According to Groundskeeper Willie, he is " too poor to have a last name ", although in the Simpsons Comics he is referred to as " William MacMoran ".

According to showrunner Al Jean, the staff members of The Simpsons asked American golfer Tiger Woods to do a guest appearance in this cartoon, but they were turned down.

In Pinsky's The Gospel According to the Simpsons, one of the show's writers recounted to the author that the producers of The Simpsons had vetoed a planned episode on Scientology in fear of the Church's " reputation for suing and harassing opponents ".

Mark Pinsky, on the other hand, wrote in his book The Gospel According to The Simpsons that when the announcement that an episode of the show would focus on gay marriage was made, " it stoked a debate that few issues and few television shows could.

" Likewise, Mark Pinsky writes in The Gospel According to The Simpsons that once the episode ended, it was hard to tell what stance on same-sex marriage the writers had and that " both sides of the controversy had their say, voiced by various Simpsons characters ".

" According to Simpsons writer Mike Reiss, the episode also had supporters among conservative groups.

According to Cohen, the " Citizen Kang " short violated every rule of The Simpsons as it locked the episode in one time and named specific candidates.

According to executive producer Ian Maxtone-Graham, this was due to the September 11 terrorist attacks, after which the Simpsons staff tried to be more serious and sensitive, however according to current show runner Al Jean, the “ scary names ” were dropped because they were too difficult to come up with.

According to a company press release, The Simpsons Series 1 will include a boxed Itchy and Scratchy " Spay Anything " set as well as six figures: Homer and Bart Simpson as Pie Man and Cupcake Kid ; Krusty the Clown and Homer from an episode when Homer attempted Clown College ; Treehouse of Horrors: The Raven ( based on the poem of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe ); the classic scene of Homer strangling Bart ; Kamp Krusty ; Treehouse of Horror: Belly of the Boss.

Parvin's The Gospel According to the Simpsons: Leader's Guide for Group Study is a group study guide companion to Pinsky's The Gospel According to the Simpsons.

According to then-showrunner Mike Scully, the story of this episode originated from the fact that the staff members of The Simpsons wanted to do an episode about Marge but felt they did not want it to revolve around her getting a new job, as that had been seen on the show " too often ".

According to The Simpsons show runner Mike Scully, when the staff members worked on the episode they decided to include a lot of observations they had made about how it is like to be the new student in school.

According to The Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully, it is despised by many fans of the show particularly for having an outlandish plotline.

According to Scully, " Kill the Alligator and Run " is often cited by fans of The Simpsons as one of the worst episodes of the show because of its structure and outlandish nature.

According to executive producer and former showrunner Mike Scully, the idea for the episode was conceived when Fox requested an Easter-themed Simpsons episode that would air on the holiday.

According to Scully, the staff could not use the song on The Simpsons at first, since AC / DC's record company refused to sell it.

According to Mark I. Pinsky of The gospel according to the Simpsons: bigger and possibly even better!

" According to Pinsky, the controversy did not have any impact on the show and was " simply ignored " by The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > staff.

According to Scully, the letters were worded the same, and all started with " My family and I have always enjoyed The Simpsons, until last night ..." Nevertheless, the letters provoked a reaction from The Simpsons staff, and in an interview, Scully said, " We got a couple of hundred letters, and it was very obvious from reading a majority of them that Catholic letter writers had not seen the show.

According to showrunner Sam Simon, actor William Shatner also rejected the part.

According to executive producer and current showrunner Al Jean, Fox's request " upset " Canada, and a " sternly worded " editorial in The Toronto Star criticized the network's ways of promoting the episode.

According to current showrunner Al Jean, the color of the Loch Ness monster would originally be green, but when the overseas animation was completed, the Loch Ness monster had a " kind of pinkish " color.

According to executive producer and current showrunner Al Jean, Hawking was asked to guest-star because " we were looking for someone much smarter than all the Mensa members Springfield ," and so they " naturally thought of him.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

According to CIA operational cables, only then did he tell his " fabricated " story about Al Qaeda members being dispatched to Iraq.

According to Palestinian and Israeli sources he was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

According to a contemporary account by theologian, Sheikh Yusuf Al Bahrani, in an unsuccessful attempt by the Persians and their Bedouin allies to take back Bahrain from the Kharijite Omanis, much of the country was burnt to the ground.

According to executive producer Al Jean, the writers often used McClure as a " panic button " and added the character when they felt an episode needed more humor.

According to one academic paper, " In fact, it seems that few decisions can be arrived at in Al Wefaq – and in the whole country, for that matter – without prior consultation with Isa Qassim, ranging from questions with regard to the planned codification of the personal status law to participation in elections ".

According to Carol Ann Brown, director of the gallery, the agents were most interested in the work entitled " Patriot Act " by Chicago-based artist Al Brandtner.

According to this interpretation, which appears to be Crowley's as well, the purpose of the Comment is allow others to interpret Liber Al vel Legis for themselves ; in other words, no one is to preach its contents or tell you their understanding of it is the one true understanding.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

According to the USGS, variant and historical names of the Altamaha River include A-lot-amaha, Alatahama, Alatamaha, Allamah, Frederica River, Rio Al Tama, Rio de Talaje, and Talaxe River.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

According to the octet rule, the atoms immediately before and after neon in the periodic table ( i. e. C, N, O, F, Na, Mg and Al ), tend to attain a similar configuration by gaining, losing, or sharing electrons.

According to Gary Giddins ' book Bing Crosby – A Pocketful of Dreams – The Early Years 1903-1940, in 1925 she secured work for her brother, Al Rinker, and his partner Bing Crosby.

According to Al Capp, btfsplk is a rude sound.

According to a 2008 New York Times profile of Al Arabiya director Abdul Rahman Al Rashed, the channel works " to cure Arab television of its penchant for radical politics and violence ," with Al Jazeera as its main target.

According to one account, in 1940, during the Blitz in London, a Canadian officer suggested to Al Tabor, a British bandleader of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, that he write a party song with actions similar to " Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree ".

According to Tom Ridge: " The U. S. Intelligence Community believes that Al Qaeda has entered an operational period worldwide, and this may include terrorist attacks in the United States.

According to Al Jazeera English, it was formed in 2002 and includes Islah, Yemeni Socialist Party ( YSP ), Hizb Al-Haq ( a semi-religious party ), the Unionist party, and the Popular Forces Union party.

According to Al Nasab ( 890-949 ):

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

According to UN statistics in 2003 the population of Al Anbar is 1, 230, 169.