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Denis Avakov
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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
“I got the Simpsons job the same way I got a wife: I was not the first choice, but I was available.”
― 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
“featured an eight-year-old boy who saved his friend who was choking to death. When asked where he learned the Heimlich, he said, “It was on a poster on The Simpsons.” True story.”
― 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
“I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”
― Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
― Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
“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
Denis’s 2025 Year in Books
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770 books
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4 friends
362 books
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8 friends
292 books
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38 friends
57 books
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3 friends
32 books
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1 friend
9 books
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2 friends
11 books
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2 friends
287 books
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4 friends
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