 6 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

  3.5 · 35 votes · 112 reads

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• Society

  Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

  3.4 · 15 votes · 90 reads

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• Time

  God often gives nuts to toothless people.

  4.6 · 46 votes · 97 reads

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• Society

  Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

  4.1 · 64 votes · 12 reads

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• Time

  I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  4.5 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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  I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

  3.5 · 27 votes · 5 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitc

  3.5 · 25 votes · 84 reads

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  I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

  3.6 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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  I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

  3.7 · 37 votes · 37 reads

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  I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  3.3 · 22 votes · 157 reads

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  I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

  4.8 · 44 votes · 77 reads

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  I have less to do with 'The Simpsons' every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it's just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul.

  3.6 · 24 votes · 178 reads

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• Nature

  I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

  3.2 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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  I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done par

  3.4 · 52 votes · 50 reads

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  I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

  4.4 · 12 votes · 193 reads

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• Virtues

  I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

  4.9 · 42 votes · 84 reads

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  I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G

  4.2 · 60 votes · 194 reads

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  I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're

  5.0 · 59 votes · 47 reads

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  I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

  3.1 · 5 votes · 174 reads

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  I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.

  3.8 · 23 votes · 0 reads

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  I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.

  3.2 · 26 votes · 183 reads

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  I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

  4.4 · 27 votes · 160 reads

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  I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

  4.2 · 34 votes · 164 reads

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  I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

  3.4 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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  I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

  4.8 · 9 votes · 7 reads

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  I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or

  3.7 · 22 votes · 27 reads

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  I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

  3.9 · 17 votes · 129 reads

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  I'm a Writerwho just happens to draw.

  3.2 · 48 votes · 72 reads

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  I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

  4.1 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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  I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

  3.7 · 13 votes · 101 reads

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