* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

" Despite his solitary life, in The Simpsons Movie, minutes before his likely death, Comic Book Guy says that his obsessive comic book collecting has been a " life well spent ".

The author of the book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner, said that " if the institution of the News has a single iconic face on The Simpsons, it's Brockman's " and that " in Brockman's journalism, we see some of the modern news media's ugliest biases ", of which he says are glibness, amplification, and sensationalism.

Homer Simpson, a character on the animated series The Simpsons, suggests Son of Sniglet as a good book to name as a favorite and a life influence on a college application in the episode " Homer Goes to College ".

The comic book version of The Simpsons, Simpsons Comics, also published a story called ' The Last Fat Man ', based partially on ' Time Enough at Last ' and actually has a short scene where Homer Simpson shoos a bespectacled man who is reading a book out of a nuclear bunker so he can eat in it, unintentionally taking shelter in it.

The book details her career ( particularly her experiences as the voice of Bart ) and contains stories about life behind the scenes of The Simpsons.

Laura A. Bischoff of the Dayton Daily News commented that the book was the " ultimate insider's guide to The Simpsons ".

Critics complained that the book lacked interesting stories and was aimed mostly at fans of The Simpsons rather than a general audience.

Examples include a parody of the story published in a 1970 Batman comic book, comedic references in television programmes such as The Simpsons ( 1990 ), being discussed in a 2006 episode of the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat, and a 2009 Wired Italia magazine article which compared selected photographs of McCartney, taken before and after his alleged demise.

" Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, said of the episode: " pretty standard early fare, with the series not quite hitting its stride.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, strongly praised the episode calling it " superbly written and directed, often a literal child's-eye view of education, the first Simpsons episode proper is a classic.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide stated that " the story rather fizzles out at the end, but there are many good moments, especially in the power plant.

On television, Fierstein was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the " Simpson and Delilah " episode of The Simpsons and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, note: " It's very strange to see Homer pawning the TV set in an attempt to save the family ; if this episode had come later Marge would surely have taken this stance.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it " A fun episode, with Rodney Dangerfield putting a lot of pathos into Larry – and Homer's impassioned speech atop the cinema at the climax is one of his funniest moments.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, said: " Certain scenes of this, the most syrupy of Simpsons episodes, sent viewers raised on the later seasons scurrying to the bathroom.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, both criticized and praised the episode saying: " This episode is a bit less than the sum of its parts.

" Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, stated: " Despite being a Lisa show, it is poor Ralph Wiggum who steals the show with three great irrelevant replies, especially those concerning his cat's breath.

Ralph is also very popular to feature in various other media, and sees fairly frequent use in the Simpsons comic book by Bongo as a focus.

Examples of other media which take part in metafictiveness are Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick in Li ' l Abner, the Tales of the Black Freighter in Watchmen, or the Itchy and Scratchy Show within The Simpsons, as well as the computer game Myst in which the player represents a person who has found a book named Myst and been transported inside it.

The book is similar to Peter Spear's The King's Quest Companion and The Official Uncensored Leisure Suit Larry Bedside Companion.

According to the book Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Vicious ' mother and Jerry Only of Misfits scattered his ashes over Spungen's grave.

The book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen, based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked in Area 51, dismisses the alien story.

In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk ( 1996 book ), Eliot Kidd refers to Sid Vicious taking " about thirty Tuinals " at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, the night Nancy Spungen was found stabbed to death and for which Sid was charged with her murder.

He later said in an interview for the book Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live that his time on SNL was the most memorable in his career.

Vance was the first African American woman to become a SNL repertory player ( not to be confused with Yvonne Hudson from season six, who first appeared as a recurring extra for season four and season five and was hired as a feature player during Jean Doumanian's notoriously shaky sixth season ), the only SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( Vance was dyslexic and, according to Al Franken in the book, Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Vance had trouble memorizing lines and reading cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in most cases and, in one case, was covered up by ad-libbing ), was the first lesbian cast member hired ( though her sexual orientation wasn't known until her death ), and the only black lesbian cast member as of 2012.

In 1982 Silver published his first book, Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis, which was adapted to the big screen by Orion Pictures in 1989.

She had not written a book since the publication of The Power of Beauty ( released in 1996, and then renamed and rereleased in paperback form in 1999 )— despite contributing an interview of porn star Nina Hartley to XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits a book by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders published in 2004 — until Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age ( 2009 ).

* Fraternization and the Uncensored Occupation book chapter by Ann Elizabeth Pfau

The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album is a 1991 book, by Matt Groening, that mimics a family album that the Simpsons television family would have.

The author of The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album is Matt Groening, the creator of the animated series The Simpsons on which the book is based.

In John Ortved's book The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, Lee stated that he attended the episode's table read, and was impressed with the size and quality of the creative staff, who all sat around the conference table.

According to the book Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, during a sketch on the Madonna / Simple Minds episode where he plays a gay actor who pretends to be straight in order to star in a movie, a stage light falls into an empty pool, causing Sweeney to shriek and nearly fall out of his chair.

* Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored A book by Richard Cole documenting his experience as Led Zeppelin's tour manager.

* Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, a 2011 book by American journalist Annie Jacobsen

Chong wrote in his 2009 book Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography that Komack based the show on Cheech and Chong skits titled " The Old Man in the Park " and " Pedro and Man " and had acknowledged that fact to Chong after the television series ' release.

Much of this documentation is in the form of illegal ( but widely available ) bootleg recordings, and is recounted in the book Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of the Beatles ' Let It Be Disaster by Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt.

Kelley's next book, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra ( 1986 ) was declared " an act of bravery.

On November 1, 2011, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the show, a book by Caseen Gaines called Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon, was released by ECW Press.

The cover of the book bears a seal identifying it as " The Unauthorized Parody.

Although it is labeled " Unauthorized " for humor, the book is in fact official and considered a Beginning with a multi-layered introduction by Daniel Handler that encompasses twelve of the book's thirteen chapters.

In his book Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: An Unauthorized History of ' The Big G, Steve Ryfle says " The Americanization ... is respectful to the original Japanese version.

However, Kathleen Tracy states in her book Sacha Baron Cohen, the Unauthorized Biography: from Cambridge to Kazakhstan that the character Borat was never intended to be entirely consistent, meaning that incongruities in Borat's personal details can be noticed if they are examined closely.

Letters from The Unauthorized Autobiography suggest that she only married Jerome Squalor to gain entry into his penthouse apartment, ( although Jerome states in the book that they both moved in only a few weeks ago ) which has a secret entryway into the Baudelaires ' mansion.

* The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown ( music and lyrics by Brian Lowdermilk ; book and lyrics by Kait Kerrigan ; additional book and concept by Zach Altman )

Tarpley first gained attention for co-authoring, with Anton Chaitkin, (" history editor of Executive Intelligence Review ") a 1992 book on George H. W. Bush, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, which was published by Executive Intelligence Review, run by Lyndon LaRouche.