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“We didn’t even have a real office at the time. The studio had so little faith in us, they housed us in a trailer. I assumed that if the show failed, they’d slowly back the trailer up to the Pacific and drown the writers like rats.”
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
“THEIR GRANDKIDS MAKE THEM DO IT. This was the case with George Harrison, and it made us all feel very old.”
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
“Our team of Korean animators hand-draws twenty-four thousand cels to make one episode of The Simpsons; these days, color is added by computer, but for the first decade of the show, each cel had to be hand-painted.”
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
“This was the tedious process by which I found great writers, like Greg Daniels (creator of The Office) and Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who three years later had my job running the show. In both cases, they had written pitch-perfect Seinfeld scripts. Greg’s was set entirely in a single parking space and was so good that Seinfeld actually produced it. Bill and Josh’s script had George Costanza accidentally swallowing a jagged piece of glass at a party; all the guests stay for hours, waiting to see if George “passes” the glass safely. It was cringe comedy at its very best.”
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
“The Worst Man in Australia Australians love The Simpsons, except, naturally, the episode where the family goes there. That episode was condemned in the Australian parliament, which is a Hooters, by the way. They didn’t object to us saying the Australian penal system involved kicking offenders with a giant boot, or that their prime minister’s office was an inner tube in a pond. Nope. What they didn’t like was our cast’s attempt at doing an Australian accent. Mind you, the true Australian accent is semi-incomprehensible”
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
― Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
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