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    Inside The Simpsons, 20 years on
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    Asking questions about Simon is the reason his book is "unauthorized," he said, describing how producer James L. Brooks refused to allow the current staff to co-operate with him. "I think what they were upset about was that the myth of The Simpsons would be challenged. Matt Groening had been going on TV and radio and giving interviews for 20 years as The Simpsons ambassador" Ortved said. "He had the comic strip The Life in Hell that caught Jim Brooks's attention back in 1987 and ended up being the genesis of The Simpsons. Full Article at CBC News
    I think what they were upset about was that the myth of The Simpsons would be challenged. Matt Groening had been going on TV and radio and giving interviews for 20 years as The Simpsons ambassador
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
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Inside The Simpsons, 20 years on
  1. I think what was special about The Simpsons was Fox was a new network…and they were willing to take the kind of experiments that could produce something like The Simpsons. The idea of an animated sitcom at the time was very, very radical
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  2. To be fair to the writers and to be fair to the viewers, there is only so much you can do with a set of characters for 20 years. I don't know how you sustain interest
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  3. And I think ... you have the animation that allows you to go in all kinds of directions, you can do anything in a matter of frames ... If there's another factor, aside from the animation, it's that there's no laugh track. Laugh tracks absolutely destroy comedies.
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  4. For the last 10 years or so the show has really been run into the ground. The jokes have gotten hokier and stupider. It has not a lot of the wit and not a lot of the depth that it once had. I think they could really use some shaking up in their writing room.
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  5. Once the show really started making millions of dollars I think there were some big fights over money and who was getting what in terms of the big paycheques
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  6. I don't think the writers ever sat down and decided to be subversive. I think there are sort of two contributing factors to that — one of those is that the jokes have to be timeless. It takes a year to make one of those episodes, so they couldn't rely on pop culture events, they couldn't rely on the new...
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  7. He had the comic strip The Life in Hell that caught Jim Brooks's attention back in 1987 and ended up being the genesis of The Simpsons. And he sketched out the very first Simpsons drawings.
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago
  8. The way it was described to me was they were just creating these jokes to make each other laugh. Sam Simon instructed them just to make things that they thought were funny and I think that's a key thing
    SOURCE: CBC News 1 month ago

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