Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret " Marge " Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, " It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon.

" The show's creator Matt Groening has called Smith very similar to Lisa: " Yeardley has strong moral views about her character.

Matt Groening has stated that he decided to have Homer work at the power plant because of the potential for Homer to create havoc.

My father was an athletic, creative, intelligent filmmaker and writer, and the only thing he had in common with Homer was a love of donuts " Although Groening has stated in several interviews that Homer's namesake is his father, he also claimed in several 1990 interviews that a character in the 1939 Nathanael West novel The Day of the Locust was the inspiration for naming Homer.

" Matt Groening has described Smith as being very similar to Lisa: " Yeardley has strong moral views about her character.

Matt Groening has claimed that Hans Moleman was inspired by Tex Avery's Droopy, who shares many of Moleman's deadpan and unassuming mannerisms.

When asked, Groening has simply noted that " characters are collaborations between the writers, animators, and actors " without specifically confirming or denying the association.

Matt Groening has indicated that Lovejoy is named after Lovejoy Street ( which in turn is named for Portland co-founder Asa Lovejoy ) in Portland, Oregon, the city where Groening grew up.

Also, Groening claims that this episode has been incorrectly credited with creating the " alternate version " of " Jingle Bells " that has become a well-known children's playground song.

This group included Stephen King, Dave Barry, Matt Groening and Amy Tan, among other popular writers, and it has continued to perform one benefit concert per year since Zevon's death.

The creator of the show, Matt Groening, has cited Ralph as his favorite character.

His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight, and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians.

Bender ( being the show's breakout character ) has made several cameos in different episodes of The Simpsons, another series by Matt Groening.

* It has been assumed that The Simpsons ( 1989 ) creator Matt Groening named his most famous character, Homer Simpson, after his own father, however, in several interviews given in 1990, Groening reportedly stated that he named the character after the Homer in this novel, although neither explanation is considered definitive.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has declared that he created the Bumblebee Man character after watching El Chapulín Colorado on television at a motel on the U. S .- Mexico border.

Robotology is a play on the name Scientology, and series creator Matt Groening has said that he received a call from the Church of Scientology concerned about the use of a similar name.

Matt Groening has stated he is a fan of Howser, and has featured him in two episodes of The Simpsons: " There's Something About Marrying ", where a character named Howell Huser fell off a turnip truck, and " O Brother, Where Bart Thou?

Television has also made the strip " safe enough for a number of newspapers to print ", according to Groening, who claims that he has not " toned the strip down at all, other than no longer using profanity " as a concession to daily papers that carry the strip.

It was inspired by his move to the city that year ; in an interview with Playboy, Groening commented on his arrival: " I got Los Angeles on a Friday night in August ; it was about a hundred and two degrees ; my car broke down in the fast lane of the Hollywood Freeway while I was listening to a drunken deejay who was giving his last program on a local rock station and bitterly denouncing the station's management.

Matt Groening, creator of both series ', jokingly commented that the award " gave a chance to be bitter either way.

Groening commented that having McCartney and the rest of The Beatles on The Simpsons " was a dream come true for all of us.

In a 2005 interview The Simpsons creator Matt Groening commented " I don't have a single favorite.

Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, The Simpsons, and named the members after his own parents and sisters — while Bart was an anagram of the word brat.

The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with the producer James L. Brooks.

Marge was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office.

Marge's distinctive blue beehive hairstyle was inspired by a combination of the Bride's in Bride of Frankenstein and the style that Margaret Groening wore in the 1960s.

" Marge's beehive hairstyle was inspired by the titular Bride in Bride of Frankenstein and the style that Margaret Groening wore during the 1960s, although her hair was never blue.

The family was crudely drawn, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up ; instead, they just traced over his drawings.

One of these performances was featured as part of the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival curated by Matt Groening in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

Cartoonist and writer Matt Groening tells of listening to Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking " that it was the worst thing I'd ever heard.

Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office.

Very little else of Homer's character was based on him, and to prove that the meaning behind Homer's name was not significant, Groening later named his own son Homer.

The family was crudely drawn because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up ; instead, they just traced over his drawings.

The family was crudely drawn, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up ; instead, they just traced over his drawings.

At the time, Groening was primarily drawing in black and white ; when designing Lisa and Maggie, he " just gave them this kind of spiky starfish hair style, not thinking that they would eventually be drawn in color ".

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, wanted to have a character that was " really cranky " and old, and who complained a lot and invented stories to tell to children, so he created Grampa.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening told TV Guide that " He was just written as a mad scientist character until Hank did the voice, and suddenly he became this nutty professor persona.

Krusty was created by cartoonist Matt Groening and partially inspired by Rusty Nails, a television clown from Groening's hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Matt Groening feels that it was a good thing the joke was cut because he did not feel the writers should bring attention to the name.

Series creator Matt Groening is a fan of the band and they appeared on the show at his personal request.

" Groening first saw Beefheart and the Magic Band perform in the front row at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in the early 1970s.

The success of The Simpsons led Fox to develop other animated series aimed at adults, including King of the Hill ( created by Mike Judge ), Futurama ( also by Groening ), Family Guy ( created by Seth MacFarlane ), American Dad!

" Jon Bonné at MSNBC called the episode " a perfect example of the first season ’ s bizarre and fruitful balance between edgy humor and softly-drawn neuroses " and stated that " it was this combination that made Groening ’ s shorts for the Ullman show so compelling, and ultimately what made it possible for The Simpsons to break the molds of network television.

David X. Cohen and Matt Groening at the Futurama panel of San Diego Comic-Con International | Comic-Con 2009.

The band was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

It was also announced that the band was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

The band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

David X. Cohen and Matt Groening at the Futurama panel of San Diego Comic-Con International | Comic-Con 2009.

In 2010, Boredoms toured internationally including two Boadrum performances at All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Matt Groening at Butlins Minehead, England, in addition to shows in London, Japan, Mexico and as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival on October 10, 2010.

Then-publisher of the Reader Jane Levine said Groening arrived at editor-in-chief James Vowell's office one day, showing him his " silly cartoons with the rabbit with one ear.

" Binky and Sheba met at a coffee shop in a 1981 storyline, and are often used as a generic couple whenever Groening needs one.

Cohen with Matt Groening at the Futurama panel of San Diego Comic-Con International | Comic-Con 2009.

They were also invited twice to record BBC sessions for John Peel, and selected by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and to play one of the many All Tomorrows Parties festivals at which they have performed.

All of them were written by Matt Groening and animated at Klasky-Csupo by a team of animators consisting of David Silverman, Wes Archer, and Bill Kopp.

The band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

Matt Groening, creator of the show, was once quoted in the Argentinian newspaper La Nación as saying: " Sometimes we have to look at fan sites to remember we have done before: one of the best is www. snpp. com.

Groening launched Bongo Comics Group in 1993, perceiving a lack of funny books in the comic book industry at the time: " I go into comic book stores and look at all the stuff, and, for the most part, it looks like fairly grim science-fiction and superhero stuff ...